what is adorable, eats metal, and large amounts of food?yum

I'm getting a bit worried that when Liam is a teenager he will eat me out of house and home.  He's not even one yet and for lunch today he drank 8 ounces of milk and ate a whole banana.  OMG.

Good thing he's cute at least.

fun in the backyard.  This kid loves the outdoors!

a hat for me?

yum.  Metal splatter lid. 

it doesn't get better than this

I love having a trampoline in our yard!

Such a sweet boy.  He even kept his hat on most of the day.  Poor kid has such fine hair I didn't want his scalp to burn.

Liam has midget feet.  I didn't even know Converse came in size 2!  Sad I couldn't get a better picture, but teeny Converse are the cutest!

I can't wait until Liam's birthday party!  We went to his cousin's first birthday party yesterday and Liam really liked the present opening.  Big shock, right?  He wanted to help and then he wanted to play with all the recently unwrapped toys.  I think he was actually a little confused, because his cousin got a set of toy cars that Liam has at home and Liam gave us this look that said, "Um, these are supposed to be in my room.  And why do these have weird packaging on them?  Oh well, I'm just going to barge right in and play with them."  I swear, that is totally what he said.  But to be fair, he did try to share the cars with his cousins.

time flies

I can't believe my little guy is 11 months old today!  Time really does fly.  I love that almost every picture I have of his contains a huge grin, and that he giggles at the drop of a hat.  And, as I write this he is randomly giggling.  Love this kid!

yay for self preservation

Liam is finally realizing things like:

1) if you fling yourself off furniture, you will land awkwardly on the floor, and
2) if you want to rock out and head bang you should make sure you are not standing next to a wall

so when I watched him slowly descend from the bed to the floor feet first while looking down over his shoulder I was pretty excited.  Yay for the understanding of self preservation!

side note:  I think Liam is a genius.  He can do all the shapes in his shape sorter and he isn't even 11 months yet.  Not that I'm a biased proud parent or anything...

there are no words

I stumbled across this picture today and was literally speechless.  When I regained the ability to think I immediately thought, "Wow.  This totally looks like a crazy person in Portland." 

note: I do not think all people who live in Portland are crazy.  But when Portland has a painted wall that states "keep Portland weird", I cannot be held responsible for saying that some crazy people DO in fact live there.

Not surprisingly, when I scrolled down the page a bit, I saw a caption that mentioned how this photo of a kilt wearing, unicycle riding Darth Vader who bagpipes was taken in Portland.  I have never been so not shocked in my whole life.

speedy gonzalez

I am a super nerd and store Liam's baby pictures chronologically so I can find them easily later.  I was looking through them the other day and noticed that I have at least 400 a month for the first 6 months or so, but lately I have more like 40 a month.  Huuuge difference, right?  By the way, this is after I've edited and deleted the sucky pictures.  Once Liam started walking he became a crazy speed demon.  It is seriously rare to see him crawl now, and he tries to run several times a day.  I had to delete most of the photos I take because no one wants to see a blurry picture.  Which sucks because I have to say, Liam is kind of super adorable.  I have a decent normal camera, but now I'm thinking I should invest in a more professional high speed one.  Hmm...  Anyway, my original point was: my kid is a speed demon.  And adorable.

best night

making super late dinner at 11:30 pm (homemade channa masala.  I loooooove Indian food!), watching Warehouse 13 with Jeff cause we are supernerds, and playing with Liam because he played with his Nana today and got his sleep schedule all out of whack. 

Plus, I have ice cream and hot fudge in the freezer.    :)  Happy me.