Pictures for our family, of Liam

Yes, I am suffering from an only child syndrome. I can't stop taking pictures of him.

9 Month Stats

Liam got two shots today and one toe prick. At nine months old I have counted 18 shots since birth! 18 really, that is just mean! He will yet again have many shots at his one year check up but we won't think about that. Liam is doing really well and staying on track with his stats. Today his numbers were
Weight- 19 pounds 5 ounces 25-50%
Height- 29 inches 75%
Head- 17.25 inches 10-25%
After the doctor we went to the park next door and found out, unlike grass Liam really likes sand. He would not even look up at me, just wanted to play with it. Go figure. Don't know if I will ever get a good photo shoot out of this little boy.

9 months, what tooooo FAST!

So I see all these women around me having new babies and I have tp keep reminding myself I don't have a newborn myself anymore. I work in a pediatric unit and I am taking care of yonger babies then my own all the time. I love the age of 9 months so much fun, but makes me so sad how old he is getting. I know 9 months is still so young but if time has already gone this fast he is gonna be in school before I know it. He already does not cuddle as much as he used too. But enough about how I am in denile about him growing up. Liam is always on the move these days. He crawls so fast sometimes I get scared because he was there one min. and gone the next I don't know where he is. HE is not yet walking, but I think it is just because he is scared. He has stood on his own a couple of times, but he just does not trust his legs alone. If you look at his body he looks like a one year old but his face and head look so small. To funny. My little, tall boy is a mini of his dad, 100%. Okay I guess he has some of my features but really is his dad. Loves to roll pretty much anything around the floor. And whatever he is doing puts so much concentration into it. He loves to babble in his own language and is very vocal, we even have to tell him to shhh sometimes when he is being extra loud. He is already throwing little boy tantrums when he does not get something he wants fast enough, And yes, you might think us mean, but he has been to time out once already too. He would not stop biting. So he got to cry in his crib for a while. But we have decided to move his time out to a pack and play not his bed. No bad associations with his bed ya know. We just love our crazy little man to pieces!

Sunscreen

Last Wednesday Liam and I went swimming with my sisters, nieces and mom, at my sisters community pool. Well with my skin being so fare I am obsessed with putting suncreen not only on myself but Liam as well. I use baby sunscreen that says it is tear free. Well from my experience with it, really is not tear free. Liam eye got so teary eyed and irritated we ended up having to leave the pool early. I felt so bad for him. He even had little red rash bumps appearing above his eye, not quite sure what that was all about. The rest of his sunscreen covered body was fine. No burns though.

Finished Harry Potter

I finally just finished the Harry Potter series! Holy moly I had no idea how the last book was gonna end and it was crazy! I had to keep reading stuff to make sure I understood what was really going on! Let's just say, I loved the last fight with Harry and Voldemort! If I was there wow Harry would be such a freaking Hero in my book! Two thumbs way up for that book! Now probably on to the The hunger games for me.

Memorial Day Fun

Over the Memorial day weekend we spent time with both sides of the family. On Sunday night we went to Paul's brother's house and enjoyed dinner and chit chat with the Dunn side of the family. Liam had his first taste of cucumber, he seemed to have liked it more than I do.
On Memorial Monday we spent the day with my mom, sisters and nieces. We have some fun in the sun at the pool. This was Liam's first time in a big time pool. Like with his small pool it took time for him to adjust to it. I think overall he had fun.
Unfortunently we ended the day with me and Paul coming down with stomache flu, but thank goodness Liam so far has not been throwing up.

Liam's crib

SO Liam now sleeps at night in his crib and takes naps in his crib. He used to sleep with me most the time, but I came to find out he would sleep for longer periods of time if he slept alone. It took him a while to figure this out to. But now he is also waking up and standing in his crib. Makes me nervous and we are going to need to lower it asap! He has lots of fun though in his confined little space, and it is nice to know he is not getting ito trouble when he is in there.

Teethies and climbing stairs

I know the two subjects don't go quite hand in hand but in the pictures I got of my little guy learning to climb the stairs you can see his baby teeth in his smiles. So I am proud to show off both in the same shot. This 8 month old is all over the place. He is so fast and energetic. I think he will be walking in probably the next month or two.