6 Months Already?!

Note: We've got a new blog name and look!  I thought this change would be more appropriate for the change in our family.  The old blog redirects to the new blog at http://adventuresofconnorandliam.blogspot.ca. All the old posts can be viewed here on this new blog, too.


It's hard to believe that Liam is 6 months already! The time is whizzing by so much faster it seems than it was with Connor. Here are some updates on his progress.

• Weighed in a couple of weeks ago at 17.5 lbs.

• Liam is working hard to crawl. He can do mini-push ups and then be on his knees for a short while and wiggles his bum! So cute!  He can also do a push-up onto his toes! I don't recall seeing this much with Connor but I guess it must have happened. Liam can roll and wiggle his way around quite a bit, so we have to be a lot more careful now when leaving him on a bed or on the floor.

• He has his two front bottom teeth! They started coming out a few weeks ago. The two teeth are about the same in height, and about 2 millimeters show through the gums. Other than one night at 4 months when he got a fever, Liam hasn't been much more fussy at all.

• Liam is eating solids!  We started about two weeks ago with homemade brown rice cereal, avocados, bananas, pears, oatmeal, and peaches. Making this stuff is time consuming, but it feels good to give Liam fresh homemade foods and I'm sure it must taste so much better. The brown rice is tough to get a non-lumpy smooth consistency, even with a small food processor. The oatmeal is a bit easier, but the problem is both take a long time to boil down soft enough. My second batch of hot brown rice broke my hand-held mixer (a rubber seal broke off at the base of the mixer. It still works but it is very dirty there and the inside is exposed, so I can't use it). Bananas an avocado are easy enough to mash down with a fork; same with the cooked pears and peaches, but then it takes time to cook them. So Liam has been eating slightly lumpy food and has been doing very well with it. It is easiest to make a smoother rice or oatmeal cereal if you grind it into a powder first. Since my old grinder is broken, I bought a new smaller Cuisinart Chopper/Grinder. It still won't pulverize the rice down to a fine powder, but it does get it into small pieces for faster cooking and a smoother result.

One of his first solid meals - rice cereal with breast milk.

We are also glad that Connor loves his little brother soooo much. I always tell Connor that they will be brothers forever and they need to love and take care of each other.

Connor loves to play with Liam, and hug and kiss him. Sometimes Connor gets a bit carried away though - he can get a bit rough or not-so-gentle, so we have to keep an eye on them.

Connor loves to pick Liam up and sit him up (to my dismay!).

Connor loves hugging Liam.

Older and wiser 1 year 4 months!

Hi everyone! Hope you are well! I have been doing great. This is a photo of me from today, Mommy said "Look how much taller you are than the back of the chair now!" Yes, I have grown a little bit bigger I guess, lots of my shirts are now a wee bit too short. I have busy playing and learning things, which keeps Mommy and Daddy quite busy as well, as I always like to have them around me, especially Mommy. Yes, I am all 'take, take take' but so far I can get away with that without any problem.

I can walk really well now, and I really like to run, too! I like to take Mommy's hand and take her to where I want to play. It's great to be able to do that! I started to walk without having to hold on to anything around 14 months. My girl friend Ellie also walked at 14 months. Now that I can walk, I love being able to stroll around wherever I want, especially when we go out to the park or to the mall. Here's a picture of me from mid-October - very happy to be outside!



I have a set of flash cards with pictures of items like a cat. If they ask me "Where's the cat?" I can find the cat card for them. I can find the cat, dog, keys, baby, apple, fish, teddy bear, shoes. For some reason they find this very cool. Speaking of shoes, I love wearing shoes. I wear them in the house every day. My favourite pair is one that squeaks! If I'm not wearing them like to take my shoes and put them in my drawer.

On Saturdays Mommy and Daddy take me to a class at Gymboree, which is lots of fun. I was scared the first time and I was REALLY scared of Gymbo the clown, but I think I am finally used to seeing him and have stopped freaking out everytime the clown kisses me (Mom says to tell you it's a clown puppet). The class has a lot of physical activity play items set up, like slides and climbing gyms. Each class they set it up a little bit differently. Then there are some group activities, where all us toddlers push a big soft log, or we sit on the log, or we sit around and the lady there sings the bubble song and blows out all these bubbles. I learned how to hit the floor with both my hands when they say "Thunder", and when we call "Gymbooooo" for Gymbo to come play, I knock on the floor. Mommy and Daddy have fun there too, once Mom climbed into one of the big soft barrels and rolled around a bit.

Here's a few photos from Gymboree.


I still have swimming classes on Sundays. I am not really into swimming these days. A few weeks ago, Mommy dunked me underwater and I got really scared. And then the next week she did it AGAIN. I did NOT like that, and now I'm always scared that she will do it again. I only have fun when I get to play with the swim toys.

I still really like my Baby Einstein videos, and I like to read, too. My favourite for a while was my Old MacDonald Had a Barn Flip Book. I would make Mommy or Daddy read it over and over and over.

I am still resisting eating whatever food they try to give me. I like being a baby and drinking my milk and eating cookies and Cheerios! But I will eat honeydew, bananas, peas, cream of mushroom soup with ABC pastas, and PoPo gives me rice noodles for lunch every day and I really like that.

One of the things I'm trying to learn right now is going down a step. Anytime I can, I like to step up on an item and step off the item. The big people all pay a lot of attention to me when I do this. They keep saying I'm like a little monkey.

I am also very fascinated with the inside of the refrigerator. So many things to look at in there! I took out a bottle of hot sauce yesterday and hid it, they still have not found it. Hee hee.

Well that's all for now, I'll try not to take so long for another update!