Sunday - Liam started off his Sunday morning giving me a sermon. He gets serious when he preaches. He still isn't allowed to have his Bible during church since he can't seem to resist the urge to preach while Caleb does.
Monday - We started off our morning the best way possible....with homemade cinnamon rolls!
Then we went for a mile walk to try to help little brother make his way into this world.
"Liam, smile for dad!"
I love this precious little boy so much. I'm soaking up every minute of his last few weeks of being an only child.
The bunk beds that he and his brother will eventually sleep on are currently in his room. He absolutely loves getting his blanket (or NaNa as he calls it) and climbing on the bottom bunk and pretending to sleep or read. He also likes to take us by the finger and lead us to his room to snuggle with him on his bed. The snuggling usually lasts about .5 seconds, but it's still cute. If we weren't about to go through a huge transition of adding another tot to the mix I would try to work with him on sleeping in his bed at nap time but I need him being confined when he sleeps. :-)
Tuesday - after Caleb got home from work he went outside and worked on his car. He had a tire that was getting pretty bad and his dad had gotten some used tires from a friend that were still in good shape. Caleb also changed his oil and did a few other things to his car. It's amazing how much better his car drives now! Caleb's old person car lives on. Not long ago we saw a boat-sized old brown Grand Marquis car driving down the road. Caleb was looking at the car and mentioned about how it had been kept up well and that it was a kind of car he wouldn't mind having. Then he said "You probably think it's just old and ugly." That would be correct. :-)
Wednesday - Liam went swimming outside for the first time this summer.
Thursday - I was supposed to have my 37 week appointment but the doctor's office called and said that my doctor was sick and wouldn't be in. We had other plans in Columbia so we went there anyway. A lady from our church is in a rehab place right now healing from a broken hip so we tried to go see her but she wasnt in her room. :-( Then we went to the AT&T store to try to get something figured out that will work better for Caleb with his phone. He has been using my old slide phone but it keeps unlocking in his pocket and making pocket dials and texts and also doing random crazy stuff. He kept saying he wanted to go back to a flip phone. I tried ordering him one online but since we are on my dad's phone plan and my dad is an AT&T employee, things got a little tricky. At the store they had a small little flippy just like Caleb wanted and it was $15 with no contract or upgrade. Perfect. Hopefully he'll be happy with it for a little while. One of these days we'll work on getting him to come to the world of smart phones, but I think that technology is still a little too "new" for him. ;-)
Friday - I got my appointment rescheduled for 1 pm that afternoon. I had to end up taking Caleb's car because Caleb was staying home with Liam and needed the van in case he had to go anywhere or the doctor sent me to the hospital. The only problem with that is his car doesn't have any air conditioning. 80-90 degree heat at mid day while being 37 weeks pregnant is not a good mix. I was a hot mess by the time I got to the doctor's office. I hadn't made any more progress than the week before, but with Liam I didn't really make any more progress from 36 weeks until I went into labor with him. I'm still hoping this pregnancy will be different and he will come sooner than the day before his due date. :-)
Friday evening Liam got a hair cut. He kept getting more and more curls popping up.
Before:
Getting the hairs cut. He does such a good job getting his hair cut. He cooperates very well. Caleb told me he might need my help so I went out there with them but he didn't end up needing my help at all.
After:
Saturday - Early Saturday morning Liam woke up crying from I guess a bad dream. After I got him calmed down and I went back to bed, I heard a sound in the kitchen. It was a mouse trap! We caught the little booger that ate our tortillas! It was a pretty small mouse, only about 1/4 of the size of the amount of tortilla that was gone, but I'm hoping its a loner mouse with a big appetite.
I decided to take it easy Saturday morning so Liam and I watched movies and took a nap.
By that afternoon I was starting to go stir crazy so Liam and I went for a walk and ended up walking 1.5 miles. After that we were pretty warm so I filled up his pool for him again. He was really only interested in drinking the water. We came inside when the tornado sirens started going off.
More pictures from this week:
He has started liking his cowboy boots now. Even with his jammies on.
This kid and his pickles.
I got my first bloom from the flowers I planted from seeds! The plants themselves are going crazy and are spreading everywhere.
One morning we watched toy story so of course Woody had to tag along.
Buzz came along too but he has a bummed leg (that Liam pulled off at the knee) so he was a little laid up for awhile. Dr. Dad did a good job of doing surgery and giving him a splint while he recovered.
Liam loves to imitate whatever his dad his doing.
This past week Liam has done an incredible job of listening and following instructions. I can tell him to go get his diaper changed and he goes down the hall to his room. He doesn't always do it without whining, but he still does it. He will even go get socks or a shirt out of his drawers if you ask him to. It's really nice because it makes it easier on me to have him bring stuff to me instead of having to get up off of the couch. :-) The other day after a diaper change I told him to go get his bunny and blanket from the living room. He did and came galloping down the hall back to his room. He held his arms up to me, put his blanket on my shoulder and laid his head down. He didn't even fuss when I laid him down for a nap. He also has a fetish with shoes and doesn't like when I leave my shoes laying around. If he finds my shoes he will go and put them on my shelf of the shoe rack by the front door. I'm sure all of this will be short-lived because I know that the terrible twos are coming, but for now I am greatly enjoying all of it.
Sunday - Our church had it's sixth birthday celebration. We met in the park that evening and had homemade ice cream along with a sing and share time. I braved my ice cream maker and made ice cream for the first time. It was pretty easy!
Monday - Liam and I went to Columbia. We had appointments there and then I also had to go get a shot (boo) and then we had to get some grocery shopping done. By the time we got home I was super sore. Liam had had a rough day at church on Sunday so I spent a lot of time carrying him around trying to keep him quiet. He's getting some more teeth in and this has been the worst round of teething that he has ever had, even worse than his first round of molars!
He of course had to wear his sock puppets to our appointments.
That evening Caleb started working on refinishing a dresser. He had gotten it from his grandparents awhile ago and now that we have another tot coming we needed another dresser. Of course he had lots of "help".
Tuesday - Caleb's new guitar was delivered. He sold one of his old ones and wanted to get a nicer one. He was able to score this one on ebay. Liam was super excited about the big box!
That evening Caleb had to mow. Liam wanted to be outside with him sooooo bad. I took him out to the backyard while Caleb was in the front yard. He wasn't completely satisfied with that. He wanted to be out there helping Caleb. He had tears and everything.
Thursday - Caleb's family stopped in Columbia and picked up our couch for us, saving us an $80 delivery charge! I love having a reclining couch. :-) His family then spent the evening with us. Caleb grilled some brats and we hung out in the backyard.
Saturday - We went to Hannibal to hang out with Glenn, Leah, and Everly. We hadn't gotten to meet sweet little Everly yet so that was fun :-) We went to Riverview park to hang out and the guys played frisbee. Liam wanted to play but didn't know how and he was also crabby from not getting much of a nap. It made for an interesting show.
Then we had dinner at Country Kitchen (I loooove their butter pecan syrup!) Liam was exhausted by the time we left Hannibal.
Some more pictures from this week:
I kept telling him he could turn his chair around to see the tv better, but he still sat like this every time he watched tv.
I couldn't get him to come inside so I told him I was going to leave him out there. He stood there for a few minutes just babbling away. It turns out that there was a baby bunny out there that he was chattin it up with. This boy is obsessed with bunnies.
Since our new couch reclines there is a little bit of space between it and the wall. Liam figured out that he could crawl through that secret passage and get to his diaper bag that is full of snacks that is normally out of his reach.
Seth brought Liam some peanuts toys he found at a yard sale. One evening Caleb noticed Liam had something in his mouth. He asked Liam what he was eating and he said "puppy!" Caleb went and pulled it out of Liam's mouth and found Snoopy's nose.
Week of May 24
Sunday - We had two baptisms after church on Sunday! Liam's buddy Johnathon was one of them. I'm not sure why, but Liam got upset when he was baptized.
He was happiest when he got to sit with his buddy, Wes. Wes has a cool pen that works well for teething. ;-)
We don't have a baptistry at our church so we have to go to a different church to do them. We had to wait awhile after church to give those church people time to leave. Liam went on a walk with me to the mail box to mail a few things. :-)
That Sunday my mom got her mother's day present. I had a girl from their church draw a picture of Liam for her. I waited a little too long to ask her to do it to give her time to get it done before Mother's day. She delivered it to my mom for me at church. :-)
Monday - My parents came over and spent the day with us.
Playing Mr. Potato Head with grandma.
This is what happens when Grandma and Grandpa have to leave.
Tuesday - I finally got a bit of energy and was able to get a lot of work done around the house. The baby's room had kind of become a project waiting room and so after Caleb got the dresser refinished I had no excuses to get everything else in there done. That night we got our living room rearranged to better fit our new couch.
Thursday - Charter (shockingly) keeps causing us problems. Their closest store is in Mexico so I decided to go ahead and go down there to straighten everything up with them. Hopefully we're all squared away with them now. While we were in Mexico we went grocery shopping at Aldi. Liam yelled "HI!!" to every person that he saw and had to wave at everyone. He certainly doesn't have much stranger danger. Old people just eat him up.
That afternoon we had a big storm roll through. It took three decent sized branches off of the tree in our backyard. One of them hit our roof and slide to the front of the house. Liam was napping and it scared me.
Friday - Anchorfest and the city wide yard sales started. Caleb and I went out that morning and hit up a few sales. Caleb was able to score some good deals like a new (to us) weed eater. Caleb's family came up for the day to check out some of the yard sales. We hung out with them for the afternoon. I also got to go check out a new frozen yogurt place in town with Karisha. I didn't know that it even existed until she told me about it. It's a lot like Orange Leaf and I'm pretty excited/scared about it! Excited because I love frozen yogurt, scared because we'll probably end up spending way too much money there.
Saturday - Our church had a yard sale and Caleb went to go help out with that. There was one sale that was advertised in the paper that I wanted to go to because they said they had a glider rocker for sale. I have one but I wanted to keep an eye out for a bit of a nicer and more comfortable one and so I can have one in the living room and in our bedroom. There are certain things that I'm looking for on one and when I got to this sale, it was everything I wanted and it was a super good price! The only problem was that it had a sold sign on it. :-( Boo. That evening Caleb noticed one posted for sale on Facebook. It was a little bit more than what I wanted to spend but I told him to go ahead and claim it. He tried to claim it but then the lady raised the price on him, then she lowered it, Caleb agreed to it again, and then a little while later she told him that someone offered her more so he couldn't have it. What a great seller she was. I told Caleb that clearly God just doesn't want us to get one right now. :-)
We went out to the anchorfest festivities that evening to go get something to eat.
It's always exciting when someone gives you a funnel cake!
Caleb and Liam shared some nachos.
I'm not sure what this is about, but it's cute. :-)
Some more pictures from the week:
Liam always shushes anytime he thinks someone is sleeping or is covered up with a blanket. His duckie faucet cover is no exception. His quietness usually lasts about .5 seconds before he takes it upon himself to wake up whoever/whatever is sleeping.
I looked over and saw Liam watching tv like this.
Checking out tools with dad on the internet.
Week of May 31
Sunday - Liam was looking quite sharp for church.
Tuesday - Caleb started digging up some of the sod out of our yard so he could
lay some bricks that he had gotten for free at a yard sale a few weeks
back. He got Liam to help him out. Liam started pulling grass out by
the handfuls.
Wednesday - We had church visitation. After we made a visit then Caleb and John from church went and found a dryer on the side of the road that they were planning on taking for scrap. As they were loading it someone yelled to them from across the street asking if they wanted some more scrap. This guy had a bunch of scrap that he was wanting to get rid of. It was so much that they had to go back the next night with a truck and trailer to get it all. John takes all of this to the scrap yard and donates the money to our building fund, so that will be some easy money!
Thursday - I had my 36 week appointment. I am at 3 cm dilated, which is exactly where I was with Liam at this point. She also thinks that the baby is about 6 lbs now. Now we just wait for him to decide to make his appearance. :-) After I got home I started getting some bags packed for the hospital. Mostly just things like stuff for the baby and stuff that I won't be needing between now and then.
Friday - we went to Caleb's parents house for the afternoon. We went to some Mennonite stores. I'm always amazed at the deals you can find at those places.
Saturday - I had made cinnamon rolls for Caleb's men's Bible study, but it ended up getting cancelled that morning so we now had an abundance of cinnamon rolls. I dont think anyone in our house was upset about that. :-) They are so much better than store bought, I have just been slacking lately and hadn't made any in a long time. This is the first time Liam has had a cinnamon roll from my yeast starter recipe.
Liam's frosting stache from his cinnamon roll.
More pictures from this week:
I asked Liam to bring me some books to read to him and this is what he brought me.
He loves his books!
I flipped the camera around on my phone so he could see himself and this is what he did. Such a boy.
So one night this week I made a quesadilla for dinner. I had to get a new package of tortillas out of the pantry. I honestly don't remember if I put the tortillas in the fridge right after I was done or if I left them out on the counter for any length of time. I really thought I put them away, but my mind is a little scattered right now. So anyway a few days later Caleb gets out the tortillas to make a quesadilla and he asked me why there was a chunk taken out of all of them. We got to looking at the bag and there was a hole chewed into the bag. Can mice get in your refrigerator? Nothing else in the fridge had been touched but most things are in sealed containers. What blows my mind is the amount of tortilla that this mouse ate. These are the big dinner-plate sized tortillas and there is about 2-3 inches eaten out of all of them. I only used one tortilla so there were 7 left in the bag. My next thought was maybe it was a rat but the hole in the bag looks too small for a rat. Caleb set a trap but we have seen no other evidence of a mouse anywhere. Even if I left them out on the counter, there are much tastier and easier things like fresh fruits and veggies to get to which makes me think it must have gotten in the refrigerator. I also don't think it was Liam. If I did leave them out, he could have reached them to pull them down but he couldn't have put them back up there. We would have noticed if he left them on the floor. He also can't open the door to the refrigerator. We have a door from our living room to the kitchen that we usually keep closed so he isn't allowed to freely roam the kitchen unsupervised.
Here's a video from the past couple of weeks:
I gave Liam some lunch and then stepped into the bathroom for a second. I could hear him in the kitchen laughing. I came back to see what he was laughing at and never could figure it out. I eventually got my phone out and recorded him. Silly boy.
