Liam's 1st Pet!

It's official, we have a pet! Or two. We got Liam a fish tank (or shishie tank) on Thursday, and put some little fishies in it yesterday. He was so excited when we went to the pet store. He would just yell out "shishy!" all over the place. We got two female guppies and have naturally named them Thelma and Louise! He loves watching them and feeding them. At night time, he wants to go say goodnight to them and turn off their tank light. He may be too young to understand responsibility right now, but we can sure try to start to teach him!

Prayer Requests

We have quite a few friends and co-workers that have a lot going on in their lives right now. We are praying for them daily, but if you all could say an extra prayer for them, that would be greatly appriciated.

* A friend of our, as well as a co-worker of Deron's has a 19 year old brother who had a stroke a few weeks back. He had a blood vessle burst in his brain which caused his whole left side to go numb. He fell into a wall at his house and laid there for 2-3 hours since he was home alone. When they went to the hospital things weren't looking too good. He had lots of trauma to his brain and he was paralyzed. Currently, he is able to move a little. He is in physical therapy at LLU and is getting a little better each day. Please keep him in your prayers. He is a wonderful young man and has a wonderfully dedicated family that we've known for a very long time.

*A co-worker of mine has recently had to put his wife in the hospital for heart problems. She had cardiac arrest while on a walk with a friend. She had vomited and breathed it back into her lungs, which can cause pneumonia. She was taken to the hospital and in the ambulance, she was revived twice. After a few days, the doctors had found some swelling on the brain and is in a comma. Since this discovery, she has also sad convulsive seizures. As of Thursday, she has been taken off sedation, and she has been showing signs of response, like squeezing hands. The circumstances are unclear, and the family still has a lot to go through. This family are very strong believers and know that everything is in God's hands. Please keep them in your prayers.

Potty Training 101

Well this time of Liam's life has officially arrived, and it was all by Liam's choice. A few weeks back he expressed some interest in wanting to use the potty like Daddy does. A for a few days he would just stand there in front of the toilet. Then last Sunday, he actually went! We knew then that it was time for the potty chair. We went out after church and picked up an Elmo chair that Liam picked out himself. He has been going in it ever since. Most of the time we have to ask him if he needs to go pee-pee, but there are many times that he will come up to us, pull up his shirt and say, " I go pee-pee?" He always has to wipe and helps us empty out his chair into the big potty and we say bye bye. This will probably be a long road till he is fully on his own, but for now, it's a start. And a start that we are happily encouraging! I don't really have pictures of Liam on the potty... can post some if you all want to see, but I think we all know what going to the potty looks like :)

Wordless Wednesday

18 Months!

This post is a little late, but here it is nonetheless. Liam had his 18-month check-up last Friday, and this was one visit I would like to remove from my memory entirely. He was so scared! I think his one year check-up traumatized him for life. The minute I put him on the scale he started screaming and never stopped. He was screaming "I'm done!" the entire time. He would try to take the doctor's stethoscope away from her and wouldn't let him come near him with the ear lookly thing! Eventually we had him pinned down on the table just to measure his head and look in his ears and mouth. Then when it was shot time, he was kicking the nurse with the leg that wasn't held down. I left there sweating! WOW what an experience. The nurse told me that was nothing, just wait till their 4 years old when they get 6 shots! Great! Something to look forward to. During the time when Liam wasn't crying in the doctors office, our doctor was talking to us about how many words Liam should be saying. She said that he should be saying about 6-10 words and should be soon starting to put words together... well, Liam's vocabulary must be very advanced, because we have counted about 30 words that he can say and he can put at least 2 words together, that we can at least understand.

Here is what we can tell Liam says:
Diaper (diapo)
Juice (ju)
shoe
mamma
dadda/pappa
poo-poo & pee-pee (but only when talking about going to the bathroom :) )
dog (dogdog)
ball
balloon (boon)
cheese (ches)
yes
no (favorite word)
hat
love you
bye bye
bless you
hi
hot (ha ha)
I'm done
more (mo)
block
bath
thank you (really good at this)
please (peas)
baby
bottle
spoon
uh-oh
bread
counts 1-2-3 ( two, two, tee)

we are working on church. He kinda says shursh already. He calls Aunt Brittany "B" and we are working on getting him to say Grandpa, Grandma, Grampie and Grammie. He kinda says it here and there, but he's not consistent. This boy loves to talk, I'm sure we'll be wanting him to stop soon, but for now, it is quite enjoyable.

I can't believe how much Liam has grown and how much he is developing. He just amazes me every day. I feel like my little baby is gone and is being replaced with a grown up kid. The tantrums are often and his independence is strong, but deep down inside, he is still my little baby. Every once in a while he still likes to climb up on me and fall asleep. And that is my favorite thing of all :)

One Down...

...A few more to go. I decided that this summer I wanted to be crafty. I spent some time at Michaels and I'm working on a few things for Liam. I just finished a coat rack for his room.










Next, I'm working on a step stool for Liam.

Is Mom's Food THAT Boring?

Enough said, my food MUST bore people to sleep!