Liam 151

1. Liam was born 1 year ago today.

2. It was quick and fairly-easy delivery.

3. He was a fuss-bug for the first 4 months of his life.

4. Then he turned into a little love-bug.

5. Liam loves to laugh.

6. He thinks his big brother is so funny.

7. His big brother is funny.

8. His big brother loves to copy him.

9. Liam loves this and encourages it with big smiles.

10. Liam is bathed in the kitchen sink.

11. Liam loves to splash in the sink.

12. He loves his 15 minutes of post bath naked time.

13. Liam does not like getting his PJs on before bedtime.

14. Liam makes it very difficult for his mom or dad or grandma to change his diaper.

15. He likes to roll over or push himself up and almost off the changing table.

16. Liam has never been left with anyone other than a blood-relative.

17. Liam's mommy and daddy are desperately seeking a non-related babysitter.

18. Liam's mommy and daddy have gone out alone two times since Liam was born.

19. They're working on this, really they are.

20. Liam still nurses - once a day - right before bedtime.

21. He seems to enjoy this (again).

22. He won't be forced to stop for at least 3 more months.

23. Liam does not enjoy using sippy cups.

24. Liam is given a sippy cup with every meal.

25. He enjoys shaking sippy cups and dropping them onto the floor.

26. Liam's favorite baby food is sweet potatoes.

27. Liam's favorite toddler food is ravioli.

28. Liam's favorite real food are popscicles.

29. He doesn't like peas.

30. Real or baby food peas.

31. He'll eat baby food peas.

32. He likes to drop any food he doesn't want to eat onto the floor.

33. This makes his mommy really miss their dog every day after dinner.

34. Liam communicates very well.

35. He can sign more.

36. He can sign please.

37. He can sign "stinky".

38. He can sign hello and goodbye.

39. Liam's family is still trying to figure out which is which.

40. He can sign all done.

41. His first word (after mamma and dadda) was More.

42. He asks for more food all the time.

43. He'll also ask for more tickles.

44. Or more wrestling.

45. Or more chasing.

46. Liam likes to wrestle with his mommy and daddy.

47. Liam likes to be "pinned" down on his back and than pushed onto his tummy over and over again.
48. Liam likes when his big brother chases him around the house.

49. Liam likes to be the leader in "Follow the Leader."

50. He thinks it's pretty cool that his big brother will follow him and do whatever he does.

51. Liam likes to cruise on the furniture.

52. Liam can stand all by himself.

53. Liam will stand by himself in front of his mommy, then grin, and fall right into her arms and laugh.

54. Liam's mommy really loves this.

55. Liam tried on five different baseball caps.

56. He did not get a new cap for his birthday.

57. He likes to pull off any hat that does not have a strap.

58. He gets mad at hats that have straps and will kick his legs while trying to take them off.

59. Liam's mommy thinks his temper tantrums are cute.

60. Liam's daddy does not agree.

61. Liam is very determined sometimes.

62. He will lay down flat on his tummy and scooch under the ottoman to reach something he wants.

63. Liam likes to hold remote controls.

64. Not only does he hold them, he points them at the TV and presses buttons.

65. He usually presses mute or channel up or down.

66. Sometimes Liam's mommy will take the batteries out of the remotes.

67. If the remote doesn't do anything to the TV Liam gets mad, kicks his legs, and throws the remote down onto the ground.

68. Liam's big brother thinks this is funny.

69. So do Liam's mommy and daddy.

70. Liam's mommy is a Sox fan.

71. Liam's daddy is a Cubs fan.

72. Liam likes to dance.

73. He bounces up and down whenever there's music on.

74. Liam likes to clap.

75. Liam will stop nursing if he hears clapping on TV (Wheel of Fortune) so that he can clap too.

76. Liam will clap if he hears anybody say, "yeah!"

77. Liam does not like Baby Einstein movies.

78. They make him cry. A lot.

79. Liam does not like flowers.

80. Liam pulls away from flowers and refuses to stop and smell the roses.

81. Liam likes to crawl in the grass
82. He likes to try to climb up slides.

83. He likes to play the ball/slide game. (Don't know this game? - you stand at the bottom of the slide and push the ball up the slide only to have it come back down to you.)

84. Liam cries if the ball doesn't come back down during the ball/slide game.

85. Liam loves to swing.

86. He likes to go pretty high.

87. Liam likes to go to parks.

88. He likes to play with mulch.

89. He likes to play in dirt.

90. He enjoys eating dirt, or mud.

91. He enjoys chewing on rocks.

92. Liam changed the way his mom parents.

93. Liam was carried in a sling for much of the first 6 months of his life.

94. Liam is still sometimes carried in a sling.

95. Liam slept swaddled for the first 4 -5 months of his life.

96. Liam's Grandma Chris made extra large swaddle blankets for Liam's older cousins that Liam got to use for months 3-5.

97. Liam usually sleeps in sleep sacks now.

98. Unless it's too hot. Then Liam sleeps in two piece PJs that make his mommy a little sad because it means he's growing up. Or it just means it's hot out.

99. Liam has very blue eyes.

100. Liam has blond hair.

101. Liam has not yet had a haircut.

102. He will probably get his first haircut at DisneyWorld in the Magic Kingdom.

103. Everyone loves Liam's blue eyes.

104. Liam was born on a Sunday.

105. Liam was born during the year of the cicadas.

106. Liam loved the sound the cicadas made outside.

107. Liam likes to walk with his walker.

108. He goes pretty fast and barely uses it for support.

109. Liam doesn't like car rides.

110. Liam rarely falls asleep in his car seat.

111. Liam almost never fell asleep in his car seat when he was an infant.

112. Liam's mommy can't believe he's not an "infant" anymore.

113. Liam has a lot of awesome "hand-me-downs" from his mommy's friend.

114. And they're all from Gymboree! (Thanks Melissa!)

115. Liam's mommy loves his clothes.

116. Liam likes to pull his socks off.

117. Liam likes to go for walks in his stroller.

118. He likes to watch his big brother ride his trike in front of the stroller.

119. Liam tried to ride in his mommy's "trail behind" this past weekend.

120. He loved it.

121. He signed more whenever his mommy would stop biking and try to rest.

122. Liam's mommy tried to pull Liam and his big brother in the trail behind.

123. Liam and his big brother didn't go too far together in the trail behind.

124. Liam's mommy is determined to go further and further each time she lugs those two around in that thing.

125. Liam's mommy can go really fast when it's just Liam.

126. Liam needs a helmet that fits better.

127. Liam has 4 swimsuits.

128. Three of them used to be someone else's.

129. Liam and his big brother have one set of matching swimsuits.

130. Liam's big brother likes to choose clothes that will match him.

131. Liam couldn't care less.

132. Liam can also say "Ba Ba".

133. He says this while his mommy makes a bottle for him.

134. Liam takes a bottle twice a day - once before each nap.

135. Liam does not fall asleep, usually, with the bottle.

136. Liam's mommy sings, "This Old Man" to him while she rocks him before his naps.

137. Liam takes two naps a day.

138. One at 9am and one at 1pm.

139. Liam's mommy loves schedules.

140. Liam's mommy sings, "Snuggle Puppy" by Sandra Boynton to Liam before bedtime as she rocks him.

141. Liam goes to bed at 6:30pm.

142. He usually wakes up at 6:30am.

143. Liam's mommy really loves schedules.

144. It's not decided if Liam is truly allergic to dairy.

145. Liam was very sensitive to dairy and wheat and soy when he was an infant.

146. Liam's mommy still rarely eats dairy.

147. Liam has eaten much wheat.

148. Liam has not eaten dairy.

149. Liam's mommy and daddy love him so very much.

150. Liam's big brother loves him except for, "When he's not being nice to me and not listening to me. Then I don't love him."
151. Liam is short for William.