Once again...

...I find myself with very little time to post about how much my son amazes me, the things he does every day, his ideas and thoughts and how he presents them...I want to share them with everyone, but never find the time to post here until Maia turns another month older and I am posting all of her pictures. And I feel the need to publish Liam's pictures. But I am left with virtually no time to talk about him. And (I've said it before) it's hard to go into detail about Liam. Maia is constantly changing in big ways and doing new things that are easy to explain. Liam...his changes are more subtle...so it's harder to get across to others just why it is so awesome to us, his parents.

And now my explanation has taken up even more precious time. It's already over two hours past my bedtime, so I am just going to caption these few pictures quickly and try yet again to make myself post about Liam more often.

Liam was helping me gather up puzzle pieces to put away and called my attention to these specific letters he had separated out. This was about a month ago, and it was the first time I found out that he knew what the vowels were.

We attended an SCA event (River Wars) with a playground and it's our favorite because of all the cool wooden structures to play on. Liam really likes the castle (though later it became the scene of a pine cone battle that ended when Liam was pegged in the face and then repeatedly on his body while he was crying about it...I did NOT hold back with the scolding of the errant children).

Liam LOVES playing with his sister Maia and begged to push her in the swing.

He also wanted her to climb into every structure with him.

Later we made several medieval toys - Liam made Thor's Hammer

More hanging out with Maia. They like sitting in chairs together (except when Maia doesn't).

This is one of my all-time favorite pictures of my children. Liam is sharing a water ice with Maia at the Westampton Emergency Services Open House at our local fire station.

Liam enjoyed being silly with one of his good friends, Papi

Liam successfully fed Maia her lunch one day, when I just needed to get some work done.

I love it when I can use my kids for cheap manual labor. Liam was actually very happy to help drag things around.

Liam is VERY good with his sister (although he can get too exuberant and sometimes torments her a bit)

Liam picked out his shirt himself, while Matt picked out Maia's shirt in the other room. Totally not planned. But cute.

Liam is always rearranging the kid furniture in the living room and creating things like pirate ships and houses and, in this case, ice cream trucks.

He and Maia are driving the ice cream truck together.

Liam loves being in pictures with Maia. He tends to jump into them when I am just trying to get Maia (but to be fair, I am always taking more pictures of Maia than him, so he has a right to jump into a few of them...shame on me).

That's it. Way less than Maia. I DEFINITELY need to take more of him, and post updates about him way more often. Bad mommy!