Random Liam post

I tend to post a lot more about Maia, because she is growing so quickly and there are so many big things to talk about. Liam is growing as well, but the changes are smaller and less easy to talk about as a result. And let's face it, I take more pictures of Maia.
But here are a few pictures of Liam that I would like to share.

He loves playing with Maia and was thrilled to go to the playground with her.

Liam loves pirates, so he certainly loves he pirate bathrobe (he is pretending to be One-Eyed Willy)

Liam loves anything pirate. He enjoys playing with this felt pirate set. If you look closely, you can see how he made the felt figures look like the image from the LEGO box on the upper right-hand corner. There is a girl and a treasure chest in the lower right corner. There is treasure on the ground. There is even the weird cross-piece.

Pajama time! Liam was happy to jam in his jammies with Maia.

Happy Easter

We spent Easter at my parents' place and it turns out that all of the pictures are either of Liam or Maia. So I made two separate posts. Here are all the pictures with Liam in them. As I said on Maia's post, I forgot to take a picture of Maia and Liam together in their Easter outfits, so I am annoyed.(pictures in progress)

We went over to my parents' place Saturday. Liam built a pirate ship out of...well, not sure what these are called. A butch version of bristle blocks. Heh.

Liam and my Dad have matching lumberjack jackets (at least, that's what I call them).

Liam does some egg coloring.

And the next morning, there are Easter baskets!

Liam's Easter basket has some cool snacks and toys in it!

After enjoying Easter baskets, there is some time before dinner, so the kids go outside to play with their sidewalk chalk (it was in the baskets) and get ready for the Easter egg hunt. Here is Liam's drawing of a pirate ship with sidewalk chalk.

And the Easter egg hunt begins!

Showing off his spoils!

After the hunt, the boys are watching a movie while waiting for Easter dinner.

Liam in West Virginia

We took a family vacation to visit Greg and Dawn in West Virginia. It was an awesome trip and Liam very much enjoyed being with his Aunt and Uncle. Since I have already posted about this trip, complete with lots of cool Liam pictures, on my main blog, please go check out that post.

Brother and Sister

I just wanted to post some pictures of Liam with his sister Maia. He is such a great "big brother" to her. Aside from the times when he over-loves her and she gets annoyed, he is awesome. He teaches her things, helps her with things, berates us for forgetting to give her a burp cloth when we feed her a bottle (she dribbles, stops her from scratching her wrists and ankles raw on the carpet (she has eczema), and amuses her with his antics. These are only SOME of the moments we have managed to catch.
(and for anyone that reads Maia's blog, yes, they are the same pictures. If you don't read hers, well...that's why I am posting them here)

Five Years Later

Once upon a time, five years ago....Liam was born.


One year later...


Two years later...


Three years later...


Four years later...


And NOW....five amazing years later...
THIS

...AND THIS...

...AND THIS!


Here is a poster we made for Liam's "All About Me" week at Daycare, celebrating his birthday. I am sure you can see the theme.


Here are pictures from Liam's two birthday parties. The first is from Kid's Junction, an indoor play place that allowed us to have screaming kids running all over the place but NOT in our house. Heh.




This was the Pirate themed cake that they made for Liam. It had really tasty icing...almost a cinnamon taste to it. I loved it (especially since I expected it to taste like run-of-the-mill party cake).





This is Liam and Maia, having fun playing at Kid's Junction.




Here are pictures from Liam's family birthday party, held later in the evening. This is the awesome birthday cake my mom made for him. It's the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship and Liam's favorite. It was a big hit!



Liam got more Legos...he has almost all of the sets from Pirates of the Carribean, and might almost be beating Matt out for number of sets.


This is an Ugly Doll that Liam got, Batty Ninja or something like that.


Here, Liam is modeling his new pirate robe, and pretending that it is Blackbeard's coat.

This is the "Heart of Davy Jones" that I knit for Liam. He had asked for one to put in his pirate chest, so...I surprised him with one. In the background, you can also see the Minion that I knit him (from Despicable Me).




And here are some random pictures from the last two months.
These are pirate cookies that we made together. He helped press them out, and decorated them (well some of them...Matt and I helped with a few others).



This is a picture that Liam told me to take of him, eating bacon. Don't know why he wanted it...he just insisted on it...so I complied.


And this is Liam's first trip to the library. Yes, I know, said that we waited until he was almost 5 to take him. We read him books every day, we just never actually went to the library with him. But we plan to do it more often now. Liam has his very own library card.