Life as we go it

Our little guy turned TWO years old today! I'm not even sure how that happened. It's like I blinked my eyes and all of a sudden he's a little man.

Long gone are the days of breastfeeding and burping and sleepless nights...although who am I fooling -- only 9 more weeks of carrying our child-to-be in my belly and I'll be laughing at this post.

Now are the days of trips to the library, swimming lessons, spilt milk and runny noses! I promise to cherish each and every one of these days that I have with just Liam. Because I know that once the baby arrives things are going to change. And I must say, it scares the crap out of me.

Liam is simply THE most amazing thing that has happened in my life, other than meeting & marrying Matt of course :) He amazes me every day with his little quirks, his giggles, his smiles and even his temper tantrums. It's sometimes hard to remember how life was before he came around.

I decided to snap some photos today of our big 'ol two year old, just doing his thing. We had a pretty normal morning & afternoon. Then when Matt finished working we took him to a museum and a family friendly restaurant for dinner. Here's a little bit of our day:

We had planned to go camping this weekend. But dear Mother Nature doesn't always cooperate with our human plans.

We made a reservation at one of our favorite state parks, Kohler-Andrae State Park, a few months ago. The plan was for Matt, Liam and I to camp on Thursday and Friday night, and then Matt invited some of his guy friends to camp with him on Saturday night.

We set up camp on Thursday night just fine. We put up our tent, put up the EZ-Up tent and built a nice campfire. Liam LOVED running around the campsite, collecting leaves and playing in the dirt. We prepared an easy campfire dinner and popped it over the flames.

We knew beforehand that the weather was supposed to be crap. The forecast for the entire weekend was like an 80% chance of thunderstorms. But we so badly wanted Liam's first camping trip to be cool!

But at 8:00 pm that night my mom called my cell and informed us that there was a tornado warning three counties away from us. I was like "whatever." We weren't too worried because it was a very slow moving storm. But the more we thought about it...we figured why would we want to spend Liam's first camping trip stuck in a tent with lightning and thunder?

So Matt, Liam and I ate our dinner by campfire/lantern light and then I took Liam home for bedtime. Matt stayed behind to watch over the site. I think we was excited to "man it" by himself for a night in a storm.


Friday's forecast was worse than Thursday's, so we decided to skip the campground. We headed to Milwaukee to the Betty Brinn Children's Museum instead. Liam enjoyed....




Don't worry - Matt still got to enjoy his Saturday afternoon and evening with "the guys." The weather cleared up enough that they were able to play Beersby all night.

What did YOU do during the rainy weather??