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Friday, February 21, 2014

A day in the life of a TWO year old

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:


Birthday breakfast. He decided what he wanted. Blueberry waffles, pineapple, raisins and an orange. He's a little fruit addict.


Attempting to help blow up some balloons...


Watching a little Dinosaur Train...


Playing a few games...


Playing, playing, playing...


Practicing sitting on his potty chair.
Notice how Elmo is doing the same thing?


Playing with blocks at our local childrens' museum, Above & Beyond Childrens' Museum.


Steering a ship (at the children's museum).


Checking out a circus exhibit (at the childrens' museum).


Climbing through a suspended tunnel with Matt...

We had dinner at a great local Mexican restaurant, El Camino, and then gave him a scoop of birthday ice cream when we got home. Matt and I practiced our "Happy Birthday" singing skills.


My happy boys.




Flossing before bath time, then bed time.


Happy 2nd Birthday, my little peanut.
I love you!!

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Noodles and balls


Liam has a fair amount of toys. Most of them he's received as gifts from family members and us at Christmas time, for his birthday and other exciting events (Valentine's Day, Easter, etc). He enjoys his toys, books, puzzles and play dough. But guess what his absolute FAVORITE things to play with are? 

If you guessed Mr. Potato Head, you're wrong.
If you guessed Little People Farm, wrong.
If you guessed his Matchbox cars, wrong again.

His favorite thing to play with is uncooked elbow macaroni.
Yes, you heard me correctly. He loves to play with noodles.
Inexpensive, simple noodles.

And little fuzzy balls.

And pieces of string.

The elbow noodles are definitely his #1 thing though.

This little boy insists on playing with the dang noodles at least twice, sometime three, sometimes four times a day! He will bypass a pile of cool Legos and go straight for the jar of noodles.

Over the past few months we have discovered an astonishing amount of ways to play with noodles.

Noodles in a tray.
Noodles on a train.
(Much better than 'snakes on a plane')

Noodles tossed all over the place.

This morning Liam apparently wanted to take a NAP in his noodles :)


He also loves playing with little fuzzy balls that I picked up at Hobby Lobby for like $2 a few months ago. The balls keep his busy for a long time. His Nana brought him a little red kitchen set (pots and pans) this past weekend as an early Valentine's Day gift, so he's been busy cooking up "meatballs, snowballs and popcorn balls" the last couple of days.

Oh my God, I LOVE these little legs :)

Noodles and balls together.
It's REALLY fun to clean up. Not.
I store all of these creative objects in little glass jars. The most recent addition to the jars is one of wooden dowels (left over from various IKEA furniture put-togethers).

Balls, noodles, string, letters, dowels and pipe cleaners. What more could an almost-2-year-old ask for!

This photo was taken just this afternoon. What a little busy-body he is. (Note the deck of cards thrown around in the background. Yet another simple, cheap thing that he loves to play with).

Have a good week :)

Friday, May 31, 2013

Sun shiny day

The weather was so, so nice yesterday! Here are a few quick photos (which I took with a vintage Hipstamatic setting on my iPhone) of Liam's sunshine-y day:

Helping his mama fold laundry...what a great way to start the day...

A stroller ride to the beach...
(the sunshine was clearly in his eyes in this photo, thus the squinty eyes)

A second stroller ride...

Swinging in our backyard...

Playing in the dirt. He loves picking the heads off of flowers...

And to end the day...he got to eat dinner OUTSIDE on our deck!!

It's gonna be a bright...bright...sunshine-y day...