swings and slides

Liam loves playing at one of the little parks in our neighborhood. He has always loved the swings, but just recently he's decided that he loves the slide just as much! (and of course Bogart didn't want to be left out of the action!)

Daddy's boy

Liam loves his Daddy and wants to hug and play with him all the time. Yesterday was Brian's birthday and Liam shared his birthday balloons with his dad and really enjoyed singing Happy Birthday to him.

Air Liam

Liam's new favorite game is basketball. He loves dunking over Brian's head, shooting the ball into the net, and boxing out Bogart. His Uncle Jon will have to give him some pointers next time we see him :-) Check out the play by play pics we got last time he played...

Liam drives to the net...

He goes up for the easy dunk....

Slam dunk! The crowd goes wild!

caught on tape!

Finally! We got video footage of Liam walking! He's been very sneaky about his walking (only doing it when at someone else's house or if we're at home he'll take steps until we get out the video camera). Enjoy some of the steps we've caught on tape.

birthday party!

We had a small party with Brian's family to celebrate Liam's first birthday. It was originally scheduled for last weekend, but the whole family was sick...so we postponed until today. Liam loved his chocolate cake, balloons, ice cream and all of the presents (well...mainly unwrapping them).

trip to the zoo

We celebrated Liam's 1st birthday by going to the zoo. Liam loved seeing all of the animals (especially the animals from his favorite books). We saw the gorilla, lion and elephant from Goodnight Gorilla, the tiger from Zoo Picnic, and the hippopotamus from But Not the Hippopotamus. Liam was very quiet while taking in all of these new sites and sounds...but as soon as we started to leave he chatted up a storm as we passed the animals we had already seen (it was like he was telling us all about what he saw!) The coolest part of the whole day was we were in the Gorilla house just 1/2 hour after a new baby gorilla was born! It was amazing to see how small he/she was and to wish a happy birthday to a new life on Liam's birthday.

LIAM'S 1ST BIRTHDAY!

WOW....Liam's 1st birthday...we can't believe he's 1 year old. It seems like only yesterday we were headed to the hospital with two gym bags and three names (since we couldn't settle on one until we saw our little guy). As soon as we saw him we knew his name was Liam. The first moments of his life he showed his personality (by squirting his nurse in the face and then cuddling into his daddy's shoulder). He is full of surprises and love. Having Liam in our lives has definitely changed us...but we wouldn't go back to life without him for anything. He is such a joy and a blessing. To know him is to love him.

Liam had a great first birthday. He woke up super happy (and slept all the way through the night!). After breakfast he took a long nap and then we went to the zoo. We had some of his favorite foods and cake for dinner and read all of his favorite stories before bedtime.