Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was held at my Aunt Susie's and Uncles Tim's House. After the hour and a half drive over we get there and Aunt Susie tells me we can't use the toilets or sinks. Eeeek! Me without a bathroom, what was I going to do, but they had someone come out and fix the plumbing. Here is a photo of Grandpa M, GG, Liam, and Mommy...and Aunt Kelly, after the chaos.

Now here is a photo of Grandpa M, Grandma M, GG, Liam, Mommy, Daddy, and Grandma Mar'ney. Look at us good Catholics with the cross in the background for Christmas. Good call Mar'n.Liam playing with the puppy he got from GG and Grandma Mar'ney. He loved walking the dog all evening. That and all the sugar his Aunt and Great Aunts were filling him up with. He was so good last night. He skipped his nap that afternoon, so when we got to the McCormicks he was very crabby, but we laid him down at 5pm and woke him up at 8pm to do presents. What a difference a nap can make. Merry Christmas everyone.

He Did It!

Liam always runs and hides when he has to poop. So like clockwork Liam hide behind the door yesterday afternoon. I scooped him up and sat him on the toilet were he pooped. Yeah Liam! Therefore today we went to Target and got him a smaller potty. Here he is checking it out.

Dear Santa

Today Kayla and I took the babies to play on the playground in the mall, where it is warm. After three days of being all couped up in the house, Kayla and I have taken all we can take. After Penelope and Liam were able to burn off some steam, we walked around the mall. At Macy's Liam "wrote" his letter to Santa.

Here's Liam mailing his letter to the North Pole. So glad I carry my camera in my purse. How cute is this.

Christmas Card

This year Clay and I decided that we just don't have the money to do Christmas Cards. It's not so much the cards, but the postage. Therefore, this is what I would have done if we could afford the cards. Merry Christmas!

Making Music

Papa Jack gave Liam a harmonica over Thanksgiving. He just started playing and tapping his foot all on his own. We were cracking up. Where does he get this stuff?

Setting Up Christmas Lights

This week we started placing our Christmas lights. Liam's new word of the week is deer, followed by mooooo. Not quite buddy, but good try. He loves the deer. He will sit on the couch in the evening and just watch it in awe.

Here's Liam having a whole conversation to a Santa cookie.

And of course we had to help Daddy with the ladder and lights.

Here is a view of the front of the house. We still aren't done with the yard though.

Guess I'm Getting a New Toaster Oven

Last night I wanted to toast some coconut for a snack. I put it in the toaster oven with a timer on and went back to my computer to upload some more photos. Suddenly I heard a crackling sound in the kitchen so I went to go see what it was. The coconut had caught on fire. I quickly unplugged the toaster oven when the flames had already reached about 6 inches in height. I then opened the toaster oven, why I don't know. Opening the door caused the flames to ignite, now they where shooting out the front and back of the toaster oven and reached 18 inches catching my kitchen cabinets on fire. Staying eerily calm I went to the pantry and got the fire extinguisher, pulled the pin, then read the directions, and aimed. Went out like a charm. After I went and pulled the batteries out of the smoke detectors, which woke Liam up, open all the windows to a balmy 55, and as the shock wore off the panic kicked in while I called Clay.

It took 3hrs last night to clean up after using the fire extinguisher. Then today 1hr to sand my cabinets down and 1hr to repaint them. As for the toaster oven it is melted, charred, and in the trash.

18mth Checkup

Yesterday was Liam's 18mth checkup. He now has a new doctor, Dr. Mas. She is really nice and I like her, but I really loved Dr. Lockhart. Dr. Mas is very soft spoken and comes off shy, the total opposite of Dr. Lockhart, who is very energetic and outgoing. While we were there we had to go over Liam's chart since he was a new patient and I had to explain some things like his head injury he got when he was 4mths old.

Liam now weights..? Well we aren't 100% sure but its somewhere between 26lbs 9oz and 28lbs 2oz. He was a basket case at the doctors office. In fact, when Dr. Mas came in his chart said vitals-screaming. I had to laugh, he's never that bad. His head is and even 18inches which makes him at 5% which is up from the 3% from last time. His height we were better able to get. He is now 34-3/4inches tall making him the 99%. He meet all his milestones which includes walking backwards, 8 words, knows 3 body parts, point at objects on a page, feeding himself with spoon and fork, and following simple instructions. When she asked if he knew 8 words I laughed and said yes. The nurse then had me list off the words he knew...please, thank you, welcome, up, snack, dog, milk, water, car, air plane, tree, ...."ok, you can stop now". He didn't let them look at his ears or teeth, and refused to let them listen to his heart. Then there was the shots. Oh Goodness, what a day.

Thanksgiving

This year Thanksgiving was held at my parents house and dessert at the Gilmore's. Here's Liam and Grandma M cleaning the back porch.MMM...dinner

Daddy had so much food he took his nap at the table.

Papa Jack, Grandma Gil, Aunt Dee, and Gma Sue sitting outside watching Liam running around at full speed. Why does food give kids energy and makes adults sleepy? Uncle Mitchell and Liam "playing" video games after dinner.

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