Liam meets Santa

James had the day off today (thanks, rain!), so we went to the Mall of Georgia to take care of a very important Christmas tradition-in-the-making: visiting Santa Claus! I think I was secretly hoping for a classic screaming-baby shot, but he did very well! (I'm sure we'll have one of those eventually!) He was pretty interested in Santa's outfit...all in all, I think he did pretty well! See you next year, Santa!

Thanksgiving post - finally!

Well, it's a week late, but here are pics from Thanksgiving! My youngest sister, Brie, closed on her first house the day before, so we have been busy painting and moving her in since then.

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Liam quite enjoyed his first Thanksgiving...he tried real mashed potatoes (loved them), sweet potatoes (hated them), and pretty much anything else that was soft and mushy. He also got to meet Bella, my sister Amy's chihuahua/mountain feist mix. Not a fan. He spent the last part of his time at G&G Neuhart's snuggled up on Grandma's shoulder on the swing, one of his favorite places to be. Then it was off to the Adair's for a delicious honeybaked ham dinner...and James reportedly LOST 3 pounds over the weekend. Jerk.

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Liam and his Uncle Nick

Aunt Amy and Uncle Nick

Meeting Bella...

...yikes!

Aunt Amy and Aunt Brie
Too cool for Ladderball
I don't think she's winning...Nope!

Enjoying all of the "free time"!

Watch that necklace, Grandma!

That looks like a sleepy kid!

I love those cheeks!!!

Yup, sleepy kid.

It's hard work being a baby.

Playing with Daddy at G&G Adair's house

Trying out my awesome new highchair at G&G Adair's

Check out my two new teeth!

I can eat Cheerios really well with them now!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Opening Mail - Part II

So it's been a couple of months since Liam cracked up when I opened the mail. I had tried several time since, but it just wasn't hilarious to him anymore...until this morning! For whatever reason, the comedic value of ripping paper has returned! Enjoy!

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Oh, and also note how he's trying to move about...he's still not quite crawling, but he scoots and rolls short distances to get what he wants. He'll even rock on his hands and knees...time to start baby-proofing the house!

Liam's friends

Liam attended his first ever birthday party on Sunday for Brayden Durham (the big number "5"!), and he also had a playdate with Emory Johnson on Friday (5 weeks). He learned to swing at the party and I think he really wanted to go down the slide, but he definitely had a great time watching all the kids run around.

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Brayden's birthday party:

Playdate with Emory:

First Tooth!

YAY! Liam has been working on getting his first two teeth in for the past week or so, and I noticed today at the grocery store that it looked like one had finally poked through! Of course I didn't want to stick my nasty-shopping-cart-germs-hands in his mouth to find out, so I waited until we got home to check. Sure enough, he had cut the tiniest little speck of tooth! It's in the bottom left center...here's a video of me trying to get him to bite on the spoon so you can hear it, because I knew it would be next to impossible to get a photo of it this early. He's hardly fussed about it at all...he's such a good baby!

Messy baby!

Liam was practicing feeding himself last night and made quite a mess! He was a joyful little mess, though, despite his swollen gums. You can kind of see in the pictures the two "bumps" on the front of his bottom gums where the little toofies are budding.

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I'm looking forward to dressing up the monkey tonight and getting candy! Happy Halloween!

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Lil' Monkey

And here he is with his Aunt Brie! Only a few days to go until Halloween!
It's so tempting to use him as our ticket to free candy!

The sun was too bright in his eyes to get him to smile at the camera...

He looks so tough in this picture. Gangsta monkey.