7 months old

Liam is 7 months old! unbelievable

• We have finally introduced some new foods to little man. He's had oatmeal cereal, squash, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, apples and prunes. He doesn't really care for the veggies except the peas and jarred squash. He also only likes to eat them if they're really watered down, kind of like baby soup! He really likes his fruits so far though! I did give him bananas but they seemed to just come back up so we'll wait another month till we try them again.
• His eyes are still mostly blue but have alot more green in them, almost hazel now
• I'm still surprised that I can still move Liam from his carseat to his bed when he falls asleep in the car, and he stays asleep!!! I don't remember being able to do that with Avery past a few months old
• His mommy anxiety has kicked up this past month. He does not like being put down and left alone. He tends to melt down, even in his fun exersaucer or jumperoo.
• Liam really loves swinging in the baby swing on our back porch.
• Still no teeth! doesn't even feel like any are close to coming in
• Around the middle of this month Liam started having sleep issues. No longer would he be put down and fall asleep on his own. We had a few days filled with lots of crying. We would put him down on his tummy and he would automatically roll over onto his back. He did sleep twice on his back but only for 30 min and would then wake up crying. I had to practically hold him down and pat his back to get him to sleep. Whew. I think he was also getting over tired so I've been careful to watch his waketime and put him down right at the 2hr mark. He's back to taking 2 good 1.5-2hr naps (+ one evening catnap) and sleeping till 7:30/7:45 in the mornings!
• He has starting flirting, he will smile at someone and then hide his face. Its so cute
• Liam makes the funniest noises, he has started yelling! Avery thinks its funny to yell back and they go back and forth
• Avery loves to read to Liam, he is more interested in eating the book but its super cute
• He still puts EVERYTHING in his mouth
• He rolled over from his back to tummy! on 2/19. He will only do it when he really wants to but hopefully this will help minimize his sleep issues!
• Liam is so funny, he loves to cover up his face. Peekaboo is his favorite game but he will take a burp cloth and cover his face and kick and flail his arms. I thought maybe he was mad but when you take off the burp cloth you see this huge grin!!
• I weighed him on our bathroom scale this morning and he was 21lbs!
• He LOVES target, he will stop whatever he is doing(even nursing) to watch target walk by. He kicks and waves his arms and coos.
• Liam does this spastic arm flail/legs kick thing when he gets excited, its hilarious. Especially when he sees pictures. He loves to look at pictures, especially ones of his sister.

Love our little guy, Happy 7 month birthday!!

Monthly photo challenge

well if you haven't noticed I only made it half way through the february photo challenge! In my defense I really got behind the weekend my parents came to visit. But the photo topics weren't the easiest to do, plus my oldest kiddo does NOT like to have her picture taken. Its like pulling teeth to get her to stay still and smile for a second or 2. So you got 16 days of fun photos, I did enjoy what few I could snap. 7 month update coming soon... :)

Feb 16;{something new}

Oreos are celebrating their 100th anniversary so of course we had to try out their special "birthday cake" Oreos;

They were pretty good! our "something new" for today!

p.s. Avery had her first day wearing her big girl panties to school and she did great. no accidents!! :)

Feb 15;{phone}

Avery loves to talk on her many phones. She likes now for me to put my phone to my ear and "talk" to her. She also loves to call Gigi and Melissa. She's so funny.

Feb 14; {heart}

Happy Valentines Day!

 yes I'm one of "those" moms; I bribed Avery with an M&M to get her to smile for ONE picture!

 its hard to get them both to focus for a good pic :P

This last pic is Avery and her friends at Mothers Day Out. I brought her up for her Valentines party today. She is doing really well at potty training and hasn't had an accident in 3 days. I will probably let her go the full day on thursday. Happy Valentines day to all of our friends and family.

Feb 13;{blue}

The caption says it all. This is the happiest blue-eyed baby I've ever seen. He will giggle and smile just by looking at him. I love both of my 2 blue eyed kiddos.

Feb 12;{inside your closet}

Here is a peek in Avery's closet;

She is such a stinker. But the cutest stinker ever. Notice Daisy duck in her closet, its the only reason she was smiling. I told her I just wanted a picture of Daisy duck, not Avery. She thought she was being a stinker getting into the picture! oh the things we do to get a quick snapshot! :)

Feb 11;{makes you happy}

This pic is what makes Avery happy at this moment. She LOVES her M&M's. She gets 2 for going pee-pee in her potty and 5 for going poo-poo! She always asks for green and blue ones, her favorite color right now is green.

I shouldn't mention that we've bought about 3 bags of peanut butter M&M's but chris and I have collectively devoured them. yeah, pretty sure we're a family of choco-holics! :)

Feb 10; {self portrait}

Here is Avery's self portrait taken by herself with my phone;

She likes to snap many pics at one time usually of just her nose up :)

its just the angle, she's not that chunky she has really slimmed down lately, I'm pretty sure its because she jumps on her trampoline non stop!

Feb 9; {front door}

Well you may have noticed I skipped feb 8, The sun has been absent most of the days lately so I haven't captured this one yet. But here is our Feb 9{front door}; (still amazes me that she can reach and open the doors!!)

See anything different? Avery is wearing big girl panties... we have decided to attempt potty training this weekend. Today has been pretty good, better than I expected. She had some accidents this morning but has since gone 4 times on her own to the potty and pee pee'd. We'll see how it goes, I think she is ready but I will still put her in a diaper/pullup for naps and bedtime till she can hold it. Stay tuned...

Feb 7; {button}

Lately, Avery has decided she does not want to wear clothes. I know this is totally a toddler thing and really its pretty cute. She's good about putting on clothes when its time to go somewhere but undresses as soon as we get home. So I see alot of her cute little belly "button"! She's also holding her best friend, "bananas" the monkey. She has 2 (in case we lose one) and this one has a boo boo on his paw with a cute little bandaid from Gramma. Avery refuses to take it off, saying he's still got an "owie". She's such a hoot lately!

Feb 6; {dinner}

"dinner" tonight was a big flop (pinterest recipe). So there is no dinner pic :). Instead you get a pic of us shopping for dinner. Avery loves going to Tom Thumb because they have a car in the front of the cart that she can ride in. They even have cars for 2 kids, of course Liam is still too small but I did put him in to snap a quick picture.  On another note, I found Avery on the outside of her bed this afternoon. She was supposed to be napping but instead learned how to scale her crib. Oh dear, we've entered a new era. Her toddler rails are on order but will still be about 8 weeks from arriving. Tonight she seemed a little scared of her bed, hopefully she won't try to climb out again! We shall see.....

Feb 5 {10am}

Here is our 10am pic;

No, he didn't pull up by himself but he did hold on for a bit! little stinker!

feb 4 {a stranger}

Well, I wasn't really up for taking a picture of my kids with a stranger so this is what you get instead. My kiddos love their sock monkeys. Liam loves to "eat" his monkey and Avery doesn't sleep without her monkey she has named "bananas". Yes, I realize that Liam is wearing a pink sleepsak... I don't think it'll scar him too badly! :)

Feb 3; hands

Avery's newest thing is to be naked. She likes to strip down to her diaper and run around the house yelling "I nakey". She cracks me up. Today she also wanted some grapes so she got the whole bag out of the fridge and went to town! :)

Feb 2; words

These are the words I see everyday;

The words of children's books, but I wouldn't have it any other way! :) love my little bookworm

Photo Challenge

I have been so lax about taking pictures lately, some friends and I started a 52 photo challenge but I have to admit the weekly challenges have been a little out of my reach lately. I saw this on instagram(britni84);

Sounds like fun so even though I'm a day late I'm going to give it a try! I'm going to try to get Ave involved too, she enjoys taking pictures lately (way more than having her pic taken). I still can't believe its already February!
Here is day 1(my view today);

there may be days that are combined, life does get a bit crazy. but hopefully I can keep up and post some fun and different pics! :)