Fox

Liam is learning about foxes this week in play school. He has been talking about them a lot. Today, he was a fox when Tobias picked him up.

King and Ring Pop

Wow. I can't believe it's been nearly two months since I last posted.  It's been a crazy two months to say the least. Here are a couple pictures from the last couple of days. More to come!!!

Liam started wearing this today and saying he the king.

Will work for ring pops!!

Christmas Program

Liam had his first Christmas program at school on Tuesday. His class sang two songs and told a knock-knock joke. Liam has been working very hard on his songs and we finally got to see why. 

The first song was I'm a Little Snow Man. The tune is to I'm a Little Teapot but the words are:
I'm a little snowman, short and fat.
Here are my buttons. Here is my hat.
When the suns comes up I cannot play.
Slowly I will melt away.

 

We told Liam if he behaved and listened well that he would get a treat. Apparently his teach had arranged the same thing. After the first song Liam ran up to us asking for his treat. We told him he had to finish so he turned to his teacher and said 'Can we have our treat now?' :-)

The second was Santa Claus is coming to town. Aydan (the kid Liam blames everything on!) introduces the song by saying 'Hey everybody, Santa Claus is coming town.' (This video is slightly clipped. I will fix that in final editing.)

Liam did a great job so he got a special treat - a lollipop!!

I (heart) Liam

Cara is in Liam's play school class. She has a crush on Liam. We first learned of this at Thanksgiving when she wrote on her project that she was thankful for 'the mommies, the daddies, the puppies, and the Liams.' She always screams and yells and runs up to him when he arrives each morning (a bit like Elvis or The Beatles). Liam doesn't know what to do with all of it. It seems like it scares him a little.

Today she showed up wearing this t-shirt!! She's covering the important part but you get the picture.

Knock-knock

Our first knock-knock joke. Let the fun of preschool knock-knock jokes begin!!

Thanksgiving II

We headed out to the Noland Trail for some pictures. Here are some pictures of what we are thankful for!!

Thanksgiving

As we head into Thanksgiving, Tobias and I have been reminded that we have something for which we will always be thankful - - that Liam is healthy and I am alive.

We took Liam to an orthopedic specliast for his feet. While I was giving Liam's medical history to doctor I said that I had a placental abruption at 32 weeks. When I said that he turned around and looked at Liam and said, 'I can't believe what I am seeing. He was an abruption at 32 weeks? Best case scenario he should have some form of partial cerebral palsy. I can't believe how big and healthy he is!' The doctor then looked at me and said, 'And you shoudn't be sitting here.' He then looked at Tobias and said, 'You do know you are one of the luckiest men on earth, right? Your wife is alive and you have a miracle child.'

That kinda puts our impatience with Liam's three-year-old drama into perspective, huh?

Thankfully, Liam's feet are structurally sound. He appears to be too limber and that is what is causing his feet to pronate inward. He is getting fitted for heel and ankle SMO's. Not sure what his will look like, but something like the picture below. These are not guanrateed to fix the issue, but they do not allow it to get worse. (Oma - time for Fussgymnastik boot camp over Christmas!)

Here are some pictures of Liam at the doctor's office. We all laughed at the shorts he had to wear for his exam. This was the smallest size they had.

Do these shorts make my butt look big??