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??

Pumpkin carving for real

After our practice run, Liam got to carve his pumpkin for real this time. We had a neighborhood pumpkin carving party yesterday afternoon. We decided to carve Liam's at home since we didn't think his attention span would last long enough at the party.

Here are some pics and a video from the day.

Liam loves cats at the moment. Here he is eating his M&Ms like a cat. Complete with meows.

Liam's favorite thing at the party was our neighbor's dancing pirate. He was fascinated by it and loved dancing with it.

Pumpkin carving

It's pumpkin time again! Liam helped me clean our first pumpkin of the season for some stir-fried pumpkin (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/stir-fried-pumpkin/detail.aspx)

Liam used to love stir fried pumpkin when we was a year old. Now he won't touch it.

Here are some pictures of my little helper.

The Book of Me

Liam brought this home today from play school. His answers are in quotation marks.

Sand and water

 We are in another phase where we look at pictures of Liam and we can see that he looks different. We knew he was growing again lately. We can really see it here!

We finally got Liam's sand box going. The digger was a big hit!!

Here are some cute pictures from bath time tonight. Liam is not afraid to get his face or head wet. Probably time for some swimming lessons!