My sweet Liam is not a baby anymore. Ask himself yourself and he will tell you, "Meemee NO baby! Meemee BIG boy now!". Of course, if you apply this logic to him in the form of "big boys pee in the potty", or "big boys all done numble-time", he gets himself all tied up in a big existential knot about it.He's finally talking! Even though his first word was BALL when he was about 15 months, he really didn't have more than a handful of words for the next year. This summer he really started experimenting more with making English words (as opposed to signs and Liamish words), and since September he has really taken off. I'm sure he has all the vocabulary tucked away, just for some reason he never wanted to translate those into spoken word before now. It is so hilarious to hear some big words come out (like Darth Vader) while he's still using 3-word sentences!
He never said any numbers before this month, and suddenly he can count to 10 - wan, doo, dee, boor, bye, diss, debben, ade, nine, DEN!! He's learning his colours too, and I think he knows red and blue the best.He loves his "school" (daycare) and he goes four days a week with "Miss Dinney" (Miss McKinney) while Mummy attempts to play at marine biologist. It's wonderful that his daycare is onsite and integrated with Kieran's school, as they get to play together after school, and several of Kieran's classmates have little brothers or sisters in the daycare too, so we socialize with all the same families. In fact, he has three playmates in his daycare room that will be starting Kindergarten the same year with him, so he'll know these friends for a long time!
At home he has pretty much given up on his Thomas duplo and trains in favour of playing big kid Lego with Kieran and his friends. He is relishing his role as kid brother and wants to do whatever the big boys are up to. Which is probably why he can't say his alphabet, but he can say knight, lego, darth vader, star wars, yoda, dragon, pirate, keyai (karate), and yight saber. I keep remembering Taking a Stance back when Kieran was 2 about no weapons in the house. How times change (introducing Kieran to Disney's Robin Hood, The Princess Bride, and Episode I the year Liam was born was the end of that little quest for moral high ground!).He loves to play dress-up and he plans to be Yoda for Halloween. This is causing me significant amounts of angst since this means I have to actually take the glue gun out of its package to make the head thing with the green pointy ears. I have actually gone to Fabricland and purchased felt, people! These things, we do for our kids!
He's still nursing!! From the outset, I of course was committed to nursing for at least 2 years, but since Kieran weaned at 17 months, I was quite prepared for Liam to be weaned by now. But he seems to really enjoy the attachment and comforting aspect of it, and in the last three days of stomach flu I've been grateful to be able to get some fluids into him any which way. I'll be gone for 3 weeks in Peru next month, and I'll be taking some homeopathics while I'm down there to reduce my milk supply so that I don't get mastitis, and so that perhaps when I get back there won't be anything of interest to him anymore... But until then, it's nice to have that special snuggle time, especially as the stress mounts as I'm preparing for my trip. I know that I am so fortunate to have been able to have this experience with him for so long, and I am going to miss it.He is such a sweet little snugglebug. Happy half-birthday, little dude! Love, Mummy xxxx
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Awww little liam! I remember when he was just a baby and when I held him for the first time at your parents house. I think he was only about 4 months old but he still had the same little smile. But that first picture you had of him on here i was like whoa! he's all grown up now. And he definately can talk! hahaa. I can totally picture what him and Kieran will look like when they're older. Aww well it was nice looking at some of the stories on here! byebye
Love Kelsey
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