Two Months

August 19th marks two months since Liam joined our family! We are so amazed by him everyday. He is such a sweet baby. He is happy most of the time. He loves to play with toys - his own and his brothers. He can sit up on his own from a laying down position. He rocks on all fours and scoots all over. He can pull himself up to a standing position. (We lowered his bed this evening.) He loves the jumper and walker - he actually runs in the walker when he wants to get somewhere. He eats very well - just about everything I have given him but he does not like peaches. He has added four more teeth to the two he already had - giving him six teeth - the more to bite you with. He struggles with sleeping at night but his naps have gotten a lot better and he is on a good schedule (for the most part). He will be 8 months old on the 26th.

I call him Sweet Cheeks - sweet baby Liam.

The Big Three

Happy Birthday - My Big Boy! I can't believe Ben is three. He had a great birthday party at the new Jump Zone and afterwards we had our August family birthday party at our house. My nephew and sister share their birthday - August 4th, so we celebrate all the birthdays together. They all looked so cute in their party hats. Then we had Dance Party and the three birthday buddies put on quite a show. Ben was exhausted at the end of the night but he still had a hard time letting go of his balloons. It was a great day.

Ben - blowing out his birthday muffin candles!


Riley, Ben and Amy (that's Mamy to Ben) share three candles - one for each of them.



Dance Party



The party is over.

Guess Who's Three?

Rainy Day

It rained here yesterday! It's been so hot that we haven't played outside much. Ben was so excited to see the rain - he grabbed his rain coat and boots and headed outside. He didn't last long but it was very refreshing. Especially since all he had under neither his coat was his underwear. (That's big boy underwear!)


Liam is also wearing big boy underwear - over his diaper that is. I couldn't resist - since I think Ben is so cute in his underwear - I had to try some on Liam, too! I think this will become a regular "outfit" at our house.

Happy Birthday Rie Rie

My nephew, Riley, turned 9 on Monday. It's hard to believe that 9 years have passed since we first saw his precious face. He was born on his mother's birthday (that's my sister, Amy - Happy Birthday to you too, sister). I am so grateful that we live in the same town and I have the opportunity to watch him grow. I am very proud of the wonderful young man he is becoming. I am especially proud of how great a "big cousin" and big brother (he has a new baby sister) he has become over the last year and a half. He is definitely the one all the little kids will look up to. Ben adores his Rie Rie. We have regular "dance parties" at our house and Riley participated recently. I caught this picture of Ben following him around and trying to imitate all his moves.
Happy Birthday, Riley! We love you!

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

The day that changed us forever. August 2nd, we got The Call. I was at work when our social worker, Kimberly, called me. Right away she said, "I have a baby boy to tell you about". It was all I could do to maintain calm. I work with my family and I wanted Rob to be the first to know about our son so I had to get off the phone and make up an excuse to leave the store. It took about ten minutes to locate Rob who was on his lunch hour and running errands around town. Once I reached him, we agreed to meet at our house to call Kimberly back. She told us everything she knew about our little boy and then emailed us the details and his picture. We promised not to look at the picture until we had read through his documents and knew for sure he was meant for us.

It didn't take us long to read the documents and know this child would be our son. So, we opened the email with his photo and saw his beautiful face for the first time - our Baby Ben.