Now we are back home and missing everyone again. Sometimes I just don’t understand why I had to have the independent spirit that took me across the country from my family. Liam is getting so big and is playing with rolling over. He hasn’t got it yet, but he is very close. He is grabbing at everything and cooing all the time. His favorite past-time is taking a bath. He goes nuts in the tub so I end up taking two showers. I love giving him a bath so much I thought I would share it complete with washcloth to maintain his modesty!
Happy Baby
I love my Aunt Jessica
Getting smiles out of Liam is really hard work and don’t even get me started on trying to make him laugh. He seems to be a serious baby, but we have found that he is also a thrill-seeker. He loves it when Tom throws him in the air. Tom is the best at getting him to laugh. I guess I need to give up the dream that at least one man in my house will find me funny!
Liam had a great first Christmas in Pittsburgh. He was a great flier. He slept most of the way out and back, and the rest of the time we just played on the plane. Liam had a great first Christmas in Pittsburgh. I must say that he ate VERY WELL! We had a white pre-Christmas, Christmas, post-Christmas, New Years and post-New Years. Let’s just say that it didn’t stop snowing the entire time I was back east. It really made me thankful for Cali weather.
It was great seeing all the aunts and uncles, and Liam has some great cousins to teach him the ropes…as long as his cousin Benjamin doesn’t gouge his eyes out. He was fascinated by little Liam. I loved being able to spend so much time with my family. In the past, I have always had to rush back to school or work, but this time I was able to stay as long as I wanted. Liam and I got to help with all the holiday baking and I finally got to decorate my own gingerbread house after years of only hearing about how much fun it is. (Mine was the best looking house!)
This is SO embarrassing
He looks like an angel now, but wait until you leave...save me Mom!
Thanks Aunt Jess for the cool clothes
Stranger things have happened!
So we woke up this morning and discovered that during the night we got snow! I guess that is snows maybe once a year up in the Sacramento area, but never this much. It is usually melted by late morning but this stuff looks like it might hang around a while. The schools have closed and no one is driving anywhere. It would be a perfect day for me to go out and get some shopping done because even though it has been a few years, I still remember how to drive in the snow!
Besides the suprise of the snow, the holiday season has been a busy one. We spent Thanksgiving with Tom’s family so Liam got to have some quality Great-Grandma Gibson time. Then, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Liam and I drove back down to Pleasanton for a week so that I could train the new person taking my job. We got to stay at Lisa’s house who is officially Liam’s surrogate Omi! We had a wonderful week being back in the Bay area. I miss it so much already. I actually cried driving back! How sad. Karl was very concerned with the baby and would wake up first thing in the morning and ask for him. We decorated the Christmas tree and then went to see Santa at the mall. To see the picture of all of us go to mysantapics.com and type in the personal online code: 337-072-r8hw2. I love the way that Emi the dog is looking up at Liam.
Now we are onto tackling the plane ride to Pittsburg to spend Christmas with my family. I am so excited. I will be there for three weeks and finally be there for all the fun leading up to Christmas! I can’t wait. Hopefully Liam decided that he likes planes and is a good traveler or else it will be a long day flying cross country.
Oh, and I can’t believe that Liam is two months old already! Time flies.
Liam taking turkey nap number one.
Turkey nap number two.
Chillin' with Great Grandma G.
Let it snow.
I succumbed…
I have to apologize to Liam, but as a new mother, I have already succumbed to having my child’s pictures taken at JC Penney. Before he was born, Tom and I both said that we didn’t want to be the type of parents that dragged their children to have their pictures taken all the time. Tom, because those are painful memories of growing up (although he managed to pull a smile in all the pictures that I have seen at his parents’ house) and me because I am cheap and would rather try to take them at home! Sadly though, it took two weeks and one persuasive Nana and the results are the the following pictures. Not too shabby if you ask me, but hey, I’m just the mom!
Big Changes Keep Coming
Due to the added stress of a new baby and the move to Sacramento, Wrigley is taking a vacation from writing his blog. I am filling in until he feels well enough to write again. We have had some big changes as a family lately. As if having a baby wasn’t enough, we just moved to the Sacramento area for Tom’s work. (Great call on the Uhaul Dad!) I DO NOT recommend moving three weeks after having a baby! We are now settled in except for a few more boxes that need unpacking. I already miss the Bay area and my favorite city in the world, but Tom is really excited to finally have his own practice in his new office.
Liam is growing way to fast for me. He changes daily. I still see so much Schirtzinger in him, but occasionally the Gibson genes flash and I see hints of Tom. He is already such a talker with big things to say. He grunts all the time and hums every time he is fed. He is now smiling, and my favorite smiles are the ones he makes right as his eyes are closing to fall asleep. He is getting stronger and is holding his head up all the time to look around him. He is now pushing off of us when we hold him and is so alert to all the sounds and sights. He was blessed on our last day at church in Pleasanton on October 25th and Tom did a wonderful job. (Thanks Nana for the adorable blessing outfit.)
- Liam is questioning his fancy blessing outfit!
Nana and Papa left and we miss them so much. It was great to have my mom here for the past month, and it made me start wondering why I chose to live so far away from my family. We had a great time together and I can’t wait to have Liam meet the rest of my family at Christmas.
Chillin with Nana
Proud Papa
Liam just celebrated his first Halloween last night. He was a giraffe, although several of the neighborhood kids thought he was a cow! Tom’s parent’s neighborhood knows how to do Halloween. The parents get together and have potluck trick-or-treating while the kids get the candy, so we sat around the firepit and had chili and Mel’s famous meatballs until Liam decided he had had enough and fussed the rest of the night. Hopefully he will like Halloween better next year!
My little giraffe
Candy Coma
I don’t think they have decided his name yet…
I hear beautiful boy, Tom’s little buddy, little man, Liam, perfect, and some others. They are all calling him different names. I can’t figure out what his real name is.
Written on the card they left on the table is the name, Liam Harrison Gibson. But I hardly ever hear them calling him by that name. Who knows.
I think I figured out what happened
Late Monday night Amanda dropped off me, my little doggy bed and some dog food at a friends house.
The following night grandma picked me up and brought me back and stayed the night with me.
Wednesday afternoon Tom finally came home, took a quick shower, gathered some things and then left again. (Luckily he left some food in my dish before he left.)
Once Tom left, I did a little snooping around and found these pictures. To be honest I am excited, but at the same time a little worried that I might have a little competition now. . .
