Liam has been walking since December, but really started to get the hang of it in January. Since then nothing seems to be safe. If he can reach it (and he reach seems to be increasing daily), he will open it, play with it, rip it apart, etc… The edges of the kitchen counter are no longer safe. If I cease to pay attention for a minute, invariably the next thing out of my mouth is, “Liam what have you gotten into now?”. I fear it is just a matter of time before he starts trying to climb to the top of the refrigerator. ack!
He is active, curious, loves to be tickled, go for walks (and be chased), play with anything that has buttons (especially phones and computer keyboards), look at books, and pretty much anything that doesn’t require sitting still.
We started swim classes a couple of weeks ago. Mostly at this stage we are getting used to being in the pool. The skill that we work on in class are kicking, blowing bubbles, front floating, back floating, going under water, and getting into the pool. David and I switch off weeks on who gets to get in the water with Liam. The last week of his first swim session, we got to go down the big water slide at the pool. Liam loved it, and I had fun too.
Today for the first time, Liam gave me a kiss after I prompted for a kiss (instead of me just giving him kisses). Needless to say I am still smiling about it.
Well, Liam has finally started to take off. He has been crawling/rocking/rolling around for about 2 weeks but has now graduated to full time crawling. Don’t turn your head or you might miss him. He still does not seem to have much interest in pulling himself up, but I am sure he will get there in his own time. He is able to stand on his own if he is holding on to something (i.e. a person/couch/crib rails). I think he is more interested in crawling and sitting up now that he has gotten the hang of it.
Rowan still is number one at making him laugh. Of course his most favorite thing is when Rowan makes a fake burping noise at him. I love to hear the laugh, but the burping noise, not so much.
Liam is mostly eating table food now. He can’t get enough of his morning bananas. He even loves to eat plain black beans and mixed frozen veggies. They are the perfect texture since he still only has his two middle bottom teeth. He loves to eat whatever is on my plate and won’t be satisfied with puffs once dinner is served.
Liam loves to roll himself all over the room. He has finally started to get on his hands and knees. He looks like he wants to crawl, but hasn’t quite there yet. He is eating soft and squishable table food. He only has his two bottom teeth, so eating anything that needs to be chewed to much is right out.
Here are the latest pictures of Liam