Modelling glasses

Some of you may remember the original "professor liam" photo. Since then, Liam has developed a real love of glasses. He likes to wear sunglasses (both his and mine, but mostly mine). He loves to put glasses on his face but also on our faces (often upside down).









Shortly after these pictures were taken, he also managed to rip the stem off Terry's glasses and my glasses within 24 hours. That effectively put the kibosh on being allowed to experiment with mommy and daddy's glasses.

Playing with pots and pans!

Just like mommy, Liam loves playing in the cupboards




Whew, after all that work, nice to recline with a berry smoothie

Random Photos 2 -- Summer 2010

This is one kid who gets into his reading...or the bookcase at least (yeah pun!)


Liam repurposes his old infant tub into a reclined seat


New idea: banana hair treatment, eat the peel


A stellar and serious first experience with chocolate pudding


More gardening assistance


Our little monkey using tools

Sunday trip to Arrington Vineyards

We visit Arrington Vineyards for a Sunday afternoon picnic


Riding daddy's shoulders


Lets just see about this hat


Rally cap time daddy!




Everything is better upside down




Daddy takes a nap after all that hard work

Random Photos -- Summer 2010

Swinging with our friend Suzi


Already loves climbing


Liam and Cora decked out for a duo stroll while volunteers help Ariana (Cora's mom) put their basement back in order after the Nashville floods


My little hammock baby


Hammock smile


Hammock time with Mommy


Liam picks out a hand-made baby sized broom at the art fair

Adventures with the garden hose (April 2010)

Here's our helpful little man learning how to use the garden hose for the first time (April 23, 2010). I was impressed how quickly he figured out how to drink from it successfully, though the failures in this regard make for funnier photos than the successes (see below).










Helps mommy water the garden


Catch me if you can!

Review: March of Dimes

Here's a long overdue photo show of our March for Dimes walk. Tremendous thank you due to everyone from this blog and elsewhere who helped us surpass our fundraising goal! We were joined in our walk by Grandma and Pop McDonnell and numerous friends from the East Nashville MOMs Club. It was a wonderful show of support and it meant the world to me to walk with friends and family.


The March gave out three different colored bandanas: dark purple for normal births, light purple for preemies, and white for someone who had lost a baby. Liam sports his light purple preemie pride


Bonnie with her daughter


We roll out in style


Cora is especially stylish






Quetzal Sol gets a ride from his dad


The group after the walk


Liam having fun


Quetzal Sol is a buddy from playgroup who is right around Liam's adjusted age


Gal pal Cora gets a snuggle from her poppa


Leif is another buddy from playgroup who was born right around Liam's due date


Liam points to Grammy


Afterwards we do a craft together to record Liam's handprints


He is very interested in the whole process


And eager to keep going!


Pop wrestles him until we can get him cleaned off


It takes a village to remove paint from a little kid :)




Liam, playing with Pop's zipper