Saturday, November 22, 2008

It's been forever and a half

Ok, I'm too annoyed with blogger to go through the work of arranging all these pics, but the first 3 are of course of my little monkey on Halloween.  And the rest are from his birthday, which I talk about at the bottom of my post.  Enjoy!


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Life as a mom has been crazy these days.  I'm having so much fun with it, but definitely having some of those tear your hair out days.  Liam is cute as ever, but getting more and more active and opinionated. 

Last week I was in the kitchen and I was surprised when I turned around to find the bean ON TOP of the dining room table.  Of course that was where we'd been stashing all our breakable stuff we'd been removing from other parts of the house.  I quickly took him down and ran around like a mad woman trying to figure out where else to stick the stuff (which was hard as Liam can get practically anywhere).  I hadn't even begun to get the stuff off the table and Liam was already back on it.  Over and over again I took him off and he got back on, easy as pie.  That began my week of hell.  Not only did he learn to get onto the dining room table on Monday, but we both became sick.  So all week he was climbing up, falling off, giving me heart attacks, not sleeping due to being sick, etc.  And to top it off, Chris went out of town for a couple days...and of course the night he was out Liam had me up all night with coughing, puking and the need to be consoled.  The poor guy.  I never realized how much dealing with him puking all over the bed in the middle of the night was a team activity--till it was just me.  You should have seen me trying to figure out what to do first.  I was trying to wipe it off the bed so it wouldn't soak into the mattress but at the same time Liam kept barfing.  I was losing ground.  I finally picked him up, set him on the ground and cleaned up the bed, and then we took a 5am shower to get the puke off the both of us.  Ah, life as a mommy.  ;p

This week has been much better, thankfully.  Liam and I are both getting over being sick, he finally started listening to us about the climbing so he isn't doing it when we say "no".  He's been in a much better mood.

Chris is out of town again right now on a kayaking trip.  I hope he is having a great time.  It's been nice, but a bit of work having Liam all to myself with no breaks.  Thursday night was awesome.  Liam and I had the whole bed to ourselves.  We both slept so much better.  Liam only woke up like 4 times!!  While that may sound like a lot for a baby who is almost 14 months old, it is practically a record for Liam these days.  

I'm bummed I never posted anything about Liam's birthday party, so I'll post it here and I'll have to find the pics and post them soon.  We had Liam's party at the old zoo in Griffith park.  It was so much fun.  Excepting the fact that pretty much everyone got lost getting there (despite maps and signs) it was the perfect location.  There were tons of places for the bigger kids to explore and climb, and lots of grass and dirt for the littler ones to play in.  Some of the adults were playing football.  

I made Chris get there early and we snagged the first habitat that is nice and big and has picnic tables in it.  There were little caves that we were able to stash the possibly-not-allowed-grown-up drinks in.  Everything was a monkey theme.  I had green and brown table cloths and Chris put up green and brown streamers and balloons.  I have to put a plug in here for Chris as he basically did all the decorations by himself.  So cute!

We had little monkey centerpieces and little monkey tiki hut favor boxes.  We also had several bubble machines which the little kids had a blast with.  The cake was awesome and I made the exact right amount of food.  It all turned out so well.  

I guess that's it for now.  I need to find those pics and get them posted