Liam and Gibson: 365: April 12-18

This felt like a really long week. Will's dad was here last weekend helping Will out with house stuff. Liam loved seeing his "Pepaw" and playing with his hat and sitting in his truck. He's still talking about it a week later! Then I was sickly at the beginning of the week, and then the weather got cold and rainy AGAIN, so we stayed inside some. It's a miracle I remembered to take at least one picture everyday.

April 12: That morning, Liam and I went to story time at the Interurban Rail Museum in Plano. We're in a playgroup, and this was only the second time we've been able to go, so I was really looking forward to it. Liam enjoyed looking at the model train before the story time began. Of course Liam could not sit still during the story. He was up pretty much the whole time. He even went and stood right in front of the storyteller with his back turned to the other kids. He also turned around and just looked at them while they were trying to listen. Awkward! Then, if I put even just one finger on him to convince him to sit down, he protested! He was definitely a distraction. Afterwards, we briefly walked through the old train car on display and played some at the park before going grocery shopping.

April 13: Saturday morning, Liam and I had several errands to run. While at Buy Buy Baby, Liam tried on this awesome monkey hat. It was a little too small, though, to purchase.

April 14: My main duties during this move are to watch Liam and to pack. I finally got some boxes from our realtor's sister in law who had just moved. Now I suppose I have no excuse to not start packing.

April 15: This was the day I really felt terrible. The weather was nice, but unfortunately for Liam, I could not leave the apartment. So we hung out inside all day, watched entirely too much Curious George, and played with shadows. We both survived.

April 16: With me feeling well enough to go outside, Liam finally got to do some sliding and playing in the dirt. His new favorite way to slide is on his belly. That's all fine and fun...until your shirt rides up and you're sliding down on bare belly. Ouch. Once that happened to him, he was back to normal sliding.

April 17: At that point, he had been 23 months old for three days, so I knew I needed to take some pictures of him for that blog post. Thankfully, he complied when I put him in his stroller, and we spent some time at the park taking pictures, blowing dandelions, and narrowly avoiding ant beds. We both had fun!

April 18: I attended the Dallas Moms Blog Moms Night Out party in Allen. It seemed like it would be a really fun event with food, drinks, a live band, and getting to meet other mama's. I got there a little early, got my swag bag (hoping there would be an Anthropologie coupon in it...nope), and went to Anthropologie anyway. Once the event started, I was just standing in line for food for a long time (freezing!), and really wasn't impressed. I talked to a friend from my teacher certification class whom I hadn't seen in a few years, and then I finally met up with my friend Amanda. We immediately started taking about just going to eat at a restaurant instead because it really wasn't worth it to be so cold. So that's what we did. There ended up being five of us going to Grimaldi's for pizza and warmth.