365: April 19-25

Yes, this is incredibly late. Life has become very busy lately with us gearing up to move into the house we bought a month ago. Will has been working crazy hard at work and on the house, and I have been working crazy hard wrangling Liam and working from home. We're both exhausted, and I haven't had time to blog. I'm hoping to get this finished before Liam wakes up from his nap!

April 19th: This was apparently the ONLY picture I took that day. This is what happens when you pour water out in the seat of your highchair and drop some O's in the seat. They stick to your booty like they're glued on! Gross.

April 20: We went to Liam's sweet friend Collette's birthday party that day. The theme was ballet and tutus for the girls and bow ties for the boys. Liam had a lot of fun playing, messing with Collette's presents as she opened them, and even doing a little dancing. To my surprise, however, the thing he enjoyed most was the cake. He sat in a chair next to Collette and ate his cake with a fork like a big boy. Since then, he has talked about cake a lot...and Collette. According to Liam, she's his friend and she's cute.

April 21: This was the day Will left for his 5-day long business trip. We took him to the airport in the morning, and in the early evening, we played outside and Liam dug in the dirt with a stick for a very long time. Loves the dirt.

April 22: I've already given it it's own post, but that was the day I took Liam to some bluebonnets for pictures. Here's one I didn't post before.

April 23: I have no idea what he had just eaten to make such a mess around his mouth. All I remember is that he demanded to play with his number puzzle while in his highchair. Visual learning is working out yet again for Liam. Since I got him the puzzle, he is saying and correctly identifying numbers 1-9. I wish that puzzle had 10 on it. He'll just have to learn that number later!

April 24: At this point, Will had been gone for four days, and we were both going crazy! Around day 3 is when Liam always starts acting out when Will is gone. Thankfully, Will doesn't have to travel too much (although this was his third trip in four months), but I think that might make it worse since neither one of us is used to him being gone so long. We needed to get out of the house, so we went to Target and looked at books.

April 25: That was the day Will came home from his trip! He had flown on his company's corporate jet, so we had to go to a private hangar at Love Field to pick him up. That was also the day the president (as well as the loving former presidents) were in town. Will saw Air Force One parked at the airport as his plane landed. We couldn't see it from where we were. However, we were just really glad to see Will!

Extra pictures from Collette's party!

Collette ran up to greet Liam when we arrived, but Liam got all shy and just stared at his feet for awhile. Collette laid on the ground to see his face.

Liam and his bow tie!

Surrounded by tutus!

Watching the ballerina dance. Did a little stompy dance.

Waiting very patiently for cake.

He spent a lot of the party trying to get outside to go play. When the party was nearly over, we went out to the backyard for a few minutes. To our surprise, everyone else had left by the time we came back in!

Happy slider.