STAIRMASTER

Liam is well behaved but he has had a instances where his will has simply been stronger than ours.

A example of his good behavior would be the garbage and the cupboards in the kitchen. A few times early on after he started walking he had tried to take something out of the garbage or take a glass plate out of a cupboard. We sternly told him "NO" and he has really never had a problem following that rule.

An example of the middle road would be hitting. He's had more than one instance of hitting him Momma and although he has relapsed it's obvious he knows when he has done wrong and he is quick to apologize.

An example of something we have just had to live with are the stairs. When we tell him not to go on the stairs he laughs at us because he knows it's a joke. We can't stop him and HE is the one that tells us "NO!" The kid has taken down any gate we've tried to put up and he now refuses to take rides down the stairs. Liam even gets offended if you try to offer him your hand. About all we can do is keep a close a eye and let him become a big boy on his own.

*Notice what he says at the start of the video. It's because I offered him my hand out of view from the video.

**Obviously this video was taken before the haircut.

CHOP SHOP

I'm sure you'll find it hard to accept that I didn't want my boy to get his hair cut. I've been sporting a 1/2 inch or less for the last 10 years but I actually liked Liam's shaggy look. Jamie called an intervention a few days ago and took him for a trim. She admits, "my worst day ever with Liam", as expected, he was not appreciative of the attention to his head.

Despite that, the cut was finished and I gotta say, hair washing is much easier now.

MORE FROM THE BEACH

KATHERINE IS 2

Liam went to Katherine's house for her birthday and they ran 47 laps to celebrate. This is one of those 10 minutes videos I post for the grandparents so no hard feeling if you don't make it all the way through.

THE BEACH

I dropped off Jamie and Liam at the airport last night.

Reports from the flight were that Liam was a good boy on the trip.

12 hours later he had his toes in the sand.

WORDS PER MINUTE

They are both only at about 45 words per minute... so obviously we have some work to do.

TOAST

Liam loves toast at breakfast. I'm glad to find the foods that he loves but there is a problem with toast. Instead of eating it he spends most of his time sucking/chewing it. It seems that adding toast to the breakfast menu adds another 20 minutes to breakfast while Liam absorbs the taste out of it before finally downing it.

This morning I used a large slice of what bread for him and even after cutting it in half he still had two fairly large sections. He took a good a good look at them and said, "Eh!! FORK!" I got him a fork after his "please" and "thank you." He jabbed the fork into the top slice and tried to fit it into his mouth with no luck. With toast particles all over his face he said, "EH! CUT! CUT!" So I got a knife out and started chopping the toast up. As I walked away I heard "tank you" and he began sucking the butter out of the toast squares.

Breakfast seems to be his best meal of the day. We're not sure how much he eats for lunch but dinner can be hit or miss. In general he finishes anything on his plate at breakfast.

When we are at home his favorites are:

Toast

Cheerios "ohs"

Apple Jacks "jacks"

Grapes

Bananas

When we go out for breakfast the favorites are:

Toast

Sausage Links

Fried Eggs

BIG POTTY

Liam has been working on his potty skills. Poop isn't going so well but the pee-pee is coming along.

PUDDLES

For a while it was raining... but now it's just snowing again.

Liam is happy either way.

DYLAN'S BIRTHDAY

I went to cousin Dylan's birthday party.

He got to eat a big cake.

I got locked in a cage cause everyone says I'm a wild animal.

But Aunt Mairin rescued me.

And then we had a family hug.