Its Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

I am in Love with Christmas, I love every little dumb thing about it! I love the songs, I love my tacky Christmas tee that I tackily wore when actually Christmas shopping. I love outgifting (of course at a fabulous frugal price that no one will ever know) I love wrapping in obnoxious Christmas paper, especially ones that don't match my moms perfect décor (seriously though her tree looks like she robbed it from Macy's). I love seeing peoples faces! I love cooking or baking or really anything to do with the whole silly thing. I even almost cried when I realized my house doesn't have a fireplace and asked if I could sue my realtor for not advising of such an important thing(my mom was my realtor ; P). For the record I would totally sell my house tonight if Bryan would buy me another with a fireplace tomorrow so I could decorate the heck out of it!

All year I've been saying how silly it is to even make a deal out of Christmas with Liam being so small even though I love it so much, "he won't even remember it" I said. "He couldn't possibly process it" I said.......and yet here I am decorating and asking him if he thinks the tree looks too off centered, and buying and wrapping presents, and you bet your bottom dollar he's going to sit in his bumbo with me and bake Santa some Christmas cookies, which I will then proceed to break my diet and eat! I seriously even considered doing Elf on The Shelf but had to seriously step aside and realize its gone way too far when your playing with dolls as an adult by yourself! Maybe next year I'll finally be that crazy but until then I guess I have some sanity left in me!

And why am I being a hypocrite? Honestly because one day I want Liam to look at pictures of me baking with him on the counter and see his obnoxiously wrapped presents with his crazy mom wearing a very tacky Christmas tee and know that I love the hell out of him and couldn't wait to do and share all these very silly things with him that make a lifetime of memories and never wasted a second. ;D



Oh hey, there's ME in a tacky Christmas Tee being way to excited to decorate the tree! I was also wearing plaid pants and polka dot socks to complete the ensemble ;D

 

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Last year, I had no duct tape and spent literally an hour scotch taping my tree back into its box, one could say I had too much time on my hands? I say someone ought to buy me some duct tape for Christmas this year!

 

 

Bueller photobombed a gazillion pictures!

 

 

I found these cute Christmas Sacks at Rite Aid and am forcing the adults to do "Secret Santa"!!!

                    My Finished Product, Ain't She a BEUAT!!!!

Bend It Like Beckham!!!

I don't typically like a baby in a diaper in pictures after the age of 4 weeks but I just had to share these cute and some very hysterical pictures I caught of Liam tonight playing with his little orange ball while he was waiting for bath time! He loves kicking the heck out of that thing!!! Maybe we have a soccer star on our hands?!?!

P.S. Someone learned how to suck his thumb like there's tomorrow today!!! Oh bother, as much as I don't like pacifiers and try to very minimally give him one I almost prefer it to the thumb. I can take away a pacifier, I can't take away that thumb and they just began a love affair that I have a feeling that his love for mama aint gunna matter to break it!

Thanksgiving & Mr. 3 Months!

This last week has been so busy and hectic! Liam gains more and more personality every day and some things make us go "ooooo" and some things make us go "AHHHH" either way, we are certainly learning a lot about each other!

Mr. Liam has himself a fascination with the mobiles and I've quickly learned the easiest way to appease a baby is sometimes to just surround them with the things they love so Liam now has FIVE mobiles throughout the house and I even got this super amazing one that attaches to his car seat at Toys R Us!!! I highly recommend however will point out that either I'm crazy or every song it plays sound a whole lot like Christmas music which I guess doesn't bother me too bad seeing as its that time of year however check back in January to see if Im wearing a wig from all the hair I've pulled out!

Someone just hit 12 weeks on Thanksgiving! I don't really like to do the whole "Omg, hes 17 weeks and 2 days, pull out the cupcakes thing" but 3 months seems like a big deal mostly to the tune that Bryan and I made it to this point! I have to say I really don't think either of us have handled this newborn into infancy as graceful or well as we thought we would. Bryan and I are both perfectionist in our own ways and when we don't succeed in the way we think is perfect we both probably get too down on ourselves but hey we survived and we are lucky to have this very drooly, handsome, smiley baby to ease our frustrations at not magically growing super speed when making bottles, fabulous singing voices to soothe baby, endless energy when holding baby and the ability to fly every mess out of the house before anyone stops by and sees.

We went over to my moms for Thanksgiving and then we dealt with Black Friday madness on the wrong side of register if you ask me ;) although I did actually clock out early from helping friends and family at Bryans job and went shopping!!! Couldn't help myself!!! Ooooo and I made the cutest, yummiest little strawberry shortcakes for Thanksgiving!!!!

Speed Dating With The Cutest Guy In The Room!

First off I have never speed dated and I don't even know if its real or just something that happens in the chick flick movies I sometimes watch at 2 in the morning while folding laundry. Any how you know the concept of speed dating? You sit down talk with someone for a few minutes and then a bell rings and your on to the next, the conversation I imagine changes with each person and probably feels hectic and chaotic and horrible and geez why do people do that, do they do that? I need to meet someone whose done this?!

So where am I going with this?

Well Liam is quickly coming up on 12 weeks (This Thursday) & oh my goodness he is a mess. He doesn't know if he wants to sit, crawl, eat, babble, stare at the spot on the ceiling that is never going to get cleaned or be bounced around upside down while I run around the house backwards (I don't really do that but Im certainly willing to try if it suits him!) I basically feel like my whole day consists of running through the motions of 20 different things to keep him happy and I'm even starting to hear a bell ringing in my ears!

It kind of makes me a little twitchy after 8 hours and Bryan getting home is basically like the equivalent of Paul Walker Busting down my front door and saying "Hey Girl, Let me take that crying baby from you while you go take a bath."

I know this is normal and his little mind is discovering so many things all so fast and is trying to figure out who he is and what he likes but boy does he keep this mama on her toes! Its really okay though because every time we switch it up and he gets excited and happy and oh my I didn't know a smile could be so amazing! He is so cute and I am just in love with him! I know most people love newborns but for me this is where the magic begins when hes interacting and as he grows I get so excited to witness it all!

Heres a couple pics I snapped this afternoon when he decided he wanted to sit in his bumbo watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and chew on his teddy ears...ya know for about 5 minutes ;D

So Much Cuteness!!!!!

Im Back!

I have thought at least a million times since my last post to sit down and get back on track with my blog but here I am finally getting to it thanks to my wonderful hubby Bry for getting me a FABULOUS way too fancy for me camera to give me motivation to really start tracking Liams growth and our life again.

I obviously since my last post ended my struggle with not being pregnant which then moved to a very extremely stressed out and very hot and sweaty pregnant me for 38 1/2 weeks before I finally after 12 hours of labor, 3 hours of pushing, 2 panic attacks and very prepared nurse with a hot pink hand held fan that saved my life, gave birth to this precious soul of life that immediately within seconds made me happier than I ever knew was possible and also made me more stressed out than I ever knew was possible!

Being a mom has been a way larger adjustment for me than I ever thought! The biggest adjustment is I have always been a bit of an impulsive person, if I wanted to go somewhere, work somewhere, do something, do nothing, do everything, well I did. Oh my Goodness though, loading a car seat and lugging it around and having enough formula and this and that well...it certainly has flipped my whole world around!

Enough about boring old me! I will summarize as best as I can Liam through the weeks!

Week 1- This was maybe the worst week of Bryan and I's life, yep I said it "worst". I won't sugar coat it, we were both very underslept, very helpless, very hungry, & very apparently out of shape he loved for us to hold him with our arms all the way extend out FOREVER! It amazes me how newborns sleep literally almost all day but yet we were still so tired, it is a weird science to say the least!

Week 2- Was a sweet little honeymoon week, we finally got a full nights sleep (Thanks Mom) We finally got a little routine down where we took turns with baby! Life was good!

Week 3- All hell broke loose, Bryan went back to work and the colic fairy decided to visit for a while!

Week 4/5- The colic fairy decided to extend her stay to which I struggled with many headaches and got just about no laundry/cleaning accomplished BUT we did find out that Drakes song "Hold On, Were Going Home" helped LOADS to calm you down! He freaked my out by sleeping for 8 hours straight one night but it was the beginning of a beautiful thing as we had accidentally actually managed to get Liam on a sleeping schedule very early in life! His evening routine went  play,eat, go on a walk, play, bath, eat, KNOCKOUT!

Week 6- Liam loves walks and the outdoors in general so much we decided to go on one everyday, weather permitting of course!

Week 7/8- While Liams Colic had subsided something still wasnt right and we began working with his ped. to start changing his diet to help! He really started becoming his own person in these weeks, liking particular songs, making particular faces, noises, interacting so much more and really kind of liking being held in a bunch of wacky positions!

Week 9/10- Liam is getting so interactive with people and objects. He can hold his head up on his own and was so excited to get turn around and face out in the baby carrier! Some of his favorite things include mirrors, mobiles, and he LOVES when you point out his nose, cheeks, ears, chin & toes while poking/tickling him it is maybe the cutest thing I have ever seen!

Well thats the best your going to get from me for a catch up post but I promise the posts will be so much better from now on and I'm off to start week 11 with my new camera in hand to capture all the best moments of this very silly, very amazing, very sweet boy!