Nightmare

Liam had his fist nightmare during his nap yesterday, at least the first we know of. He woke up from his nap screaming. When Mike entered his room, Liam said, "Where'd go?" Mike questioned and he replied, "Where'd tower go? Libby knock it over!" All the while crying, sobbing really. It was so sad.

Lancaster clan

It is great to be surrounded by family. I grew up with a lot of siblings and enjoy the chaos of the holidays. This past week our house was bursting at its seems, in a good way, with an additional three people. Linda (Mike's mom), Jeff and Rachel (Mike's brother and brother's girlfriend) came to stay with us and celebrate Christmas early.



We saved going to see Santa until Mimi came. For the entire morning I kept telling Liam that if he talked to Santa, he would give home a gift (the Santa we were going to see hand been handing out coloring books for over a week). Well, Liam kept up his end of the deal but Santa had nothing in return. Liam even walked over to the big red bag and peered into it. I felt bad and am banking on the fact that he won't remember next year :)




Rachel brought along some cookie cutters because she was so excited to make cookies with Liam. Liam had a lot of fun making cookies, especially the eating part! In fact, he wanted one so bad that he commanded us all to pray then after his, "AMEN" he reached for a cookie while smiling and shaking he head yes. Mimi couldn't resist the sweetness he oozed and gave in. When he finished the cookie, he asked us to all pray again. We didn't fall for it, although I think Mimi wanted to ;)



We think that Uncle Jeff was most excited about the gift he gave to Liam. He spent a lot of time and energy constructing train tracks whose infrastructure was rather questionable at times ;) Liam misses Uncle Jeff's expertise with train track construction and is rather bored with the circles and bridges I put together!



We look forward to seeing them again soon and hope that next time Aunt Karen may decide to come along!

The Big One

Liam has learned two new words, one is really a question though. Yesterday as Liam was heading up the stairs with a toy in hand and Mike asked him to leave it downstairs. Liam responded, "Why?" Both Mike and I froze. It is too early for why to start, isn't it? I mean, he JUST turned two! Later at dinner we had a side dish (from a neighbor) of marshmallow fluff with strawberries that Liam loved WAY more than his chili. He politely asked for more pink and when I responded, "Take three bites of chili," his response was, "Why?". OH MY GOSH! He asked twice more at dinner. So it is official, we are in the Why phase.

This morning I made potatoes in my new cast iron pan (thanks Mimi!). Mike was eating a plateful and gave Liam a bite. After he finished them he said, "mmm, delicious." Liam ran into the bedroom where I was and repeated his new word, delicious. He also used it at lunch as he ate his turkey sandwhich. It seems like such a big word for a little boy!

We've gotten very little snow this year but we are hoping for more so that we can enjoy some sledding and CC skiing. And now we have a third person to help with our shoveling!




Mike's family just left after we celebrated an early Christmas. Post and pictures from their visit will follow.

Another go

I will try even harder this time around. This time with Liam in mind. Knowing that one day I can just print the blog and give it to him is great incentive! Right now I have some memories from his first year in a special 'Baby's First' calendar, some scraps of paper, old Facebook posts, a different calendar, on my phone's calendar but I have no idea where to consolidate it all. Enter, this almost defunct blog. That incentive along with the guilt trip my sister is giving me should do the trick!