For a 6-month old, Liam has quite the personality. He is in constant motion and never stops. We were lucky enough to capture some decent pictures last night without any motion in them.
Happy
Determined
Thoughtful
Curious
Playful
26 August 2011
19 July 2011
Lately
Just a few pictures to sum up the last week. I've been changing a never-ending amount of these lately.
Liam hasn't been sleeping well, trying to adjust from our vacation to Utah over the 4th of July and battling a cold. He's also figured out it is more fun to play with his socks than to sleep. Who knew? Look at this happy kid!
That's about it!
Liam hasn't been sleeping well, trying to adjust from our vacation to Utah over the 4th of July and battling a cold. He's also figured out it is more fun to play with his socks than to sleep. Who knew? Look at this happy kid!
He tried rice cereal for the first time this week. He doesn't seem to like it and just spits it back out.
That's about it!
He's Real!
And I'm not talking about Santa. Remember my last post about Mr. Little Guy? Well Liam got a little (literally) response from him:
26 June 2011
Mr. Little Guy
Tonight we took Liam to visit Mr. Little Guy--the elf that lives near our house in a hollowed tree at Lake Harriet. We left a note for him, which is a local custom for children.The legend says he responds to every letter he receives.
I guess we'll see if Mr. Little Guy responds ... how could you not respond to this ADORABLE boy?
I guess we'll see if Mr. Little Guy responds ... how could you not respond to this ADORABLE boy?
Our first harvest!
Our garden is growing and we have TONS of cilantro. We celebrated our first harvest by making guacamole last night. DELICIOUS!
21 June 2011
Show and tell
You may have noticed from reading our blog that Don is a crafty man, often having to finish projects for me (see here if you can't remember). Well I'd like to share a craft I did entirely on my own ... with only a tiny bit of help from Don. Check out my centerpiece.... TADA!
I found the ceiling tile at a Good Will ($5) and spraypainted it aqua ($3.95) with a tiny bit of Don's help, but not much. Then I sanded the edges to give a vintage feel. I then found the candle ($2.99), plate ($7) and random decor ($4.95) at Ikea. Total price = $23.89.
FINALLY, I finished a craft!
I found the ceiling tile at a Good Will ($5) and spraypainted it aqua ($3.95) with a tiny bit of Don's help, but not much. Then I sanded the edges to give a vintage feel. I then found the candle ($2.99), plate ($7) and random decor ($4.95) at Ikea. Total price = $23.89.
FINALLY, I finished a craft!
20 June 2011
Yard work, shmard-work
Remember what our house looked like when we bought it back in January 2010? I didn't think so ... here is a little refresher. Notice the massive bushes and lovely chain link fence.
Well after all the snow melted, this is what we found everywhere ... overgrown weeds!
Well something had to be done about this! So we (aka Don) made some beautiful planter boxes for a garden instead.
This is our first garden and kind of an experiment. We are growing cilantro, green onions, basil, carrots, zuchini, cucumbers, summer squash, peas and pumpkins. So far our pumpkins are doing the best and growing like crazy.
We also finally added some flowers to our planter boxes under the windows.
Our yard work seemed to be going smoothly, until we (aka Don) used the wrong weed spray on the rest of the yard and ended up killing our lawn instead. Woops! You win some, you loose some.
So we (aka Don) set out to do something about this mess and spent a very long, rainy weekend re-sodding our front lawn.
And to top off all of our planting, we added a delicious apple tree to the yard.
I think we are done with yard work for a while!
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| Before - house with fence and bushes |
Well after all the snow melted, this is what we found everywhere ... overgrown weeds!
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| Before side yard with overgrown weeds |
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| More before side yard with overgrown weeds |
Well something had to be done about this! So we (aka Don) made some beautiful planter boxes for a garden instead.
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| Our garden |
This is our first garden and kind of an experiment. We are growing cilantro, green onions, basil, carrots, zuchini, cucumbers, summer squash, peas and pumpkins. So far our pumpkins are doing the best and growing like crazy.
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| Pumpkins! |
We also finally added some flowers to our planter boxes under the windows.
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| Beautiful flowers! |
Our yard work seemed to be going smoothly, until we (aka Don) used the wrong weed spray on the rest of the yard and ended up killing our lawn instead. Woops! You win some, you loose some.
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| Before - dead front lawn April 2011 |
So we (aka Don) set out to do something about this mess and spent a very long, rainy weekend re-sodding our front lawn.
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| Before |
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| After - no fence, no bushes, new lawn, planter boxes, flowers and tree! |
And to top off all of our planting, we added a delicious apple tree to the yard.
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| Honeycrisp Apple Tree |
I think we are done with yard work for a while!
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