Fall

Fall is here! We've been decorating (and eating!) fall cookies, drinking apple cider, and seeing "pum-pins" everywhere we go. The weather is crisp and cool, and the leaves are starting to turn. Summer is officially over.

Liam thought today was perfect weather for sweaters

And for showing off his tail! :)

Happy Fall!

Crozet Music Fest

A couple of weeks ago, we all took off for the Crozet Music Fest accompanied by Mary, Chris and Talia. It was a super fun night, filled with great food, great people and great music. Talia and Liam had a great time together, and she took him off for most of the night.

What a little mother she is!

Don't you think they're going to be great friends?

Liam got plenty of time to run off on his own too..

And time for airplane rides!

And for sitting on trucks

He really liked the sitting on trucks part :)

And just to prove that there were grown ups there...

One day I'll photograph all the other grown ups too... :)

Happy weekend!

Wee Ooos and Aah Ooos

Some days, I just want to pause time. Days like when we roll down our window as an ambulance passes by and Liam yells with sheer glee: "Wee Ooo, Wee Ooo, Wee Ooo!" And when he sees his favorite monkey towel and he squeals "Aah Ooo, Aah Ooo!" I know his little phrases will soon all be gone, and only real big kid words will be left in their place, and his high pitched sweet little voice will be all grown up. But for now, we still have our Wee oos, and Aah Oos.

What we've been doing when we haven't been blogging

Blog posting seems to be tricky to get tricky lately, so I will be brief :)

Kyle's boards (the 3rd of his 3 boards) are coming up week after next, so he has been spending much of his time studying. He will celebrate the completion of boards by spending 11 days in the MICU. Yay.

I am continuing my clinicals and work and looking forward to christmas break, a mere 2 months away ;-) This past week was slow as the clinics have just started their new electronic medical record, making getting clinical spots tricky. This has meant 4 days in a row at home with my little one, which makes me very happy.

Liam had "surgery" today. Surgery would be in quotations because this did require general anesthesia, but it lasted about 10 minutes, and there were no scalpels involved, thank goodness. He had a clogged tear duct, which has now been opened. The anesthesia was the only scary part, but luckily he did just fine, and woke up starving like I have never seen him before. He has barely managed to stay on the weight charts, but he woke today and downed 9 ounces of milk, ate 2 cereal bars, graham crackers and many, many bunny grahams. One hour later he ate a huge lunch. I guess Liam, although he did not complain once the little sweet heart, did not like being NPO until 11 am. He was subdued until after his nap time, but woke up rearing to go, all signs of subduedness (is that a word?) were left in his crib.

I have pictures to post from our latest adventures, but those will have to wait until tomorrow. I just got photoshop (a real yay this time!), so I will need to do lots of practicing editing and lots of posting after. Photoshop will have to wait beyond tomorrow as I will be in clinical or work for the next 4 days... But for the mean time, soon, I will post my unedited pictures from our weekend.

Goodnight!