Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween!  Mama decided to dress Liam in a "First Halloween" onesie.

Here's the two of them!

Liam and Mama

 and a full body shot - for reference.  So that in the future, we can show Liam just how small he was.

Full body

Dad is noticeably absent from the pictures because 1) someone has to hold the camera and 2) Halloween is for small children.

Hodgepodge

No coherent narrative today--just a bit of randomness...

We went to Poppa and Granny Sharon's house to celebrate Aunty Jessica passing the Bar and to see Aunty Geri, who was visiting from New Zealand.  Here's Aunty Rachel with a sleepy Liam.

Aunty Kiriko gave Liam Monsieur Champignon.  He's a fun guy!

Waving hello to Daddy.  Don't seem too excited, there Liam.

Our sitter, Aunty Lani mentioned that Liam sleeps with his arms behind his head.  Yeah, that's because he's Mr. Cool.

Mama is a self-professed bookworm and I am so happy to see that Liam seems to be taking an interest too!  His favorite book of the moment is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?--we pretty much have it memorized at this point.  The other books we read quite frequently are Not the Hippopotamus and The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton.  Those are Mama's favorites.  Dad prefers to read whatever is on hand.  Here, he's reading the HGTV magazine, but he's been known to read "The Economist" to Liam.  And that's okay...it'll give him a fairly balanced perspective on politics and the economy.

Flashback: Office

We're going vintage, Liam-style!  (In other words, not that vintage).  I finally got my hands on a couple of the pictures we took the first time Liam and I visited the Capitol, when I was still on maternity leave.

He was only a month old, so he was sleeping more in the daytime than he does now.

Everyone was kind enough to take a picture with us.  These are the best coworkers around!

Liam has since had several visits to see his aunties and uncles, and they were only too happy to take pictures while he was there.  Here are some random photos from his various visits.

Shoulder munching with Aunty Rebecca

Looking dubiously at Uncle Steve (He's going to help teach you Mandarin, buddy!)

Showing Uncle Roger how skilled he is at screaming

And charming Aunty Alicia

I can't wait until he gets big enough to start tearing around the office.  That's going to be all sorts of fun!  And thanks Aunty Susan and Aunty Doreen for taking the pictures and sending them our way!

Cousins

Aunty Carol was in town this past weekend, so the whole clan went over to Mom's for a little lunch.

Here's Liam hanging out with his California Aunty.

Cousin Shanti wanted to see what all the action was about.

We also figured it was high time to get some photos of the two newest Ngs together.  So we laid Liam and Abigail on a blanket together and snapped photos while waiting for the camera magic to happen.

Why are you guys staring down at us?

 Mom?  Dad?  What am I doing here?  And who's this person next to me?

Oh...you mean look this way?  Well, sorta...

Good thing we have digital now.  If it were still all film, this would have been one expensive photo shoot!

Incidentally, today marks our one year anniversary!  A lot has happened in the past year (did we mention that one of those new Ngs is ours?) but we've both decided that we're already an old married couple.  Mom was kind enough to watch Liam this Saturday so we could have a nice dinner out at Roy's in Hawaii Kai (my first time!) which was wonderful.  Then we took a day's vacation from work, dropped Liam off at the sitter, and ran errands and cleaned the house.  Oh yeah, and we took a nap.  I would say we've settled into married life quite nicely.

We also followed tradition and pulled out the top of our wedding cake to eat.  I have to say, for year-old cake, it wasn't half bad.

All wrapped up nice and tight.

Sitting in front of the microwave, waiting to be devoured.

I wanted marbled yellow and white (I'll leave you to guess why), but they could only do the standard marble.  Close enough.  :)

Yup, not bad at all.  Two small pieces are in the fridge--dessert for lunch tomorrow!

Noob No More

Yesterday marked Liam's transition from newborn to infant since he's officially three months old.  I would have posted this yesterday, but Darth Vader would not be moved!

He celebrated his three month birthday by sleeping a good chunk of the night, from 1:00a to 5:50a, even if half of it was on Dad's chest on the couch.  We'll take it.

Here's a look at the past month in true Liam style--through fashion.  Man, is he growing fast!  These are all outfits that he's recently grown out of.

He only got to wear this outfit once--poor Amy Coe peace onesie!

Continuing on the peace theme, this onesie says it is size 9 months.  That was some major shrinkage.  But it is cute, and it's courtesy of Uncle Brandon (though he doesn't really know it.  More from him as Liam gets older).

Liam in action!  Our favorite monkey muscleman onesie appears to make him happy too!  Too bad he's grown out of it too!

I guess it's something we just better get used to!  And of course, as I alluded to earlier, we've got some cute stuff in the pipeline, so I guess growing bigger has its advantages.

Dark Side

At our shower, we got two yoda onesies.  We traded one in for a Darth Vader onesie, as there must always be balance with the Force.

Unfortunately, Liam didn't seem to enjoy it that much...

Dad then took a turn with Liam in reenacting one of the last scenes from Revenge of the Sith:

"Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!"

Eventually, though - all was right and the little Dark Lord fell asleep: