Gravity is fun!

Apparently some people find gravity and things dropping to be a lot of fun.

Observe as I drop his mushroom baby toy (it's rubber - don't worry):

New Toys!

We got some new toys for Mr. Liam, primarily because he's outgrowing his old ones.

First up: a new chair!
He is literally bigger than his old bouncy now, so this one rocks.  Liam was a bit apprehensive about the newness at first:

Eventually he settled into it, and decided to devour his favorite book:

We also got a jumper for him!
Again, apprehension initially...

The final photo for the day is one of the poor little guy passed out.  We were on our way back home from Zippy's, and as usual, Mr. Fussy was crying.  As what usually happens, he falls asleep in the middle of his crying.  In this case, he fell asleep holding his cards.  Don't do that at the poker table, Liam!

...until next time!

Island Style Images

We had some photos done at Island Style Images up in Haleiwa.  (it's quite the drive!)

They turned out pretty well, although someone wasn't in the best of moods, as you will see.  Without further ado, here are some of the photos:

He started out on his tummy - he didn't know what was going on exactly, but it seemed okay with him.

And then Mama tried to make him laugh, and halfway succeeded.

He smiled with Dad.

We also took family pictures.  Here's one of the outtakes:

And Liam did some impressions...

Chris Farley

Chris Matthews

After all of that, he decided he'd had enough...

That's okay.  We got what we came for.

Tummy Time

Liam is not a big fan of tummy time and so we tend not to subject him to it as often as we should.  But subject him to it we must and today was no different--except that he surprised us by pushing up much farther than he normally does!

When he started this afternoon, he had both hands right under him, but by the time I got the camera out, he'd already begun to devolve into his standard Superman "I'm flying" pose.  But his head is up!

In fact, his head was up so high, I could take a straight on picture.  Go Liam!

After that workout, Liam relaxed with Dad.  And since there was a camera around, he made like Michigan J. Frog and just stared.

PS.  Hi Poppa!  Liam likes that you read our blog!

Crabby Bottoms

We had a little potluck with our parent hui and two of us Mamas must have had a psychic connection.

Boy crab and girl crab!

Notice the prim and proper young lady while Liam takes a wider stance as if to say, "Uuuhhh!!!"

Even us Mamas were coordinated--brown tops with cargo pants.

Post-October Halloween

A couple from Mikey's Iolani circle have a daughter with a birthday near Halloween, so every year they have a spooktacular birthday party with games, a costume fashion show, and a haunted house that all of the men help create and enact.  This year, although Liam was too young for the games and the haunted house, he was able to take part in the costume fashion show.

Liam the Owl chillin' with Dad pre-show.

The paparazzi waiting for the stars to hit the runway.

The Owl makes his fashion debut.  Hand in the mouth is all the rage this season.

Hanging out with Mama after all the excitement.

Yup, the hand is still in the mouth.  And those little Owl booties are SO fashion forward.  Tim Gunn would approve.