Quiet book reveal

I think he likes it.

Completed Quiet Book

It's DONE!



Front Cover

Pages 1 & 2

Pages 3 & 4



Pages 5 & 6





Pages 7 & 8





Pages 9 & 10

Seven months!

I can't believe it's been seven months already!

Now Liam is sitting up more often. He still does face plants or falls backwards, but today he sat up for a long time! He's still "swimming" and not crawling, but he gets around really well by rolling!

He eats lots of different things now too. He has rice cereal, oat cereal, avocado, sweet potato, apple sauce, spaghetti squash, and pear! This week we are going to add in peas and maybe banana! Soon we'll try meat too.

Luckily for everyone here, he's been sleeping really well. And by really well I mean he's up every 4-5 hours! It's a dream come true! We're in a pretty good schedule during the day too, as long as we don't go out and miss a nap! Liam loves to look at everything and won't sleep in the car or in the stroller unless I cover the carseat with a blanket so he can't see out!

He's just growing and growing!

Less than 50 days until daddy's back and we can make a home again!

Happy 7 months Liam!

Quiet book: Pages #5 & 6

Done!

I've been working hard to finish up these pages!

One is a zebra with fuzzy stripes and yarn mane and tail.

The other is my favourite. The giraffe with button spots!

Liam tries to grab these pages as I'm working on them. I think he'll like them!

Quiet book: page #4

I started this page the other day. It really didn't take much and was fun to make. I modeled it off a page from a quiet book made by my aunt for my oldest brother when he was a baby. The finger puppets I had bought from ikea a couple years ago and just sewed them on with yarn so they won't get lost.

I should be done 2 more pages in the next little bit. My zebra needs a mane and eyes and my giraffe needs spots and eyes!

Quiet book: page #3

I've been mostly finished this page for a couple weeks now, but was bored of it. I finally added the tail last night so here it is! Now I'm kind of working on 5 pages all at once. I've cut out the felt and sewn the big pieces on. I have to do the hand stitching and all the little extras then I'll be done! That doesn't mean I'm close to having the book completed though!

Actually making things off Pinterest!

I think I have a couple hundred *neat* things pinned on Pinterest and have not really made anything! I did use some ideas for Liam's quiet book, but I looked for those ideas specifically on Pinterest. I have folders of food that I haven't tried yet so I thought I would make some! I was on snack for the Mom's life group I'm in today so I thought I'd test it out there! I couldn't decide on one thing so I made Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Loaf and Raspberry Cornmeal Crumble Bars.

We had the Raspberry Cornmeal Crumble Bars for dessert last night while they were still warm and they were oooohh so yummy! I changed the recipe a bit: I omitted the almonds cause I'm allergic and just added more cornmeal. They were pretty gooey. I needed a fork and plate to eat them. This may have been because I used frozen raspberries and didn't let them thaw completely. It was so good either way, and I would definetly make them again!

The Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Loaf was good and I would probably make it again, but I would change things. It was really moist, to the point of soggy, and I was wondering if it was cooked through (which it was). I also used frozen blueberries for this but I thought they were fully thawed so they shouldn't have added too much liquid. There's a cup of yogurt and half a cup of oil in this recipe, so maybe I could cut the oil and use thicker yogurt to have a firmer/dryer loaf. Even though I'm not a bit fan of blueberries I really liked the flavours of this loaf. I do love lemon though!

Liam and I went on a small vacation to visit daddy this weekend! Here's a couple pictures of our trip!

Liam was so good on the plane. He slept for 3 out of the 4 flights!

We had a good time and can't wait until we can start our new adventures together!!

(9 more weeks!!!)

Sitting up

I've been trying to get Liam to sit up on his own. He finally does it!!

Yesterday we went to see a pediatrician about the ridge in Liam's forehead where the two plates of his skull are pushed together. He said its nothing but cosmetic and it should go away. It is much less noticeable than it was before. At the pediatrician the dr asked me all these questions about Liam and I said he couldn't sit up on his own yet. Less than ten minutes later we were visiting grandma at work and what does Liam do!? Sits up on his own!! I guess he was doing what I said he couldn't do, like any good child :p

So here he is sitting unassisted! It doesn't last long, but he does it!

Such a big boy!

Jungle Safari

Liam went on a safari this past weekend.

Six Months!!

I can't believe it! Liam is officially 6 months old today!! Wow! Where have the last 6 months gone?!

Newborn Liam

Curious big-boy Liam

Now at 6 months he is very curious. He rolls all over the place and is trying to crawl. He doesn't quite understand that to crawl he has to put his arms on the ground and lift his head. As of right now he gets his bum in the air and lifts his arms and plants his face on the floor and wiggles as if he were swimming. Silly boy! I have been placing his toys out of reach to encourage him to crawl, but he just rolls and wiggles and rolls and either gets his toy or finds something better/closer to play with.

Left him in the middle of his room and look where he ended up!

Mmm Food!

He loves to eat. And eat he does! So far he's only on rice cereal, but more and more each time and now twice a day. When I'm home from vacationing (In Victoria right now and going to Regina in 2 weeks) I will start him on some mushed veggies.

Newborn Liam and Daddy

5-month Liam and Daddy

 The only thing that he does not do that you would hope a 6-month old would do is sleep!! He does okay napping now, but lately I have been up every 1-2 hours at night with him!! It's like he wants to be a newborn again!

Here is Liam at about 2 months sleeping and then at 6 months sleeping! 

HAPPY SIX MONTHS LIAM!

Second Page Done + Growing Boy!

WOW!
This quiet book sure is coming along! Here is my second page completed! It was fairly easy. I also had a really good idea of what I wanted to do. I got my inspiration here. There are some other pages from that blog that I will be using :) For now I'm taking a break from the quiet book because I need to buy some more colours of felt. I will be working on details and backgrounds until I can get more felt for my animals. This book is going to be jungle/safari animal themed since that's what all Liam's stuff is (his bedroom set, receiving blankets etc.)

The ribbons for the lion's mane are sewn under the face but otherwise loose for little hands to grab. One neat thing is that the thickest and thinnest orange ribbon is from our wedding!

Here's also some updated pictures of Liam. He's growing so much. Sometimes I'm sure he's bigger in the mornings than when I put him to bed at night! He's rolling up a storm. Right now he's on the far side of the living room under the coffee table (that I moved out of his way so he could roll). When he figures out crawling he's going to be gone so fast! I would like him to learn to sit up on his own, but he might just skip that cause he doesn't like to sit still. He's a very active baby!

In these pictures from top left (going clockwise) he's going for a walk in his new hat, first time having rice cereal, sitting with grandpa with his new sunglasses, hanging out with daddy, first time in the grass (didn't mind it at all, but mostly wanted to grab the camera), and bath time with daddy!



One page done!

Here is the first page that I've finished for Liam's quiet book! It actually didn't seem to take that much time! I have been working on it every chance I could get the last couple days though.

The birds move along the rope.

Accidental soufflés

Hello again!

It seems as if I've been slacking from blogging.. Big time! This is *hopefully* my come back! Liam has started having a 2-hour nap every afternoon, so that gives me time to do some things that I like to do!

Right now I'm working on planting a garden. I also started a quiet (felt) book for Liam's first birthday (so I have about 6 months to do it!).

Today I was making lemon meringue pie. And since I loooove lemon pie filling but dislike meringue I did a trick that my mom did last time and folded the beaten egg whites into the filling. Hers was light and fluffy and lemony... Mine turned out egg white-y and not so good. I think it's cause I had an oops with one egg white/yolk and ended up with 4 whites and 3 yolks in my recipe. Anywho I decided to bake my tarts and put the leftover filling into ramekins and bake that as well. This is what I ended up with! And they promptly fell.. But it tastes deeelish!

Growing like a weed!

Long overdue update!

Hello again!

My dad keeps bugging me that I haven't updated in a looooong time and that the baby in the bathtub is going to get wrinkly cause he's been on here in the tub for 2 months! Silly!

So we're in BC now. Simon's been at training for 3 weeks and Liam and I are settling into a routine here. He's starting to be such a big boy, sleeping through the night (mostly-about 5-6 hours), trying to roll/move, giggling, and much more!

Here's a few pictures of us recently!