Our First Milestone of 2012

Since Will is returning to work after a month of leave, he was definitely due for a haircut. We decided to take a trip to the salon this morning since I have drill and will have the car out of town until next week (yay for hotel living with Liam). The topic of Liam's hair has come up a few times in the last few months and since Daddy was already going, we decided to get Liam's first haircut.

When we walked into the salon, there were two chairs right next to each other open. Will sat in one and I sat with Liam on my lap in the other. I had originally planned to take pictures during the process but that didn't happen. Now that I think about it, I should have taken one of him before so that we could see the difference. Even though we didn't get tons of pictures of this milestone, I was able to get a lock of his little curls and snapped pictures afterwards.

Every time I look at him now, I start to tear up. He looks like such a big boy now that he doesn't have his crazy, curly, baby afro. It makes me realize that I have a toddler on my hands. Definitely makes me want to cry...or start planning baby number two :)

Ahhh...I almost have a One Year Old!!

In a couple of days, Liam will be 11 months old. OMG! I can't even believe it. I will be planning a birthday party for my son (crazy!).
We'll be back on the 16th to talk about measurements and milestones but I did want to share a milestone with you guys today. We have a semi-professional walker on our hands!

See you guys in a few days!

Liam got a Sippy Cup!!

Since Liam is breastfed, I never really thought about when we would try introducing cups. Then I took a trip to Walmart, wandered down a baby aisle and found myself face to face with a wall of sippy cups. I decided to take a chance and try one out. Well, if you know me personally, you probably already know that it took me, hmmm, a good 20 minutes to finally decide on a cup. After looking and touching tons of sippy cups, I finally decided on the Nuby No-Spill GripN'Sip.

 "Yay! No juice on the rug!"

And since this was our first time trying out a sippy cup, I decided to give Liam a little diluted apple juice as well (way too many treats for one day, lol). He figured out how to drink right away but then I noticed a slight problem. Since he's breastfed and rarely drinks out of bottles, he doesn't feel the need to hold his sippy cup (unless he's using it to bang on something). This is one of the reasons why we've only tried out the cup a few times (the next time I gave it to him, he didn't even want to drink out of it). We'll definitely be trying to use the sippy cup a little more often, just so that Liam gets the hang out it. Right now though, I'm perfectly fine with him wanting solely Mommy/Liam time.

A Sighting of a Pearly White!!

OMG!! During bathtime today, I noticed something white along Liam's lower gums. Now, Liam has been teething for awhile and I've been able to see indentations of his bottom two teeth below his gum line but this was different. I opened his mouth and looked in and....

One of his teeth has broken through. My little baby has a tooth...okay, I'm over-exaggerating. My little baby has the tip of a tooth but either way, oh so exciting.

I tried to take a shot of the new arrival but Liam thought it was "camera eating time" so I'll have to wait until he's sleeping.