1st Christmas. 1st Hair cut.

Christmas time

Last night (Christmas Eve) we all ate with the Engledow family. We had chinese. Yum. Liam is getting super hard to take out to eat. He hates being confined. I try to bribe him with baby junk food and it usually works for about 5 minutes. After a hectic dinner we headed home. My first priority was to get Liam to sleep. Kevin was exhausted because he got up with Liam at 6am after going to bed at 2am. Instead of taking a nap, Kevin decided to drink a couple pots of coffee. Yes I typed POTS. By evening he was crashing hard and not feeling well. I was going out and I needed to make sure Liam was sleeping comfortably before leaving. Amber Lynch was having her Christmas Eve party. This year it was on a smaller scale, but still fun. Once I was heading out the door Liam started screaming. Just my luck. I forced Kevin to get up and take care of him. I needed to get going if I wanted to be back at a decent hour. I guess he was still hungry because when I got home at midnight Kevin reported that the little turkey ate another 6oz of formula after already having 8.

Amber's new apartment is super cute, but it was also super confusing to find. At one point John Soderberg, Stacy, Lauren, and myself were all in the same parking lot confused on which apartment was hers. I swear it felt like it took forever to find. She lives in Apt. #5 and the number on her door is as small as the font on this blog. Ok maybe not that small but very hard to see in the dark. Once inside we got the tour and I was impressed on the size. She has her own basement. Crazy. I've never heard of an apartment having a basement. I hung out with everybody until midnight then headed home. I knew that I had to be up super early Christmas day.

I'm so TIRED!

Today Liam and I had to do some Christmas shopping. I wasn't looking forward to this. I hate trying to find that perfect present for everyone. It is very frustrating. Liam is an awesome shopper. He loves to look at all the people and flirt with all the pretty ladies. Our first stop this morning was the Fashion Mall. This mall is not baby friendly. I found the quilt that I wanted from Anthropologie and I called Kevin to see if I should just go ahead and buy it. Yes, I bought one of my own Christmas presents, but Kevin promises me that there are many more to come. After getting all the presents from the mall we had to go to Target. This was the THIRD time we went to Target in one week. I can't believe I'm going to type this but, I'm really sick of Target. Liam needed to pick out gifts for his best friends Ava and June and I need to pick up some movies for Nicks kids.

I went to the Target in Glendale and decided that I wanted to stop in Macy's. I thought that it was going to be a quick trip so I decided that I would just carry Liam. This was a terrible idea. This place was packed. Let me just say that it wasn't quick and I thought my arm was going to fall off. When in doubt always bust out the stroller. Well at least I got some weight training in for the day.

By the time we were done it was already 12:30. I had to hustle home to get Liam fed and down for a nap. Well I got him fed at least. The little turkey hates to take naps. By 3:00 he was sound asleep in my arms until the stupid UPS guy knocked on the door. I have started terrible habits with Liam. He never wants to take naps in his crib. He is so attached. He has no problem taking naps on me. Yes, I used to think this was so cute and sweet, but now it is just frustrating. I have tried the "Cry it out method" but it doesn't work. I am afraid that he isn't getting enough oxygen because he cries so hard that he can't catch is breath. The "cry it out method" can cause brain damage. (I'm not sure that I believe this but I hate letting him cry) This also doesn't just happen at nap time. It seems that Liam had no problem going to bed at night , but he never seems to stay there. Around 2 in the morning, every morning, Liam ends up in bed with us. This has been going on for about a month. Yes, I know, you should never let a baby sleep with you unless you are really into co-sleeping. I, however am not into co-sleeping and need to break this habit. This is so not Liam's fault, but now he is going to be punished for my laziness. How am I going to do this. I can't stand to hear him cry but he needs to learn how to self sooth.

The day of first

I decided that it was time for Liam to try pancakes. Kevin really wanted Mcdonalds so I had him get me some pancakes for Liam. Boy did he enjoy them. Well he really only ate half of one, but he really liked it, until he choked and puked.

We decided that today would be the day that Liam would meet Santa Claus. My dad decided to join us at the State Museum since he had never been there before. I was excited to see all the cute kids anxious to meet Santa. This was our first time at the State Museum during Christmas and it was wonderful. Carolers were singing the 12 days of Christmas, which if that didn't put a person in the Christmas spirit I don't know what would. Of course as soon as we go to Santa he decided it was "time to feed his deer" so we had a hour to kill. The line for Santa was incredibly long. We had a little girl in front of us dressed like an elf. (Next year I'm doing that to Liam.) I had Liam dressed in a cowboy shirt. My dad kept giving me a hard time that he didn't look christmassy. I had a sweater in my bag to slip on him for the photo. The girl dressed like an elf was in such a good mood until she reached Santa. Her screams were starting to freak Liam out. Once it was our turn I started to get nervous that Liam was going to cry. He was AWESOME. He loved Santa and Mrs. Claus. He could have hung out there all day. So cute. Santa told us that his grandson's name is Liam and was impressed to meet another one.
After picking up our photos we headed to look at what all the State Museum has to offer. We got there at 11:30 and didn't leave until 2:30. Liam was so tired and hungry. I felt so bad for him.

Once we got home we only had a little time before heading out again. We had an appointment to look at a house in Zionsville. I wanted to get there a little early so we could check out the neighborhood. As we were driving around I saw tons of cute houses and friendly people waving as we drove by (plus). I also saw two different houses that had living room furniture on the front porch.(minus). I guess the house that we are interested in was someone's dream that "fell through". They picked somethings that I would have, and then somethings I was wondering what in the hell. The kitchen is great except for the counter tops. The are made to look like granite but are laminate. Horrible. Kevin told me to think big picture. Whatever. All I can think about is if I buy this house I will need to destroy those counter tops as soon as possible. Now we are back to the idea of building. We don't want to compromise what we want because it is ready now. We still need to sell our house. In this market it could be next summer before it sells.

We needed dinner and since we were on the west side we went to to Puerto Vallarta. As soon as we sat down Mikey was at our table. They were eating there with Amber's Dad and Step mom Maria. The had just gotten there also so we joined them. After dinner Ava and June wanted after dinner candy. Maria decided that it would be mean to leave Liam out so she bought him a ring pop. The next thing I know Liam is sucking on this thing and his eyes are huge. SUGAR!!! This was the first time he really has ever had sugar. You gotta start somewhere. I took his picture with his sugar pacifier and he was in heaven. The flavor was watermelon and he was a sticky cute mess.