Tuesday, January 18, 2011

20 Months

Abram continues to provide us constant entertainment and somehow has tapped into an endless source of energy.  Some might say our energy level is in an inverse relationship to Abrams.  (Mr. Miller would be shocked to know that I remember that term). 

We are roughly 14 weeks away from meeting baby #2.  The baby is moving more and more each day which makes everything seem more real.  I am starting to wonder how we’ll make it with two.  We are lucky that in a few weeks Grandma Debbie is moving to town to help out with Abram and the new baby when he/she arrives.  This will be a huge help!

I don’t have a lot else to report – Abram is learning new words every day, we definitely have to watch what we say around him.  I’d say we know what he’s trying to communicate 80% of the time which we think is pretty good.  Abram continues to have very strong opinions about books, food and life in general. 
Some of his current favorite things to do:

-At bedtime Abram has learned to say ‘one more’ which comes out as ‘one mo.’  He says this on his way to the bookshelf.  He will proceed to pull out what Josh calls the encyclopedia.  It is Abram’s biggest book.  His favorite page has trucks, cars, planes, boats, etc.  He will sometimes get impatient and flip to his favorite part.

-Another great thing about books at bedtime is that Abram has learned that he can prolong storytime if he will listen to longer storybooks.  This allows me to read Abram childrens books that I remember growing up.  Our current favorite is, ‘There is a Monster at the End of this Book.’

- He continues to love dancing to music, brushing his teeth and taking baths.  Of all of these baths pretty much trump all other fun activities.  This is especially true since he got bubble bath and bath foam for Christmas.

We've had some cold temps and yucky winter weather so we were stuck inside most of the weekend - here are a few pictures from our weekend inside.





Sunday, January 9, 2011

Livermore Christmas


So this is my third attempt to get this post to save and each time everything gets deleted, so my descriptions have gotten shorter each time. Last weekend we celebrated Christmas with Josh's family.


So many presents!


Abram cut straight to the chase and grabbed his Christmas stocking/bag.

Who needs to open things one at a time when you can just dump everything out at once.


Abram was nice enough to share his treats with great-grandma Artis.

Abram opened up a great gift from Grandma and Grandpa Livermore and all the aunts and uncles.  They each put together a CD of music they thought he would enjoy and he got a Lego cd player.  Abram loves to dance so we've been listening to his new cds and he has had a dance party each night.  What a wonderful present!

Here he is is jamming out.

Abram also got an amazing chair/stool made by his great-grandpa Rex.  Here he is enjoying his new truck in the chair.  It was a good day for Abram.



Josh and I also got to go out to lunch one day on our own while Abram hung out with the rest of the family.

They got some pretty great photos of our little guy.


It looks like he was really sad that Mama and Papa were out of the house :)


 Let's Party!!!!

It seems like Abram may have worn out grandpa.