Busy

Just when one home project gets finished, another one begins.  It's never ending!  Joe and I are both really excited about this one though.  We are adding a sprinkler system to our backyard (currently it's only in the front), making our driveway six feet wider and also extending our back patio 14 feet.  We will have so much more room in the back now!  I can't wait for lots of fun BBQs and play dates in the back this summer.  We are having the concrete work done professionally but Joe has been working hard on the sprinkler.  I'm so happy Joe is so willing and able to do projects like this.  He's bee so excited, he just loves this stuff.  We had another bid for the concrete yesterday, we'll be making a decision tomorrow.  Hopefully by this time next week it will all be finished   

I was looking at the calender last night, almost every weekend from here until September is booked.  I'm not complaining, but it makes it feel like summer is already accounted for.  I know there's more to it than just the weekends, but the weekends are when everything happens.  We have several trips planned, one being a week in the San Juan islands.  I am so excited for this trip.  I'm secretly hoping they won't have Wi-Fi so we can be cut off from the world for awhile.  

Happy Tuesday!

Finally, a post!

I think I might be better at blogging if I break things down a bit.  It's going to be random, but it's better than two months between posts.  Here goes...

1.  Liam has fully recovered from his last illness, thank goodness.  I am so anxious for warm weather and everyone to be healthy!  It seems like everyone has suffered this year.

2.  We've been busier than ever.  With what?  I'm not sure!  I really, REALLY need to start writing stuff down more.  I'm not kidding, I think I really suffered major memory loss after going through chemo.  My short term memory is fine but my long term memory has vanished.  I try not to have regrets, but I feel like I've failed in the "keeping track of all things Liam" department.  Another reason why I need to start blogging more since this blog has turned into only things about him for the most part!  He continues to amaze everyone with how well he talks and the funny things are really starting to come out.  A few recent ones:

• We were all out for dinner and he got a serious look on his face and looked at me and pointed at my face.  After studying my face he said, "Mama, you have two beards!"  I think I had the look of horror on my face (he tells it how it is, thought he saw something I hadn't)!  Thankfully he looked around and pointed out my moms beards, etc.  He was talking about our eyebrows.  Haha!
• The last time we went for dinner he had another funny/embarrassing comment.  We were walking out and there were two women having dinner.  I didn't even notice them but of course Mr. StareHard did.  He pointed at one of the women and said, "Look at that funny looking guy over there."  Ahhhh!
• He is starting to become very tenderhearted.  We were visiting Joe's parents last weekend and Papa David raised his voice (because Liam was about to drop a granite slab on his foot).  Liam was so upset that he made Papa mad.  We were in a design showroom and he came running to me as fast as he could and buried his face in my neck.  I said, "Papa isn't mad, he just didn't want you to get hurt."  He kept saying over and over, "Papa IS mad, mama.  Papa is mad at me...."  Heartbreaking!  If only he reacted that way when I raise my voice at him!
• He still calls Joe's parents PapaJayne (all one word).
• His best friend is Gavin (straight from his mouth)
• He absolutely loves cod.  He ate 6 pieces the other night at dinner and asked for "more chicken."
• He has become aware of strangers.  We had someone come give a bid and he was really worried until the guy got here that he "didn't want stranger coming to our house."  Then when the guy got here Liam immediately befriended him and had to tell him his life story.
• He still uses the word poo-poo quite frequently.  Luckily it's just to make people laugh now.  For awhile it was every other word.  
• Another word he's added to his vocab recently is "actually."  "Actually, mama, it goes this way."  "I actually don't like that" (looking at dinner before he's even tried it. 

3.  Phew.  I feel better already documenting some of that stuff.  Will I regret not having more records down the road?  So far I've never looked back at past things.  I find it more sad than anything.  I just want to enjoy every moment, it is going so, so fast.  Tomorrow he will be 2 1/2.  How did that even happen?  

4.  So many scary things going on in the world/US. Don't think I need to elaborate much on that, just turn on the news.

I think that's all for now, breaking news about Boston and I want to watch before Liam is up and I have to change it.  Thankful for another ordinary day in my life.