Liam talking

This morning Liam started to talk differently. More of a thoughtful quiet cooing rather than his usual guttural outbursts. I was surprised to wake up and hear it this morning. On Sunday, Liam started blowing raspberries to everyone during church. He sure is having fun going to priesthood with Daddy on Sundays now that I am in the primary for a couple of months!

Liam's giggle

Liam really giggles towards the end. It is so cute!

Tiarra and Javier

A photo album of our adventure in Tombstone! Just click on the picture and it will take you to the online album. You can see it as a slide show! I will also post with single pictures in a bit.

Bath Time

Yesterday, Mike bathed Liam for the first time. I usually am the one to give Liam a bath mostly because I am the one who is home. But yesterday I asked Mike if he wanted to bathe Liam. I think they both had a lot of fun. Mike let Liam try to swim for a little by himself. Liam didn't hate it but I think he prefers to have his head held out of the water rather than swim under it.

STTN

Sleeping through the night! Liam went to sleep at 10:30 last night and is still asleep as of 7:10 this morning! I didn't sleep through the night as I kept waking up and checking on him. I'm totally OK if this is Liam's new schedule. It helps him grow and helps me sleep.

He was really fussy last night and stayed up for quite a while before I was finally able to get him to go to sleep. I guess all that power eating and wiggling helped him get ready for a long, restful night.

Liam swaddled and covered with his blanket in bed still asleep this morning!

Daily Walks

Since being here in Arizona, Liam and I have been going for daily walks with Tabbi and her girls Madi and Adalie. We had to put the walks on hiatus last week due to the below freezing weather, but the weather is looking to be a lot warmer this next week. Liam quite enjoys riding in his carrier and falls asleep during walks. I got him that blue sun hat (which is so big if covers his whole head. This hat will totally last him well into next year.

Side note to what went on this last week. On Monday morning (4 AM) I took Mike up to base (Fort Huachuca) so he could go out for his field training part of his Military Intelligence Officer Basic Training Course (MI BOLC). See why the military uses so many acronyms? So this 4 AM drop off happened after I had stayed up the whole night watching Tabi's girls while she took Ben to the ER. Poor guy was sick and a bit dehydrated and still went out into the field with Mike the next day. Talk about dedication!

Coming down to Arizona, I thought that we were getting away from any temperature below 30 degrees. To my surprise (and everyone else here) We saw temperatures actually get down to single digits. It was 2 degrees out in the field where Mike was and it was 5 degrees here. Those aren't typos! Liam and I didn't do much during those really cold days. Just stayed inside and kept warm. We were blessed that our pipes didn't burst and our heat (gas) wasn't turned off like most people. Another blessing from the cold weather is that Mike got to come home early from the field. People were getting frostbite, there were snow storms, and almost everyone rolled their ankle (Mike did pretty badly) and had nasty cactus (splinters?). Mike told me that several guys had to go to the hospital to get some out (especially those from aloe vera plants). But I am glad that Mike could come back Wednesday night instead of Thursday (or even Friday) that was originally planned.

On Thursday night, we went to a Greek restaurant (called My Big Fat Greek Restaurant) where they blew fire and lit our cheese appetizer on fire. Mike had lamb chops (all cooked to different doneness) and I had some type of spinach phyllo pastry thing. The food wasn't all that amazing and the service was down right slow. But the entertainment was there. We had to put Liam in his snow suit to take him out that night as it was still in the teens. Then we had Vinny's New York Pizza on Friday (very delicioso) and went to this mexican place called Mia's Mexican Grill on Saturday with the Huzzey's. It was like a chipotle, not a family style restaurant.

So even though it was freezing ( I had to wear a coat outside to do laundry), we had a very nice relaxing week. Here's to a warmer week!

Our New Apartment

This is the front of the place

 This is the bedroom, all the linens where clean and pressed! Very pretty too. The horse lamps a bit interesting.

 Still the bedroom, The chest of drawers is really awesome! The whole bedroom set is really pretty.

 Bathroom, Handsoap, towels, bath mats, even toilet paper and cleaning supplies where there for us to use! And bar soap too!

 The hallway  to the bedroom and bathroom.

 One of the pictures. I thought it was cute. The others are of birds and shells and fruit.

 Liam's bedroom! It has a great chair (perfect for nursing) and a lovely desk.

 Living room complete with a TV, couch, recliner, and coffee table.

 Living room again. Outside the sliding glass doors is the patio and the washer and dryer!

 Our kitchen table. Cute isn't it?

 This is actually a really good size kitchen. Bigger than anything we've ever had before.

 Our patio with a table and chairs. Once it gets a bit warmer at night, and it doesn't get dark by 6pm, I think we will have dinner out there.

The secret washer and dryer outside! The dryer is really nice, it dries towels with one go! No need for the usual second cycle.

I really do love this place. I know it isn't the three bedroom house that I was hoping for, but having a great landlord and awesome neighbors is worth so much more than a fancy pants house.