I Heart Liam

I sit here in San Francisco, at our kitchen/dining room/only table. I'm aware that it's been much too long since I've written here. I'm also aware that I've had a rather major life change since I wrote last time and I know in the blogging world I've basically committed a crime that deserves a life sentence for not posting since then. I have no excuse, I plead guilty. For some reason the first blog since Liam's birth has seemed like a monument too high to climb for me until now. So here I am, in my new digs, ready to post.

July 5th, 6:00 am, my water broke. We headed to the hospital around 7:30 ready to bring a new baby into our family. Labor was pretty similar to Connor's birth, with a few lovely changes. Those included: me NOT puking the whole time (my favorite), no narcotics and thus no strange hallucinations and, only 20 minutes of pushing as opposed to 2 hours and 45 minutes of pushing. Liam was born at 9:47 pm with a full head of black hair and a striking resemblance to his brother. He weighed in at 8 lbs 5 oz and was 20 inches long. Unfortunately, the little dude wasn't breathing all that great (a downfall of a quick trip down the ole birth canal) and so he and his Daddy were whisked away to the nursery while I was left completely alone with 1/2 my body numb and no idea what was going on. That was a very difficult and long hour. But, as it turns out, he was fine and once they were able to get the "gunk" out of his lungs, everyone came back to be with Mama.

So here we are 4 weeks later to the day (almost to the minute) and we're adjusting well. Connor loves his little brother and already has the "shush, shush, shush" sound down that Liam loves so much. He calls Liam "cutie" and generally asks to see him the first thing when he gets home. However, as he was the only child for almost 4 years, he got pretty used to having all the attention so he is having a little trouble adjusting to sharing the spotlight. Luckily, he seems to not blame his little brother for this at all and instead blames his terrible, terrible parents for doing this to him. Not really, but he has been a little on the difficult side as far as listening (or lack thereof) and doing things he knows he isn't supposed to do. It was bound to happen and as soon as I get some sleep, I'm determined to have some more patience for it:)

For the most part, Liam is a pretty easy going little dude. However, when he gets mad he goes from content baby to SCREAMING MAD BABY in 0.2 seconds. Sometimes it actually makes us laugh (poor, poor, second child) because he gets so mad so quickly. Unfortunately it looks like he got the patience of his father:). He still has a full head of dark hair and he actually has dark grey eyes so far. They will most likely turn brown here soon but for the time being, they're pretty cool looking. He sleeps, eh, okay. He goes to bed around 11 and is usually up at 2:30 and 5 to eat and then up again around 8. Not a bad schedule when he goes back to sleep easily, but there has been more than one night where I have finally got him sleeping and he wakes up a few minutes later and it's time for him to eat again. Luckily, Dan and I have no jobs (I highly encourage this for those of you considering a second child:)) so I am up with him all night but then I usually sleep until 9ish in the morning. But really, he is pretty perfect in every way and oh how lucky we are to have these two healthy beautiful boys.

As far as our move goes, we're not here permanently yet. We've stayed a few nights so far and so far so good. They are doing a lot of construction in the complex we live in (joy.) so we're going to stay most of August at hotel Art and Geni and we will move here for good towards the end of August when Connor starts preschool. That will still give us a few weeks to explore before Dan has to go back to school.

We've been filling out summer days with swimming (well, not me, but Dan and Connor), visits to fun places like the aquatic center, Sunsplash (again not me) and Discovery Kingdom (hey, not me either. Basically Dan and Connor go fun places and I stay home and take care of a newborn. So is the life...). I am only a little concerned about entertaining Connor in San Francisco after this fun summer he has had. Luckily there will be loads of new parks, libraries and stores in San Francisco to explore that should take up some time.

So at this point we have about T-6 weeks until dental school starts. I think by the time it gets here we will all be ready to get back to normal and settle into a routine. How lucky we have been though, to have this summer together before the craziness starts.

Okay, I think that's all for now. I am committed to being a more regular blogger now that I've gotten the initial "hey I had a baby" blog done. I will leave you now with a few pics of the new guy, and just for fun, a pic of his big brother when he was a newborn. I think you will see they are, indeed, brothers.


Connor never fit into this outfit. Who knew my second kid would be smaller?


I love this picture because I call both boys "monkey" and Liam really does kind of look like a monkey in this picture (a really, really cute monkey of course).


He really is a good big brother, this kid.


Connor in swing- 2005 three weeks old


Liam in swing- 2009 two weeks old. Biggest difference between their physical features is that Liam has a longer, thinner face and Connor had a rounder face as a baby.

Loves to all!