Liam's Cute Noggin

As most of you probably already know, we had our appointment with the craniofacial specialist at Children's Hospital in Seattle yesterday and everything is fine. Liam's soft spot is practically non-existent, which is rare, but not a problem in this case. All of the sutures, or areas between the plates of the skull, are fully open and those are what matters. So, NO SURGERY!!!  We felt such a tremendous sense of relief all day.  He also has a flat spot from sleeping and the doc thinks it will work itself out so that he will not need to wear the helmet.  Though, if he does have to wear it, we figured we would just use that time to teach him how to ride a bike and kill two birds with one stone.  Do you think 7 months is too early for bike riding?  I don't know, I am a first time mom, but it seems like they learn how to do things so fast!

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for the weekend so that they could go to the appointment with us and keep us distracted for a few days beforehand.  We had a great time, even though poor grandpa had to get the last 10 minutes of the superbowl on his Blackberry in 20 second updates of who had the ball and where on the field they were.  We don't have cable, so no game here. We also got to see Dan, Mikki and Ellie for the day on Saturday for some good food and stiff competition at the card table.  All in all, it was a great end to January and Beginning of February.

Here are some pictures of Liam.  He is getting big so fast!

Ellie feeding her little cousin.  It was a pretty good first attempt.

Liam is a very happy little baby.  I love that about him! (I say little, but he is actually a pretty solid, hearty baby)

We could kiss the cheeks right off of this kid...

Here are a few pictures of Liam starting to push up on his arms during tummy time. Babies are so amazing.  I worked with him for about three days and he refused to do it, and then one day I rolled him over and he held his little head up and looked at me like, "Is this what you wanted? I mean, I don't know what the big deal is." But you can see for yourself what a cute, healthy little noggin he has. And just look at those baby blues!  Ugh, he is going to get away with so much with those big, innocent eyes.