Growing too Fast

My boy is almost 9 months old. How is that even possible?? He is so grown up, crawling everywhere, pulling up on everything, climbing up the stairs and getting into all sorts of trouble! And he has two teeth!!! He is such a happy boy, full of life and very curious. He is quite the funny guy always making everyone laugh He is the joy of our lives.

I recently took Liam to the eye doctor. He said the glasses and the patch are working well, and if his eyes keep progressing he will not need to have surgery. Which was great news. He still has to wear the glasses and a patch 4 hours a day which he isn't too fond of, but he does pretty well.

We had a great First Thanksgiving, with lots of food and family and some football. Liam enjoyed some Turkey and Sweet Potatoes prepared by Gerber! We are looking forward to our first Christmas together. I think he will be so excited with all the paper and boxes but I hope he likes the toys too! He loves all the decorations and lights. We have our little tree up on a table because a certain someone would sure tear it up if it was in arms reach. But he still loves to look a it.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

Glasses

So it's been a one crazy month. I have been very busy with school and work and not to mention one little crazy boy! But I am happy to say I am half way done with my school, I finished quite well but I am in much need of a break. Work is getting busier as we opened a cafe and we are quickly approaching the holidays.

My boy is 7 months old and very busy. He is still army crawling his way in to trouble. He recently discovered how to climb on to shelves and over the bars of the dining room chairs. He is extremely curious and fast! On to the other adventure we have been faced with GLASSES! We noticed Liam's eye was starting to cross and at his 6 month appointment we were referred to the pediatric eye specialist. Liam has what is called a Strabismus in his right eye. It has to do with the muscle in his eye and it is affecting his vision. So right now he is wearing glasses which he is doing fairly well at keeping them on his face to my surprise. We recently started patching his left eye to strengthen his right eye, he is really not a big fan of the patch. We will also be taking a trip to childrens hospital to have an MRI because his optic nerve is larger than it should be, and they want to make sure his eyes and brain are functioning together. It's been quite the adventure, but I must say the boy looks quite cute in his little glasses. We are hoping they work to correct the Strabismus so he will not need surgery. Please keep us in your prayers and I will keep you all posted.

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6 months old already?

I really can't believe he is already 6 months old! But I also have a hard time remembering life with out him. He is growing so fast, he weighs 16.8lbs 30% and is 27inches long 70% so long and skinny, imagine that. He is a very curious baby he can army crawl himself right to the t.v. cords, peoples dirty shoes and anything that doesn't resemble a toy. He has always been a very vocal baby but he has recently discovered he can yell really loud. It's quite funny he just does it because he can, and we make a game out of it as well. He grunts and growls and we grunt and growl back, it's very entertaining:) He is incrediably active, always moving. I've never had a chance to wrestle a baby lion cub, but I can imagine it's very similar to changing Liam.

Recently Liam got to go on his very first airplane ride to Raleigh, NC to visit some dear friends. I was a little concerned about how it would all go. While we were delayed our first flight I caught some people looking at us with not so happy faces. I can only imagine they were thinking "oh great a baby, there goes my nap!" But to there surprise that baby was amazingly good. He ate, then flirted with some people seated behind us, and slept for the rest of the flight. That pattern continued on our second flight. I have been truly blessed with an awesome baby! Our trip was great, it made me miss Raleigh a bit and my friends alot. But we had a wonderful time catching up and introducing everybody to the love of my life. The time flew by probably due to the fact that we were so busy trying to see everybody. Sorry to those we couldn't squeeze in, hopefully next visit.

These days are very busy, I'm in school and working part time. While I'm away Liam plays with Grammy, who he loves. He is most definitely not deprived of attention in this house. 

I know this is a little late. But I thought it would be fun to start documenting my beautiful boys progress. But I thought I should probably start from the beginning.
Well after a very long 40 weeks I finally started having contractions on Tues March 15th at around 11pm. Which was great, because I was due on the 16th. Little did I know that I would be having very painful strong back contractions for the next 22 hours with little dilating. Finally around 8pm on Wed night I was able to have an epidural which was great relief. I relaxed and enjoyed watching American Idol with my parents and sister Heather, was able to take a little nap:) Around 10pm I was fully dilated and no longer feeling the epidural(OUCH!) and it was time to start pushing! Well after about an hour and a half he wasn't coming, so they decided to have me stop, they gave me some more epidural and sat me straight up in the bed hoping gravity would push him out. I was able to get some rest and after about 2 more hours the epidural wore off again and the contractions were very strong but he was slowly moving down. But with that brought more pain as he was pushing on my sciatic nerve. Not fun. I pushed again for about an hour, and finally the doctor used the suction, on the third try at 415 am on Thursday March 17th(St. Patty's Day!) out came Liam Cole Norwood. He weighed 8.4lbs and was 21in long. I was exhausted and had some trouble with some bleeding but all was well because I had a beautiful healthy boy. Well worth every stretch mark.

I will try to start posting some updates as he continues to grow and amaze me. Liam is now 15 weeks old today. And we had a big milestone, he started rolling over from back to stomach today!!! He is incrediably active, always moving around kicking his legs and punching himself:) He is growing so fast, he is wearing 6 month clothes. I'm not sure how much he weighs, at his 12 week check up he weighed 12lbs so I'm sure he is around 15lbs. He is a really happy baby, he loves cooing and laughing, he is a growler too. And amazingly cute;)