Liam enjoys tummy time now! Wow, that took a while! For all of the 'tummy time' novices reading this, babies are supposed to play on their tummy for part of their day every day. This is due to the fact that babies now should be sleeping on their backs, to reduce the chance of SIDS. Well, being on their back to sleep and ride in a car seat and play has taken a toll on their development--not having the time on their tummies affects their hand-eye coordination, balance, and many other skills and abilities, not to mention basically their arm and core strength. So, babies on the whole have been reaching developmental milestones later since the beginning of the "Back-to-Sleep" campaign to reduce SIDS. Sooooo, babies need to play on their bellies.
All that to say, it has been torture putting Liam on his belly (as I think it is for many tykes). He would cry almost immediately. (Hey, if that weren't motivation enough to learn to say, "Flip me over, this sucks!" I don't know what is!) Anyway, it is nice to see that Liam can now stand to be on his belly for more than 2 minutes without the tears falling! Now we can really work on rolling over!
We've had a busy week: Scott left for Mexico City for the last race (hiphiphooray!) on Wednesday morning, leaving Liam and I to bach-it for the week. 
We visited Baker, my workplace, and hung out with the cool teachers--Liam was a hit!
Liam in his cool chair in Sheri's office--where did you get this chair, Sheri? You never told me!
Liam and Jesse, the science teacher
Liam and Sheri
Liam and Juli, 5th grade teacher
We hung out with Anna and Ben at their house and had lunch at the Choo-choo (a cool kid-targeted restaurant where your food is delivered by a train on the countertop--too cool--and birthday kids get a very loud and boistrous symphony of the Birthday Song sung to them, complete with train whistles atop frosted cupcakes! yeah... super cool.).
We did Lunch with Jess today and tomorrow we are heading over to Missy and Trace's house to watch the race. Phew! All this and Liam is in the middle of a growth spurt--meaning he sleeps no more than 1-2 hours per 'shift' before wanting to eat again at night. It's been a tiring week of that! Last night we actually went 3 hours between 'meals' so hopefuly we can get back up to that elusive 6 hour stretch that we once had. Ah, memories...
Well, all, once the beast awakes, it's into the tub he goes! Best get the bubbles ready! Tune in to the race on Sunday to watch Scott's team end their (ahem, WINNING) season on a high note with Seb's last race!
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It is so exciting to see them hit those milestones. Oh, I can't wait to hold him. We have been sick for far too long. It is doctor time next week for flu shots and pneuomonia shots and then we can finally come see you guys. Missing you guys tons and can't wait to have Scott back home for a while.
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