Avid Reader

Liam is going through a reading phase... it's all he wants to do. And he likes to read the same five books. Which I am sure all parents know - is awesome. My friend told me pretty soon I will be able to close my eyes and read the books. I am suddenly glad Liam prefers daddy reading to him.

Happy as can be that daddy is reading to him...


Dog goes "woof"


Just enjoying a Saturday morning reading...


New favorite book...


ZOO BOOK... Making the animal noises is the most fun.


That's the elephant...



Even making Rob read to him...

Food Neophobia

"Food neophobia is defined as avoidance of, and reluctance to taste, unfamiliar food. It is 78% genetic in origin and 22% environmental. Neophobes reject food on appearance alone."

In other words... under the definition of Food neophobia you will see this picture:


As you will notice in the definition... it is genetic... I take full responsibility for this. I am picky... I know it, most of my family and friends know it.... BUT my mother will point out that I was NEVER this picky. Liam takes picky to a whole new level. He will not eat anything he does not recognize! Seriously... grapes have to be green... he won't eat the red ones. He will eat taco meat, but not spaghetti meat (though we had a break through on that the other night... I pray it wasn't a fluke!).

I am mostly telling you all this to tell a story from this morning. Yesterday... I made - from scratch - waffles. That's right.. FROM SCRATCH. and if I do say so myself... they are pretty darn good. Well Liam turned his nose up at them yesterday... okay, fine... I was sure he would eat them come morning.

Morning came... I place a nasty freezer waffle along with a YUMMY homemade waffle in front of him (because of the pickiness... I thought if he saw they looked similar - though mine was fluffier - that he would associate them both as waffles). He gobbled up the nasty waffle, would not touch my waffle. Then he started to make the "more" sign. When I said, you have more... you have waffle right there he flipped. He cried and cried, did the please sign, the more sign... he tried everything to get another frozen waffle. Pol and I tasted the good waffle showing him it was okay. Liam did not care... he would not touch it. So we said fine and got him down. To which Liam ran off crying. I then decided there was no reason for the waffle to go to waste so I started to eat the waffle. I walked into the bedroom where Liam was consulting Pol on what dad should wear to work. Liam looked at me and my waffle and made his "uhuh" sound... which means.. gimme. So I handed him a little bit... he ate it. Then he wanted more.. and more... and more. Don't ask me what changed his mind. But he ran to his seat and wanted to eat. So I gave him the waffle and he happily chowed down. That little stinker.

I call it a battle won by mom and dad. Not sure if Liam knows we won... but he ate the darn waffle... guess we will see if he eats one tomorrow!

Coupon junkie

As most people know, I have become a coupon junkie. I normally do not tell about my great deals on here, but this one was too good not to brag about.

Kroger last week: I spent $39.31 and saved $84.67.

People.. that is saving right there. What was such an amazing deal? well there were some things we just needed that weren't great deals.. like coke and frozen OJ. But I got a killer deal on Multi-Grain Cheerios and Ground Turkey. The cheerios were .67cents a box (after store savings and coupons).... so yes, I bought like 10 boxes. Liam eats these things like they are going out of style... and if Liam will eat it... I will buy it.

For those who say couponing is not worth it... check out my friend Roxanne's blog, she used to think that coupons weren't the best deal out there, but she has changed her thinking and started her own blog about her deals! www.lilroxie-tn.blogspot.com


check out those cheerios stuffed in his little mouth.


He set this box down very carefully on this toy chest so the girls could not get any of his cheerios... which they often do.

Park Day in Feb.

This past Sunday, Feb 1st, was a beautiful day here in Nashville. Feb 1st was also my parents 40th wedding anniversary! Congratulations mom and dad! Without you... there would be no cute little boy to take to the park...

grapes + water = happy boy

He loves some grapes, ate the whole bag and i am pretty sure he pooped green later that day.

playing...

more playing...

dad directing direction by moving the head where he needs to go.

Trying to make Liam happy about going this direction.

Running on the Parthenon.

daddy and son...

come on mom...