May 31

Memorial Day was fun this year. We went to the Maryhill Museum, about an hour and a half away on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. It was pretty neat, but our favorite part was Stonehenge, just 4 miles down the road. Here are a bunch of pictures from that adventure. The peacocks just roam around the grounds of the museum. For info about the Maryhill Museum go here.
Watching the peacocks






The view from the museum



Liam and Daddy playing inside the museum

Stonehenge




The view from Stonehenge

Liam playing on the altar at Stonehenge







Daddy and Liam at Stonehenge


Ominous clouds coming in

Liam and Mommy at Stonehenge



The only picture we got of all of us together... We asked a man with a really nice camera, thinking he'd take a decent picture. He didn't speak English very well and had a hard time figuring out my point-n-shoot. This is what we got. Ah well.

We now have another place to add to our list of "places to take people who visit." So, come visit us and we may take another trip out to Maryhill.

May 26th ish

Liam loves to take a bath. This time I gave him some bubbles, which he thought were pretty cool. He's developing his singing voice, too (as you will hear in the video at the end).





A word about the video... I had to cut some parts out because Liam is pretty modest and wouldn't like his bits strewn about the inter-web. So, the splicing didn't work as fluently as I'd hoped. The cutest part is the end anyway- and that's got nothing funky about it. Enjoy!

May 20 & 22

We've had an interesting week, which somewhat explains the lack of posts. We got back from Idaho/ Utah on Sunday night, Liam slept so well that night (and I got to sleep on my new mattress!). He woke up Monday morning with a runny nose. He was really snuggly and just not feeling well all day and got quite a fever. He took something like 5 naps before 3:00 in the afternoon. Mike and Jeff gave him a blessing that night because he was in pretty bad shape. I gave him some tylenol and hoped for the best. Well, I was up with him all night long Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights. He would wake up every hour just screaming and flailing around like he was in so much pain. Wednesday afternoon he got a horrible rash that just kept spreading. He was acting fine during the day, no fever, just an ugly rash. I took him to the doctor on Thursday after his nap because it was not getting better and I was worried. Turns out, rash was in response to the fever, the fever was because of those blasted teeth, and he wasn't sleeping because of the teeth as well. So these pictures were taken right during the worst of his rash. Poor baby.




Here is my new haircut. I'm getting more used to doing it and I'm liking it more and more. I LOVE that it doesn't hurt like the dickens when Liam pulls it. I'll try to take a better picture... this is kinda a bad hair day. Ah well.

On Saturday, May 22, I went to a stake Relief Society thing, where we had to wear name tags. I got home and Liam was so fascinated by the silly thing. I stuck it on his chest so he could wear it and he loved that! (There are those baby legs again. I'm going to make some less girly ones sometime.)

And here's a little video from this day. I couldn't get what I was hoping for- he puts the Mr. Potato Head pieces in his mouth with the peg sticking out and hums. It sounds like Darth Vader (is that right, Mike?). So, you can kind of get the gist at the very beginning, but he stopped as soon as he saw the camera.

May 16th

We drove home, starting out at about 7:30 am. We stopped only a couple of times for gas and just once to eat. We discovered sometime during the last couple of weeks that Liam loves to chew on limes. He makes the cutest little puckery face, but continues to suck out the juice and chew on the rind. We stopped in Boise to eat at a little Mexican place. We tried to feed Liam some sweet potatoes, which he also loves, but apparently not nearly as much as limes.

May 15th

Saturday, May 15th, Mike, Sachiko, and I got to go to the temple to do some family sealings. We sealed Mike's grandparents (Sachiko's parents) together, Grandpa to his parents, and Sachiko and a deceased brother to their parents. It was so neat to be able to do that with Mike and his mom. Thanks to Kristen, who babysat for us. That afternoon we went to a BBQ with a bunch of Mike's family members. Paul and his dad work on old cars. He had a couple of them on the lawn during the BBQ. I got some pictures of some of the people at the BBQ, but mostly of the little man, of course! :)