adddaaaadaaaa: the babyface.

so not only do we have a two and a half year old, but we've also put in some serious time with our fourteen month old. it's become abundantly clear to us that the second child develops at a highly different pace than the first. case in point: before age one donovan could tell you what a train says, what a puppy says, and what a kitty says. on occasion he would recite car noises for you. liam, however, at fourteen months can pretty much only say "aaddaadaadada" and spontaneously car noises when he's playing with them. donovan was eating people food by eleven months and chomping down pretty much anything you set in front of him. liam currently enjoys all forms of mush and ritz crackers. an infant staple, really, but we'd really appreciate it if he'd just buck up and feed himself. trying to explain to a two and a half year old why his food has to wait because his little brother needs his mush is a hard job. luckily, our first born (clearly the more advanced) chimes right in "oh, of course" whenever mommy or daddy explains something like this to him.

the idea was not for this post to be a comparison, and yet here i've turned it into one.
current accomplishments of liam:
a) knows what to do when you tell him to "say cheese!"
b) walks around like he's been doing it his whole life (aha...aha...hah).
c) drinks from a sippy cup!


there are certain things you don't expect to encounter when planning your second child. i mean sure, you understand it will be more difficult when the ages are close. what you don't plan for is constantly having to return big brother's toys because little brother refuses to let him alone. you don't expect potty time to be a group activity because once again, whatever big brother is doing is the coolest ever (needless to say we're hoping this will be evident later when liam potty trains in a day). you don't expect to have absolutely no baby toys about because no one in the house wants to play with baby toys when there are cars and trains and big boy toys around because (say it with me) whatever big brother is playing with is the coolest ever.

currently liam is crawling around on the floor grabbing everything in sight and stashing it away in the cars box. shortly after he's dumping it out and starting the whole process over again. sigh...the life of a baby. maybe when he's older he'll still hold the same joy for collecting things and putting them away? we'll work on organizational skills later. as long as he's cool with clean-up life will be a peach.