Early May: 5/1 to 5/19Liam speaks gibberish fluently now. It's a mysterious language that contains few vowels - a cross between Chinese, Portugese and Dutch. He also has started using his sign language all the time now. More, please, eat and gentle (which he made up himself). He also says 'yeah' if you ask him a question. Do you like dogs? Yeah. Is your name Zoe? Yeah. Should we feed you squirrel? Yeah.
We had a weekend full of adventures. The weather has been hot (record heat!) so we went to the splash park in Auburn. Liam enjoyed it so much we had to go back the next day with Devin. We grabbed a few photos. Auntie Katie is here on business for two weeks. She was amazied to see how big Liam has gotten (the last time she saw him was at her wedding last June!) On Friday night we all met Katie and Ronnie for a nice dinner on Puget Sound.
Saturday morning we went to the zoo for Weyerhaeuser's annual photo scavenger hunt. Some areas of the new kids zoo were open for the first time. Liam was the first one (ever!) to play in the new spray park at the zoo. Most of my 'scavenger hunt' photos were of Liam. I'll be surprised if any are good though. Everyone had to use a disposable camera provided at the start. My flash didn't work, and I didn't realise the focus distance was 1 meter, so the photos may be odd. But we had fun.
Dinner in the back yard is such a great way to end the day. Thanks to the Ikea high chair, we can easily move dinner outside. I think we'll be doing that a lot this summer. Liam loves being outside. Even when he's just looking at the rocks, or pushing his 'hippo car' around, he's smiling and having a great time.
