Happy Valentines Day! (a few days late)

Since it has been forever since I last posted, I thought you might be wondering where we have been and what we have been up to. We've been happy to have all of us back in the same house again. Though Liam and I managed the month of January on our own, it's good to be a family of three again. Valentines Day was great fun! Liam's favorite part was baking cupcakes and my favorite part was the Children's Museum. I'm not sure how it has taken us so long to go there, since I love museums, but now I think we will be there regularly. The promise of a special exhibit on Clifford was enough to convince me buy a membership!

Here we are mixing the cupcakes.
Liam loves standing on his stool and helping.

My death grip is only a reflection of the poor cupcake-paper filling
that occurred with the first cupcake when I let Liam do most of the filling.
Having learned my lesson, that almost 2 year olds aren't quite
coordinated enough for that skill, it took a pretty tight hold to keep
the batter in the pan and not on the counter.

Finally, the best part of all!

Playing at the Water Tables at the museum

In the Dog House

Cooking some lunch

When we first got to the museum, Liam was pretty stand-offish.
It took him a little while to understand that he could really touch everything.
That quickly faded though. Here he is off on his own adventure!

In case you've been wondering if Liam was sending Valentines this year, he is; they're just super late. The first week in February Liam was into coloring, so I thought he could color a bit on his Valentines, but by the next week coloring was totally out from Liam's perspective. Every day, I brought out the crayons and the cards and said in my most enticing and excited voice "let's color some pictures." Every day, Liam would look at me, wave his hand back and forth and say "no, no, no, no!" Finally it was Valentines Day and the cards were still sitting on the hutch in the living room. Happily, Wade was much more successful and he convinced Liam to color his cards today. Valentines will be arriving soon. I believe Liam and I might arrive in Washington to see my parents before the card gets there, but we did try.