First attempt at stage 3 textured foods - not a fan!

So the doctor gave us the go ahead on meats and textures at his 9 months visit last week. I went to the store and bought a few stage 3 foods to see what he thought. The first food he tried was Chicken and Mixed Veggies. It smelled really good, however, Liam is just not a big fan of the chunks and textures. I had to video it, because his expressions made Jamin and I laugh!

Conquered the walker, finally!

So Liam has been in the walker for the past few months, but has not been able to really make it go until the last few weeks. Now that he knows how, there's no stopping him when he's in it. He just runs into anything that's in his way. He gets so excited that he can move around on his own!

And he's on the move!

As of today (11/8/11) we have a crawler! It is more a mixture of crawling and scooting. But none the less, he is on the move for sure! Here's one of the many videos we took today. I'm a proud, but nervous momma!

Liam's 1st Halloween!

Jamin manned our house and handed out candy to the trick or treaters in our neighborhood and Liam, Manny, Grammy and I went to Sounthland's Trunk or Treat and handed out candy. Here are a few pics. Liam passed out before it was over. It's hard being so cute! And he was the CUTEST lil monster EVER!

Liam & Kinsley

We went to a jewelry, clothing and bag party at Courtney McPherson's house last Friday night. I brought Liam so he could play with Kinsley (Courtney's little girl). Liam was very entertained by Kinsley. Here's a video of them together.

Liam's 1st Pumpkin Patch!

We took Liam to his 1st pumpkin patch to take pictures. The pictures turned out so cute! We gave him the little pumpkin to hold and the first thing he did was put it in his mouth. Typical teether! Here are a few pics from the pumpkin patch.

We love our Rangers!

Even though they didn't win the World Series this year, we still love our Rangers and we were sporting our Rangers gear during the World Series. Here are a few pictures. Liam also had his first trip to the ballpark in Arlington!

It's about time!

Apologies for slacking off and neglecting our blog for the past few months. I just uploaded some videos of our precious angel doing some funny things. I hope you enjoy the videos!

As for The Burkes, we are doing great and just loving our life with our son. We couldn't be happier. We feel so blessed to have Liam in our lives and he just brightens our everyday. He is rolling over and rolling everywhere like a pro. He pulls up on anything he can get a grasp on. Everything goes in his mouth (he's teething again) and he is trying his best to crawl. He can go from a seated position to all fours and he does the little rocking back and fourth thing but then doesn't go anywhere. I think it will be any day now when he'll crawl, but we'll see. His personality grows just as he is and it's becoming so cute and little boy-like. He will be 8 months old on November 13th. Time has flown by and I wish I could just press pause. He is growing way too fast, but I am cherishing every single second with him. I'm so thankful to Jamin that I can stay home with our little boy. It has been the greatest gift he could give me. I love both my boys (and Jaggy too)!

We are going Trunk Or Treating tomorrow at church so I'll post picture from that soon!

Smart Boy!

Lately we have been "clucking" at Liam to get his attention, apease him, and just make noise. He now tries to "cluck" back at us and it's the cutest thing EVER! His little clucking noise is just precious. I finally caught him doing it on video!

FYI: He also squeals fairly loud about 12 seconds into the video. So don't turn your speakers up all the way!

New Fave: Lights!!!

So before leaving any room of our house Liam leans towards the light switch so he can turn them off and then back on and then back off and so on. It's his new favorite thing to do.