Liam LOVES Kiki. He always smiles when he sees her, even rolling across the room just to play (see video).
I suppose it could also be entitled, “Why We Have Dog Hair All Over the Floor”.
Luckily, however, Liam has found another best friend, one who’s always there for him and always makes him happy. And even though he leaves the mirrors a lot smudgier than before, we love having Baby Billy over to visit (with that cute face, who wouldn’t?).
Slow is right; He certainly won't be winning races anytime soon! He does a wounded (more like amputated) soldier/roll/inchworm crawl, and really struggles to move forward. But from all the other moms I've talked too, maybe we're the lucky ones.
After an afternoon with his friends Rushton, Macy, and Celia a few weeks ago, peer pressure finally got to Liam. He's mobile (sort of).
His favorite things to go for are Mom's "toys" (iPod and cell phone). Who wants their own toys when Mom's are so much cooler?
Next stop, walking (which he's probably closer to than learning to really crawl now that he’s cruising, too). 
In other news, Liam loves the teacup ride. At least someone will go on it with me now.
We got new family photos when we were up at Hebgen.
My favorites are these (though I don’t think we’ll get it blown up for obvious reasons). William was making the silliest faces the whole time we were there.
On Labor Day April, William, and I loaded up the car and headed into the interior to explore the IE. Our first stop was Hadley’s, which is basically the world capitol of dried fruit. We loaded up on trial mix, dried papayas, and chocolate covered pretzels to fuel our adventure (in retrospect the chocolate covered pretzels were a poor choice for an expedition into the desert).
Next stop: the Salton Sea (think the Great Salt Lake only hotter, more desolate, and even smellier). 
The shore was made up of these coral shell things
And also dead fish, lots of dead fish.
Next we explored the date farms and back roads of the Coachella Valley.
On the way home we took the scenic route through the mountains to Idyllwild.
Steven would spend it at the cabin. Steve’s family spends two weeks at a cabin in West Yellowstone every summer. It wasn’t easy for him to get the time off, and he had to work 10-12 hour days and weekends to do it, but he was very glad to get a long weekend at his very favorite place with his very favorite people.
At Katie’s shower, Liam met a girl who may possibly become the love of his life, Kambree (the daughter of our friend, Stacy). He was all over her.
He has a thing for girls with bows as you can see from his date with Macy.
Cousin Nick loves babies and was great at keeping Liam entertained.
Will had fun with us too. Will and Liam LOVED hanging out together.
Liam even got to play a real piano with Spencer.
Everytime they were together, Liam would laugh and talk and giggle and reach for his new bff.
And after a week without Dad, my favorite part was when we got to see Steven again.
Liam’s favorite part of the trip, other than playing with his cousins, was the beach.
We even let him get good and dirty.
He was NOT a fan of the boat.
Grandma and Grandpa Garff even watched Liam so we could go out on a triple date with the other Garff boys and their significant others.
The Williams had lots of good fun.
The beard was especially interesting for little baby hands.
Liam also started saying “Babwaba” whenever we feed him banana-flavored puff snacks. We think he means, “banana”.
And, my personal favorite, saying “Mama” (which mostly happens when he is sad, but heart-wrenching, nonetheless.)
The separation anxiety, on the other hand, was less than heart-wrenching. Especially when he decided to “nap” from 7-9 pm and cry for mom and dad until 11 or 12. Needless to say, we were all tired in the mornings.
Makes us glad to be back home.
