Flanagan Clan

May has been a really busy month for us. The boys have been busy with preschool, Patrick has been busy with tee ball, I’ve been busy with business-related stuff, and we’ve had a lot of random things to do here and there. I’m also doing a photography class with my mom on Tuesday nights for 6 weeks, and that’s been a blast. I am learning so much!

Liam has been eating solids for the past 3 1/2 weeks. I have been trying to push him to eat pureed baby food since he was about 5 1/2 months, and he never really seemed to like it. So, several weeks ago I gave him an animal cracker on a whim. He gobbled it down. Since then, I’ve realized that he doesn’t want baby food. He wants REAL food. So, he’s been eating a lot of rice, scrambled eggs, tender cooked meat, cheerios, potatoes, breads, and cooked veggies. This kid HATES fruit. I’ve tried apples, pears, strawberries, cantalope, watermelon, and bananas. Nope, he makes a big disgusted-looking face for every single one of those things. He’s a complex carbs sort of guy. He just makes me laugh.

I’ve been working pretty solidly lately on preparing for the debut of my newborn diapers. I’m currently in the process of making 60, alone with matching longies, blankets, teeshirts, and other things. I will hopefully be ready by June 14th. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. My goal is to do one debut-related task a day, although I guess I haven’t done anything yet for today. I will have to get working on that.

Patrick has really been enjoying tee ball. He’s doing really well. In fact, when I throw the ball at him, he is really good at hitting it. I think he’ll do great when he moves up to baseball. But, tee ball it is for now.

Sammy has been cute and cuddly, as always. I can’t believe he’s almost finished with his first year of preschool. He’s getting so big!

Ethan is starting to talk more. He still isn’t a very vocal child, but he is saying more words every week, which is a good thing.

Liam looks like he might want to start crawling soon. He’s sort of figured out the army crawl a little bit, but not quite there yet. He’s starting to want to MOVE.

I could probably go on and on about what we’re doing, but I’m actually in a hurry. We have a tee ball game tonight and I haven’t even started thinking about dinner. Oops. One of these days life will slow down again!