Happy Birthday, Aunt Ria

1 score, and 16 years ago, Liam's Aunt Ria was born (109 years to the day that the Gettysburg Address was given.) To celebrate, Liam, his mom and his Aunt Ria all ventured to Gettysburg where they stood in some chilly weather and took in a bit of history. While visiting, Liam was lucky enough to meet a troupe of Union soldiers and a skinny lawyer turned Senator turned President from Illinois.
Unfortunately, a day after these pictures were taken, Liam came down with his first fever and head cold. Luckily for his mom and aunt, the doctor assured them that the cold was not brought on by the trip. That certainly doesn't make it any easier to see a temperature of nearly 103 on the thermometer. Infant's Motrin is a great thing, but I wish there was a medicine that would allow the parent to carry the pain of the cold instead of the baby.

A new direction

Liam began the week by visiting the polls with his parents; despite all the media about long lines, we amazingly walked right up the booth and were able to cast our vote for Obama in a matter of minutes. If you look closely at the picture, you can see both Steve and Liam are sporting their "I voted" stickers. Go Obama! We are looking forward to seeing this country grow in a new direction.
Liam is also starting to go in a new direction...well, a direction anyway. He is in the beginning stages of crawling and is now slugging along like he is doing a slow and messy military crawl. It is a little disconcerting when you leave your once immobile son in one place and then turn your back for a second only to find him in a whole new place. The doctor said his weight would prevent him from being an early crawler and it does seem to cause him to work pretty hard at it. I am guessing he will be in full motion by Thanksgiving. You can see the struggle in the video below.