The Gallagher Annals

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Getting use to the kitchen and dining area

Trying to follow the ideas of "Baby Led Weaning" makes for lots of messes. These messes are made tremendously worse by our total lack of interest in our food vs. the ceiling fan above us. To get our focus back onto the food placed in front of us, our Mommy has us sit in our highchairs with some toys for about 15-20 minutes to get us use to being in these new rooms before giving us any of our yummy yummies.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Great Escape

Gabe's attempted flight from his crib was thought to be a fail-proof plan... but he forgot one thing... he was tired.

Trot Trot to Boston...

Trot trot to Boston.
Trot trot to Lynn.
Watch out Gabe and Liam don't fall in!

Trot trot to Boston.
Trot trot to Dover.
Watch out Gabe and Liam don't fall over!

Trot trot to Boston.
Trot trot to Town.
Watch out Gabe and Liam don't fall down!

What a bouncy weekend!!!

It turns out that being a superintendent/teacher and a nurse were not Pappap and Nanny's true callings in life... they were clearly intended to be Gabe and Liam's personal bouncers.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Yum, yum, yum.

We love avocados! Mommy likes them because they are high in omega oils, contain many fat soluble and water soluble vitamins, and have lots of fiber... but we just like them because they are bright green and smooshy.

These toys are boring...

... I want my brother!

Gabe hamming it up

Here Daddy, let me help you with that.

One of Daddy's jobs is to refill the water bottles at the grocery store and then swap the empty ones out for the new, full containers. This job, along with cleaning out the catbox and taking the garbage to the dumpster, became his permanent responsibilities upon getting pregnant with Etta. But look how sweet Liam is. He's already trying to lend a hand with household choirs. I can't wait until he and Gabe start helping Mommy with the dusting and vacuuming :)

Monday, February 7, 2011

New Developments :)

Liam started cutting his first tooth last Tuesday. His second tooth began to come through on Saturday... you'll see that one is larger than the other.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Nanny in Cincinnati!!!!!!!

Good Day Sunshine

This is Liam, but Gabe laughs just as hard when you shake the sun at him.

Check it out!!!

Last Sunday I was rubbing Gabers gums and felt... wait for it... 2 teeth! It took us all week to figure out how to get a picture of them (when we would try to push down his lip, he would try to suck on our fingers). To get this picture I held Gabe and shook the sun rattle at him while Joe waited for him to laugh and then took the picture.

Such a shame...

...Daddy could have been at this AFC Championship game. (note the rhyme? eh? eh?) The boys were originally both wearing the same outfit, but Liam kind of ruined it right before the game started. Wonderfully we had another set of Steeler pajamas.

Mommy has to do some laundry...

... so sit in here for a moment and entertain yourself :)

Liam LOVES bouncing! Whenever I try to put him in the standing activity center (the thingie Gabe is in) he starts to cry within 15 minutes because he can't jump. Gabey Baby, on the other hand, will just stand in the bouncer and play with the toys. Only on two separate occasions have we caught him bouncing (one of the times was last night.)

And take a look at those sweaters! You may ask yourself, "Where on Earth did you purchase such lovely articles of clothing? Were there any left?" I'm sorry to say, you can't buy these... you just have to have a wonderful Nanny to make them for you :)

I thought exercise woke you up?

I know this is a long video, but Liam is really cute in it.

This is a video of the first time Gabe figured out how to bounce...

...apparently it was exhausting.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Football + Tummy time

The boys are both wearing their Steelers uniforms in this picture because in the background we're watching the Steelers v. Baltimore playoff game. We're trying to teach them how to crawl... which is pointless when it comes to Gabe because as soon as you put him on his tummy, he rolls over.