School Started!

Toddlin' Time was in effect today!

Continuing the conversation from the comments about clothes - Liam got complimented on his outfit *numerous* times this morning AND believe it or not, Dada dressed him up. Matching & everything ;)

Nana ~ he had on his striped Monkey Business shirt with the blue shorts from Gymboree - very cute indeed!

Now that we've gotten our First Day of School Outfit discussion out of the way, let me tell you about the class...

There were FOUR LIAMS IN IT. FOUR. I have not ever met another Liam (since ours was born) and there were FOUR of them right there. Three of them were blond, mine is not. One of them spelled it Lliam - in Argentina his family would pronounce that Jiam. None had Robert as their middle name. They ALL responded to anyone saying Liam at any given time. I took to calling My Liam - Fellow. Only ONE Liam responds to that :)

This boy of mine? Yeah, he's "spirited". He was still the only one running around making sure they touched everything (door stoppers included) & screamed the whole time. I was told he has a "bubble-ly personality" - I think I need a Mommy Thesaurus for that one cause I'm not quite sure what that meant. He's not rough or mean or a bully BUT he is still learning his "limits" on who can be touched (not EVERY Mommy will allow him to use them to climb up on to stand up) & how they can be touched (not EVERY baby enjoys being petted like a Kitty). So I'm running after him 100% of the time. I asked The Lliam Mommy who this class really intended to give the "work-out" to at one point when I noticed her wiping the sweat off her brow too. He's sharing pretty well, as can be expected for a 14 month old so that's promising to see.

I know that they do the songs & mellow out stuff at the end to mellow them out and have a cool down period but part of me wishes they would do that first cause it's hard enough to get Liam to sit still a book these days LET ALONE after he's been running around on fire for the past 35 minutes!

He's also the tallest in the class - way taller than any of the 18 month olds. By at least 3 inches. No one could believe he was as young as he is for how tall he is & how WELL HE WALKS. A lot of kids didn't need running after cause they rarely strayed from Mommy's side - yeah not mine. Seriously, I work up sweats chasing him around just to make sure he isn't wounding himself not necessarily because he's such a FAST walker/runner but because he doesn't hesitate and once he's on his way somewhere, he's really, no fooling around, on his way there.

Of course, I'm so happy I signed him (I mean US) up for this, he loves it & I think he's going to gain some [more] confidence by using their equipment that is designed for the rough & tumble tumblings of our Little Boy.

Now, if I could convince the lady to put a safety lock on the DOOR, I wouldn't have to race him to it every time he remembers it's there!