I love you. … I know.
Liam sure is proud of his Millennium Falcon. He’s gotten lots of emails about it over the past few weeks. No one was more impressed by his sweet ride than his girlfriend, Emerald, though. When Emerald and her parents (Our good friends Jake and Jenn) visited us this week, our little Han Solo couldn’t wait to share with his Princess Leia. You know we had to take pictures, right? I’ll let them tell the story.

I’m a little nervous about finally sharing this, but I want to introduce our latest ongoing family project… Geekling Comic: the webcomic adventures of a geekling and his schnauzer. Yup, Liam has his own comic strip now. Yup, I’m officially crazy. I prefer the term creative, though.
For those of you that really know me, you know I love creative projects. And our kid. I collect creative projects like some women collect shoes. I don’t have a lot of shoes, but I do have a lot of creative projects. It may be a bit of an obsession.

I’m afraid I might jinx this beautiful weather by mentioning that spring has finally arrived, but I can’t help it. The last two days have been absolutely gorgeous with 70+ in the forecast all week. Dare I say it? SPRING IS HERE!

I guess technically WE didn’t make the custom board book – Pint Size Productions did – but we designed a great little personalized board book for Liam featuring pictures of his family members. It’s appropriately called Liam’s Family, and I am so tickled at how well it turned out! I was impressed with the whole custom board book making process that Pint Size Productions offers, actually.

Happy New Year!
2012 is here, and we’re wasting no time jumping right in and embracing change and new events in the household.
This week we’re all adjusting to a new daily routine now that Liam has started daycare. It was hard letting go and having him stay with people we didn’t know for the first time, but we got through it somehow. His teachers are all very kind and caring, so that helped. They also seem pretty tolerant of all of my questions, which I appreciate. I think they must be used to dealing with new parents leaving their kids for the first time, eh?

Despite still trying to get over the worst cold I’ve had in a long time, and despite the fact that Liam is showing signs of catching said cold by sporting a runny nose – today has been the perfect day.

Not that I have time to blog, but just wanted to let you know that Liam Richard Karpiuk arrived on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 9:18pm. He weighed 8lbs 3oz and was 22 inches long and resulted from a relatively easy labor and delivery. Everyone is doing well, and Liam is of course absolutely perfect and we are head over heels in love.

So with just over 4 weeks to go, I feel like we’re in the baby home stretch. Baby showers have been had, the bassinet has been put together and is ready to go, and just when I think my bump can’t possibly get any bigger, I look down. Little Liam seems to make my belly grow by the hour these days, and I can’t believe it’s almost time for his debut. There are two words that come to mind when I stop and think about it: excited and terrified.
Excited because of course, we cannot wait to meet our Liam. I have been dreaming of a little boy that looks like his daddy ever since we …