2 months already!

It is so crazy to think that we have already had Liam home for 2 months. At the same time it feels like he has always been here and I cant believe its only been 2 months not 2 years. He is such a perfect fit with our family, it is so funny to me that he is exactly like Josh in so many ways! I may have the only 2 year old who has to have a napkin on his high chair in order to eat because he cant stand the mess. :) We have had such a busy month it is hard to remember what all has happened.
Thanksgiving was great, we had a little meal at home as a family!!! Then we put up our Christmas tree and turned on our lights that Josh put up the weekend before. Liam loves the tree, he just keeps pointing at it and saying "tree"..."pretty" its really cute, but I don't think we will be putting any presents under the tree until it is time to open them this year.
We went to Santa's Wonderland, which is a little shopping area with a petting zoo, live music, and a hayride through the Christmas lights. We had such a great time, Liam really liked all the lights, he was so excited. He got to take his picture with Frosty but saw Santa in the bathroom and completely freaked out so I don't think we are going to get a Santa picture this year. They also had a snow machine which was really cool, all the kids were dancing and playing in the fake snow, Liam LOVED it!
We had our homestudy which went fine, she had no concerns and saw no issues. Liam did throw his stuffed animal and hit her in the head during the interview portion.....great.....he has never done that before. But we still got a good review even though that made it into the report....oh well.
He is learning so much, we go to music makers at a local church on Friday's where he learns songs, plays instruments, they have a parachute, and story time; it has really helped him pick up on English fast, he also learns some sign language it amazes me when he can say a word and sign it at the same time after just a couple of months. He loves to sing and knows a lot of the words to a lot of songs, of course he would never sing them in front of anyone but us so I have no proof :). We also go to story time at the library which is about the same thing but not as much fun. He is talking so much at home and will repeat just about anything that he hears, so last night Josh took him to batteries plus with him and the cashier apparently thought it was ok to curse in front of not just his customer but his 2 year old son...who oh yes picked right up on that word...thanks man! of course Josh corrected the cashier really quick but why would you do that!?!?! Anyway we are working on colors right now but blue is the only one we really down so far, he loves to look at books and the pictures are awesome at helping him learn, I had no idea there were so many great children's books.
We were at Wal-Mart this week and this older lady walks up to me and asks if he is mine, I say yes. She stares at me and then says "yes but are you his mother" I automatically answer "yes" then she stares some more, until I finally realize what she is asking. So because I think she meant no harm I explained that we had just adopted him from Ethiopia and now we are his parents. Then she asks if my husband is white...if we got to pick him out....etc. I don't think she meant to offend me in anyway but had she been any younger I would have probably told her it was none of her business but I went on and answered her questions and then she told me how beautiful Liam is and how lucky we were so I am glad I was nice...but really does it really matter what race my husband is and no we did not go pick out our son like a puppy from a pound. Wording is very important, next time try how does the adoption process work there instead. Anyway it was nice of her to tell me he is beautiful even if she followed it up with he looks nothing like you hahaha geee thanks. What a fun trip to Wally World.
It is getting harder and harder for me to play or do pretty much anything that involves bending or sitting on the floor. I am so very ready to have Raegan so I can actually play with them and not be out of breath and in pain...not much longer though! Liam can say Raegan and is getting pretty excited about all the baby stuff floating around the house now even though I am pretty sure he is going to be very upset when he learns that he has to share his Mommy. It will be sweet  to see how he reacts, he really likes babies but I have never held one in front of him either so we will have to wait and see. Thankfully we have found a great family for him to stay with while I am in the hospital so Josh will be able to stay with us, it is really hard when you live so far from family and it is still going to be hard to leave him even though I know he will be in great hands. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful church family and a wonderful military family! God knew exactly where we needed to be right now!