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Charlotte can tie her shoes now! A whole world of shoe options has now opened for my daughter. She has also lost her first tooth, though I can't get a good picture of that because the great gap is in her bottom set, and a natural smile for her doesn't show those bottom teeth. If I ask her to try and smile while showing the missing tooth, the grimace that results is not something a momma can bring herself to upload.

My Liam... in this picture you can see the cup marks up his cheeks and between his eyebrows- the cup that left the milk mustache. A quintessential Liam picture must include a milk mustache. He looks too Boo Radley here for this to be a quintessentially Liam pic though... Liam is way too funny to be mistaken for Boo Radley. Last night, for example, we were all hanging out in mine and Ash's room. Ash was laying along the edge of the bed talking to Alistair and me. Liam came up behind Ash and two inches from his face warned: "You are stuck. Don't worry; I will save you. Don't be scared." Before the words could penetrate and alert Ash to any danger, he was pulled backwards off the bed, arms and feet straggling behind his bum and head. That is quintessentially Liam. As well as the morning last week when, while crunching cereal at the breakfast counter, Charlotte is chipper and feeling great and in the perkiest voice says, "I am in a good mood." Grumbly and low, mostly to his cereal bowl, came Liam's instant response, "A dangerwas mood." Everybody should know a Liam.

And Alistair...

...still irresistible.

I love being a momma.