Here's a compilation of photos and videos from Liam's first birthday extravaganza during the week of Sept. 1st.  Both grandparents made their way as well as Greg's brother and sister.  We started out with the three of us on his real birthday, sept. 1st, and then the family rolled in a couple days later and we had a big party at Kate Sessions Park.

Here are some of the good pics:

We went to Greg's company picnic for Illumina last weekend at the Wave House in Mission Beach. There were two FlowRider wave pools, free food and drinks, and a huge indoor pool! Greg and Liam went swimming until Liam's little lips turned blue. We then took Liam on a ride on his first carousel in Mission Beach.

Liam is now climbing stairs, and we are trying to teach him to come down safely on his own. He is always enticed by a full basked of laundry (clean or dirty) that he can pull everything out of and throw on the floor :)

12-months here we come!

As soon as Liam turned 11 months, his first tooth on the bottom came through. You can see #2 coming in right next to it. He's not complaining too much - no fever but he's kinda grumpy. He's always got something in his mouth, like his rubber ducky.

He's starting to feed himself more and more and tries new things each week. Right now he's loving shredded mozzarella cheese :) We just keep putting stuff in front of him, and if he doesn't want it he kindly throws it on the floor!

Our baby is almost 1, we can't believe it!

Last week Jess, Krb, and I went to see Coco (Conan O'Brien) in LA. We had a great time and we actually were caught in a couple audience shots. I was really impressed how they recorded it straight up with no edits, pretty much took an hour exactly. I will say that Conan and Andy are beasts, both at least 6'3-6'5 and Andy could be a lineman. If you've ever seen the new show he always makes fun of how you would never know that he is in the building that he's in, and its definitely true. The only signs are outside Universal on the sidewalk.

Signs outside Universal.

That's his theatre right near the entrance very nice theatre and all, but you wouldn't even know what it was walking by.

We got tix 5 weeks in advance and then had to wait in line the day of.  The studio itself seems pretty big and I'll guess there were at least 200 people in there. Larry King was the guest on the show and his wife was insane.  She was in some yoga outfit recording the whole thing on her iphone.  The crew kept laughing at her because she was slowly creeping around the set filming everything and even got on the ground at one point to get an "artsy" angle.  Anyway, here are some blurry grabs of us on the show:

There is a little clip on hulu, but it's hard to make out.  The actual show it was a little more apparent if you knew where to look.

Cheers

We made the trip back to Indiana to visit family, and a catch a few Phish shows. Liam stayed cool in the heat in his baby pool at Grandma & Pa Roberts, while Mommy and Daddy melted in the lot at the show with Brad and the Dues (it was 95 degrees and humid)! We then headed North to the Lake House where Liam met his Great-Grandma & Pa Brown for the first time, and had lots of laughs with his crazy Uncles. It was a short trip but we all had fun :)

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Liam's new favorite thing to do is stand up under the dining room table, right in the middle where no one can reach him unless you get down there with him!