Thanksgiving - The Video

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Happy Thanksgiving!

First things first - Happy 17 month birthday to Liam (11/16)! You will see him in his PJs first thing in the morning on his day! Doesn't he look like Connor???

Then I needed to include his new favorite hobby, which is to put blankie on his head and walk around like Sheik Abudahbi. But cute.

FINALLY - Here are the Thanksgiving Pictures!

Mom, resting after a VERY long Thanksgiving Day at Grandma & Grandpa's!

CUTE Lindsey picture! But what other kind are there???

The Doughty Clan, courtesy of Donna. I'm torn between using this picture or a picture a little further down for our Christmas card. I'll have to see how they print out.

The Bouthiette Family!

Lucas & Liam playing with a fire truck.

Lucas is such a little Carl!

Liam & Papa.

The other potential Christmas Card photo op. He looks like such a little BOY here!!

I'll be posting a video of Lindsey entertaining Liam a little later, once it finishes uploading. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Gobble Gobble!!

Happy Halloween!

Come see all my Halloween Pictures!

For Aunt Kathy

We went to Grandma's house yesterday and Rose brought Lindsey and Lucas, so Liam got to play with his cousins. They did really well - no broken bones or anything! Here's some highlights!

Liam & Mommy. Lindsey took this picture. Liam hadn't taken his afternoon nap!
Liam loves opening and closing doors. He takes so much pleasure from the simple act, it's hard to stop him!
Lindsey & Lucas!
Lucas!
The kids! When I said that I was going to take a picture, Lucas immediately raised both of his arms over his head and held them until I actually took the picture. It looks like Donna has two hams!

Better Late Than Never

My take on this season’s fall lineup – these are the actual shows that I TIVO (well, DVR, but let’s not get into semantics):

Sunday:

The Amazing Race – LOVE IT! But I always do. I have a begrudging respect and sense of adoration for the Kansas coalminers with the really bad teeth. They’re amusing, with their complete and total lack of worldliness! And Phil’s a hottie – though I’m upset that he’s losing his accent.

Monday:

How I Met Your Mother – This show is still good, but not as great as last season. I don’t really care that Lily and Marshall broke up – I just want Barney to say something stupid. It’s a really great late-20s show. However, I truly believe that if you are not in your late 20s, you won’t be able to relate to it and the amusement of two guys going to an Alanis Morrisette concert.

The Class – BALEETED FROM TIVO! This show sucks. BORING!

Heroes – I’m in the midst of liking it. Like my husband, I wish that they would have more Hiro and less wide open brains. And who knew? Ali Larter can actually act!!

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – I love this show. Considering that I wasn’t even going to watch it, but did on a lark since Bill wanted to, I’m hugely impressed. I hate Harriet – she’s ugly and boring and too conservative, but that’s okay. And I’m not “in love” with any of the characters, but the writing is just so good. I truly recommend it.

Tuesday:

Gilmore Girls – Unlike Annie, I’m not in love with this show. However, I continue to watch it, because I have since season one. My DVR decided to casually forget to start taping the first episode (we’ve had words since), so I never really found out what happened with Loralei and Christopher and Luke. I actually like Logan as a character and wish that we could see more of him (emotionally and physically!!) and I’m interested in the pregnancy aspect with Lane.

Bones – I LOVE THIS SHOW. David Boreanz is a sexy mofo. And the sexual tension between him and Bones is so wonderful. As I stated to my husband, I don’t care who he has sex with, as long as he’s getting some!

Wednesday:

America’s Next Top Model – Or as I refer to it, crack. I’m addicted to the drama on this show. Tyra Banks seems so incredibly fake in her sincerity and the girls are just mindless drones. It’s wonderful. But I am sad that they kicked off the cute girl with the short hair so early. She was my Kim for this season!!

Lost – I keep telling myself to stop watching. I can literally go weeks without tuning into an episode that I have on my DVR, but for some reason, I won’t delete the show from my record listing. If they don’t explain what the frig is going on pretty soon, I plan on boycotting. Are you with me???

CSI: NY – Not as good as it’s big papa CSI, but not as drunk as Uncle CSI:Miami. I like the budding romance between the girl and the guy with the glasses who talks about “blue fibahs.” Gary Sinise is really good as the new Grissom, but still no Grissom. And there’s no real tension between any of the characters, so it can be kind of boring. It’s like they’re on a set or something. J

Project Runway – RIP. I am really happy that Jeffrey won. He was an ass, but he is REALLY talented. Though not as much as the first season guy, Jay. Some of the clothes that he made, I would actually want to wear – the first season guy, Jay, I mean – and that’s saying something, considering that I have absolutely no fashion sense.

Thursday:

Survivor – Again, bored. I liked the idea that they were dividing by races and it’s going along just as I thought – the whites and Asians remaining in power. It’s like a really bad joke.

CSI – I love this show, but I hate Marg Helgenberger. Her character is so one-sided. And her name is Marg. Boo. I want them to give George Eeds more face time! He’s sexy too!

Grey’s Anatomy – This show is really losing me as a viewer. It’s killing me that doctors can be SO DUMB. The main chick, she needs to be put into rehab for her sexual proclivity and need to drown her sorrows in alcohol. I’m glad that none of these people will ever get near me with a scalpel.

Real World Road Rules Challenge – I still think I’m 15. And this has the same appeal as ANTM. Really dumb people, doing really stupid things for money. As my husband says – GET A JOB!

Friday:

Doctor Who – Bill got me to watch this by some form of voodoo magic. I was madly in love with Christopher Eccelston, though I think that the chick who plays Rose is unbelievably annoying. Then they went and “killed off” that doctor and regenerated into the new doctor. I was not really feeling him, but then he put on his glasses. Now I’m okay with the show.

Numbers – Again, this is just a show to watch. Not in love. Could stop if I wanted to. It’s really just something to watch on Sunday when Liam is napping.

So far – so eh this season. Besides my existing LOVE for CSI, the Amazing Race and Bones, nothing much has piqued my interest, except Studio 60 and I hear that’s not doing too well in the ratings. The OC starts soon, which will be fun (hopefully now that bitchface is dead) and 24 will be on before you know it. Excitement!

Hop on the Pumpkin Express!

We went to Schartner Farms in NK on Saturday to pick pumpkins. We got to go in a corn maze and play in fun cut outs and then look around at all the pumpkins. It was a beautiful day. Liam took one header into a picnic table, but other than that, all was fine and good. We got to eat fresh red fries, which were super yummy!

The fam in the Schartner Farms cut out.

Li the bee is the man. The WALKIN' man!

Li wasn't terribly impressed with the corn maze, but did love thrashing himself around when he was on our shoulders.

Li & the daddy. Ahh - Love before the glasses come flying off!

Li & a pumpkin.

The fam on the hayride over to the pumpkin patch.

Apple Picking - The Video!

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Apple Picking!

Bill, Jill, Liam & I went apple picking at Hill Orchard yesterday. It was so much fun! Liam was walking all over the place with Bill. We were picking and eating apples. We got to go on a hayride with two horses that were really pushy and each wanted their own way. And we've got enough apples to make 2 or 3 pies. Wonderful times!!

Yummy, ripe apples! See, I do go outdoors occasionally AND I even make Liam eat healthy things, sometimes. :)
Liam felt that it was much more fun taking apples out of the basket, rather than putting them in.
Liam walking with Daddy. As you can see, he is gangsta, with his one pant leg pushed up and the other down.
The nicest family picture so far. Thank you Jilly!!!

King Richard's Faire

BEHOLD! King Liam of the Og! He will destroy you! Hazzah!

Well, as you can tell, we made our yearly pilgrimage to King Richard's Faire. Liam is now doing the walking while holding your hand thing, which is incredibly adorable. When Jill went to go get her photo taken in shackles, we held Og for her. Liam was enthralled with Og and wanted to walk with him all by himself. He's such a big boy! And he only fell on his face once!

We were going at lightning fast speeds of 1 to 2 MPH.

Please notice the man with the horns behind Bill. He was truly excited to be in the photo.

We met some very nice beer wenches at the Faire. Liam made friends with them, not even wanting to leave, after we took the photo. But just notice his eyes - what a boy!

Swingin' Liam

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Liam Auf Deutsch

Mommy & Daddy & Liam went to the park on Labor Day night to celebrate the end of summer. Boo bad work hours for Bill. Boo lost sunshine. Yeah fall weather!! Jeans!!!

My aunt bought Liam a cool shirt and sweatshirt from the Germany World Cup soccer thingy. It looks so cute on him, I had to take a picture! You can even kind of see his snazzy new sneaks!

Mystic Aquarium - The Video

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Liam Walks! And says "Fish!" Kind of...

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Liam Stands Tall

This is our Gangsta Liam, who comes with a Timberland outfit and Cubbies hat, stylishly cocked to one side.

Liam is planning on becoming the Lord of the Dance!

What can I say? He's got a groove! And look at him standing all by himself!!!

This is Bill's artsy photo (though I do love it!!). Liam LOVES to play with his Animal Farm!

FINALLY!

Here are some new pictures of Liam from this weekend. It turned out that Bill magically went from having a two-day weekend, to a cool three-day weekend, to a faboo four-day weekend, so we were able to spend 3 1/2 days together as a family! We went for a walk in Wickford, we had a cookout with friends and went to the Mystic Aquarium! I'm not going to post all of the pictures here, but you can link to them here: DOUGHTYLAND FLICKR ACCOUNT!





Check them out and let us know what you think!

New-ish Picture of Liam

OR MAYBE NOT! Damned Blogger isn't allowing me to post any pictures. Jerks!

We're finally having baby day this weekend, so I'll try to remember my camera and take lots of new pictures of the Li.

The Chicago Land Busy People Band!

I'm still too tired from our weekend jaunt to Chicago to go into much detail, thankfully my husband is verbose.

Yes - I am a bad mom. I haven't posted any new picture of the Li in a while. But I actually haven't taken many photos lately, either. So I guess that just makes me even worse of a mom. Oh well. Li Li (as I've taken to calling him) is getting bigger and bigger every day, except for Thursday, in which he lost a great deal of intestinal (sp???) girth, when he threw up 6 times in 30 minutes. But then he was fine. It was weird. The doctor thinks it was a bug, but he literally was FINE not two hours after the ordeal. Eating saltines (a new food LOVE for Liam) and drinking some Pedialyte. It's weird. He still isn't walking on his own, but he'll stand up and hover, until he realizes that he's not holding on to anything, when he promptly falls on his bottom. He's cute.

Hubby has posted some new photos from our Chicago trip this weekend on our Flickr account. You can check them out there.

Chicago was fun, but tiring. I can barely keep my eyes open as it is, let alone with less than six hours of sleep on Saturday night. And United can kiss my bottom - what with our unplanned 4 1/2 hour delay in PVD. Who wants to sit in TF Green for 5 - 6 hours??? There's literally NOTHING to do. Except read. Which is what I did. I started and finished "Idiot Girl's Adventure Guide" in about 5 hours. I laughed my ass off throughout the entire book - thank you Annie! You thought three and a half years into the future to purchase this book for my bridal shower, knowing that I would need something to cheer me up during my delay. You're a sage.

I also finished "The Drowning Tree" last week and am starting "jPod." Not 100% into it yet (and it's hardcover, the mark of the devil), so I haven't really gotten very far. So now I've read about 234095872082 books in two or so months. Or really - 5 or 6.

Let's see:

The Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Magical Thinking
The Devil Wears Prada
The Drowning Tree
Idiot Girls Adventure Guide

So 6. In about 2 months... Not too bad for a mommy!

So then I could technically read 18 - 20 books over a six month period. Yeah, literacy!

Anyway - I'll post some pictures later.

Bad mommy!

The Vacation

We're back! We had a very nice vacation in Sebago Lake, Jay and Bangor, ME. We got to swim in the freezing cold lake, see Lily in her first parade (what a big girl, Jeff!), and hang out with the in-laws. It was a good time!

Now for the photos:

How cute am I? No, really... How cute? Like massively cute or just a little cute? Massively cute? I thought so.

Liam was unimpressed with the July 4th parade.

Yeah! Daddy & Liam in Sebago Lake!

Atticus!

You're To Kill a Mockingbird!

by Harper Lee

Perceived as a revolutionary and groundbreaking person, you have
changed the minds of many people. While questioning the authority around you, you've
also taken a significant amount of flack. But you've had the admirable guts to
persevere. There's a weird guy in the neighborhood using dubious means to protect you,
but you're pretty sure it's worth it in the end. In the end, it remains unclear to you
whether finches and mockingbirds get along in real life.


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Just one more eensy - teensy blog...

So I've been a reading fool! It's so nice to actually have time to read fiction!

I finished "Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing." It was okay - I'm not a big fan of short stories, so if this had been one complete story, I think I would have enjoyed it more. Definitely chick fic.

I also finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime." I was seriously disturbed by this book. It's about an austistic? boy in England who is trying to solve the murder of his next door neighbors dog and ends up finding out that all this other awful stuff is happening and he doesn't know how to deal. It's always disturbing to me to read about kids who have disorders, because I'm so afraid that Liam could get some awful disorder and I would be so sad. So yeah - not exactly the book that I was expecting.

I started reading "Magical Thinking," since I've read all of Augusten Burrough's other books and everyone else was reading it, so why shouldn't I? So far, so Augusten. I didn't have to read the short story about the rat in his apartment, since he read that to us at his book speechy thing at Bryant. And I woke up inexplicably at 10:00 PM last night and couldn't sleep, so I decided to read another one of the short stories (I know I said that I didn't like short stories, but somehow it works here) and it just so happened to be the story about the housekeeper. Now for those of you who have read the book, I hope you're chuckling. I seriously doubt that I will be able to read anything in this book that will be funnier and more entertaining. I was almost in hysterics by the end of the chapter (well, hysterics for me at 10:30 PM). Ha! Pennies!

Vacation is coming!! I can't wait to read more books - I just hope that Liam gives us a chance to play in the lake/pool and read and relax! I may just need a vacation from my vacation!