Funny Fella

This one's worth watching for sure. Have you heard a cuter laugh?

Liam loves watching what happens when he kicks stuff. Watch for his ninja-style wall kick when he flips over.

He even rolls on command for mom.

We're still loving the Michigan life. Liam gets funnier and more active every day. We're grateful for such a great place to be and for the opportunities that are presenting themselves for our family.

Posts to come: Our Knock-Out New Toy; Michigan's Idiosyncrasies.

Milestones

Liam just had a doctor check up. He still isn't happy about how many times they poked him, but was glad to hear that he's a healthy kid.

He now weighs 17 lbs 10 oz and stands a regal 27 inches tall.

Hot Off the Press

Headlining Events of the Week

Brady and Liam both happen upon amphibious friends

Danielle discovers scrapbooking dollar store and acquires free sewing machine (!!!)

Intramural flag football game dominated by Brady and his teammates

Old Town Blues Fest a jammin' success: Local cultural diversity was entertainment galore

Mom/playgroup hosted at Firth home: Gabe was all the rage

Stats test no contest for Dani- only the final remains to be vanquished

updates

Well, Dani's almost done with her online stats class- this Thursday she'll finish the course work before taking the final later this month. We're proud of her for sticking through on it. Her focus on that, my increasing school load, and Liam's propensity to freeze on stage (see video below) have slowed down our posting.

Liam likes to jabber all the time, especially when mom and dad are talking to him, or when he's talking to any of his ceiling-fan buddies (which is what he's doing here), but as soon as he sees the camera, he clams up and goes into investigative mode. This should serve as evidence that it's hard to film him doing cute stuff. We're lucky when we can catch him in the wild like this...

As far as news in the Firth family goes, here are some updates:

Dani has been called as a Primary Presidency Counselor and Secretary AND Pianist in the branch.

Brady has been called as a counselor in the Young Men presidency.

A young man we've been helping the missionaries teach has committed to be baptized.

Dani will be teaching a Women with Weights class at her work. She's taken the liberty of adding the subtitle Grandmas at the Gym, as that more accurately describes the class demographics. She continues to be the DeWitt Fitness Girl Extraordinaire.

Firth Action

Let's just get this out on the table, just so nobody is confused or anything- there aren't any real mountains in Michigan. That means no proper mountain biking or hiking. But, being the resourceful people we Michiganders are, there are still some pretty fun playgrounds around here regardless of the conspicuous mountainlessness. We went to Birchfield Park, which has a system of trails surrounding a small river and a few lakes. Not a lot of elevation change, but a lot of man-made toys and obstacles, and it was really pretty.

Brady had fun on his bike going over some skinny, rickety bridges that were all over the park.

Dani and Liam even put our powerhouse stroller to the test.

Here's what Liam had to say about it while we were there. Danielle was able to get an exclusive interview, but only under the condition that Liam could speak comfortably on his side...

(Any translations are welcome)