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Levi’s 1st Birthday
Saturday was Levi’s 1st birthday…hard to believe he’s a year old already (sigh). We had a great party! All of our family was able to join us for pizza, cake and homemade ice cream 
Here are all the pictures of our fun (click to see them larger). BIG thanks to Joshua for being our photographer for the day. Special thanks to everyone who helped setup, clean up or brought stuff for the party!
P.S. If you would like to have these photos to print please email me for the original digital files, these are not suitable for printing.
Eight Teeth Later
Biscuit is growing so fast and moving faster so it’s hard to keep up with him. I decided it was way past time to update everyone on Levi’s progress so here we go
Levi is now 9 months old. At his 9 month check up the doctor proclaimed him perfect (we already knew that). He weighs 22lbs and is 28 inches long. Levi enjoys using all eight of his teeth to chomp through any kind of food that we give him. He loves to eat and squeals, like a the little piglet he is, if we don’t get the food in front of him fast enough.
We thought for sure he would skip crawling and go straight to walking. Levi is already pulling up on the furniture and seemed to prefer just army-crawling, but finally this past Thursday he started crawling for real and he’s so proud of himself.
Levi was still waking up during the night, not because he was hungry, but because he kept hearing us (me and Chip) moving. So we decided it was time to train him to sleep through the night. It took only three nights and he was sleeping through the night and sharing a room with Bo. Bo loves sharing a room with his little brother, and I’m not just saying that. Bo wants Levi to sleep the same time he does and wouldn’t go to sleep last night till I brought Levi in to the bedroom. I’ll write an update post for Bo later today.
I took these pictures at the park when we went to see Grandma on Thursday. The boys had lots of fun.
Winter Spring Fun
So just over a week ago I posted about the blizzard we were having. We got around 8 inches of snow and were without power for two days. Some families around us went 4-5 days without power. It was the first snow over 2/3 inches we had seen since 1993 (that’s 16 years!). So here we are a week out of the melted white stuff and its 80 degrees outside and we had to turn on the AC last night. I’m not sure what season this really is. Chip decided we should take advantage of the nice weather and wash/wax the Tahoe. Bo wanted to wash his car too. Those blurry spots are where he squirted me and Levi with the hose.
Drying things off.
Ready to ride.
“Mama I’m going to Ingles!” (he actually told me that)
Here are a couple of pictures of Levi today. He has become quite good at sitting up on his own! His two little teeth are showing too (up until now I couldn’t get a good picture of them).
Our Fireman
Chip has been wanting some updated pictures of him (in his fire gear) and the boys for his Facebook profile so we went out this morning and took some.
Dancing Waters
Having not been in a blogging mood lately it makes it hard to play catch up We have all been pretty busy lately! Lets see…
Bo, since turning three has had a healthy report from the doctor – measuring 37.5″ inches tall (95th percentile for his age) and 34 lbs (average for his age). He has also hit an eating slump and a for a while it was a daily struggle at meals, but Mommy & Daddy finally wised up and realized that he will (and does) eat when he’s hungry. The doctor assured us that he will not starve. We have set rules about eating though – once he says he’s all done and leaves the table, no snacks between meals, so he has to wait even if he changes his mind about being hungry. Sounds horrible to some, but anyone with a toddler who’s been through this knows it isn’t.
Bo also has grown up a little in his interests. He now loves monster trucks! His favorite is Grave Digger and knows “Bad to the Bone” (by George Thorogood) by heart, well most of it, and sings it all the time. I even bought the iTunes version for my iPod and added it to Bo’s Playlist He still loves his Thomas the Train table and trains as well as Lightening McQueen. He also enjoys doing his daily “school work”. We have already started homeschooling him and he does so great! He can already count objects up to 13. He can recognize all the letters of the alphabet and knows most of the letter sounds. He conquered shapes and colors a while back and we’ve started to build on those foundational skills.
Today’s blog title is also a tribute to Bo. He has a simple fascination with foaming hand soap. This is very helpful as he reminds me that he needs to wash his hands instead of the other way around. His current favorite soap is Dancing Waters by Bath and Body Works.
Keeping with normal toddler behavior he refuses to have his picture taken so I don’t have any of him to show off :p
Levi is growing way to fast for my tastes! Having just turned 6 months old he had a doctor check up this past week and he got a glowing report. He weighs 21.5 lbs (Bo weighed 19.3lbs at this age) and measures 27.5 inches. The nurse didn’t chart his measurements while we were there so I’m not sure how he compares to others his age. I’m sure its almost off the chart though.
Levi has also started eating solid foods and he loves them! From day one he has eaten the solids like a little piglet Adding one new food a week we are up to rice cereal, squash and apple sauce. Of course since adding the other foods he won’t eat the rice cereal alone so we usually mix it. Here’s a picture of Daddy feeding him:
Levi also has his first tooth! I hadn’t really been expecting a tooth to pop through and he had no trouble cutting it so I was surprised to see it in there one day! I was like “where did that come from?” – he laughed at me in his usual way. It came through February 10th. Here’s a little picture I snapped with my cell phone. If you look really close you can see it.
Still loving his bath time, Levi really likes to chew these rubber numbers/letters, especially during his baths. They are one of his favorite toys. Here are some pics I shot the other day. I’m also happy to report that his eyes are officially green (like mine!) and even though he doesn’t look like me (or Chip or Bo) I’m still glad he has my hair and eyes.
Chip has been keeping very busy. He works twice each day in the chicken houses for some of my distant relatives (we call them Uncle Gene and Aunt Carol) and also tends to their cows. Chip will also be doing lots of training and classes for work over the next month. He was starting to pack a bag for his trip to Las Vegas. Apparently he decided he would miss the boys too much and was taking drastic measures! I happened by and saw something very strange.
And this is what was inside…a sock monster!
Okay so he wasn’t REALLY going to take Levi and the suitcase was NOT closed. Please don’t call anyone on us!! We just thought it would make a cute picture.
As for me my biggest news is my new computer! Chip got me the PC of my dreams!!!! The HP TouchSmart 20″ all-in-one computer is awesome! It arrived last Saturday (the perfect Valentine’s Day present!) and I’m still getting use to the touch screen and large display. I love the features it has and just the overall coolness of it.
My business is doing well. I stay busy but, thankfully, not overbooked. I just finished up with my 19th website design!
As a family we are all looking forward to a much-needed vacation in April to Florida. Mimi and Papa will be going too. Mimi found us a great house with a pool and lots of space for the boys to play.
Well that’s about all I can think of for now. TTFN
Happy Holidays Ahead
Here are two quick pictures of Chip and the boys in celebration that Chip is home for the next three weeks to celebrate the holidays with us!
Levi @ 3 Months
It’s been a while since I gave an update on Levi so I thought I should do that He’s three months old today and growing like crazy! At his 2 month check up he weighed 16 lbs, 12 oz (a chunk, I know!) and according to Mimi’s fancy scales he weights 20.2 lbs now. He currently wears 6/9 month clothes. His absolute favorite thing to do is be held and “talk” to you. He coos like crazy and smiles all the time. His second favorite thing to do is watch Bo. No matter what Bo is doing Levi loves to watch him and Bo already tries to teach him things. I hope and pray this “brotherly love” stays with them for the rest of their lives.
We’ve had some issues about sleeping in his bed lately though. He went through a spell where he wouldn’t sleep in the crib so I took up residence on the couch and let him sleep in the swing – bad idea! He got so use to either swinging to sleep or nursing to sleep that if we just laid him down in his bed he pretty much refused to go to sleep (fussing or crying for hours) so I finally “put my foot down” and just let him fuss himself to sleep and it worked! Even during the day now, he naps in his bed instead of in the swing. We swaddle him up tight at night, both to keep him warm and he likes to squirm in his sleep and wakes him self up if his arms aren’t “secured” 
If all else fails I can turn on the hair dryer or vacuum and he’s out like a light! So I’m glad to say we are both back in our beds (even though our couch doesn’t make my back hurt like our bed does).
His eating and sleeping schedule has finally evened out. He usually goes to bed around 11:30/12 and sleeps until 5:30/6, eats and then goes back to sleep until about 9. He stays awake until lunch time then naps for about 4 hours. He usually eats twice between then and bed time.
Physically he is developing very well. He can hold his head up by him self while sitting up and he can hold it up pretty well while on his tummy. I just know any day now he’s going to sit up and take off crawling then it will be LOOK OUT WORLD! HERE COMES LEVI!
Family Fun
Here are some random pictures of our family
Daddy & Bo
Mommy & Levi
Mommy & the boys
Bo “shaving” like Daddy
Levi’s smile
Update on Levi
Levi had his one month doctor’s appointment on the 16th and he was deemed perfectly healthy He weighed 12 lbs, 8 oz and was 22 inches long. I’m sure he’s grown even more since then. He has already outgrown newborn size clothes and some 0-3 month outfits as well. In other news since his belly button finally healed Levi got his first official bath on Friday. He doesn’t seem to care for water very much but he did very well overall. Here are some pictures:
Here’s a picture of Levi and Daddy in one of the Shiloh fire trucks.
Levi spends most of his time asleep (of course) and his favorite place to sleep is the swing. He does fairly well at night, waking every 2-3 hours to eat, then he usually goes right back to sleep. Sometimes if he’s had a particularity restful day he will want to stay up till 12 or 1am or even later, but thankfully those days are few and far between.