Pictures from Levi's Dedication - What a great night!!!

So Sue me...

I'm a day or so late in the update, but I forgot that I had the speech banquet last night! Levi weights 21 pounds! He's 29 inches long and right on track for his age. He slept through the night last night!!! Miracle of all Miracles...

Here you go - Curtis!

I was trying to wait to update until I could figure out how to get the video to work, but SOMEONE I know who is my brother is getting a little bit antsy for news about his nephew. Well, Levi's doing great. We go for a well-baby appointment today So i'll get back with you with that news later on today. Levi loves to walk but he needs some help with balance so we have to hold his hands. He's going to figure out this walking thing soon and just take off, I'm afraid!

What's New!?!?!?!

Lots of news to report on the Levi-front! He slept through the night a couple of weeks ago and started pulling up this weekend. Today, he finally starting experimenting with the notion of crawling! I thought he was going to go straight to walking, but I think he'll crawl after all! I'm working on adding video, but it might take me a while to figure out all the technology!

Sunny Day

We took full advantage of the beautiful day yesterday and got in the yard to pull some weeds from the flower beds. Levi supervised from the comfort of his wagon. He even took a ride in his wheelbarrow.

Funny Levi facts for today:

- he loves Wheel of Fortune. Even on the grumpiest of days, he will sit quietly and watch Pat Sajack and the spinning wheel. He still cries during commercials, though. Goal for today: record Wheel fo Fortune so we can fast forward through the commercials and play it day or night.

- green veggies give him gas! I think I've figured out that the green veggies were keeping him up at night. Since we've cut them out, he sleeps much better.

- He can hold his own bottle now. Why does this make me sad? i should be happy...

- He's almost crawling. SO CLOSE! Goal this week: Levi-proof the house.

- He loves to be outside. I've got to go get some sunscreen!

That's all for now, but I have a feeling there'll be more by the end of the week! I'm on Spring Break this week - yippee!

Easter

The Easter Bunny was on vacation in the tropics to get away from the frigid temps, but Levi had plenty of grandma's around to fill in the gap! It was a cold day for hunting eggs! Luckily, Nana hid all of Levi's eggs on the front porch at Grandma Walston's house. The first Easter wasn't quite as grand and glorious as I had imagined it would be, but it was fun nonetheless. We started the day off running extremely late and didn't stop running til we hit the sack that night. Luckily, Levi's too little to remember how grumpy mom was on his very first Easter Sunday... Maybe I'll do better next year.

In other news, Levi is SOOOO close to crawling. He can pull up on all fours, but hasn't quite conquered forward motion yet. It should be anytime now... He's still not sleeping great, but that's a whole nother "grumpy momma" story...

The pictures are of Levi and his first Jello egg (sitting in my old high chair), Levi in his Easter best (grandpa hat and all) and Levi taking a break from egg hunting.

Turbo

Turbo is more than just our cat, he's more like a part of the family. Levi LOVES him. He gets all excited whenever he sees him and he wants to grab onto him and yank his fur out. Turbo's been great about the whole thing - he's a really wonderful cat.

Now that Levi can say "dada" and "mama", it's only natural that he would move on to "burbo", right? That's totally normal, right? Would it be weird and wrong to teach Levi to call the cat, "bubba?"