Walking on Sunshine

Hold the phone... after months of not blogging I have decided that it's time to restart the blog machine. I took a little break because life was crazy in so many sectors (more on that later because I'm sure you're on the edge of your seat).

But in more exciting news, Levi decided to walk yesterday!! Luckily our neighbors happened to be outside recording their own son on his bike when this happened so we have his first steps fully documented. If it were up to us, we would have simply taken a few jacked-up iPhone photos... So for your viewing pleasure, we proudly present Levi:

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Sing Me a Song, You're a Piano Man

Levi got our love of music, and apparently our talent, too. Next stop, Julliard...

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Tunnels

Levi attended his first baby-gym class this week! He is the youngest in his class (some kids are almost 2) but you would never know it. Levi is all. over. the. place. He crawled up the stairs for the first time like he was an expert, and dove head first into the ball pit. Apparently he has no fear- I have a feeling this will be an issue later in life :)

One of his favorite things was crawling through the tunnels, so we got him his own this weekend.

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High Five

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Fly Me To the Moon

So, a few housekeeping items:

1. Sorry for the annoying "mommy" and "daddy" voices in the videos. Our son is adorable; we cannot help ourselves.
2. I am still working on redesigning and reformatting the blog, which is a huge exaggeration since I can't do anything remotely related to designing or formatting a website. If you can help with this or personally know someone who can, let me know.

Now on to the good stuff, full of the cheesy voices and sounds found in previous videos. We took the nugget swinging for the first time tonight. He loved it. We loved it. We love him. It was a love fest. We would have taken him earlier if he would have sat-up earlier. For the record: Levi is sitting up better, but there is still much room for improvement. I cannot wait for the day I can take him grocery shopping and actually sit him in the seat of the cart instead of putting his entire carrier in the big part of the cart and wedging my groceries in around him.

Enjoy! And try not to swoon too much over those gorgeous blue eyes coming right you :)

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Who Needs To Sit...

when you can climb up and stand yourself :)



He learned how to use his toys and toy baskets to get to his knees this morning. This quickly led to him getting on his feet. And if you notice, he's trying to cruise around things, too. It's been a busy morning- and I don't think this one is slowing down anytime soon!

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Popping Up

Levi has a bit of a sitting-up problem... meaning that he just refuses to do it. He can crawl and climb with the best of them, but he has absolutely NO desire to sit up. Now, the problem is that the pediatrician warned me last week that a 9 month old needs to be sitting for 15 minutes unassisted... um, not going to happen.

In hopes of being able to honestly tell the doctor, "Oh, Levi can't sit for 15 minutes but he's getting close", we have been forcing the issue with Levi. The main hindrance is that he just wants to go everywhere and see everything (Lord have mercy for when he can actually walk). But I think we found something...

Matt and I volunteered for the church nursery on Sunday and they had a ball popper. Levi has one too (thanks, Santa!) but we haven't set it up because he can't sit up, and sitting up is the best way to play with this toy. So Matt walked Levi over the popper, sat him down, and turned it on. And this is what he did for (I'm not kidding) five minutes:



He held on for dear life and would not let go! I don't know why he wants to bite it for so long... maybe to claim it from the other babies. He did this throughout the service... here's a second video we got, and this one's actually better:



Needless to say we went right home and set up Levi's ball popper and he does the same thing to his :)

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Big Foot, Big Laughs

We took Levi to toys r us last night to pick up some blocks (so we could build more towers for him to knock down). It turns out the store has remote control toys behind plexiglas so the kids can see what they do before purchasing it- sort of like "try-it-before-you-buy-it".

Levi LOVED this. Here he is enjoying Bigfoot (who apparently does over 80 things).



His favorite toy was the broken Mickey Mouse that moon walks. The boy giggled non-stop with that one.

It's really fun to see Levi's personality and sense of humor emerging as he gets older. And while he might be the spitting image of me, he is definitely all Matt.

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Dinah Blow Your Horn

I love love love watching him learn new things everyday... and boy is he pleased with himself!

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Matt and Levi

Our family loves weekends, especially Matt and Levi. These two boys have so much fun together; it's music to my ears

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And... he's crawling

Levi made it from his play mat in the living room, all the way across the floor to the (messy) master bedroom... time to put up baby gates!

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I Wanna Rock With You

Levi is on the verge of crawling... he's been working at it for months. He is currently getting on his hands and knees, rocking back and forth, and throwing his body forward. He does this in his crib before he falls asleep and when he wakes up. I'll occasionally hear him whack his head against the side of the crib... which of course leads to tears.

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Swimming Videos

We got a total of 7 videos of Levi's first swim lesson- he didn't crack a smile in any of them!! Ugh, he's so un-dramatic, but I suppose that's a good thing.

This is Levi's first submersion! I was so nervous but a 9 month old (named Amy no less) went right before him and she made it our alive; who cares if she was screaming at the top of her lungs. Levi, on the other hand, had no issue with it; he completely took it in stride. He just coughed a bit and looked a little confused. I was so so proud of him!

This is how Levi splashes- it's all business to him; it cracks me up!! He's like this in the bathtub, too. At the end of the video, he "walks" down a "diving board" and "jumps" into the water. In reality, I bounce him down a pink foam hippo and lower him into the water...

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