It's been a busy three months for Levi! After taking his first steps around 12 months, it was only about three weeks later that he was walking as his major mode of transportation and had dropped crawling for the most part. Now he is running. In the picture above he was putting Dylan's baseball hat on and thinking it was super funny. At 15 months, he is playing on the playground and going down the small slides by himself. I was actually dreading the toddler years but now that we're here I'm remembering the fun parts about this age - watching Levi learn and accomplish so many new things and actually communicating back and forth with him (other than responding to his cries which of course we've done from birth). Now he calmly tells us something that he's thinking about. Levi learned how to say "ball" pretty quickly and loves throwing balls. He has a pretty good arm already. He moves his hand back and forth (like he's playing with his toy car) and says "vroom vroom" when he sees a car. (We were at a raceway the first time he did that back in August.) We think he has other words for things that we haven't figured out yet. For example, we think he is saying some combination of Dylan and Lydia - Da-EE-A. And he makes the same sound every day when he wakes up from his nap and looks out the window and points. Maybe we'll figure that one out in the next three months. Another thing that happens when he wakes up from his nap is that Martin or I will give him a hug and he hugs us back by tapping us on the back. It's super cute and feels like he is returning our love. I feel like Levi mimics us a lot. Like more than the other kids did. In the picture below he is taking a marker and trying to write a new event on the calendar just like Mommy had just done (October has been a busy month!)
Levi has seemed to instantly (right at 15 months) get into books. He gets books from the shelf and brings them over to us for us to read to him. If we are sitting on the floor he plops down in our laps. His current favorite is The Little Blue Truck. He stops on one page and does his vroom vroom sound and car motion.
Levi is still eating a lot and eating more and more table food. His favorite is yogurt. Probably because he won't drink milk from a sippy cup. He takes the sippy cup and turns it upside down and pounds it on the high chair tray. So needless to say I'm still nursing. The plan has been to try to wean at around 17 months which is when Dylan and Lydia quit. But that's around Christmas and he's the baby so I'm saying 19 months is the absolute end. I'll be going on the women's retreat then so that will be a good stopping point.
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