The last 3 months for Levi have been all about learning new words. He has now added the following words to his vocab: no, hot (with the sign), truck, sock, fish (for shoes), towel, gulge (for water or milk), milk (sometime he says it right), book, please (with the sign), up please, help, pasta, cheese, peaches, apple sauce, car, tee (as in baseball - see below), weee (for slide), pop (for grandpap), home, school, ug (for hug), die-yee (for Dylan and Lydia or just Dylan), ba-bies (for the two stuffed animals that he sleeps with), choo choo, bus, cha cha cha (for helicopter that goes chop chop chop chop), sssss (snake), nack (for snack), uh-oh (for anytime anything ends up on the floor, accident or on purpose), and ta-dah. He also can point to his nose as well as other simple commands (throw that away, pick up the ball, run to the base, etc.). And he taps his knees to the beat of the music when it's "music class" time - i.e., time for Dylan and Lydia to practice piano.
In addition to being able to throw a ball really well, Levi can now hit a ball off the tee and run to "first base." If you can't tell, a lot of his world is keeping up with big brother and big sister.
He had a great time on our spring break trip to Florida. Here we are at a marine science center.
The other major milestone is that Levi weaned at exactly 19 months when Mommy went on the women's retreat. It was really easy. I drop a feeding or two over the last two months that he nursed and then it was pretty much cold turkey for the last 2-3 feedings. It helped that Daddy put him down at night for the first couple weeks and that I didn't hold him in the rocking chair for a while. But now we can do that again.
I feel like he has become a pickier eater these last few months. I haven't been able to get him to eat much meat (getting protein from eggs and yogurt) and won't eat veggies unless they are in a pouch (everything is apple sauce then!). But he eats a lot of fruit. Likes pasta but not bread so much.
I feel like Levi wants to imitate the other family members more than my other kids did (well, I guess there are more of us to imitate...;). Levi likes to wipe the counters, load and start the dishwasher, sweep the floor, play the piano, play on the computer, etc. Partly because of that and partly because he follows directions well, he is a big helper for his age.
Levi is a happy kid who loves to give hugs too. Sometimes we'll be in the grocery store and he'll say ug ug ug and want you to hug him right there. Love this cutie!
