tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69734859493360385602024-03-05T05:13:42.444-08:00Words of WhiteThe story of Levi, Theo, Lydia, and Charlie, who are clearly the cutest children ever :)slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-89984731864377274812016-08-04T17:57:00.002-07:002016-08-05T05:16:53.754-07:00Back? Kind of?<br />
I've resuscitated the blog - can you believe it??! Me neither. I don't plan on making this a regular priority like I used to, since I post many, many photos on Instagram and Facebook, and I know that's mostly what people want to see. But part of why I liked blogging is that it provided a sort of diary of the memories with our kiddos, and I'd like to continue that!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaptckp2-VHQLN8q02ZUABGj4tuZhwEJDMenC6jazc7_hxZ-FBwyOsJ7lgNWhMhrmQRU_zHCWTaL6HYyi0F_FJgUDTTE-ChGq_5w7wlIg3u-f_1lT4zgP8L3rHQYaHEczsqBvlmePeZL4r/s1600/IMG_5392.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaptckp2-VHQLN8q02ZUABGj4tuZhwEJDMenC6jazc7_hxZ-FBwyOsJ7lgNWhMhrmQRU_zHCWTaL6HYyi0F_FJgUDTTE-ChGq_5w7wlIg3u-f_1lT4zgP8L3rHQYaHEczsqBvlmePeZL4r/s320/IMG_5392.JPG" width="320" /></a>Charlie has long been known as "the fussy one," but really, it's just because he's very loud when he cries. He's a tummy sleeper, so as long as he burps and can sleep on his belly, he's not terribly fussy at all. But when he does cry, he goes for volume. He could probably compete, if there were baby crying Olympics! Charlie is very smiley and chatty when he's not sleeping or fussing, particularly after he eats. He has very light red hair, and my light skin, which makes him look a little bald sometimes :) His favorite ways to be held are on his belly and up high on your shoulder so he can see all the things. Sometimes he also likes to just "sit" up so he can watch everything going on around him. He has really strong legs that he constantly stretches and pushes with, so I use sit loosely. He already scootches on his belly because of his legs!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5e7QeLJQ0T3y6IrHuEP9M0yYzqFb42dnjj-XcZizi3gdkEgnoLiMbxkRjOo-F-_vtkJEiXVMEl48ABDkpNxJWDcudV-Vu0BqaZzggd3buvxA27lLK4R-5RQ_mEbfRuI5fMQHBOPqdYyi/s1600/IMG_5416.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5e7QeLJQ0T3y6IrHuEP9M0yYzqFb42dnjj-XcZizi3gdkEgnoLiMbxkRjOo-F-_vtkJEiXVMEl48ABDkpNxJWDcudV-Vu0BqaZzggd3buvxA27lLK4R-5RQ_mEbfRuI5fMQHBOPqdYyi/s320/IMG_5416.JPG" width="320" /></a>Lydia just started cooing regularly, which is so cute. Sometimes we sit them facing each other so they can talk to each other :) The boys are fascinated by a little girl, with Levi trying to hold her hand all the time and Theo trying to hug her (which we have to watch to make sure he doesn't smother her). Her arms are constantly in motion, so much so that she needs the extreme velcro swaddle for sleeping, and she still manages to get both her arms out. Last night around 2 a.m. she woke herself up flailing all around. Lyddie likes to be held, but she still wants to look around, so she'll angle her head back or around to see as much as she can. She's generally very calm, but she gets pretty angry when she's hungry or when she can't put herself to sleep, and occasionally in the evenings for no reason, of course.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1l-pefFlNAQZIIOvZkkRdFMHhHdhENt6UJLWwURJlnUIqozft5l4NoG0bh-IKQVFSss8uZslZLkeXUkfbCJnl6_jiMsl90gz66L5gdfD3s7HMW0UFI3p_AvGJsRxaCNHSg0LY95M_Wg8x/s1600/IMG_5408.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1l-pefFlNAQZIIOvZkkRdFMHhHdhENt6UJLWwURJlnUIqozft5l4NoG0bh-IKQVFSss8uZslZLkeXUkfbCJnl6_jiMsl90gz66L5gdfD3s7HMW0UFI3p_AvGJsRxaCNHSg0LY95M_Wg8x/s320/IMG_5408.JPG" width="320" /></a>Theo just turned three on Wednesday! He may already have strains of a #threenager. Last week Tim and I had this conversation:<br />
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Me: I don't know if I'm going to let Theo live to his third birthday.<br />
Let's just go ahead and cancel his college fund.<br />
Tim: That's the beauty of his college fund - it's just a plain old investment account we have 100% ownership of. No obligation to him whatsoever.<br />
Me: I'm going to buy a timeshare at a spa. or a beach house.<br />
Tim: All I have to do is change the title of the account.<br />
(Let's hear it for a husband who gets on board with the plan instead of trying to talk me down!)<br />
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Life for Tim and I is pretty intense, not gonna lie. There's not much margin outside of keeping children fed and civil, work, and sleep. We're both coping in the ways we do: I'm reading in every free moment I can, and trying to spend time with friends to get out of the house and break up the weight of daily to-dos. Tim has tackled really turning our yard into something beautiful, and goes for a short run every night. We both are trying hard to avoid the ships passing in the night situation, even if it's just talking for a minute before bed. We're not great at that part yet, but we'll get there :)slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-33017640185642972432015-09-08T18:54:00.000-07:002015-09-08T18:54:33.924-07:00100 Days of Summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even though summer is my least favorite season, with two warm-weather babies, I do pack it full of beach days, family picnics, baseball games, and the like. And sunscreen. Lots and lots of sunscreen.</div>
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Levi is rapidly approaching four and a half, and four months after his fourth birthday (which is in the <br />
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fourth month of the year ;)), he still greets people he's meeting for the first time with "I'm four." Because that is the quintessential fact about his personhood right now: he's four. </div>
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the teen letters, but he can tell you that thing you told him about why the sky is blue two weeks ago. He loves elaborate pretend scenarios, and narrates the tales of his race cars, sometimes singing songs as he plays ("no, mommy, I not talking to you..."). He likes to give us presents or surprises - often a toy wrapped in a blanket. He knows how to clean up his toys, collect the trash on Sundays, put away the dishes, fold his tiny clothes, and mow the lawn (OK, the last one we help with steering a bit. But he's strong enough). </div>
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Theo, on the other hand. Oh, Theo. He's officially two. If you tell him not to, he'll immediately do the <br />
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opposite indefinitely. If you ask him to do something, or stop doing something, his immediate response is "no!" He loves to bug <br />
his older brother in a Homestar-esque voice "Hey Leviiiiiiii." (To which Levi says "Leave me alone." Theo pauses for a beat, then continues with a renewed "Hey Leviiiiii.")</div>
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He love love loves cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes. He loves to give kisses and hugs and dance and climb on everything - you, a railing, furniture, the fridge, etc. His most favorite love, however, is books. He will sit and read books for, well, minutes at a time. Which is a lot in his tiny world :) He also has reached the "I do it myself" stage, which we try to accommodate as much as possible. Because in my house, yeah you do. Put your shoes on by yourself? yes please. Put away dishes by yourself? You betcha. Turn the dishwasher on? sure. Put away your clothes? OK. </div>
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Theo is also still so adorable. And pretty easygoing, two-year-old-ness aside. He'll go pretty much wherever any of us are, likes to look at so many things outside, and just kind of chills wherever he is. </div>
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Now, get yo'self ready, because 100 days of summer is an avalanche of photos!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Auntie Sammie while watching a mud and monster truck<br />show at The Buck in Southern Lancaster County. The first<br />of many birthday celebrations :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's 4, btdubbs. He tells every single person he meets that.<br />As a greeting. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Levi operating his own excavator! Took the soccer ball<br />off of the cone, and then dumped it into the tire!</td></tr>
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More than a week later, and I can say that the laundry from the trip has finally been folded and put away, jet lag seems to have dissipated, and the backpacks have been entirely emptied.<br />
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If you're thinking "oh, maybe they took their kids camping/to the beach/to visit family in New England" - you'd be wrong :) With the convergence of several events and facts overseas, we <strike>bravely</strike> hesitatingly took our two children under 4 on two trans-continental flights to visit family and get a little taste of some new locales in Europe.<br />
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I spent months in preparation, culminating in a pink soft-covered binder with every known piece of documentation for our trip, determined to get both the most affordable prices for every bit of travel and places to stay, while also somewhat convenient or at least well-thought-out. Here is our trip by the numbers:<br />
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3: Flights taken with 3 seats for 4 people<br />
5: Trains missed<br />
1: Wallet stolen<br />
7: Somewhat terrifying hours driving/riding in a small car in the UK<br />
6: Cousins or cousins' children played with over the 10 days<br />
2: Chateaux (castles) visited in France<br />
5: Parisian pastries eaten in place of a meal<br />
22: Ducks, or canards, fed<br />
4: Ducks eaten for a delicious family dinner one evening in France<br />
1: Crazy taxi ride to the airport<br />
8: train/metro rides<br />
4: tram/bus rides in Amsterdam<br />
1: Boat ride through Amsterdam canals and under teeny little bridges<br />
2: little-boy hats I'm so glad I brought, because even in the 50s it was very windy<br />
1: stroller left on a train<br />
23: Extended and wonderful family members we got to visit<br />
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then walked a bit to the rental car and Tim managed to navigate the mirrored driving, reverse manual shifting, and the 45-minute drive to Tim's aunt and uncle's house. As always, they are wonderful hosts, providing rest, relaxation, toys, and of course, tea :)<br />
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The next day dawned, and with it, the beginning of the next phase of our adventure: Amsterdam. We made great time headed back to Southampton, and Tim dropped the kids, most of the luggage, and I off about an hour before we needed to catch our train. Ahead of the schedule! With the kids and all of our luggage (including a replacement stroller from wonderful Auntie Ann). And so begins the first time on this trip that I cried. <br />
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That's a life record, I think, for crying in a short period of time. Last time I cried might have been almost two years ago after Theo was born. So...the plan was for Tim drive about a third of a mile down the road, drop off the car, then walk back. Ten minute process, tops. About 45 minutes go by, at which point we miss the first of two trains we could have taken to the airport (about 20 minutes away). We had no way of contacting each other. After tearing up and worrying out loud about where<br />
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Tim was and what I should do (head to the airport to make sure we caught our plane? head toward the rental car place with both kids and the luggage by myself? Sit and wait, the most frustrating option?) a security guard helped me carry our things over to a supervisor's office, where I called the rental car office. It'd now been about an hour. The car rental place hadn't seen Tim, at which point my tears escalated (while the supervisors graciously played with the boys), and I started asking what the UK equivalent of 911 is. The guys in the office stopped me, explaining that traffic was stop-and-go on the ONE road behind the train station Tim needed to be on. To which I replied "He must have been in an accident! He's causing the traffic! We have to call the police!!" and they stopped me and said no, there's just an IKEA right behind the train station, and everyone coming in and out blocks the flow of<br />
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traffic on the four-lane road in front of it. So....I figured we had just enough time to take a taxi to the airport and meet Tim there, arriving in similar fashion, to catch the plane before the gate closed. I called the rental car place back, and asked them to tell Tim to run right out of there and take a taxi to the airport. They said he'd already been in and run out again. I walked the kids outside, flagged down a taxi, who wouldn't let me put our bags/children in until Tim was there. He came running out of the train station; we jumped in; we had to stop at an ATM b/c the cabbie only took cash; we pulled up to the parking garage taxi stop and ran into the airport, I ran through security with Theo to ask them to hold the flight; they called me back for possible explosives in my bag, and in between shouting at the security check guy that we were going to miss our flight, he said "check the board, I'll be right back," and the board said "2 p.m., Amsterdam status: sit back and relax." So, we did.<br />
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The bad news is that the flight to Amsterdam was the worst flight I'd ever been on in my life. The delay had been for high winds, and only one runway was open in Amsterdam. So while the children were conked out and did not wake up even when it felt like we were plummeting out of the sky, I was gripping the arm rest hard enough to bend the metal and silently crying for an hour. In between terrified gasps of course, to which I'm surprised the surrounding plane riding people didn't shout "stop it!" at me. Tim even got out the puke bag, thinking one of the kids would wake up and hurl. Theo woke up at one point and just kept staring up at me in confusion, as if his big blue eyes were saying "what the heck is happening to you, Mommy?"<br />
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But upon arrival, everything was OK. I might have cried harder for a moment, thinking, wow, we're <br />
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still alive. And in Amsterdam! Amidst extremely high winds that actually pulled my directions to get to the hotel out of my pocket... :) I had mostly memorized them, and we used the airport's wifi to check the rest. And then it was miles and miles of row houses, canals, bicycles, flowers, and trolleys. We headed to a local cafe - sort of a cross between a coffee shop and a pub - and Tim tried a local brew while the boys mostly just ate french fries. Tim and I had some amazing food, and the place itself was my perfect idea of a restaurant - full of atmosphere, candle light, fun music, and very tasty food.<br />
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After crashing, we woke up the next morning and headed to an equally charming coffee house, where we had cappuccino, croissants, and yogurt. Some trams and moseying later, we boarded a boat with walls and a ceiling of windows, big enough to stand up, but small enough to fit through some very tight bridges. We learned all about the architecture of different areas of the city, history, historical sites, etc. And, you know, the boys got to ride on a boat - Theo added the word to his slim vocabulary within a few <br />
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minutes of boarding :)<br />
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everything before boarding the train. Dumb traveling mistake - apparently the dozen countries I've been to internationally doesn't mean I've learned Constant Vigilance! The good news is that we <br />
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had travel insurance, with free international calls and concierge services. So upon arriving in Paris and making it to our (really classy, fun, rooms at the top of scary six flights of stairs) hotel a couple of blocks away, Tim put the kids to bed while I talked on the phone for an hour and a half. No cash was stolen, just a Dunkin's giftcard and my favorite wallet that I've had for almost a decade :(<br />
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We took it easy the next morning, and then hit up a couple of sites in Paris! First, of course, we stopped at a boulangerie. We bought pain au chocolate, dougnut holes, doughnuts, muffins, and a chocolate chip baguette. We took the metro to the other side of the city, came around a corner, and voila! The Eiffel tower! And then even better - <br />
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a playground right nearby! We strolled back to the metro to head toward Luxembourg Gardens, and stopped again at a boulangerie. This time I got some sort of fromage (cheese) pastry that they heated up and it was seriously the best thing I've ever eaten. Tim had a ham sandwich on a fresh baguette, and Levi of course had more chocolate doughnuts. At Luxembourg, we happened upon a wonderful playground, which you had to pay for, but it was pretty amazing. Tim and the kids ran around for awhile and I munched on something chocolate :) We headed over to the big lake on the property, hoping to sail some tiny sailboats, but it was too early in the season, so we fed the ducks. Probably the highlight of the trip for Levi, to be honest. Theo added "duck" and "quack" to his vocabulary :)<br />
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After a stop in a "birdhouse" on the way out (so-called by Levi, but we're pretty sure it was an historic outhouse, I was determined to see at least one more sight while we were there, and Notre Dame was closest on the map. Which meant that a good hour of walking (downhill, at least) later, we stopped momentarily at the Pont des Arts, then trekked over to the cathedral while the kids mostly napped or just chilled. Such a beautiful city, <br />
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but so huge!<br />
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Then it was time to head to the final portion of our trip - visiting Krista, Jesse, Josiah, and William in their small town in France! We picked up a car outside of the city, which luckily came with GPS because it was a four-hour drive, and we were off!<br />
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The drive (unlike in the UK) was easy as pie. And then we were getting lost in a small historic French town, with streets that looked too small for cars and we weren't sure which ones were one-way and which ones would drive us off the side of a cliff. And then we were climbing the beautiful old stairs and seeing the stone walls, French doors, and enormous windows of their home <br />
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They are living in the Loire Valley, in the town of Thouars, which is on Le Thouet River. We spent the next two days relaxing, walking around the parts of the town that date back to medieval times, walking along the river, and playing baseball in the park :) Krista made us a picnic one day, and we went to visit Saumur and its chateaux, picnicking on some tables that are always somewhere nearby in France. We sampled some local cheese, wine, Madeleines, and Krista made us crepes one night. I kind of want to go back and eat all that food right now...<br />
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The last day we were in France, Krista volunteered to watch the kids during/after naps so we could go off on our own for a bit. We headed to another chateaux, at Montreiul--Bellay, a small town nearby. <br />
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We toured the chateaux (part of which is still lived in!), sampled some locally-made wine, and walked around the small town in search of tea. We found a small tea shop that was part tea room, part library, part art gallery, and part boutique. The owner (or maybe a vendor?) had a book binding contraption all set up, it was very cool. As was my caramel oolong tea (well, OK, the tea was hot).<br />
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Homemade pizza, crepes, a walk about town and some good conversation later, and we tucked in for our last night abroad.<br />
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The next day was supposed to contain about 23 hours of travel (Thouars to Paris to London to New York to Lancaster). It was somehow both rushed and elongated. Our GPS underestimated the drive time to Paris by about 45 minutes, which was fine <br />
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because we had an hour and a half buffer. Except then we couldn't find the rental car place (enter tears #3), because it was under the train station in a public parking garage. By the time we ran into the train station to check in, it was 4 minutes before our train left. They just bumped us to the next train (12:40), which was awesome. The check in worker told us to head to board the train at 12:25. Which we did. And then had to wait in line for security and passport control for the UK, which apparently was on this side of the channel, instead of their own. And we didn't get through those lines until....the next train had left. Timing was still fine because I'd left a good two hour buffer in London, and another three hour buffer before our flight from Gatwick, but man, we just wanted to get onto the next leg of the trip! And they were already boarding for the next train, which didn't leave for 30 minutes (shame on you, check-in <br />
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lady, for telling us totally the wrong thing). And then! across the French countryside, under the channel, and into London. Grabbed the direct commuter train to the airport, showed up a good hour and forty five minutes before our flight left and....realized it had been delayed more than two hours. Awesome. No complaints though, Gatwick had a whole kids area that entertained the boys for hours. They slept the whole flight home (we did not). And then after waiting in THREE lines at JFK to check our passports (crying #4, although to be truthful, it was only a little and it was almost 5 a.m. in France), over an hour later we got to leave the terminal! Yay! My amazing, wonderful, perfect brother Shawn picked us up in Tim's car, and away we went to Lancaster, arriving smoothly at 4:30 a.m. EST. The kids slept in the car and went straight to bed when we got home, awaking impressively at 7:30 a.m. Tim and I were feeling awful and off-schedule for several days, but apparently the boys never actually changed schedules while there, because they seemed fine.<br />
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I've used up all my words for the next several days. And if anyone's made it this far, kudos. Give yourself a high-five :)<br />
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<br />slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-43572623990638051672015-02-25T19:36:00.000-08:002015-02-25T19:45:28.395-08:00Loves about LovesDespite some pukey-ness in our household this week, it seems like for the moment we've reached a tiny lull in the ever continuing roller coaster of having small children. So this post, I thought I'd share about some of the things we love about out two tiny men.<br />
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<li>He "asks a lot of questions" according to our friend and neighbor, Doug. Yes, yes he does. I can't imagine where he gets that from ;)</li>
<li>He plays pretend ALL the time. Quite often, I'll ask him to repeat something, and he'll say he was just talking to himself. </li>
<li>He likes to help Theo (when he's not trying to be first or take things away from Theo...)</li>
<li>He gets dressed all by himself every morning. It's delightful. </li>
<li>He's SO polite. "May I please" is just music to my ears. </li>
<li>He's also so giggly. And loves to be tickled. </li>
<li>He tells me his is the fastest runner and the highest jumper. </li>
<li>He plays hide and seek, but also sometimes while he's hiding he switches to pretend to be a dinosaur hatching from an egg :)</li>
<li>He makes up many, many words. Often rhyming ones. </li>
<li>He'll read to Theo. </li>
<li>He can recognize the letters in his first name, and points them out everywhere. </li>
<li>He has a little grin he uses to be charming when he wants something. </li>
<li>He likes to help, and has regular chores. </li>
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<li>Loves to read - "book" is one of his oft-repeated words right now. </li>
<li>He has a boisterous belly laugh at just about everything (see video below), combined with a hilarious double chin :)</li>
<li>He likes to play "peeksies" or, peek-a-boo, with anyone and anything. He'll use a bib, his hands, a book, a blanket, a sock...</li>
<li>He likes to help even more than Levi does. He'll put things in the trash (often dishes that don't belong there....) bring us items from the fridge when we don't need them...and he even went and got me a pair of jeans out of my dresser when I was getting dressed on Monday. </li>
<li>He's what I think is best called "cheeky," that is, he likes to play little jokes on you, like putting a bowl on your head for a hat, or running away giggling when its time to go, or holding food off of his tray like he's going to drop it, but then not and just laughing at me. </li>
<li>Goldfish are his favorite. As in, they elicit dancing, clapping, and shouts of happiness. </li>
<li>He bops along with most any song that's playing in a little Theo-dance. </li>
<li>He can put the dishwasher away faster than I can move. He picks up the plates one by one and holds them out at me like "Mom, why are you standing around??!"</li>
<li>He's always up for a hug or a snuggle</li>
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<br />slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-17506665890255962132015-01-18T18:42:00.000-08:002015-01-18T18:42:11.722-08:00Playing Together<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And static. ugh static. I shock the kids all the time, and it makes everybody jump.<br />
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Theo got a book called The Pout Pout Fish from his Uncle Pat, and the plot line is that the pout pout fish is always dreary weary, because his face is always just pouty. But then he has an epiphany, and realizes his big smushy lips are good for something better: being a kiss kiss fish! And Theo always leans forward and gives the little board book a big smooch when that happens. So funny.<br />
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Theo is also a very sturdy walker nowadays, and is pretty content to toddle around, rearranging everything small enough for him to pick up. He loves to climb up the stairs and bring back down books for us to read. He'll pretty willingly listen to directions....except when they come from me. If I ask him to come over here, he waits until I look at him, then laughs and runs away. If I ask him to give me something, he looks at me and throws it in the other direction. This doesn't happen to Tim. Only me. I should say that Theo will often listen if its a direction to both him and Levi, because he wants to be like his big brother.<br />
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Levi does a nice job these days of playing with Theo. He still has to be first ALL the time, but he'll go get a toy to trade Theo instead of just taking them away - progress :) They both will "wrestle" or play laughing or peek-a-boo games, and they always need to have tubbies together these days.<br />
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Levi has been learning to be more polite - and more conversational. Although the conversations are usually quotes that came out of Tim or my own mouth days or weeks before. The other day he said he "would really love if" in exactly the inflection I would use. He also loves to tell stories, usually recapping whole sections of the Cars movies He'll just use "and then" to keep telling part after part after part. We went bowling on Friday night to celebrate a very successful week of Levi being polite, respectful, and a good listener. He was SO excited about it the entire day, and even picked his bowling name "Nitro." ha.<br />
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And by the goose, we mean Theo. Who, I am proud to announce, has finally decided walking is good <br />
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skill to have. He was starting to get bored with the infant room at school, since many of the kids are smaller with him and its not really geared to toddlers. So in the past week or so, when staffing allows, a teacher has brought him over to the one-year-old room to play. And he loooooves it. And all the kids in that room walk (its a requirement to move up). Just today, the tiny one spent most of the evening cruising around the house walking. 'Bout time. He can't get much chubbier, he needs to start evening out:<br />
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We celebrated First Christmas with Tim's family over Thanksgiving - a four-day visit involving 24 hours without power (fried chicken for Thanksgiving!) and almost three days without wifi. We had a great time playing, decorating for Christmas, playing in the snow, and eating delicious food. Which is good, because the 11-hour trip back on Sunday was not my favorite ever.<br />
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Last weekend we went and cut down our tree at a local place where you can ride in a horse-drawn wagon, drink hot chocolate, see a train display, and watch some animals. The kids loved it - Theo especially loved the horses. And trying to crawl away from us in the field while Tim worked on cutting down the tree.<br />
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Theo has also started saying "What's that?" incessantly. We answer all of his questions, and a lot of times he tried to repeat the words, little cutie pie.<br />
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Levi also asks lots of questions. I can't imagine where he gets that inquisitiveness from :) He also loves to help bake (we finally got an oven!), cook, set the table, and put together puzzles. And wearing slippers like Daddy.<br />
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Aright. Friday. That's all I got. Enjoy the pics!<br />
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So things have gotten busy. The holidays generally do that, but I try hard to stay ahead of the game. This is more of a convergence of the time of year we have all of our annual and bi-annual doctor and dentist appointment, parent-teacher conferences, I took on some extra freelancing work, daylight savings happened, etc. But we have certainly still made some time for fun this fall season, even if it's just visiting a new park or hanging out with friends.<br />
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Levi's been somehow more trying and more sweet as time goes on. He is so proud to help with chores and to show that he's a good listener. But we've had some regression in potty training over the past two weeks without any reason we can figure out, and he's still very hit or miss with being disrespectful.<br />
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Theo, however, is (finally?) blossoming into his own little person, without having to be connected to mommy's hip. He chats to himself (he's having a conversation with his Thomas the Tank Engine sippy cup right now), he's had an explosion of using sign language and starting to say several words, of which his favorites are "bubbles" and "touchdown." He can tell you what a few different animals say - horses, sheep, goats, dogs, and pigs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheers! (one of Theo's favorite games)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoa... Science.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">My little mermaid and mer-baby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unintentional choreography!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As cute as he is, Theo is surprisingly un-photogenic. So we settle for silly faces instead.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two of a kind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rare Theo smile-at-the-camera moment is obviously accompanied by Levi blinking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boys and Daddy spending the last summer-like day at the park, feeding acorns to the fish (no, seriously, that's what's happening here.)</td></tr>
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I spent the weekend going through the boys' clothes to change over both their sizes and their summer clothes for fall and winter. A big shout-out to the aunties who share my taste in little-boy clothes: plenty of polos, chunky sweaters, and cute jeans/khakis to go around :) I even put a hat on Theo this morning because there was definitely a snap in the air.<br />
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Tim actually worked his first day at his new job today, following a blessedly short interim. He'll be <br />
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working to improve operations and financial processes at a small wood working company, very local and a very good fit for both Tim and our family. I've learned time and time again that God can, in fact, do math better than me, and as usual plans things to work out better than even my detailed, down-to-the-minute guidelines :)<br />
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So the boys are back in daycare, none the worse for wear for being thrust from it without notice and into a much less structured environment, a.k.a. our house. Or, I should probably say, Tim is none the worse for wear. they are both VERY hands-on right now. Whether its because one is playing a little too roughly with the other, one gets stuck (literally), someone needs food or potty time or a distraction...it gets intense. And loud. And disorderly. Somehow, two children at this age is both terrifying and endearing.<br />
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Levi is starting to loose a little bit of his "threenager" approach to life, although now that I've written it down that trend will immediately reverse. He's more emotional than a pregnant woman. In her third trimester. A week overdue. And also...malicious, although not with the full intent of that word. Perhaps I just mean operates as if he has blinders on. He'll go and snatch a toy from Theo with no thought at all as to why that might not be appropriate, and then look confused when, (for the 14th time) we explain why he cannot simply take toys away from his brother and he has to go sit in time out. Yet at the same time, he's also so freaking adorable. He likes to practice cutting and gluing and will play hide and seek and eye spy with you. He'll do his chores (silverware on the table at dinner, collecting the trash, etc.), help mommy and daddy cook and clean up, and chat with you about his day during bed <br />
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time. He'll ask all kinds of interesting questions, learn new words every day, make up stories to tell you, sound out his letters, spell his name, practice running and then jumping, and of course, his favorite: reading. So many pockets of fun within the I-want-to-pull-my-hair-out moments were he just can't seem to listen or be polite or nice.<br />
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Theo is also learning and growing, albeit not always in ways I'm excited about. He can get up and down the stairs by himself (safely), yet he still can't walk, so we have to carry his bulky little self around everywhere. He likes to sing, but that often translates as shouting random syllables. He likes to find things to dump out or squash, which occasionally is something we didn't realize was in his reach. He very seriously considers launching himself off of beds. He'll stand up in <br />
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his high chair and crow, looking right at me, and then hurriedly sit down as soon as he sees me lurch toward him. Theo can whistle (I think I was in the double-digits before I could whistle...), and turn pages in books while you read, and listen to basic instructions. I'm teaching him to repeat some sounds into words (night night, mama!), and we practice pointing and saying the sounds of lots of other words - car, ball, bike, Levi, chair, box, anemone. sometimes he just laughs, but sometimes he'll repeat the sound if he knows how. And he is, of course, the cutest little man ever. he laughs in glee when he stands by himself, plays with a push toy to practice walking, goes down slides, and many other things. He cries like he's just been left on the side of the road at many, many things, but I'm hoping daycare teaches him some self-soothing techniques soon. My methods (ignore? distract? kisses?) don't seem to do much.<br />
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So mid-August has been delightful temperatures in the mid-70s with wonderful breezes. Great for my daily workout schedule outdoors, great for family walks, great for finding sticks with which to hit grass with and discover large rocks you just HAVE to have, ha. Great for picnics, and bike rides (Thanks, Auntie Krista and Uncle Jesse!!), and porch-sitting, and playing in the park.<br />
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Of course, as I mentioned before, our summer has been chock full of many other things as well! Wonderful evenings with our life group from church (11 kids under the age of 9? Thank goodness for babysitters!!) several times are always full of food and good conversation. We took a Saturday to go visit the Maryland Science Center on the Baltimore Harbor (thanks, mom!), and Levi really enjoyed everything from learning how pulleys work to Legos to a water play table to a dramatic movie about penguin life to playing with bubbles outside. Theo mostly enjoyed some squishy blocks and watching everyone, and also napping during the movie :) Levi and Tim have been to the local children's amusement park several times - Dutch Wonderland, and had a blast each time on "the trains, mommy!" among other rides designed for the tiny ones.We spent a weekend in D.C. visiting an epic friend and hitting up the National Building Museum, the zoo, riding the metro, and walking around a local market and the capital. We also trekked up to New Hampshire and spent some time with Tim's family -- peach picking, sitting out on their lovely deck, roasting marshmallows, picking tasty vegetables, and playing in the sprinkler.<br />
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That's the good news. The bad news is that our lives have encountered an unexpected twist. Tim was laid off on Friday. It came without any warning, and of course, after things we can't take back, like the significant money we've spent on home improvements this summer. Please keep us in your prayers, since he'll be home wrangling the kids while also trying to put in the time/phone calls/meetings to network and find a new job. And if you're local, feel free to contact us with any connections or ideas you might have! (Tim mainly focuses on finance and operations improvement)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theo enjoys one of his birthday gifts. Levi...sulks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mostly eating the frosting off his alligator cupcake. Yum :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Levi "teaching" his older and wiser neighbor buddy, Kai,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First ride on the metro, or as Levi calls it "the monorail."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On our way to pick some delicious peaches. Matt and I<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy loves getting kisses almost as much as<br />
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Beach<br />
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Sunscreen<br />
<br />
Gigi<br />
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Outside<br />
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Flowers<br />
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Mow the lawn<br />
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Porch-sitting<br />
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Drywalling a ceiling<br />
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Picnics<br />
<br />
Swimming<br />
<br />
Running<br />
<br />
Road trips<br />
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Family<br />
<br />
Lunch on the water<br />
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Fresh veggies<br />
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Juicy fruit<br />
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Crawling<br />
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Playing<br />
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Teething<br />
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Tired :)<br />
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So I think in an unintended reaction to last year's third trimester of pregnancy and subsequent newborn-induced exhaustion, this summer I've packed pretty full of traveling to visit friends and family, weekends full of fun day trips for the kids, and, well, some home improvement projects. Because I can't help it.<br />
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June brought (finally!) warm days, but then rapidly emerged into the (oh wait, I like winter more than summer) extreme heat of this week, clocking in at 94 degrees and full sun. Boo. Some days are still bearable though, and if its not too muggy, evenings out on our comfy porch or lying in the grass in our backyard are lovely.<br />
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Levi has now (mostly) conquered the potty - although he still assures us that sitting forward on it (he sits backwards for balance) will cause him to fall in. He occasionally gets wrapped up in what he's playing with and forgets- maybe once/week, but we went full-on big-boy undies over Memorial Day weekend and haven't looked back. Which THANK GOODNESS, I couldn't handle my giant-practically-in-preschooler in dirty diapers anymore.<br />
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He is also talking in long, drawn-out sentences these days. The other night he was trying to convince me to let him take a shower (after we were saying our prayers and turning off the lights) by naming every body part that was dirty "and my neck, and my elbows, and my belly, and my butt, and my head, and my ears, and my feet, and my toes, and my legs, and ALL of me is dirty, mommy!" He also needs to interrupt while reading books to launch into his own description of what is happening. The Cat in the Hat? Mind-boggling. "But, where is their mommy? They are making a mess! Why is there a kite? The cat is very dirty. And the room is dirty. And those things are running around. And where is the mommy??!"<br />
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Speaking of, he seems to sense his role in life a bit more these days. We were discussing something he'd learned at school the other day, when he launched into this story of how he knew that I was coming, so he went and told all of the kids in his class "Watch out! Mommy is COMING!" I'm proud of that, you betcha (mommy's in charge and he knows it, right?) but also every time I think about that I laugh. Completely unrelated to the discussion we were having.<br />
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I'm pretty sure he's reached that stage where he unintentionally embarrasses us as parents a lot. Not that <br />
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we're embarrassed by him, but that he says things to people without context and it doesn't sound good. I accidentally yanked a hangnail off (was peeling off part of the nail I'd trimmed) on his thumb this morning, and ended up making him bleed. All. day. long. he told everyone we saw "Mommy PINCHED me!!" Thanks buddy. It was an accident. You got to pick your own ugly bandaid. He treated his thumb like it was broken for a good three hours, although I'm sure the stinging stopped after a few minutes.<br />
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Theo is growing more adorable by the day - chubby cheeks and all. He finally put on enough weight for the doctor to be satisfied. I've realized that until my kids start eating solid foods, they just don't track on the weight charts like other kids, I guess. Levi dropped way down from the 75th percentile in the early weeks of his life to the bottom of the curve until after he turned one. Theo's drop was quicker, and because of that our <br />
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pediatrician encouraged that we get him eating more solids more quickly (still no solids before six months, but by 10 months he eats just about everything we do). Between his 9-month visit and his weight check 4 weeks later, he put on almost TWO pounds. He'd put on less than one pound in the previous five months combined. He eats more than me these days. Although I do wonder how much of it gets into his belly and how much of it is just mashed up and distributed evenly on every inch of his exposed skin.<br />
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He's not crawling, but he's mastered just about every other way to get around. Scootching backwards, army crawling on his belly, or just spinning on his stomach until he can reach whatever he wants. He's very long and can reach anything he can see close by like this. He is already starting to pull himself up to stand now and then, but mostly is content to grab something close by and stay seated indefinitely.<br />
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Tiny man also talks incessantly. While he chews on toys, while he eats, anytime he's near us - I think he thinks he's actually in conversation with us as we're chatting about other things. He still screams when I leave the room. Two more months of breastfeeding and then he'll magically stop that, right? right?? He's also so squirmy - he's happy and plays when he's sitting in your lap, but playing means grabbing your face, twisting around and around, smacking you, bouncing, etc. It's like holding a baby monkey or something. Yeah, I don't know where that example came from.<br />
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And to close, two Levi conversations:<br />
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Levi: (straining to reach the fan above our bed) Mommy, I want to touch it!<br />
Me: Levi, it's too far away. also, you should NEVER touch a fan.<br />
Levi: why?<br />
Me: Because it could break your hand. It would hurt your fingers very much.<br />
Levi: But mommy, it's so beautiful up there!<br />
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Me: (when discussing Levi's butt-to-regular-sized-toilet-seat ratio) Levi, how big is your butt?<br />
Levi: It's awful.<br />
Me: ( long pause)<br />
Levi: Um, um, um, it's not as big as mommy and daddy's.<br />
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changing toddler's clothes. Not a great<br />
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Warm! Outside! Oh right. need 2T shorts.<br />
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baby getting larger...also my bicep. just the right one.<br />
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but not large enough. weight check at the doctor's.<br />
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Theo. eating. two words most often spoken together.<br />
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covered in: peanut butter. peaches. banana. jam. yogurt. even pickles.<br />
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Ate goldfish for the first time today. cried when they were gone.<br />
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Still stationary. can scootch backwards and around in a circle, but never forward.<br />
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Only two teeth. upper gums swollen for a few weeks now.<br />
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Boogers. always on me. and drool.<br />
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Big boy undies. a couple went down for the count, but surprisingly successful overall.<br />
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Lots of running. first skinned knee and split lip.<br />
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three (a week away!) for him to be harder for us as parents. He's less attached to us, has a LOT more words and of course, more opinions. Really, with our genetics, we'd be concerned if anything else were the case :) He now uses words like ectothermic. While doing an alphabet puzzle (shout out to Susan!!) Levi pointed at the puzzle piece shaped like a W and said "look mom, Orcas!" Let me tell you, I learned the word Orca in what, 4th grade?? This kid. It's still so fun watching his imagination develop though, whether its pretending to be a crab in the tub and walking his feet up the wall, pretending to be a dinosaur, or setting his cars up in elaborate crashes. He "parks" every single toy before we leave to go somewhere. Always does things in an orderly fashion, that one. It must be a grandparent (cough cough British cough) trait that skipped a generation and carried through.<br />
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Theo is both becoming more delightful and more hard to handle. He'll interact with us with his voice - </div>
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laughing and waiting for us to laugh back, or making a sound and waiting for us to repeat it back. He loves to cuddle and play when he's in a good mood, and eat! But he also is practicing biting things - namely me, and it's a constant jumping game when he's nursing with me yanking him away if I think he might bite. ugh. He also has combined his "mommy is my favorite" with some separation anxiety, so if I leave a the building, a room, his line of sight, or stop touching him, he screams bloody murder and won't calm down until I reappear and pick him up.<br />
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read to Levi, and go put him in his crib. No songs, rocking, mobile turning-on, nothing - and he doesn't fall asleep nursing, he's still wide awake and squirming around while we finish reading in Levi's room. I put Theo in his crib, turn off light, leave room. And he sleeps, every night. I'd say 80 percent of the time without fussing at all, the other percentage fussing two minutes, tops. I thought Levi was good because he would also go to sleep easily at this age, but there was a half-dozen step bedtime routine first. Although I should probably clarify that starting at 18 weeks, we're pretty strict sleep trainers as a rule - the kids are never allowed in our beds, we let them cry it out after a quick check to make sure they're OK, etc.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Levi: that bridge had trains and cars.<br />Me: I like trains and cars. Do you?<br />L: Yes. They make me steam.<br />Me; They make you scared?<br />L: No. They make me steam.<br />Me: Like a smokestack?<br />L: Yes.<br />Me: Do you mean the trains make steam?<br />L: Trains make steam, but also I make steam.<br />Me: Oh I see. Does it come out of your head?<br />L: No. My fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">L:My friend Mike has a cat. (we know no one in Levi's life who goes by Mike)<br />Me: ...Did you say Mike?<br />L: Yeah.<br />Me: ...is Mike a new friend from school.<br />L: No.<br />Me: Where did you meet Mike?<br />L: Mike winowski!<br />Me: Ooooh. (realizes he meant Mike Wizowski, from Monster's Inc. the movie) I'm not sure he has a cat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Levi: Daddy, you have a big butt.<br />Tim: Well, you have a little tiny butt.<br />Levi: No, my butt is big and strong. It moves things. Like dirt.</span></div>
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Boogies. Food. Angst.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />(Prayers before bed)<br />Levi: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333399;">Dear Jesus</span>thank you for trucks<br />thank you for dinner<br />thank you for minions<br />thank you for cars<br />thank you for daddy<br />thank you for mommy<br />thank you for Levi<br />thank you for sleeps<br />thank you for jammies<br />thank you for books<br />thank you for sheepie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Levi: (throws legos in the air)<br />Holly: No throwing Levi<br />Levi: I was making a star!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Levi: (throws piece of paper after crumpling it up)<br />Holly: Levi, please no throwing. Please get down and pick that up, and go throw it away.<br />Levi: (holds hands up innocently) I not have anything to throw....!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had some fantastic professional photos taken by <a href="http://rlitwin.zenfolio.com/p601992193" target="_blank">Randy Litwin </a>a few weeks ago, check out his website if you're in the eastern PA area - he does a really quality job, worked well with our tiny ones, was super easy going, and to be honest has a great philosophy about the price of professional photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-12169178761701171222014-03-02T13:58:00.003-08:002014-03-02T13:58:52.960-08:00Tiny onesWe've all got a touch of a head cold these days, so just photos today!<br />
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<br />slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-42944182486701746582014-02-03T18:25:00.000-08:002014-02-03T18:34:46.372-08:00Hilarity amongst the mess<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAyZ_WAVvbVDNXWjVW66eAuZQhPWwbUT7A1WaGV8axOt93U7TzstLxc4S5FxtT3Jh7T8ILQ5cEX5XqyMVXZR8YpKjOqGDb1h6FPVPGumJVa9dGQloRjyNWVVnCDOQqfWvHHJkSizHNI9m/s1600/IMG_2142.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAyZ_WAVvbVDNXWjVW66eAuZQhPWwbUT7A1WaGV8axOt93U7TzstLxc4S5FxtT3Jh7T8ILQ5cEX5XqyMVXZR8YpKjOqGDb1h6FPVPGumJVa9dGQloRjyNWVVnCDOQqfWvHHJkSizHNI9m/s1600/IMG_2142.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
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splat. hit the floor, with a good dose of marinara sauce on the fabric-covered seat on the way down. So after Levi picked up all the pasta and meat, helped me wipes off the floor, and i scrubbed as much sauce as I could get out of the chair, Levi climbed back up. As I walked back to the table after putting the disinfectant spray away, Theo, who was lounging in Tim's lap, leans over and yukes all over the floor. And then Levi climbs down from his seat, because he was done, and left a big red pasta sauce hand print on the fabric that I'd just scrubbed. And while I love having two tiny boys, sometimes there just isn't enough soap.<br /><br /><div>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /> Levi is proving to be very imaginative, which often ensues hilarity. Some recent conversations:<br /><br /><br /><br />Levi: Mommy, see you later!<br /><br />Me: Where are you headed?<br /><br />Levi: To the office!<br /><br />Me: Oh - what are you going to do at the office?<br /><br />Levi: Eat pickles!<br /><br /><br /><br />Talking with Daddy after Levi slipped and bonked his head on the floor:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tim: Careful with your head, buddy, it's the only one you have.<br />Levi: I want another head.<br />Tim: You want a second head?<br />Levi: I want to take this one off and put on a different one. <br />Tim: But i like this one.<br />Levi: This one hurts. (so matter-of-fact about it, too)<br /><br /><br /> When looking up at the globe we have sitting on a shelf in our living room: <br /><br />Levi: a ball!<br /><br />Me: That's right, do you know what shape that is?<br /><br />Levi: A wrecking ball!<br /><br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are dozens more. He likes to pretend to be a racecar, which first involves collecting random items from around downstairs and "stowing" them on Theo's playmat. then he sits next to Theo crouched under the arches of the playmat and makes noises like he's careening around curves and coming to a dangerous stop, while launching himself left and right and sometimes overturning the playmat and/or letting piles of random things fall on Theo....<br /><br /><br />He's also getting quite good at remembering words from books - we often leave blank spots and he fills in the right details. Recent favorites include the Little Blue Truck, The Very Busy Spider, and Frog and Toad are Friends.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyq1C_nJlkaXUsf_kM8Dsh1-5QkFJh37u779fWH9FzcvHra0DGKtANDuBmdjHmElqxTxjDERT9X6BfJ_Aq52d0IIVyYOZBwKtRTD3K7Ydi15KUPp4iGK3x2FyDHZrGmrW6Q-mP3daUEPXe/s1600/MVI_2094.MOV"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyq1C_nJlkaXUsf_kM8Dsh1-5QkFJh37u779fWH9FzcvHra0DGKtANDuBmdjHmElqxTxjDERT9X6BfJ_Aq52d0IIVyYOZBwKtRTD3K7Ydi15KUPp4iGK3x2FyDHZrGmrW6Q-mP3daUEPXe/s1600/MVI_2094.MOV" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQulcjE5eToJo2vQawW03ITMUkEy4Op6FKRGPSwmTPiqSmrtzPh2LNtbDd-NxuvbX16gMsgEihQtXB_sEkcQpW95j0ufzq-ggziuZJXI7DFi9D_K5wt7sAxnDcte0KAx4sXiPgAnt1sOQQ/s1600/IMG_2051.JPG"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQulcjE5eToJo2vQawW03ITMUkEy4Op6FKRGPSwmTPiqSmrtzPh2LNtbDd-NxuvbX16gMsgEihQtXB_sEkcQpW95j0ufzq-ggziuZJXI7DFi9D_K5wt7sAxnDcte0KAx4sXiPgAnt1sOQQ/s1600/IMG_2051.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHnW2cMiRE70Fkmz93oBWEEQhImQsAKLoaiBSjuoswR03pDqwoeEa-o5R0P1VaHyUWBRi7oEPGovrZnUDdrJynM4j1HOW9MSGshoq7ZvpF5rhj9Xbw63439Jjwjj3dmIPIkpV-sUtfoFY/s1600/20140112_201318.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHnW2cMiRE70Fkmz93oBWEEQhImQsAKLoaiBSjuoswR03pDqwoeEa-o5R0P1VaHyUWBRi7oEPGovrZnUDdrJynM4j1HOW9MSGshoq7ZvpF5rhj9Xbw63439Jjwjj3dmIPIkpV-sUtfoFY/s1600/20140112_201318.jpg" width="240" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1p-qajQZ6J1YtSzzSIzSPyjgFuSUGeJ7oe4ZOtNDfSFlIuPepAAFyUCyXs9WIqinErI6An-aAyTlSTR8UwpZ7BY-e5b6zt9Vmv0kkTCPouwYsDBw-6NC8HzlPyB49ZmKzS0WFk9TsEMu/s1600/IMG_2077.JPG"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1p-qajQZ6J1YtSzzSIzSPyjgFuSUGeJ7oe4ZOtNDfSFlIuPepAAFyUCyXs9WIqinErI6An-aAyTlSTR8UwpZ7BY-e5b6zt9Vmv0kkTCPouwYsDBw-6NC8HzlPyB49ZmKzS0WFk9TsEMu/s1600/IMG_2077.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
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We spent New Year's as per our usual practice - in a nest of blanket's and pillows on the living room floor next to the wood stove, watching movies. We rented Turbo for Levi, who was hilariously named Theo, so now we call baby Theo Turbo occasionally :) We had delicious sushi made by Tim, and yep, I went to bed at 10 p.m. :)<br />
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Theo's becoming more engaging - he can hold grip toys and manipulate them into his mouth, and loves to hit and kick anything he can figure out how to reach. Or play with noisy things - I gave him a bag of ritz crackers that was mostly empty all rolled up and clipped, and he went to town on it the other night. He likes to play with his friends at school or church during tummy time - chatting and drooling together :)<br />
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Levi is starting to connect language he's heard elsewhere with new situations. He started saying "because" when he asks him why he is doing something, ha. he likes to give Theo toys....but he also likes to boss Theo around and tell him which toys to play with when. Ah being the eldest. He got some trucks and airplanes for Christmas that have little screws in them that he can take apart and put back together by himself - LOVES them. He also has at least two dozen new (or used) books from gifts. Two of them he has memorized already (Little Blue Truck and a Chuggington trains book).<br />
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Life is busy with two kids, but always interesting! I thought I'd detail some common occurrences/conversations in our lives!<br />
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Weekday mornings (7 a.m.): Levi wanders out of his room, clutching two of the blankets from his bed. Tim <br />
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and I are both almost ready to go, and I'm getting ready to feed Theo while sitting on our bed, and Levi wants to "sit on Daddy's side" so he drags his blankets over to Tim's side of the bed. He then refuses to pull our sheets and bedspread over him, but instead, runs back and forth from his room several times and drags his quilt, two pillows, sheepie, doggie, and a fleece blanket onto our bed. He then proceeds to jump and tumble all over with them, until I sit down with Theo, shouting "I jumping! My pillows!" :)<br />
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Levi almost always asks for some food after he wakes up, but since he gets a full breakfast at daycare and because he takes at least 45 minutes to eat breakfast every day, I give him a snack before we leave - usually two pretzels, because a bag of pretzels at that rate can last quite awhile :) Today, he asked for the pretzels shortly after he got up, and then sat in our bed munching on them while I fed Theo. (I know, crumbs in bed. It's OK. Reminds me to change and wash the sheets!) I went to grab a diaper for Theo after he was done nursing, and when I came back, Levi was pretending to feed Theo a pretzel. Exceeeeeept. Theo was moving his jaw kind of funny and then I realized Levi had NOT been just playing pretend. I <br />
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pounded on Theo's back (he wasn't actually choking, I just wanted to make sure nothing was on the back of his tongue) and stuck my finger in his mouth while I asked Levi if he put a pretzel in Theo's mouth, to which he answered a cheery "pretzel for Theo!!" Oy.<br />
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Levi is very interested in sharing his things with Theo, but the practice is not executed very well. He tends to put cars or trucks RIGHT next to Theo's face, or drop things in his lap, which fall down, or give Theo things just long enough for him to get his hand around and then say it's Levi's turn and take it back. Theo just drools away and watches him intently :).<br />
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At school: I race Levi to get in the car in the mornings. Tim's idea - one of his best ever! Levi will climb in on Theo's side, then hurry to climb into his seat while I put Theo's carseat in, and be sitting quietly ready to get <br />
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buckled by the time I walk around my car. On the way to school, Levi now asks to see a green trash truck, or a yellow school bus, or a red pickup truck, etc. On occasion, we actually see one of those in the 8-block ride :)<br />
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Levi pushes the buttons in the elevator on the way to his classroom, and then runs down the hall to his room. He hangs up his jacket, and puts his hat and mittens into his bucket, then goes to wash his hands for breakfast. He gives me kisses,which has somehow morphed into European-style air-kisses on one of my cheeks. Then I bring Theo to his room, where he's all smiles and gurgles and sometimes has tummy time on the floor with another little one a few weeks older.<br />
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I see Levi and Theo at lunch - Levi tells me what he had for lunch (peaches, mommy! This kid would eat his <br />
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weight in peaches every day if he could) and Theo grins at me while he eats.<br />
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In the evening: Tim usually has Theo in the ergo because with no set nap schedule, by the end of the day he's a little whingey and just wants someone to hold him. We chat and play while Tim gets dinner ready. Levi is often outside (even in this chilly weather) playing with his trucks, tools, or building stuff. If it's too dark, he's inside, usually driving a truck or a train around (delivery mommy! A red car! Beep beep!) or building airplanes or trash trucks or trains or castles out of his Mega Bloks*. When dinner's ready, Theo sits in the bumbo and drops his toys over and over again, and gets drool all over the table while he tries to lean ever closer to our plates. Levi sits in his seat and disdains utensils for his hands instead. Pretend is getting to be a big part of his life right now, and the other night he ate all of his carrots - after pretending they were racecars and driving all over his placemat. Tim tried to ask him something a couple of times, but each time Tim started talking, Levi broke into loud "Oooooooo eeeeeee ooooo eeeee" - apparently a car alarm or ambulance sound is the same as racecars, in Levi's world. After dinner, Levi clears his plate and then "time for trucks" i.e. plays some more.<br />
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After things are cleaned up, it's time to "read books" which is how we introduce bed time. Levi LOVES to <br />
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read books, so its a nice transition. He picks out his jammies himself, and prefers dinosaurs, if he has any of those clean. Sometimes we put Theo in jammies also with dinosaurs on them, per Levi's request. After brushing our teeth, Levi picks out a book or two. Current favorites include Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Caps for Sale, Where's Spot, and a variety of truck and train books from the library. Levi will ask many times to read more than a couple of books, until we get up to leave because it's bed time and then he'll shout "Prayers!" Except one time for some reason I couldn't figure out what he was saying and I asked if he was saying Bears or Hair or Bees....duh. He says Thank you Jesus for anything from trucks to his teachers to what he had for dinner, and then stays up on his bed talking to himself and pretending to read books for awhile.<br />
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Theo usually cuddles with us while we're back downstairs puttering around. He prefers to cuddle with me, because he knows where the food's at, so sometimes when I give him to Tim, he starts bawling :/ But I usually feed him one more time and then hand him over to Tim to chat with him for awhile. Theo will start fussing a little bit and nuzzling his head into Tim's chest, and then Tim will take him upstairs and put him in his crib with his Patriots blanket.<br />
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Let's do a hashtag post for the past few weeks. I've been practicing how to be more succinct anyway :)<br />
#autumn<br />
#brothers<br />
#pumpkin<br />
#cutestbabyever<br />
#babyboyclothesarecutetoo<br />
#backhoe<br />
#smiley<br />
#two!<br />
#outside<br />
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Levi has been saying some hilarious things lately, and I've made a concerted effort to send myself emails whenever I'm laughing about something he says :)<br />
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When reading the book "Goodnight Ocean" with all sorts of animals in it, he turned page after page quickly shouting "shark! shark! shark!" Apparently our trip to the aquarium in September when he spent a good half of the time staring at the sharks made a major impression!<br />
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The other night, Tim was putting Levi to bed and they were naming body parts - Tim identified what a nostril was. When Levi came downstairs to say goodnight to me, he said Goodnight Mommy, and Goodnight Mommy's nostrils.<br />
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We spend a weekend with some of my family visiting, and made the drive to a local-ish wildlife park. They had all kinds of cool animals like tigers and bears and alligators, along with a big game area with all kinds of big-horned cattle and different deer and elk. Some of the large-animal areas had a tiny moat around them with Koi swimming in them, and Levi spent more time looking at the fish than he did at the tigers and bears and peacocks nearby.<br />
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While Levi's OK with animals in cages, he's not so great with animals that can come close to him. Even kittens freak him out :) His cousin Josiah has a couple of hermit crabs, and when Josiah took the tiny one out to show us, Levi kept shouting "Put it back! put it back!" But, while we were visiting the animal park, Levi was a big brave boy and petted a little goat, and even sort of fed the little goat also!<br />
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Levi regularly makes random creations with his toys, and recently he made what he called a "tractor bracelet" - a string of mardis gras beads with a couple of his toy tractors hanging from it. He walked around all <br />
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proudly carrying it, ha.<br />
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Tim's been growing a beard for the Red Sox playoffs (boo for beards. But Go RedSox, nonetheless). He was shaving the outside edges one morning, and when Levi came downstairs to get ready to go, he was stroking his chin and said "Mommy, no whiskers."<br />
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Levi is trying more and more to play with Theo, though we obviously temper it. Theo waves his hands around constantly, and the other night Tim suggested that he wanted a high-five. Levi enthusiastically grabbed Theo's hands and gave him high-fives over and over again - he was SO excited.<br />
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While I was showering last week, I heard Theo start yelling in his crib. I asked Levi if he could give Theo a paci (the crib is still pushed up against our bed with a half-side). When I got out of the shower, Theo was still crying with the paci near his shoulder, but he had three different stuffed animals piled on top of him :) Way to go Levi, trying to help your brother calm down.<br />
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Levi also wants to be like his little brother sometimes - the other day I put a hat on Theo before we left for school, and Levi suddenly went running upstairs. Seeing as it took me a good ten minutes to make him come downstairs, I hollered up to him, but he was already coming back down the stairs - with one of Theo's knitted hats stretched onto his head.<br />
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The other night, after Levi had gotten his hair cut, he was touching Theo's hair and saying "Theo has hair, Levi has hair!" I told him good use of his deductive powers :) Then he said "Theo has curls, Levi have curls!" I said "Good job!" Then he touched Theo's ears, and said "Theo has ears, Levi has ears!" And theeeeen I cut him off because it was bedtime, and, well, that could go on for awhile.<br />
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My children are as nonsensical as the rest in any ways - this morning, Levi drank three bowls of milk. Sans cereal. he just kept asking for it in his bowl, even though he had a cup nearby...also with milk in it. At the same exact time, Theo was having some very happy moments - so much so that he couldn't stop smiling at me and eat his (second) breakfast. Seriously. As happy as it makes me to have a smiley little man, it was a bit annoying because I'd timed his meals perfectly to be before <br />
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Levi has started to connect things he knows from one arena into another - one of our favorite books to read is SkippyJon Jones, who loves rice and beans. Today, I had given Levi a cookie for being such a sweet boy and letting us sleep in this morning while he played in his room. It was just a plain sugar cookie. When I gave it to him, he licked it, and then said "Yum! Rice and beans!" ha!<br />
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One of Levi's favorite books right now is a Thomas the Tank engine book where an engine falls in a bridge accident, and has to go for repairs. Levi interrupted the story and said "shake it off!" - I couldn't quite realize what he meant, and then I realized he was pointing to the engine that had taken a tumble, and when Levi trips or falls, we always say to shake it off. Good application of a life lesson Levi :)<br />
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was playing with a truck, so I figured he wouldn't answer. More than five minutes later, he pops his head up and says "Joseph!" We couldn't figure out why he was saying that name, but then we realized he must have been paying attention earlier...ha. he also kept saying "ouchie" - because the lesson was on how God takes care of us, and as an example, like your parents take care of you when you get an ouchie.<br />
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Levi also had a great day at swimming lessons yesterday - he swam around all by himself with a noodle under his arms, kicking his legs and paddling with his arms. Very exciting!<br />
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Theo is doing very well in daycare - the teachers put "looked around and smiled a lot" on his what he did that day sheet. He's getting on a decent schedule in the afternoons and evenings - a longish afternoon nap and going to bed around 9 p.m., which is perfect. He likes to watch Levi and loves to chat with people :)<br />
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My favorite time of year is setting in, and we've been going for long walks as a family. Mostly to see the requisite bulldozer or dump truck that Levi constantly asks about :) Theo zig-zags from tilting his head back while I carry him in a wrap and waving his arms around, to completely passing out all snuggled up against me.<br />
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If the walk isn't far, Tim will sometimes take Levi out in his "tiny car" wagon. Recently, while out on a walk, <br />
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Levi decided rather than ride in his tiny car, he'd like to "surf" on it. He stood up in it and bent over, one hand on the wheel and one hand behind the seat, riding it sideways down the street. Thought it up all by himself :)<br />
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I'm constantly amazed by his creativity. The other night he wanted to wash his sheepie, one of his stuffed animals. Logically, he went and got him while we were going to take a tubby and plopped him in the water before we noticed. So sheepie had to spend a night "sleeping" in the tub while he dried off hanging from a hook.<br />
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He's fallen a bit in love with the library. Each time we go, I try to grab a few books on one of his recent favorite topics -- cranes or fire trucks or construction vehicles. He surprised me the other day by calling one of his toys an excavator - quite a large word, I thought! We've been stopping by a construction site in Lancaster where they're building a parking garage with a gigantic crane that's right in front of the sidewalk. Levi will stand and watch for hours if we let him, and can talk about the boom <br />
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and the hooks and probably other construction terms I don't even know.<br />
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He finds himself almost as entertaining as we find him these days. We took a short road trip to Long Island a couple of weekends ago. We took Tim's car, which has a third row that you can fold down into the floor. We stuck Levi's seat back there and stacked some luggage next to him, so he was in his own little cave. He entertained himself for four straight hours on the ride back - singing, telling stories, laughing uproariously at his own jokes. At one point he started shouting "Josh. OOO. Ah!" I don't even think we know anyone who goes by Joshua (unless he picked up on the rare friends reference...anyone?). So sheepie also goes by Joshua, apparently.<br />
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We also have been cementing prayers with Levi at bed time and naptime. Rather than follow anything preset (the sun and the moon and the apple trees!) we opted for a traditional beginning of "Dear Jesus" and ending of "keep us healthy and safe," with "thank you for" fill in the blanks in between. On any given night we thank Jesus for jammies, <br />
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strawberries, baby Theo, daddy's car, etc. Levi does start every prayer session with "Thank you for trucks!" Sometimes we prompt him with things we know he's done that day (bubbles, books, whatever), but sometimes he fills in the blank himself - with names of his teachers, things about our house or school, or his favorite - cars and trucks. He's been thankful for Lightning McQueen on more than one occasion :)<br />
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Enough about the toddler, onto the newborn! Theo is now eight weeks old. His life is rather uneventful, so not a lot to share there. He can hold his head up and swing it around with force, and I'm wondering how I haven't gotten a bruise on my face from that yet. If you see me with a shiner, I promise my weeks-old baby did it. He's incredibly grabby with his hands, and I see now why people get a "mom" haircut (i.e. short short) when they have kids. Conducting a symphony, as my mom says.<br />
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Theo has started to smile and gurgle regularly - although still at the strangest things. Or at nothing at all, it seems. I just had him propped next to me facing away, and he starts cooing and I leaned a bit and realized he was smiling. Nobody around, nothing in front of him in his line of vision except a burp cloth and remotes on the couch. Whatever floats your boat, man.<br />
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In other news, we finally asked the doctor to give him some meds after he went an hour one night crying and not eating because his acid reflux is so bad - we could hear him constantly making choking sounds and swallowing it back and screaming whenever we tried any position except directly upright. It's one of those things I wish we'd just called the doctor sooner - he had stopped fussing almost entirely except for a few minutes in the evenings, so I didn't feel like much was wrong even though he still was waking himself up regularly and having trouble falling asleep and you could tell he was uncomfortable. But he seemed so much calmer I figured it was all right - boy was I wrong. He now sleeps for incredibly long stretches at night (went almost 8 hours last night, what??) because he can handle laying on his back without waking up grunting and groaning every couple of hours. He's happier during the day, and before he'd be choking back reflux for up to two hours after he ate - now its only a few minutes. All of the above are great, since today was my first day back at work part time. I got through 155 of my 757 emails....progress, I think :)<br />
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Levi is actually starting to really want to spend time with Theo - we'll sit and read books together, or he wants Theo to sit next to him or to give him toys to play with. Levi will go over to the bassinet and rock it and sing "rockabye baby" if Theo's fussing. Although he also tells Theo to calm down when he's fussing, and sometimes not so nicely.<br />
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Life has been moving somehow both quickly and slowly - I've only got two and a half more weeks until I go back to work part-time; yes a lot of the moments during the day seem frozen, whether it's because Levi isn't listening or Theo is doing something cute (or vice versa).<br />
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M/W/F, Levi is home with Theo and I all day. In the morning we do chores and Levi plays while I take care of Theo, and then late morning we try to go somewhere like the library, the park, peach picking or just a long walk. Then its naptime for all! and then Daddy comes home and we often go for an evening walk. After Levi goes to bed, Theo generally hits his witching hour from 8 - 10 p.m., so Tim and I take turns calming him down while he fusses and struggles with his tummy troubles.<br />
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We're working on pronouncing words correctly with Levi,which has led to him repeating us regularly, down to the exact inflection, without us meaning him too. It's pretty hilarious when someone parrots a random phrase you've just said exactly as you've said it. Levi has also fallen in love with the library, and LOVES to go out and pick out books. Or, help me find books. We've <br />
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also done some walking around town - its kind of nice to live in the city where we can walk to the library, the market, and several parks. Not to mention getting to see dump trucks, back hoes, and gigantic cranes from the construction projects downtown, which are always enthralling :)<br />
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Theo is both a very calm baby as well as sometimes a very upset baby. He's got tummy troubles, so sometimes if he has painful gas or acid reflux, he turns all red and screams for a few minutes until it passes. But then sometimes he's all upset already and it's hard to calm him back down for another few minutes. The only other thing that seems to upset him is sitting in the car when it's stopped. Downside of driving around the city, unfortunately. He put on a hefty three pounds since coming home from the hospital, and weighed in at 11 lbs. 1 oz. at his one-month checkup. Because of his tummy troubles, I had to significantly change my diet (never even knew I could or should with Levi!) so now I can't eat most veggies, tomatoes, garlic, or spices. Soooo....I've got carbs, meat, fruit, and dessert. Not the worst thing ever :) Theo sleeps well at night, and five weeks in I finally figured out why sometimes he has trouble sleeping in the early hours of the morning - light coming in from the window onto his crib. A big beach towel put an end to that problem permanently, I hope. (He would go back to sleep after eating around 4 or 5 a.m., but <br />
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then he'd be grunting and coughing and hiccuping for 45 minutes or so, which seemed to be the only time that happened. He'd usually stay asleep, but keep me up, or sometimes get so squirmy he'd wake himself up, grrr.) He's started to grin occasionally, but always it seems to be at random things - the curtains or when Levi drives a truck by him.<br />
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It's been a whirlwind of a month, what with finishing up some projects, the arrival of baby Theo, and adjusting to being a family of four :) Rather than try to cover all of the details, here are several snapshots of the past few days.<br />
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We went for a few (very slow) walks since it was about all of the activity I could handle at 37 and 38 weeks<br />
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pregnant. Levi loves his Tiny Car, borrowed from our neighbors.<br />
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For Tim's 29th birthday, we went bowling for the first time with Levi. They make tiny little bowling shoes for him! I won, even though I was carrying a bowling ball myself :) And of course, after about a half hour, the little slide for bowling balls ceased to be used for its original purpose and rather became a climbing challenge.<br />
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On Friday, Aug.2, I managed to wrap up everything at work because my midwife (who then immediately left for a three-day vacation) told me on Thursday afternoon that at three centimeters <br />
I was on my way. I was hoping Theo would wait until Monday to appear so she would be able to make it, so I planned to sit around all weekend and boss my family around - certainly a stretch for my personality. We headed to a potluck picnic for some of the volunteers at church, and I stuffed my face with all the delicious things people bring to potlucks (which should be required at least biweekly at all churches, I think).<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dzNAX0Q1qGYKVvoOoQbH035-PcmztXn8ou-Knkme2CciPhE_G3-7xXe5SpasIDyRiMNYmzoOaN9dcgpN3cGv8SeNrn8bkANkudDcUdHOe8vcOg93aGQ3d630KpO-tJApIdPAQLqQtOl3/s1600/IMG_1060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dzNAX0Q1qGYKVvoOoQbH035-PcmztXn8ou-Knkme2CciPhE_G3-7xXe5SpasIDyRiMNYmzoOaN9dcgpN3cGv8SeNrn8bkANkudDcUdHOe8vcOg93aGQ3d630KpO-tJApIdPAQLqQtOl3/s320/IMG_1060.JPG" width="320" /></a>Around midnight, I woke up with what felt like a cramp in my lower back. I immediately started regretting eating all of that food :/ At 2 a.m. I'd had two more of those cramps, and was Googling Braxton Hicks to see if I could find more clues other than "longer, stronger, and closer together" - three contractions in two hours is hardly close together and they were only about 15 seconds long and hardly strong at all.<br />
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This is where things got dicey - My contractions started coming faster and faster without much breathing room in between. We left our house around 5:40 after we threw everything in the car and called the doctor on call and told them I was coming in whether they liked it or not. Theo was born at 6:35 a.m., less than an hour after we got to the hospital.<br />
There wasn't time for an epidural, which was frankly one of my biggest fears, but with Tim's help on a pressure point on my back I made it through the contractions and was already at 10 centimeters when the doctor checked me shortly after we got to the hospital, and I could start pushing, which for me seemed easier than just counting and breathing through almost two-minute-long contractions. Focusing my efforts and hearing the nurses, doctor, and Tim telling me the progress with every breath was somehow less painful. Four contractions later, our 8 pound, 12 oz. bundle arrived - already rooting around for some food.<br />
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Recovery has been exponentially better this time around, even with Levi at home with ,me two days a week.<br />
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Levi is just as entertaining as always - and somehow becoming even more of a boy. The other night at dinner, he picked up a piece of cilantro that was in his dinner and held it up, saying "a spider!" We assured him it was not a spider, but an herb in his dinner, and he just kept saying "a spider!" And then he ate it.<br />
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Levi also has started to sing songs at random while he's playing or eating. I don't know them all, but he'll suddenly break into a rather accurate rendition of twinkle twinkle little star, row your boat, or a song about a bumblebee.<br />
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We spent some time meeting the most adorable little kittens while we had newborn photos taken. And, true to form of Levi's fear of most pets, Levi was terrified by them. We worked on standing closer and closer to them, and eventually the kitties could walk right up to us and sniff our shoes without him losing it.<br />
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More and more every day we can see Levi's sense of...learning? curiosity? He not only wants to find out how things work, but how they can work. Case in point: Truck monster. Or multi-cup functionality.<br />
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And lastly, a dialogue from tonight:<br />
Levi: (finding some sort of dirt on his person) "Ew. Yucky. Gross."<br />
Tim: "Yeah, that"s nasty."<br />
L: (biiiig smile) "Eat it!"<br />
T: "No, I"m not going to eat it."<br />
L: "You! Eat it!"<br />
T: No, I'm not gonna eat it. I should pull something out of my armpit and make you eat it."<br />
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slydegirllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192886532667602539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973485949336038560.post-80117424017309116832013-07-15T18:32:00.001-07:002013-07-15T18:32:51.208-07:00A weekend with Levi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past weekend, Tim was gone on a youth camp weekend, and I wrangled the toddler by myself. Certainly had its ups and downs, and also some quintessential toddler moments. <div>
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Friday: We visited a local bounce place with some friends. Though certainly a small fry by the standards of a <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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lot of kids racing round, Levi enjoyed both the toddler-sized bouncy obstacle course as well as one of the giant slides. He went in all by himself (8-months pregnant lady + bouncy house = turtle on its back law, I think) and figured out how to climb up little steps to go down the larger-than-life slide. And then he'd climb down, and race as fast as his little legs could carry him, arms flailing, to do it again. and again. and again. and so on for about an hour ;)</div>
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After we got home, we needed to drop Tim's car off at the mechanic's down the street for a weekend oil change. It was raining lightly, but that felt pretty refreshing after the nasty mugginess and sunshine of the past few days and weeks. We brought "tiny car" - Levi's name for his push-buggy car we borrow from our generous neighbors, which is like a car-shaped <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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wagon that you push instead of pull. However, I underestimated Levi's sense of importance in the tiny-car world -- he did not want to ride in the car, no no, that is for only the small and unpowerful. He wanted to push the car. Which, even at only three blocks away from our house, it quite a time-intensive endeavor. Also, he's two. and it was raining. Which means there were a lot of puddles. Which also means that every time we passed one, he had to stop and splash in the water. So a half-hour later or so we made it home, and I counted the soaking wetness as a bath. </div>
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Saturday: to the grocery store we go, always a bad idea being this pregnant with a two-year-old, but, you know, food and stuff. We managed to snag one of those carts with the little car on the front, which resulted in Levi being occupied for most of the shopping trip. He started losing his ability to listen/behave as we headed toward the checkout. I taught him how to swipe through the photos on my phone while we waited for the lady that looked like a poodle waver on whether or not to purchase a block of cheese for several minutes (both are 100% true). But by the time I got up to the checkout, Levi had lost all patience and started climbing on top of the tiny car. I decided I'd take it over running away and screaming, especially since he couldn't get very high. But then he figured out how to climb most of the way up via the side faux-doors, and then, right as the cashier handed me my receipt, he was <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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kneeling entirely on the top of the car. I just told him he was big and strong but he had to get down before we could go find Daddy's car.</div>
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We had, of course, several incidents of not listening to Mommy. Unfortunately, Levi seems to have inherited my (and Tim's I bet) gene of not even caring about being naughty until I warn him not to. So if he holds a plate full of half-eaten food over the floor and I warn him gently not to drop it, he grins wickedly and not just drops, but chucks it as hard as he can. And then he goes in time out and has to say sorry for not listening and has to help clean up his mess. We're trying to teach him to say what he's sorry for, which goes something like this: "Levi, are you sorry?" L: "I'm sorry mommy." "Sorry for what?" L: "Sorry for what" (very contrite, very serious)." Yes, good job child. </div>
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Also, Levi says "ready, set, go!" constantly. to walk out the front door. to go to school. While playing with his toys. </div>
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