Spaghetti and giggles

It was a Good Friday!!

Levi is 9 months old now! We have taken him to the Dallas Arboretum two times in the last month. Today we took his Easter pictures. Here are a few...








This one is my favorite!

He loves to bang the eggs together. He has not figured out that there is food inside the eggs. We put the little puffs that dissolve in their mouth inside the eggs, since he is not ready for real candy.

He loves to take the eggs out of the basket, not put them back in, so tomorrow's Easter egg hunt should be interesting!

He is very serious about this egg hunt business.

 

 Yet highly distractable since there is so much going on around him. There were millions of people there today it seemed.

 

Daddy loving on him! 

:-)

Hanging out at the park bench.

 

His expression here is cute.

 

He had fun snapping the head of the tulips off.

 Yet another expression. Love the eyebrows!

 Loosened up a bit here and cracked a smile.

Crawled all over the place. 

At one point he had an egg on the concrete walkway. 

He tried to pick it up but it popped out of his hand. 

So he crawled to it. Tried to pick it up. It popped out of his hand.

So he crawled to it... 

You get the idea!

He didn't nap while we were there but he was asleep before we pulled out of our parking spot. He slept while we ate out and all the way home.

It was a Good Friday! Thank you Lord for ALL the gifts you have given us, your Son and my son! And the best husband a person could ask for!

Laptop

Levi's 1st laptop! Best part is, it was only $5.00!!!

Wrestling Match

Usually my sweet husband gives Levi a bath, tonight I gave it to him for reasons I will get to in a minute. Bath time with a crawler/cruiser is not bath time, as much as a wrestling match. First thing he does when I put him in 3 inches of water is pull up using the faucet. Then he promptly falls face first into the water. He gasps breath inward so that when he hits the water mouth first, he sucks in a big gulp of it. Like lightning I pick him up gagging and sputtering. More of the same happens for the next 10-15 minutes until I pull him out.

Now, why me tonight? A few nights ago Jesse used his multi-tool saw thing to cut some dry wall. We are hanging our TV out of reach of little hands, so we have to do some rewiring. Well when Levi heard the high-pitched dental-like drill sound, his bottom lip tucked in, his eyes got huge, and he sucked in a big breath for a terrified wail! I have never seen a look of sheer terror on his face before.
Problem was that we weren't done sawing yet. I took Levi in the other room so it wouldn't be as loud. His lip still quivered. He kept leaning to see what was making the noise but then shying away and clinging to me, not quite sure what to do. 
So last night I put Levi in the bath with some water running, the radio blaring on my phone and the heater going. That way he wouldn't hear the saw.  It worked! Whew!

8 months

Last month Levi learned how to crawl on all fours. This month he has perfected this mode of locomotion. He has become really fast. One minute he is in the living room with me, the next he is through the kitchen, going to the bedroom to find Daddy.





























He continues to play with new faces and sounds. Just today he started making a face he learned long ago and has not done in a long time. The "Ooh" face. I have not captured it on camera recently but I will keep trying to get it.
 


















Taking pictures of him has become quite interesting. He loves the camera. He wants to play with the camera. ...Our really nice camera... I think not.







This is the official 8 month old picture. It took some doing to get him sitting next to the Tigger long enough to snap the shot.

Do you see the cuteness I have to put up with? Yea, life is good!

Freyja

I have the best dog ever! Freyja  is constantly by Levi's side. When he pulls her hair, she licks his face to make him let go! He of course thinks she is hilarious when she catches a ball, plays with Isis or pants in his face.
 
However, Levi does not think she is funny all the time. Like when Levi is playing with the doggie door. Usually Freyja is careful when she comes in the doggie door now, but sometimes she forgets and runs over Levi.  He will eventually learn to not hang out by the doggie door.

As of today Levi is 8 months old!

At the zoo

 

Nana, Aunt Vicki, Cousin Elizabeth, Cousin Benjamin and Levi all went to the Forth Worth Zoo today. This was Levi's first trip to the zoo. Levi's favorite exhibit was the bird room! They actually went into a room with all the birds flying around. Nana said he kept looking around at all the birds. At around 2pm he fell asleep in the stroller and slept all the way home.

I'm hoping to see more pictures tomorrow.

Dusting the floor

Before you call CPS, he did this all on his own. We really don't make him dust for us! For that matter, I have no idea where Levi learned to dust, because he certainly has never seen his mama do it!  Perhaps his Meephs taught him on Friday when she babysat him.