June 2007

June 4-June 11, 2007

Levi has turned into turbo-crawler. He chases balls and other objects around the room, and he’s also started to like to be chased around. The negative side of his mobility is that he spies something he wants to put in his mouth and he’s so fast sometimes we aren’t quick enough to head him off. For example, the other day he was bolting for a dead roach, and luckily papa beat him to it-barely.

Isaac, “can I puh-lease”????

Isaac has a new annoying obsession with the “covers” of movies—it started a couple of weeks ago and now its going pretty strong. He wants to see the “Lion cover”—Baby Newton or the “Vincent the Goat cover” baby Van Gogh or the Dora and the Star cover or Numbers, etc. He likes lining up the covers for the movies and fantasizing about which one he wants to watch in the morning. I’m trying to really limit his T.V. now and just let him watch a little in the morning and when he wants to watch it in the afternoon or evening I just tell him that its family time. He doesn’t give up easily though—he’ll even bust out his Spanish to try to convince me, “Quieres ver una pelicula mama?”

Levi definitely understands his name now and will turn when he hears it.

BEFORE THE BIKE RIDE

AFTER THE BIKE RIDE

WHO LIKE'S GREEN PEPPERS?

June 11-June 17, 2007
We decided to get a membership to the local pool this week because I just had to have somewhere to take the kids to escape the heat. They both love being in the water, but Isaac refuses to wear water wings or a water vest or suit, so he’s either playing on the steps, in Levi’s floatie, or clinging to me. Levi loves the water, but sometimes he loves the water too much and tries to drink it.
When Isaac wants to go out with the bike trailer he’ll say, “let’s go on a bike rider mom”—he likes to go out really far on the trail and never really wants to turn around.
On Friday we went to Beyond Bounce with Claudia and Anna—when I went down one of the slides with Isaac he looked up and said “that was awesome”
Levi seems to live in a hyper curiosity mode where he wants to explore everything and touch and taste everything.

June 18-June 24, 2007
This week Levi’s guardian angel was working overtime. I left him with Amerika and Claudia for a few minutes on Monday while I went and put Isaac in the car. When I came back, they didn’t know where he was and we found him upstairs playing with the toys. He’s gotten a little too fast with his stair crawling but at least he didn’t fall!
Isaac is learning to sing “Book of Mormon Stories” at nursery and now that’s his new favorite song. He can do a lot of the hand motions-including the book, the water, and folding his arms at the end.
Levi has discovered how interesting toilets are and we’ve caught him trying to splash in the water and eat the tp. We’ve got to keep the bathroom doors shut now!
Levi is a big-time flirt
Isaac has been applying the Dora commitment pattern. One day James was telling him they were going to Sister McNeil’s house, and Isaac repeated it, then said “… and that’s how we get to Old McDonalds.” (That’s what he calls McDonalds the restaurant.)

We brought out the "turtle swimming pool" this week and had some great turtle parties. The idea came to me when I had the gets all ready to go swimming and I didn't realize the local pool was closed. They close alot here because it thunders and rains alot here--but it can be pretty frustrating when they close it if there's just thunder and no storm.

June 25- July 1, 2007
I feel like freezing Levi for extra time and the amazingly cute stage that he’s at. He squeals, he squawks, he’s very easily amused and very ticklish.
Levi has now eaten a couple of the taboo baby foods—strawberries and peanut butter. I can’t really say that I’m proud of that, but the kid just has a strong will and really wants to eat what we’re eating. So when I’m drinking my strawberry yogurt smoothie in the morning, he has to take a sip. He also loves floor scavenging and today he managed to grab a crust of Isaac’s pbj before I could finish cleaning everything up.
Isaac—“that’s crazy mom.” Great new phrase
We went to Beyond Bounce on Monday with Amerika and Ava.. Isaac and I had a marvelous time on the obstacle course while baby Levi took a nap. Isaac loves speaking in Spanish with Amerika and he’ll say, “Hola Amerika! Vamos a jugar con los juguetes.”
Mama and a great day
“Hi Mr mom, I’m just locking the door.”—Isaac likes to pick up my cell phone and use this phrase—I think he heard me tell James I was just locking the door and he thinks it sounds funny.
Levi started cruising, he’ll walk if you hold his hand. He also loves being chased- especially up the stairs.
refusing to be fed with a spoon- wants to self feed. Loves fruits/veggies: watermelon, banana, cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes, grapes, and more.
Levi weaning off breastmilk during the day, and weaning off the binky.
Isaac “Feet- baby Levi” “Are you OK? Estas bien?” Used past tense of catch: “Caught”
Isaac started responding “Yes” to questions instead of just repeating the question.