The Grouchy Ladybug

So The Grouchy Ladybug is Levi's favorite book right now. And he likes to skip straight to the page with the gorilla on it. Why? So that he can pound on his chest, and my chest and act like a gorilla! Haha. He's gotten pretty good at animal sounds. He makes the sounds for gorilla (by pounding on his chest and going "ahhh") and for elephant (by waving his arm in the air and fluttering his lips) and for cow (mmmm instead of moo). I also feel like Levi's language has just been exploding lately! He went from having no words to seeming to have many almost overnight! Here are Levi's words:

banana (usually just "nana" but sometimes the whole word!)

shoes

juice

cheese

keys

gigi (binkie)

woof (which he repeats over and over any time he sees a dog!)

bye

ba (ball)

uh-oh

And, as I have mentioned before, Levi does some signing. Here are Levi's signs:

more

all done

please

up

We have been working on the sign for "help" but it's a tricky one so it's taking him a while to pick it up.

Anyway, life has been pretty good around here. Here's a little snapshot of our life in pictures:

Levi is obsessed with climbing onto the kitchen table and chairs. He may have said he was all done with dinner but if Eric or I are still eating, he will do his darndest to climb up on a chair and eat some of our food too!

Whenever I open our front door, Levi beelines it for the stairs. He would love it if I just let him climb up and down them over and over instead of whisking him off to wherever we happen to be going. 

Out for a family walk!

I took Levi up to the OMSI on Thursday and he had a blast playing in the water area!

He was so cute in the little smock!

I love that it's finally warm enough for shorts and keens outside! It's supposed to be in the 90s tomorrow and Tuesday which will be amazing. Spring and summer are a long time coming here in OR so I really appreciate them when they finally arrive. 

Anyway, so that's what's been going on! I love our little family and our life. My mom comes again this week and I can't wait to see her! There are good times ahead :)

Here Comes the Sun... Hopefully!

So today was my first time fasting in almost two years! I can hardly believe how long it's been. I was worried that it would just be insanely difficult since I'm not used to it anymore but I prayed a lot and it worked! It hasn't been too difficult at all. And I am really grateful for this chance to fast again and thank Heavenly Father for all of the amazing blessings I have. I am so grateful that I am healthy enough to fast and for Eric and Levi and for my job and Eric's job. I love our life, I love that I don't have to work every day. I love Levi's little duck curls in the back. I love how much he is learning and growing. He knows how to go down the slide by himself now and he also (unfortunately) has learned how to take off his own diaper! Yikes! Haha.

I was trying to think of anything interesting to share in this post, but our life has been pretty normal. Emma came to visit us this weekend which was a lot of fun. Wish we got to see her more often! And we got Levi a big boy carseat so he is finally out of his infant bucket seat! He looks more grown up than ever in his new carseat and I love how much leg room he gets. We got the Graco Extend2Fit and so far I like it! Also we finally had a few warm days this week! Levi and I spent like two hours at the park on Wednesday and it got hot enough to get a bit of a sunburn!

So yeah, I haven't taken many pictures over the last couple weeks but what I do have sums things up pretty well so here you go!

My car is once again being reclaimed by nature. Yes those are real life plants growing on my car! 

I used some of my birthday money to re-do our back porch and I LOVE how it turned out! I especially love the lights! And my mint is super happy and growing like crazy. 

Love my boys!

So I feel like it's been winter FOREVER but we finally had two super warm days this past week so Levi got to wear his super cute new shorts for the first time! So so cute!

I just love this picture of Levi and Arlo. I feel like Levi is showing Arlo the way like, "Follow me!"