In other news, Eric, Levi and I toured a 3 bedroom apartment in our complex yesterday! It's on the top floor so no more noisy upstairs neighbors and it's got vaulted ceilings which make it feel lighter and more spacious. We still need to pray about it some more but we are definitely leaning towards taking it! Which is super exciting! It just seems to make sense for our family to move sooner rather than later so that we have time to get the nursery ready and get all unpacked before the craziness that the end of the school year is going to bring for me at work. And we found out that it's a little cheaper than we had expected so that's a big bonus as well! I'm super excited about it even though I'm starting to freak out about packing up our whole apartment in the next two weeks, especially with Eric and Natachia's wedding coming up meaning we will be gone one of those weekends! (Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy for them and excited for the wedding and to see my family, it's just stressful timing wise).
Speaking of the wedding, in preparation for it I finally took Levi and got his hair cut! It was a little hard to say goodbye to his little baby curls but he looks so big and grown up now! And he looks even more like Eric than before! Patty sent me some pictures of Eric as a baby and toddler and good heavens he and Levi look the same! Guess those Martino genes run strong!
Levi with his new big boy haircut.
Seriously so dapper!
Let's see, what else has been going on here? Eric took me on a date to a hockey game a couple weeks ago and that was pretty fun! Decent hockey and well matched teams even though we ended up losing. Then we went to a cookie dough cafe where they serve eggless cookie dough in scoops like its icecream! That was different, very Portland. Haha. It was a little too sweet for me so I ended up just getting baked cookies instead but Eric liked it. Also, Eric, Levi and I went up to the OMSI yesterday as a last hurrah before our membership expires at the end of the month. They have this exhibit that shows what babies look like at different weeks of gestation using actual fetuses which is sad but also super amazing. It was really cool to look at the babies that are 23 weeks and realize that's what baby girl looks like right now. She's smaller than I expected given how hard she can kick and how close she is to potentially surviving outside the womb! But hopefully she stays in there and plumps up a lot before she decides to make her appearance!
Other than that, not much is going on here. We found out that Lincoln's family is also expecting a baby girl due two weeks after ours which is awesome. We must be on the same family plan haha. Levi has been having fun at daycare and on playdates and at story time at the library. I feel like we are always running and busy but I also kind of love it. Oh! Except that he has gotten bitten by a kid at daycare twice now! Yikes! And then last Sunday he bit another kid during nursery!!! NO!!! I really don't want him to learn that this is ok behavior. We talk about how teeth are only for food and not for biting people but I still worry. He is just so oral. I feel like he always has something in his mouth. For example:
We keep his binkies away from him except for during naps or bedtime but the other day he managed to get ahold of two of them! He acted like he had won the lottery! Hahaha.
We are trying to start really working on what things are appropriate to put in your mouth and what things aren't but with him it is definitely a struggle. He found one of my old nursing necklaces this week though and he has been wearing that around the house and chewing on it. I figure if that is working for him as a chewy, I'm ok with it. Better that than his books, our chairs, literally everything else in our house. Haha.
So yeah, that's what's going on! Here's just a couple last pictures to round out the last couple of weeks:
Levi LOVES it when his friend Lincoln comes over to play!
They get along great (Levi hasn't bitten him yet, knock on wood! Haha) and it's so cute how they're like the exact same size.
Levi's also been really into taking selfies lately. He will ask, "selfie?" But usually when he takes them, they involve only his forehead haha. This time I took charge of the phone.