Levi: 2 years 8 months

This little boy is seriously a handful. He has so much energy and is hard to keep up with. He brings so much joy into our home and it amazes me how fast he is growing and learning. Here's some things he does:

He is a total back seat driver. Whenever Adrian is driving you can hear from the backseat: watch out papa, careful papa, slowdown papa, turn papa and don't crash papa. He says them over and over :)

Levi does not like candy. If he's offered candy (or most sweets) he will say it's yucky!! He does though like fruitsnacks, donuts and crackers. He also will not drink plain milk, it has to have chocolate mix in it. He also loves to dip almost everything in ranch dressing.

Levi still sleeps with his two blankies. He recently will not sleep with his pants on. He will take them off once I'm gone from the room. I've told him he can sleep with no pants as long as he sleeps under the blankets (which he usually does not like to sleep under). He's been pretty good at sleeping under the blankets lately.

Levi's bedtime routine consists of taking a bath, reading books and singing songs. Levi always hates to stop reading books and one night he was mad at me for stopping and making him go to bed. As we were saying his night prayers that night he said "thanks for mean mama". I couldn't help but chuckle.

Levi likes to scream loud when he's frustrated or mad. I hate to say it, but it's quite annoying. We make him go outside to scream and tell him to get all his screams out because we don't like screams in the house.

Levi knows how to count to 11. He basically knows the order of the numbers because he really has no concept of actually counting things accurately.

He's been really into pirates and captain Hook lately. After we rented Peter Pan, a few days later while Levi was sitting at the table eating dinner, he could see his shadow on his feet. He asked me pull his shadow off because he wanted to play with it. He even told me "like in Captain Hook movie". I felt so bad telling him he couldn't really play with his shadow.

Levi knows his colors. Though he frequently mixes up yellow and blue.

Levi knows a few shapes.

I tried to teach Levi how to spell his name. If you ask him he will say "L, E, Levi"!!

Levi loves to read books (or be read to). 

Levi's favorite movies right now are the Polar Express and the Land Before Time. 

Levi loves to turn music up loud and dance. He dances by spinning in circles until he falls down.

Levi thinks Adrian can do anything in the world. There have been times when I have not been able to do things (that are out of my control) and when I tell Levi I can't do it, he always says " need papa's help".

Levi has some imaginary friends, spider friends that is. This picture is of his spider friends (his hands). His spider friends are mean sometimes and growl/ roar at us. There have been a couple times in the store when a stranger tries to say hi to him and all he will do is throw his spider friends up in front of his face and roar at the person. He also loves his hands to be airplanes.

Levi is always asking me "what's that", or more commonly, "what's that noise?"

Levi figured out how to turn the light on in his room. He stacks things up under the light switch so he can reach it. Frequently now, he will turn his light on and play with his toys instead of going to sleep.

If Levi has not seen Adrian in a day or two Levi will be mad him and give Adrian the silent treatment. Adrian usually has to bribe Levi with something to like him again. Levi just gets his feelings hurt when Adrian is gone so long.

Levi is such handful since he's so strong-willed, but he brings so much joy and love into our lives that we wouldn't have him any other way.