Levi is 1 Year Old!!!

I can't believe my baby is 1 year old! Each month, I took a picture of Levi so we could see how much he changed and grew. Unfortunately, I missed his 6 month picture though, 'cause it was so crazy getting ready to go to WA for almost a month. So you'll notice the pictures go from 5 months to 7 months. But anyway, here he is. Levi Daniel Forras. The first year.

As you can see Levi is getting to be quite the big boy! He is 23.5 pounds and 30.75 inches tall already! That puts him in the 60th percentile for weight and the 75th for height. He's wearing 18 & 24 month clothes (depending). He's got 6 teeth, 4 on top and 2 on bottom.

Levi took his very 1st step on Thanksgiving day! He's up to 3-8 steps at a time when he's coaxed but is still faster and more comfortable crawling. We're planning to take him out to Givens Hot Springs next weekend for his birthday party. We took Toby out there when he was at this same stage in walking and the resistance and buoyancy of the water "tricked" him into walking ALL over the wading pool area! I'll let you know if it works for Levi too.

Levi's vocabulary is steadily growing. He now says "momma, dadda, Grandma, Grandpa, Toby, more, hi, and up". We're doing sign language with him too and so far, he signs "more, all done, please, and thank you."

One of Levi's favorite activities is putting stuff into a bucket, box , or hole and then taking it back out again. Over and over. 8-) He also loves to play "airplane", tickle monster, and wrestling.
He's all boy! Our Boy, Our Big 1 Year Old Boy!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEVI!!!!
We love you!

Whaduya Do?

So what do you do when your child hears from the Lord? Tonight as I was tucking Toby in for bed and singing him a few goodnight songs, he says, "Mama, the last song was so long that Jesus looked down and said "Little Boy, go get another drink of water!"" This was not the first time God has "spoken" to Toby. He did get the drink but we also had a little chat about being truthful and just asking nicely if we want something.

Please post a comment if you have any wonderful ways of encouraging him to listen for God's voice without using or lying about it to get what he wants. Thanks!

Second Thoughts....

I recently babysat for my sister, Misha, while she and her husband, Eric, went to his work Christmas party. Because they live in Meridian and we live waaaay out here in Marsing, the kids stayed overnight and we met up at a different Christmas party the next day.

Anyway.... I learned a very valuable lesson during those 32 hours! I've said for some time now that I would like to have four kids. BUT........I don't think I want 4 children under the age of 4! The older two mostly entertained each other when they weren't disagreeing about whose turn it was. The babies, however, had a way of ganging up on this poor mama when they got tired and hungry. I didn't have a lot of time to snap pictures but here are a few.

Ayden & Toby loved jumping on my bed!

Wanna Double?
Levi is trying to horn in on Anna's car ride.Bathtime!

Rub-a-dub-dub, Three Boys in a Tub...

Would you care for a spot of tea?

Drying off and warming up by a nice cozy fire.

All in all we had a great time with the cousins and look forward to many more sleepovers in the future!

Construction!

You may have noticed I haven't posted anything lately. He-he! 8-) We've been very busy working on "the house". Here are some recent pictures of our progress.

Not that you'd recognize it but this is our kitchen.

Dad almost has the subfloor finished!

Uncle Lonzo building a wall!

Wow! A new wall between the kitchen and the dining room.

Bye-bye dinky little kitchen window!

Hello, big new kitchen window!

This yucky old sliding glass door had to go!

It's outta here!

Here's the big gapping hole in the side of our house.

Dad is using ALL his muscles cutting out the warped old header!

Toby helped Grandpa glue in the new threshold.

TADA!!! Our new french doors!

That's all for now. As you can see we still have a lot to do but I'll keep you updated....eventually. 8-)