Birthday Party #2

Here are the pictures from his second party he celebrated with his cousin Max and my side of the family...

opening more presents

the cakes. I did not make his #1 cake. I was sick of making cakes and I had other things to get ready, so I had some lady make it. I did make their smash cakes again.

the boys digging in to their cakes. Max went right for it and Levi took a little bit getting into it this time.

Birthday Party #1

We celebrated Levi's birthday with two parties. Normally I do both sides of the family all together, but this time we celebrated Levi and his cousin Max's birthdays together with my side of the family( they are two weeks apart) and then had John's side of the family over a few days earlier to celebrate. Here are pictures of party #1...

John and I with the birthday boy ( he actually didn't turn one till a few days later)

Presents

I made him a monkey cake and he had his own little smash cake.enjoying making a mess out of his cake

cleaning up after having so much fun eating the cake.

1 Year Pictures & Stats

We have been frequent visitors to Sears lately with the boys yearly pictures, and family pictures. Here are my favorites of his 1 year pictures. Sorry that they can't be viewed too well with their name all over the pictures, but I did post a link on Facebook to view the rest of them.
He also visited the doctor yesterday and had to get four shots and then get a lead test done b/c we live in an old house. We had to go upstairs for that to the lab and with my other two boys they just poked their fingers. This time they put a tiny needle in. I had to bear hug him and another nurse had to hold his arm and the other put in the needle and drew blood. He didn't even flinch or cry. He cried more at his shots. He is still following his own growth curve well and weighed in at 27 lbs. 6 oz and 31.5" he gained 2 lbs and 2" in just 3 months. Still in the 90-95%.

Happy Birthday Levi!! 1 Year Old Today!!

My baby is 1 today! This year has flown by and I feel so blessed to have him in our lives. He is such a joy. I love him to pieces. We had a normal day, no parties, those were all over the weekend ( hopefully I will get pictures of that up soon.) We got your pictures taken at Sears today and then we went to Target and then had Pizza Hut there. We got home and you took a 4 1/2 hour nap! Then we just played outside for a bit while I made chicken on the grill for dinner. I think he ate a whole piece himself he loved it. We played with some more of his new presents he got and enjoyed some leftover cake and ice cream.
At 12 months old he is finally walking- for the most part. He will still crawl around on occasion b/c it is quicker. He has 6 teeth( 4 on top and 2 on bottom) He only gets one bottle now at bedtime- the formula is almost gone and then he will be done. He likes regular milk and water. Not so much juices though. He is eating all regular food and loves most of it. He is chatting a little more but still not much of a talker. I think he has said "nana" which is for banana and of course mama and dada and hot ( i was telling him the grill was hot and he repeated me) He goes for his check-up tomorrow so I will post his stats then. Here are a few pictures of the Birthday Boy in his little t-shirt.

Dirt Bikes

Levi loves the dirtbikes too. Everytime they come out he crawls/walks right for it. He even gets rides and he always has a huge grin on his face. I can't wait till they all get a little older and watch them ride/race (if they choose too.) I love it! This is what John did when we met and I spent many summers going with him to races and watching him and then to watch my boys do it too, will bring back a lot of memories.

Carter taking a ride with dad and even twisitng the throttle himself. This is a huge accomplishment since he wanted nothing to do with it. He even has his own bike now, that needs training wheels put on it yet, but for awhile he was denying it was his and screaming that he does not want a dirtbike.

Riley riding his bike around the house. Usually we go to the farm where there is more room, but he wanted to show grandpa and grandma when they were over for Levi's birthday party last night( more posts and pictures to come soon)

Levi's Walking

Levi has finally gotten the hang of walking. He would do it a little here and there, but now he is getting much better at it and going longer distances. He still crawls around alot too. Sorry the picture is sideways. If anyone knows how to rotate them please let me know.

Family Pictures

We had a family picture taken again. They turned out really well and I am very happy with them. They changed how you can view photos online, so now they have their name plastered all over and they come up smaller so they are harder to view. I have a link posted on FB where you can view them better if you like, but they are not rotated. Here are two of my favorites.

DETERMINATION

Levi was so determined to get to the stairs. At first I had 1 chair up and he made it through that. He had a huge smile on his face like I did it mom! so I added more chairs, although it would have been just as easy for me to go get the gate which was outside, but this was more fun. He really worked at it and twisted and turned to get through the bottom, just to be stopped by another chair. He tried a couple different ways too. He never made it to the stairs again, but he sure tried hard!!


he made it through one chair to be stopped by another

getting a little frustrated at first with his situation then he manages to figure it out