John's Mini-Me

This past Saturday we went out to the farm for

Riley to ride his dirtbike without the training wheels. He was finally ready and he did awesome, I am so proud of him, but very nervous at the same time- he did almost hit a tree! He is so excited he already wants to race, but he needs some more practice. John is going to build him a pee-wee track on my brothers land until we move out to our property. Watching Riley ride brought back lots of memories of when John and I were dating, he also had a dirtbike and raced. I came across this pic that took me forever to figure out how to scan and get it to the right size, but I sure see alot of similarities-he is definetly his son.

2 months

Levi will be 8 weeks old tomorrow. As you can tell in the picture below that he is getting chubby and has a double chin. He goes to the doctor at the end of the month then I will post his stats, but I think he is on track to be a big boy- on a regular scale he already weighs 13 lbs! and that was 2 weeks ago. Anyway he continues to be a happy baby, he smiles and coos alot more. He loves to stare at ceiling fans and lights. He also enjoys being outside. His favorite thing to be in is the new swing that we got him, it swings side to side vs. the back and forth which he does not like. It has a mobile above him that plays music which he loves to watch, he even "talks" to it. He eats every 4 hours and drinks 6 oz. I think that he really enjoys a routine, hes up for about an hour to play and then back to sleep in his crib until he needs to eat again. He does not do well when his sleep is interuppted to go some where, if I do this to many times in a day hes crabby by the end of the day. He still does not sleep through the night, I hope that it happens soon. Right now he will go 5-6 hour stretches. I have to work on those stretches being a little later at night. Right now he goes down around 8-9 ( 10-11 would be more ideal, but I'm not in charge :)) then up around 2-3 a.m and then again around 5-6 and that is still to early for me to start the day so we go back to sleep till about 9. This will soon change as Riley starts school in 2 weeks and need to be there at 8:30. Anyway.... The pictures below are from our recent camping trip, he did really well and we had lots of fun.

Levi and his favorite pipe, we finally found one that he will keep in his mouth, its the Gumdrop Soothie, I had to order them online.

Best Buddies

I finally got a picture of Levi and his cousin Max together. I have not seen him since he was born and that was 4 weeks ago. They are only two weeks apart and I think they are going to be good buddies and probally cause a lot of mischief too. What a difference 2 weeks makes, Levi looks so chubby and they were both born at pretty much the same weight and height.

First Smiles

Levi has been smiling alot more lately. He first gave me a smile 2 weeks ago and I finally got some decent pictures of him smiling today, its so hard b/c the moment is brief. He has been trying really hard to talk too, I have heard a few small coos come out.

Sorry these are a little blurry, they were my first attempt at capturing a smile while holding him.

Fun at the Fair

Yesterday was kids day at the fair, so I took the boys for the whole day. They had $10 wristbands and they could ride all day as many times as they wanted. I only got a few pics of them on the rides b/c my camera battery died. Riley also did the pedal pull, he has done is for the past 3 years. Carter did not want to do it, maybe next year. Then Riley also got a chance to do the money tank, where they put you in a box and the money flies around in there and you have to try and catch it, he made $3, he was happy with that. We also checked out all the animals. We had a great time, the weather was great and the rain stayed away, but I was exhausted by the end of the day and we had an early bedtime.


Riley doing the pedal pull, he was so excited and a little competitive, he got 2nd place (beat by a girl :)) out of 7 kids in his age group.

Riley on some of the rides before my camera died :(

Riley wanted me to take a picture of these pigs b/c he said that they were hugging like mommy adn daddy do in bed.... to the best of my knowledge he has never seen mommy and daddy "in bed" :)

Checking out and petting some of the animals