Summer has been all about family. Kids growing, a baby born and visits from family.
August started with my birthday, I'm getting old. I feel that I need to get the babies popping, because my time is running out. Levi is now 18 months and baby#2 is on its way, crossing our fingers for January 2012.
A few weeks ago we found out that we are having a girl. I screamed my lungs out in the car, when Ben opened the envelop and showed the pink cookie. Just what I was hoping for. During the ultrasound we saw her squirm, suck on her lips and thumb, rolling and saw her crossing her legs (she's a lady). She is gorgeous and looks like his daddy, that nose is a Cole. It is not a button nose like Levi but a straight pointy nose. Levi did get the reddish tint, that was amazing. I find he looks like my mom but his head shape is growing to be like his daddy and has a long torso like him too. The shirt I put on him today, looked too short and it's size 18months.
Levi is growing so fast, he is now going to nursery, drinking from a cup, sorting and lining up his cars,swimming in puddles, taking naps in his bunk bed and understanding more short instructions. Today in the car he was signing the alphabet and burped in the middle of it. We are working on manners, it will come.We bought him this week an Elmo stuffed animal and a baby doll. We were told the baby doll would prepare him having another little person around. It does not have a name , like our unborn baby, for now her name is "bebe". She's been sleeping in his crib during the day, he knows that babies need a crib to sleep in and that means sharing.
Tonight at our home, we had Ola & Noah, Suzette & Devyn over. Levi can share, is gentle but sometimes not so much. I am just glad he's not violent. Our kids are growing together, they are months apart and learning about the same things. My hope is that they will remain friends during adolescence, it's really tough to be LDS when you're in highschool. I would know, I was the only member at my school. These mommies are wonderful and strong believers.Our goal these days is to find baby#2 a name, Levi to know about 200 words before he is 2 years old and enjoy the rest of the summer .