Levi: 2 Years
I'm not emotionally ready to write this post. Haha. My baby is two years old, which unofficially makes him a toddler instead of a baby. Levi brings so much love and laughter into our lives. He still has the best dimples and the sweetest giggle.
His doctor appointment is next week so I don't have the official stats, but he's definitely still a shrimp. He's finally started to outgrow his 12 month pants. He can wear 12 month t-shirts but not long-sleeved shirts. I just got him a whole bunch of 2T summer clothes, so hopefully he'll be big enough for them by then!
I just went back and read the girls' 2 year updates and was astounded at how different they were than Levi. Lena was speaking in full sentences (paragraphs!) by this age, could identify colors, count to 11, and sing the alphabet. Lucy was slower to speak, but still had sentences, could count and identify colors, even knew some letters at this age! Ha! The only time Levi speaks a sentence is when he adds no to a word (No night night! No Lena!) or when he adds please (Up peez! More peez!) He does have a fair amount of words (I counted 40), but many of them are confusingly similar. Hi and hands (short for "I want to wash my hands") are almost exactly the same. Juice and fish are both "ees." Ball and bowl are both some variation of "ba ba/bo." We do a lot of guessing what he's saying and trying to figure out what he wants. Some of his funnier words are "mee-mee" for Binky, "yoom" for car, "mice" for mess, "lolo" for phone (because you say "hello" when you talk on it, obviously!), "roy" for scary, and "woof" for dog. He has no concept of singing the alphabet. He says "ee-oh" to signify counting. He thinks every color is blue. And he can't even dream of identifying letters! Ha! Poor non-verbal, third born boy.
I was also starting potty training with the girls by this age. I'm totally dreading it with Levi. Everyone says boys are harder and I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from training Lena a year ago. Levi is semi-interested. He sits on the toilet before he takes a bath. But he's never actually peed on it. He's pooped on the toilet plenty of times because he always tries to poop in the bath, but I almost always catch him and throw him on the toilet. I keep saying I'll get serious about it this summer when I can just let him run around outside naked.
Theobsession love of Levi's life is cars. Or trucks or trains or anything with wheels, basically. It is literally all he ever plays with. Once in a while, I can get him to do a puzzle with me or play with a ball, but if left to his own devices, he will always choose to play with his "vrooms." Thanks to Christmas and his birthday, our house is a veritable toy store - at least the aisle of Hot Wheels, Thomas, Geo-Trax, and Cars 3 paraphernalia. We have ramps galore, tracks coming out of our ears, and Matchbox cars in every bin, box, nook, and cranny. And Levi is in his glories. When Lena was 2, she carried her lovies everywhere. Levi, on the other hand, doesn't leave the house without his "yooms." He even sleeps with one clenched in each hand. Last night he fell asleep without them and was awake at 1:00 am shouting, "yoom! yoom!" He didn't go back to sleep until I found two Matchbox cars to toss in bed with him. Haha.
He loves TV. His favorites are Cars (we have the 1st one and the 3rd is on Netflix), Thomas, Tayo the Little Bus (weird foreign Netflix show), and Llama Llama.
He's my best eater right now, but that isn't saying much. His favorite food is hands down pizza. He's obsessed. But he'll usually at least try what I make for dinner. He tends to like meat, so he'll eat chili, taco meat, sloppy joe meat, etc. He loves chicken and dumplings. He'll occasionally eat a veggie here or there if it's somewhat hidden in a casserole or something. But he never willingly eats vegetables. He loves all fruit.
He's definitely my most social kid. (They each got a little better.) He loves to wave and say hi to people when we're out and about. He's a little wary of strangers if they try to talk to him, but he's much more obliging than either of the girls has ever been. He usually goes into nursery at church without a problem. It's a very new experience for me. Haha.
Unfortunately, he did not miss the anxious gene. I thought he might have been spared, but it's been cropping up over the past month or so. He learned the word "scary" and applies it most often to the dark and loud noises (particularly thunder or the train that goes by our house twice a day).
He's usually a good sleeper. He goes down around 8:30 at night and wakes up between 7 and 8 am. He's not a great napper. I'm lucky if he'll sleep for an hour and a half. Usually it's only an hour. And at least once or twice a week he refuses to nap at all. A few times a week he wakes up in the middle of the night because he lost his Binky or can't find his "yooms" or just wants to be held. Unfortunately, the times that he gets mad and doesn't want to sleep, he tends to scream until he pukes. Ugh. I'm a pro at stripping pukey sheets.
In the past few months he's started to get a bit of an attitude. He scowls and pouts and sometimes even growls when he's upset. It's so adorable I can't even be mad. Haha.
He's a major snuggler, loves his sisters and grandparents, loves baths (as long as he can bring 20 cars in the water with him), and adores being outside. He is silly and affectionate and brings us so much joy. I'm so sad to see the baby phase go, but am so excited to watch him grow and learn and become his own little person.
Happy birthday, sweet boy! We love you so much!
(Below are his words - just for my records. Feel free to skip.)
Words
1. up please (ah-eeee)
2. no
3. hi
4. bye
5. uh-oh
6. ball (baw-baw)
7. bowl (bo)
8. all gone (aw gaw)
9. ow
10. ya
11. ready, set, go (eh, et, goooo!)
12. yum
13. baby
14. ew
15. whoa
16. beep
17. binky (meemee)
18. juice/drink (jees)
19. zoom/vroom (yoom)
20. mama (22 mo.)
21. dada (22 mo.)
22. oh
23. more (mo)
24. mine
25. scary (roy)
26. mess (mice)
27. yes
28. please
29. home
30. race
31. Lucy (wace)
32. Lena (ye-yah)
33. me
34. eat (ee)
35. hungry (huh-ee)
36. loud (lou)
37. dog (woof)
38. phone (lolo)
39. potty (bah-ee)
40. candy (nee)
41. blue (boo)
42. yellow (lello)
43. nigh-nigh
44. hands
His doctor appointment is next week so I don't have the official stats, but he's definitely still a shrimp. He's finally started to outgrow his 12 month pants. He can wear 12 month t-shirts but not long-sleeved shirts. I just got him a whole bunch of 2T summer clothes, so hopefully he'll be big enough for them by then!
I just went back and read the girls' 2 year updates and was astounded at how different they were than Levi. Lena was speaking in full sentences (paragraphs!) by this age, could identify colors, count to 11, and sing the alphabet. Lucy was slower to speak, but still had sentences, could count and identify colors, even knew some letters at this age! Ha! The only time Levi speaks a sentence is when he adds no to a word (No night night! No Lena!) or when he adds please (Up peez! More peez!) He does have a fair amount of words (I counted 40), but many of them are confusingly similar. Hi and hands (short for "I want to wash my hands") are almost exactly the same. Juice and fish are both "ees." Ball and bowl are both some variation of "ba ba/bo." We do a lot of guessing what he's saying and trying to figure out what he wants. Some of his funnier words are "mee-mee" for Binky, "yoom" for car, "mice" for mess, "lolo" for phone (because you say "hello" when you talk on it, obviously!), "roy" for scary, and "woof" for dog. He has no concept of singing the alphabet. He says "ee-oh" to signify counting. He thinks every color is blue. And he can't even dream of identifying letters! Ha! Poor non-verbal, third born boy.
I was also starting potty training with the girls by this age. I'm totally dreading it with Levi. Everyone says boys are harder and I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from training Lena a year ago. Levi is semi-interested. He sits on the toilet before he takes a bath. But he's never actually peed on it. He's pooped on the toilet plenty of times because he always tries to poop in the bath, but I almost always catch him and throw him on the toilet. I keep saying I'll get serious about it this summer when I can just let him run around outside naked.
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He loves TV. His favorites are Cars (we have the 1st one and the 3rd is on Netflix), Thomas, Tayo the Little Bus (weird foreign Netflix show), and Llama Llama.
He's my best eater right now, but that isn't saying much. His favorite food is hands down pizza. He's obsessed. But he'll usually at least try what I make for dinner. He tends to like meat, so he'll eat chili, taco meat, sloppy joe meat, etc. He loves chicken and dumplings. He'll occasionally eat a veggie here or there if it's somewhat hidden in a casserole or something. But he never willingly eats vegetables. He loves all fruit.
He's definitely my most social kid. (They each got a little better.) He loves to wave and say hi to people when we're out and about. He's a little wary of strangers if they try to talk to him, but he's much more obliging than either of the girls has ever been. He usually goes into nursery at church without a problem. It's a very new experience for me. Haha.
Unfortunately, he did not miss the anxious gene. I thought he might have been spared, but it's been cropping up over the past month or so. He learned the word "scary" and applies it most often to the dark and loud noises (particularly thunder or the train that goes by our house twice a day).
He's usually a good sleeper. He goes down around 8:30 at night and wakes up between 7 and 8 am. He's not a great napper. I'm lucky if he'll sleep for an hour and a half. Usually it's only an hour. And at least once or twice a week he refuses to nap at all. A few times a week he wakes up in the middle of the night because he lost his Binky or can't find his "yooms" or just wants to be held. Unfortunately, the times that he gets mad and doesn't want to sleep, he tends to scream until he pukes. Ugh. I'm a pro at stripping pukey sheets.
In the past few months he's started to get a bit of an attitude. He scowls and pouts and sometimes even growls when he's upset. It's so adorable I can't even be mad. Haha.
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| Appalled that Lena beat him to the steering wheel and he has to wait his turn. |
He's a major snuggler, loves his sisters and grandparents, loves baths (as long as he can bring 20 cars in the water with him), and adores being outside. He is silly and affectionate and brings us so much joy. I'm so sad to see the baby phase go, but am so excited to watch him grow and learn and become his own little person.
Happy birthday, sweet boy! We love you so much!
(Below are his words - just for my records. Feel free to skip.)
Words
1. up please (ah-eeee)
2. no
3. hi
4. bye
5. uh-oh
6. ball (baw-baw)
7. bowl (bo)
8. all gone (aw gaw)
9. ow
10. ya
11. ready, set, go (eh, et, goooo!)
12. yum
13. baby
14. ew
15. whoa
16. beep
17. binky (meemee)
18. juice/drink (jees)
19. zoom/vroom (yoom)
20. mama (22 mo.)
21. dada (22 mo.)
22. oh
23. more (mo)
24. mine
25. scary (roy)
26. mess (mice)
27. yes
28. please
29. home
30. race
31. Lucy (wace)
32. Lena (ye-yah)
33. me
34. eat (ee)
35. hungry (huh-ee)
36. loud (lou)
37. dog (woof)
38. phone (lolo)
39. potty (bah-ee)
40. candy (nee)
41. blue (boo)
42. yellow (lello)
43. nigh-nigh
44. hands
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