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Morning Snuggles

Conrad will be 9 months tomorrow. He has really started to develop a personality already. Conrad is not about to let Levi push him around, if Levi takes something from him he breaks out his mad cry. Conrad loves to give kisses by grabbing your face pulling you in for a big slobber. He has started dancing on occasion by bouncing up and down when he is sitting up. When he’s happy he sit with his arms out twirling his hands and feet. He finally will stand sometimes and when on his stomach (if he feels like it) he will try to move. He is still my cuddle bug and loves to snuggle in to my shoulder. He says da da da and laughs the hardest when Levi plays with him. He is very ticklish and loves to be held up side down or more likely just enjoys physical play. He is also teething like crazy right now. (Tylenol to the rescue) I thank God every day for bringing this little guy into our family.

Levi is officially a toddler. He has been up to so much since I last wrote about him. His speech is continually improving. Within the last month he has picked up on how to use I, me, you, etc.. It amazes me that you don’t have to teach a kid these language development skills. He also finally calls me mom or mommy. Nate was watching a baseball game and he said dang, so for the rest of the evening Levi kept saying “dang mom”. Its little stuff like this that keeps me laughing through the day. We were also going to go play with Haley and Tanner so Levi’s saying was “I want to go see Tanny Baby”. He loves his cousins especially Riley and likes to talk about swimming and going to the beach with them. His imagination is growing as well having pretend conversations while playing. He can also have a coherent phone conversion now instead of just smiling huge. Levi loves to sing but when I catch him he gets embarrassed and won’t do it any more. Nate was watching a Bob Dylan concert the other day and when Bob played the harmonica Levi busted out his and started playing. We took him to see the movie Cars and he loved it. Almost everyday he tells me he wants to see it again. At home his favorite movie is Veggie Tales “Joan and the Water” (Jonah and the Whale) which I will elaborate on in another post. Baseball is his sport of choice. He pays attention much more closely than I ever thought. The reason I know this is because when he throws the ball he picks up his leg like the pitchers do and when he bats he takes a little step as well. It is really cute. I tried to get pictures but they were all blurry, I will try again soon. Levi is developing a sense of brotherly love as well. He is still in the parallel play stage but he will bring Conrad a toy and a toy for himself and sit down next to him and play. I can’t explain how that little act brings such joy to me. At night we usually pray with the boys before bed so Levi always makes sure that I don’t forget to pray for Conrad and occasionally he will come to Conrads crib with me and put his hand on him when we pray. O’yeah one last thing that I treasure is when he says to Nate “I want to hold mama”. How can a mom deny that.