Now he's 20 weeks!

Well last week I jumped the gun and called him 20 weeks too soon.  But now he really is 20 weeks old.   I can't believe he'll be 5 months old at the end of next week.  Where does the time go?

Dear Levi,
 This week you are busy crawling around like crazy. You are trying to sit up and do lots of crunches every day. You love your bouncer and are starting to do well in your high chair.

You are eating pears, peaches, apples, bananas, prunes, carrots, green beans, (a taste of) watermelon, avocado, pumpkin, rice cereal and oatmeal. You are taking Enfamil AR ready to feed formula.  So far so good.  Nutramigen ready to feed was a bust.  You puked your last 6 ounces of it all over me.

(Check out those RED eye lashes!!)

You are wearing 6-9 month, 6-12 month and 9 month clothes.

You weighed 14 pounds 14 ounces on Wednesday July 11th. And you are still around 26 inches tall.
Your eyes are still blue (see below picture). And you hair is STILL red. And your belly button still has some black in it... left over silver nitrate.

You dislike the bumbo, the carseat, and being hungry.

Silly boy!

 Hello drool!

 What? A boy can't touch his foot? 

My day

We always hear about Levi's day... but what about mine?

I threw on some clothes when I heard Levi waking up this morning.  He is my alarm clock.
I fed Levi and Lucy and then gave Levi his bottle.  Then he puked all over me. Love. it.

With 10 minutes to get to mom's group I threw on new clothes. Almost forgot bottles.
Hung out with some great ladies and babies. Went to lunch with Tina and Charlie (so glad they are back!).

Ran to target to buy fruit to make Levi some more food. Put him down for a nap.  Spent the next 1.5 hours elbow deep in baked peaches, apricots and pears. Let's just say I'll never bake fruit again... Peeling THEN steaming is so much better!

Levi woke up and played while I loaded the dishwasher and then I fed him another bottle.  Second bottle of the day with Enfamil AR Read to Feed aka liquid (our SEVENTH kind in 5 months)... and still no spit up. Halleluia.

And here I sit... catching up on blogs, being my husbands secretary (aka filling up his go phone with money so we can talk while he's in the field) and watching wedding shows on TLC.

And there you have it... my day so far.

The view from here

Yes I'm still alive

So I know I've just barely been posting on here... and well that's not my intention.  But every time I sit down to write what I'm thinking about I end up writing and editing and writing and editing until I decide it's not worth it.  So here's a short version of the inside of my head and also what we have been up to:

The catching up part:

• William keeps getting random days off.  This is mostly due to slightly (ha!) disorganized military training. A whole lot of "hurry up and wait", if you will.  
• The above statement means that Levi and I are on constant "William watch" just waiting for the word he is on his way to meet us.  I keep dropping what Levi and I are doing so that we can see him.  It drives me half way nuts... because I'm a control freak.  But obviously it always ends in the wonderful time we have together. 
• Levi is a busy guy.  I can't believe how big he is getting.  William and I have so much fun with him.  He's very laid back which definitely helps since we are always on the go.
• William is leaving August 3rd for Mississippi.  I know that our times of short notice trips to see each other are numbered.  Next week William will be in Brownwood so I know we won't see him for a while.  
• Levi has been going to "Summer Play Days" at our church.  It's twice a week for 6 hours.  I think he has enjoyed it.  We had a minor "whoops" moment when I found out they sort of forgot to feed him Monday afternoon.  It had been almost 5 hours since he had eaten and when I walked in he was screaming bloody murder.  I took a deep breath (I knew he was starving from the cry and the full bottle) and just excused myself to the hallway to feed him.  They apologized a lot. I was very proud of myself for not flipping out on them.  It paid off the next day when I got a call from the director saying that her staff "reported" themselves to her and they totally restructured Levi's class for the remainder of the summer. Phew!

Inside my brain:

• When you are sad for us... it makes it harder for us to be happy. (Just a thought for everyone out there).
• Lump in my throat is still there.
• I'm not scared of him leaving and I'm not afraid of something happening to him physically.  I'm terrified of what he'll be like when he comes home.  I'm not naive and I know people change over there... I'm scared he'll never be the same. 
• I can't wait for our mini vacation. 

Just kidding its 19 weeks! Not 20 Weeks?!?!

Hello everyone. I have a SHOCKING announcement to make...

LEVI IS 19 WEEKS OLD!

AND HE STILL HAS RED HAIR!

Okay, now that that is taken care of... back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Dear Levi,
You are 19 weeks old! Umm... what?! How did this happen?

You  are supposed to look like this!

But instead, you look like a little boy!

And see those little red knees... that's because you have been crawling!!! 

I love my precious smiley boy.  You are soooo good! No one can dare call you fussy, or difficult, or any other negative word. 

And your giggle is CONTAGIOUS! Sometimes I have a contest with myself to see how hard I can make you laugh! 

You are eating lots of yummy food.  But we found out yesterday that you do not agree with sweet potato... or it doesn't agree with you.  So we will add sweet potato to the list with "lactose" as things to not feed you for a while.  I'm also going to remove soy from your diet (which happens to be in your rice cereal).  I sure hope you aren't allergic to much else! 

You are even getting good at sitting up! Mommy is going to have to move your bed lower down soon... because once you are sitting and crawling I don't want you to fall out.  

You are an amazing little boy.  Don't grow up too fast okay? 

Love, Mommy