a month in review

First tooth.
First word, "cat." (sound familiar)
First 10-day antibiotics course for...
First ear infection.
First avocado.
First steps, cruising on furniture.
First Purim.
First time his mother contemplated shipping him off while up between 3:30 am and 5 am with him.
Copious drool. It is not uncommon to find puddles on the hardwood floor.


Micah takes it all in stride and is an incredible big brother but I have begun to wonder lately just how many words a 3 and a half year old must utter between waking and going to sleep. Is it wrong to think, "will you just shut up?" about your child?

lunchtime antics

Offensive sweet potato ruins the fun:

8 months old today!

...and getting into everything!

snow day

I took the boys up to the mountains above Ojai last Monday for Levi's first snow. It was funny watching him crawl off the blanket onto the cold stuff.

WARNING: Poop anecdote follows, read at own risk.

It was all fun until Micah had to go number two...I lost my enthusiasm for the snow experience when I found myself wiping his tush with snow. Brown snow is not nearly as funny as yellow snow. Yuck.

a game of cat and mouse?

More like a game of baby and cat...This is what has been keeping us too busy to blog:

Parents chasing a newly mobile Levi, chasing a cat, chasing some peace and quiet.

Levi's gimpy crawl is a riot. The only baby he has ever seen crawl is Jai over Christmas...and coincidentally Jai has also developed a very efficient one-legged crawl. Levi was studying Jai that day, I had no idea just how closely. We have begun some homespun physical therapy to try to get it going in the right way, but he is just getting faster and more adept at the gimp-crawl. I hope this doesn't ruin a future running career.