11 Months

Some of you know that at 8 months old, Levi's pediatrician referred him to a government-funded program called, "Help Me Grow", to evaluated his development. The referral was at a time when he wasn't gaining weight AND was behind especially in gross-motor development (ie: he couldn't get himself into a sitting position, although he could sit up well). Levi ended up qualifying for the program due to his motor skills. Well, be the government, it took 3 months for someone to start coming to the house and help him.

This is all background and context for the following picture. Levi JUST started learning how to get up into a sitting position about 1 week before turning 11 months old, thanks to some moves one of the HMG physical therapists taught us to do with Levi (he picked it up, after that, in 4 days). As a result, there were a few nights where Levi would wake up crying because he sat up in the crib, but didn't know how to lay back down. The below picture, taken 2 days shy of 11 months, is how Dustin found him during nap time, apparently exhausted, but unable to lay back down!

Poor boy was hard asleep!!

Grandpa was able to visit and read Levi a bedtime story. One of the most attentive times I've seen Levi at this point during story time!

Our happy boy.

April 24th was Levi's last day at Childtime Daycare. Here are picture of Levi with Tanya and Tanya, two of the 3 ladies Levi with whom he spent his weekdays. We are thankful for the care they provided for Levi--they would always do everything we asked.

(Yes, Levi chunked up quite a lot this month as well!!!)

We moved Levi to Mt. Washington Baptist Daycare, at a church walking distance from our house! A spot opened up early, and we took it. We knew we had to eventually move knowing that Dustin would no longer be working downtown in the next few months, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity we had.

For the past two years, Dustin has been signing each of us individually up for a drawing that Hamilton County does to give away tickets for Reds and Bengals games. Well, they drew my name for tickets in one of the Luxury Suites! Wahoo! Although they lost that game, it was a fun, beautiful day!

Dustin went a little overboard with Levi's Reds gear, so I had to get many pictures capturing it!

Here are some pictures at a nearby park. It was sooo hard getting a good picture of Levi because he wouldn't sit still long enough--he'd start scooting to me or away from me! Below is the best I could get.

Levi loves the swing!! It was so fun to hear his giggles! You can hear some of the giggles too in the video below.