Dear Levi

My Dear Sweet Levi Boy,

I can not express to you how special you are to us.  We love you oh so much.  You are so fully of life and laughter. 

You enjoy being pushed on the swing, being read to, looking at books, playing trains and you LOVE riding your balance bike (which you are really, really great at),

I think your motto around here is "anything you can do I can do better."  You do not let anything hold you back.  You are fearless and brave. 

You are easy going and so low maintenance.  You go with the flow so well. 

You love your sister and play so well with her.  You usually go along with whatever she wants with such a happy heart. 

You love Joshua and love to play rough with him. 

Something that makes me laugh is when we practice our Bible verses and I pause for you to fill in the blanket you always feel in the blank with God. 

You are so easy to make laugh.  You are always doing silly things making us all laugh.  You also laugh at yourself.  You think you are pretty funny, and we do too.  You also have the funniest facial expressions when telling us about something silly. 

I can always count on you for a tight hug and good snuggle.  When we snuggle on the couch you always have to go get your Thomas blanket first. 

Oh Levi boy, we love you so and pray that you will walk in all the God has for you. 

Love,

Mommy and Daddy

Well Check Up stats:

Wight: 33 lbs (65%)

Height:  38 1/4 inches (70%)

The doctor mentioned more than once how he was the most low maintenance 3 year old of the practice :)

Before Levi's appointment we talked about being brave for the shots.  When Joshua would ask him if he was going to cry he would say no.  Poor little buddy tried so, so, so hard to be brave.  Once they poked him he really tried not to cry but then it all came out in the most pitiful cry I have ever heard. 

Hiding from the doctor. 

Doctor Lev giving Kayla a shot. 

Levi's 3rd b-day

We had so much fun celebrating this sweet boy's 3rd b-day.  I just love celebrating my kids birthdays.  Levi knew this was his special day.

He was so proud to stand up so straight and tall wanting us to all look at him to see how big he was now that he was 3. 

Each time we sang to him (for breakfast and then again before cake) he would sing along with us. 

Our traditional pancake birthday breakfast. 

One of my many favorite things about celebrating my kids on their birthdays is watching their siblings celebrate them.  Joshua and Kayla both wrapped up toys to give to Levi.  They never get jealous. 

Levi testing out his new Thomas the Train pillow case. 

Family came over for lunch to help celebrate.  We had a themed train party...what else would you expect?

I love these net few pictures.  I made a cupcake train and a new Thomas train was pulling all the cupcakes.  He was just staring at his train.  He couldn't wait to get his little hands on the new train. 

                            

This is the Lactard train :)

Aunt Amy sent him a "chugging Percy."  We agave him a "chugging Thomas"  (Chugging trains is what Levi calls them.  They are battery operated). The one we gave him didn't come with a  car to pull but it had a latch to connect to something and Levi knew.  He was asking how we connect it.   As soon as he opened Aunt Amy's he went off and started playing with them trying to connect them.   

Saw this fun idea on Pintrest (of course).  It is punch a prize.  It was a big hit. 

Aunt Amy also sent him these Thomas the Train Pj's  Kayla was so excited that he had button up pj's like hers that she immediately went and put hers on.  Also, check out that photo bomber...lol!

A few weeks before his birthday we got the kids a basketball hoop and told them it was an early birthday gift for Levi.  A few days before his birthday when we were talking about how it was coming up Levi said to me, "you will have to wrap my basketball thing." 

We also talked about how we always say thank you after we open a gift.  Then we practiced opening imaginary gifts and saying thanking you.  SO when the time came he was so cute always being sure to say thank you.  As time went on and things got a little hectic and he didn't know who the present he was opening was from he would just say thank you into thin air. 

After his party he asked me if he was going to be two again.  Then a day or so after his birthday he told me he was always going to be 3. 

August

My entrepreneur.  He made fidget spinners out of Lego's and tried selling them. 

Tired girl.  She has given up her afternoon naps and some days it really catches up with her. 

I love taking selfies with this boy.  He thinks it is so funny seeing himself on the camera. 

Rainbow in our backyard.

 Enjoying our last day with Joshua the day before he headed to school. 

Celebrating Jeremiah's 2nd b-day.

Kayla wanted to wear a special dress for Jeremiah's party and bring her pretend b-day cake to the party.  She is so thoughtful of others. 

  

We started a remodeling project.  The kids had a blast helping Daddy knock down this wall. 

Full of spunk this one is. 

Always a summer favorite...hammering out their frozen treasures.

He was suppose to be napping, he was playing trains instead and fell asleep on his bedroom floor.

We got this train book from the library and this is was his favorite page.  He would just sit and stare at it.  It had a picture of a train track design that he loved.  We made his day by making the same design with his tracks.   

Joshua's first scouts meeting 

Mommy and Kayla's girls day.  This was her first pedicure.  SO fun!  Everyone in the salon, customers and workers, thought she was just so cute. 

Daddy's little big helper...until he dropped a tool down in to the engine.  OOPPS!

He loves books.

"My hair is spikley."

Shaving cream fun.

I went outside to have some quiet time with the Lord.  When I looked up I saw this in the clouds.  SO neat!  It was like God's way of telling me He was there. 

It was like the face of God looking down on me. 

Such a great little bro.  Playing barber shop.  He looks so serious because he was holding a tray full of items underneath the blanet and I think he was conentraing on not dropping it.