17 months (and eye update)

Sweet handsome man!

My precious first born boy is growing up so fast! He is learning new things everyday.

Gotta love the baby toes and crossed ankles! 

Levi had an eye appointment last week. It was a long appointment where his eyes were checked and then dilated and then checked again. I was really proud of how brave Levi was! He sat pretty still so the doctor could look in his eyes. Yes, he squirmed, but we didn't have to hold him down like last time. The doctor was able to see a stigmatism's in both eyes, so she ordered a new prescription for lenses. We are also down to patching his "good" eye for 2 hours a day instead of 3. The doctor said that as bad as Levi's optic nerves look, he shouldn't see much, if anything...but obviously he is seeing amazingly well! So thankful for this miracle!

Levi loves exploring and examining new things. 

Playing in Daddy's shoes.

Levi loves to read! He will sit and look at books by himself for a long time, and he will sit and listen while we read to him. He still loves Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Hop on Pop, and all of the My First Board Books.

Levi is definitely more of a climber than Lily (and I thought Lily was bad!). In the last week I've found him on top of the stove, on the counter, on a chair trying to open the front door, and using his chair to climb onto our bed, and to get stuff off our dressers. He seriously pulls his little blue chair around the house with him to help him reach anything he decides he wants! He will also push our tall bar stools around the kitchen to climb on - that's how he got on the stove. This child is crazy!

Of course he still loves playing outside! The water table is his favorite outdoor activity - he will play with it for the longest time! He's not too much into the sprinkler or sand box yet.

"hmm, I wonder if I can reach that dirty knife?"

His appetite has come back for the most part. Although he still isn't a fan of fruit besides bananas and applesauce. We have smoothies every morning for breakfast, so he typically drinks his daily amount of fruit.

He is very much into putting things into containers, dumping them out, and doing it all over again. 

How I love this sweet, stubborn, loud, funny, crazy boy!