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Mama went on a business trip for two nights. Nana and Papa Hughes came to stay with Levi since both of the nights while I was away were late nights for Daddy at class. Levi had a great time with them. Thursday night, though, Kevin called while he was putting Levi to bed. He said that Levi wanted to talk to me. "Mama on airplane. Mama on airplane," Levi repeated to me at least three times. I told him that, yes, mama did ride on an airplane. I asked him if he was going to come to the airport to pick up mama. He said, "Yes!" - as in, "Hello? Who else would come to get you?" Well, Friday evening after a long afternoon in a couple of different airports, I cannot begin to describe how excited I was to see both my boys waiting for me at the end of the "concourse". Apparently, they had been waiting for a while (almost an hour!!), but Levi didn't seem to mind at all. At our local airport there is a bank of windows for those waiting to watch the runway, and he really enjoyed that. He was also pretty excited to see me. I got bunches of hugs and kisses!
It sure is good to be home!
Daddy took Levi to the doctor last Friday for a check-up. The visit went very well. The doctor said that the pneumonia was gone but that he has an ear infection. He sure doesn't act like it, though. His cough still sounds pretty bad, but he is much more active and acting more like himself.
Today Levi turns 26 months old, and I have a few things I want to brag about.
Levi is getting very good at putting together the puzzles that he has here at home. Levi still talks up a storm, and he still loves fruit. Although Levi is not potty trained, he's making strides towards it. He's very willing to "tinkle" in the potty in the mornings when he wakes up and I'm at home. He has started the "do it myself", "by myself", or "I do it" phase. Levi has never been much of a climber, and when we moved him to his "big boy bed" he wouldn't even climb down. That changed last week. Now he enjoys telling us that he can "get down by myself."
Last week while Levi was so sick, we didn't let him play outside at all until the end of the week. He also didn't feel like being too active, but we found a good compromise - the Wii. He loves baseball, tennis, and golf on Wii Sports. He throws a mean screwball; he's got a pretty amazing serve at times; he can hit the 100 point marker on the golf target practice. He hasn't figured out how to roll the bowling ball, yet, which means "bowl" is code for "I'm tired; Mama's turn."
Yesterday, Levi jumped! Daddy says you can barely fit a credit card between his feet and the floor, but both feet definitely come off the ground.
Last night, I took Levi to the park that is very near our house. Levi loves the park. Last night was the first time that he took me to this big board that shows all the letters of the alphabet along with the sign for that letter. I cannot remember now which letter he showed me first, but we began to point to letters and would tell me - accurately - what word starts with that letter. For example, I pointed to the "W", and he said, "Whale;" I pointed to the "Z", and he said, "Zebra." He didn't say something for all the letters, but my favorite was the second letter I showed him, "L", to which he responded, "Levi!" (which sounds more like "Evi!").
His teachers even bragged on Levi today, saying how much more he interacted with the other children in the class than he had the last time he was there. His daily report said that he was "happy, helpful, friendly, cooperative, and chatty".
Levi started getting very sick today. All weekend, the cough seemed to be getting worse, but today he had a fever that ended up getting to about 104. I panicked.
We took Levi to a nearby hospital. We had an excellent doctor, who didn't even have to poke, prod, or x-ray Levi to determine that he has a "touch" of pneumonia. He was an absolute trooper throughout the entire experience. Although, he did not like the "brace" (i.e. bracelet) that he had to wear. He held out his wrist the whole time it was on his arm.
Once we were home, he was in much better spirits.
If I hadn't told you, could you look at that smile and even tell he was sick? He really is a little trooper.
Say a prayer for him that he recovers quickly.
Daddy dressed Levi on this first football Thursday.
We had taken Levi to the doctor on Monday. She said it was probably a virus or maybe his allergies that had him under the weather over the weekend. Levi didn't go to school on Monday or Tuesday. He was in pretty good spirits the rest of the week, although a cough developed.
