Still Here...Sort of

I know, I know - I haven't posted anything for a long time. Thanks to everyone who filled me in about that fact (like I didn't realize I wasn't posting) - you know who you are!

As for an explanation...computer issues. I know that sounds like a cop-out, but it's true. First we started getting popups when we were online, then we couldn't get online for about a week, now we can get online again (bypassing the wireless router) but the computer has contracted a virus, so now we have sent the computer off to my dad to see if he can help us fix our computer issues. It isn't that I didn't want to post anything, rather I couldn't post anything.

Tonight I'm over at my sister's house watching my nephew for the evening. Since Henry went to sleep as soon as his head hit the mattress (no afternoon nap will do that to a kid), I'm borrowing her computer to do a little online catch-up. Hopefully we will have our computer fixed soon and then I can get back to posting a bit more regularly.

Until then, here's what's been happening with L-M-N-O...

• We spent every weekend in May at a cottage - either Matt's family's or my parents'. We had a fun time cleaning, painting, getting things ready for summer, and enjoying a relaxing Memorial day weekend. For some pictures you can check out my sister's blog.
• Levi has started to say quite a few recognizable words: "pees" (please), "della" (Bella, as in his cousin), "moo", "baa", "a-doo-a-doo" (cock-a-doodle-doo), "no, no, no" (just today - not in context, but showing me what I must say an awful lot!).
• A new discipline technique for Levi - that worked for about 3 days. We have a decorative birdhouse in our living room that I put fake flowers in to go with the season. A few weeks ago, I swapped the Christmas flowers for some more summery yellow flowers. Levi discovered the new flowers and figured out that he could pull the flowers and buds off the stems. So, when we played in the living room, he started sneaking around the couch to the birdhouse. One of those times, I tried counting to 3 in a stern voice and to my surprise, Levi left the birdhouse and came back to playing by me. I was quite excited that we didn't have to start a "time-out" technique yet because it seemed like this approach might work for now. About three days later, Levi was again sneaking around the couch to "play" with the birdhouse flowers. I started counting in my stern "mom" voice: ONE...TWO... "tree" (Levi's voice from the other side of the couch). Now what? I couldn't help but laugh. So much for that discipline technique - now I can't even get past ONE without hearing "doo" (two) and "tree". We've decided instead to start working on counting and Levi is learning "four" and "five"...
• Levi tried broadening his cuisine... My mom came over for a day in May to help me weed our landscaping (a big help - thanks Mom!). After Levi got up from his nap, he came outside to help too. Under our deck in the backyard, we have an extra piece of wood laying on the ground, so I flipped it over to weed underneath it. We found lots of creepy-crawly things underneath and I pointed them out to Levi. I even went so far as picking up a worm with my glove to show it to him. He wasn't scared a bit, in fact, he took it from me(which I thought was kind of cool at that point) and then proceeded to try and put it in his mouth (not so cool!). Why did I think that the worm wouldn't go in his mouth when everything else he touches does? Perhaps the best part was that when I tried to get the worm out of Levi's hand, I nearly shoved it right into his mouth - way to go on my part!
• Matt has taken up running and is getting ready to run in his first race (a 5K) this Saturday. Levi and I are looking forward to cheering him on and showing him how proud we are of him for doing the race! Levi's been practicing saying "go, go, go" and "yeah, Daddy" - I think he'll be ready in time for Saturday :)

Well, that's at least a stab at getting things caught up. Now I need to catch up on my blog reading and see what everyone else has been up to. It's sad how out of the loop you feel when your computer is down...just kidding!