Leif is expert at throwing things on the floor. He loves to watch as he drops something and as soon as Austin or I pick it up, he'll drop it again. As I've learned with Asher, this phase will last for a long time yet, so we have resigned ourselves to picking things up for him until we get sick of it, then just hoping that he will move onto something else.
Leif is a ravenous eater. I swear he eats more than Asher most days. When he sees someone eating something and he feels like its not getting over to him fast enough, he will howl and whine until he gets food in his mouth. He is especially vocal while I am peeling Cutie oranges. Those seem to be his favorite food, although he will eat just about anything given to him.
Leif loves to stand up and cruises around a little, but doesn't show much interest in walking yet. He likes me to help him stand up, but if I try to get a step or two out of him, he automatically drops all his weight onto the floor.
Leif is delighted at the game of passing something back and forth with me. He is thrilled with himself when he passes something to me when I ask him to, then even more excited to get it back into his hand. This is a very easy and effective way to entertain him and get him giggling.
Leif loves to babble and when he is really talkative, he puckers up his lips for some reason. He says "dad" in reference to Austin, but when I try to get him to say "mama" he just laughs at me. My feelings aren't too hurt though, because Leif makes it very obvious that I am his favorite person with his separation anxiety. He's got a pretty bad case of it lately and wants to be with me all the time. I think our trip to Utah intensified it a little because he has been a little bit better since we've gotten settled back into home. He will usually fall asleep on his own now after I nurse him and he's okay staying in a room by himself or with Asher or Austin for at least a few minutes.
Something that I love to see Leif do is lie around and kick his feet in the middle of playing. Maybe a lot of babies do this--just hang out and look around--but Asher never did this, so we love to see Leif take a break in the middle of his playing to lie around and check out the world. Also, if someone leaves a blanket on the floor, Leif will go roll around on it and shove his face into it.
To celebrate Leif's birthday, we had crepes for breakfast.
Then after his nap, my mom and I took Leif and Asher to downtown Fort Collins. We stopped by the toy store to pick out a toy for Leif then we stopped by the cookie store and everyone got a cookie.
Leif liked playing with his, but didn't eat very much of it. He seemed to like drinking water out of a cup instead. We also went to the fabric store and kitchen store, but that was more for us than for the boys, although Leif was a pleasant little fellow the whole time (not something I could say for his older brother :) For dinner, my mom, Austin, and I took the boys to The Olive Garden where the boys could both enjoy some pasta.
Then Austin insisted that we go to Dairy Queen for dessert. Leif doesn't really like ice cream, maybe because its too cold for him, but he ate a little and enjoyed dancing on the table and flirting with the girl behind the counter. Here he is checking her out.
All in all it was a very fun birthday. We will have his birthday party along with Thanksgiving celebrations.
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