Hospital Visit

Meribeth and Levi visited me at the hospital a couple days ago when I was on call. It's sure nice to see some familiar faces when I'm there 24 hours plus. As you can see, Levi was impressed. :)

Happy Birthday Meribeth

I was on call this morning, but, when I was done with the hospital at noon I ran over to Wal-Mart to get a present for Meribeth that I had shipped site-to-store.  Bad idea.  I stood there for 15 minutes waiting for someone to help me and finally was able to pick up her chopper that she wanted.  When I got home, she had lunch on the table for me which was so nice of her on her birthday.  She had taken this picture today, which I thought was so funny:

She told me she checked to make sure he was still breathing, which seems appropriate!  He must have been sleepy!

I got a couple hour nap as I had a pretty rough night (about an hour and a half of sleep), and then we got ready and dropped Levi off with one of my co-interns and his wife.  We went out for supper at an upscale Mexican place downtown Fargo called Juano’s.  It was very tasty, and nice to be able to talk without spooning Levi food every other sentence.  Since Meribeth was the birthday girl, she earned us a cheesecake to split for dessert.  Afterwards, we walked outside in the bitter cold to a local boutique with all sorts of antique children’s toys, vintage baskets, fancy soaps and stuff.  It was a great night.  Happy 28th Birthday Meribeth!

Brrr it’s winter.

Seth and I woke up this morning to the Blizzard of 2008 in Fargo.  He braved it into the hospital, jumped up on the median on the way, plowed through some drifts, but made it safely.  He was there just a couple hours to round on a few patients, but then had to turn around and come back!  He got all the way to our apartment, but got stuck in a snow drift outside the underground garage.  So, Seth and I bundled up and went out to get the car unstuck while Levi took a nap.

We don’t have a shovel to our names, so we used the only thing we could think of…..a cookie sheet - - to dig ourselves out.  I was the driver and Seth dug us out.  He would take breaks and come in the car and his eyelashes had huge icicles on them and were partially frozen shut at the corners!  We got inside and checked the weather and it is –40 F with the wind.  No wonder!

Back to the Blogging – Take 2!

A little while back, Seth updated our blog and we were determined to keep writing on here. Well, that obviously didn’t happen so we will try this again! So much has changed since our last post! Levi turned ONE this past Friday – I can hardly believe it! I keep playing the '”last year at this time” little game in my mind as I recall all the joy and excitement of his birth : the day my sister Katie came to help us out and be there for me during labor, going to the hospital to be induced, the pain of labor, the joy and awe I had when he finally came at 10:40 am, the day we went home, the day my parents came to meet him --just so many memories that I relive now as the one yr mark comes and goes. To say it’s amazing how that little newborn that I held one year ago is now a laughing, crawling, 28 pound little man is such an understatement!

Just two weeks old above.

Look at him now!

New Doc.

There’s a new doc in town.  He will diagnose you but won’t be able to tell you what it is.

Noises.

Goodbye Grandma and Grandpa.

Today we said goodbye to G & G F. as they left to go back to GR.  It was so fun to have them here for the week.  Levi really took to them and would smile whenever he even looked at them.  It was such a relief for us as he doesn’t see them very often except for Skype chats.

After they left we are left to deal with “I don’t want to lay on the floor and not be played with.” :)  It’ll be ok. He’ll get through it. 

Free Thomas the Train from Toys R’ Us.

Toys R’ Us is giving away a free Thomas the Train in-store only from 6/19 to 7/5 if you click here and print off the coupon!  Can’t beat that!

Silly faces.

Silly faces. from Seth Anderson on Vimeo.

Swinging in the park.

I love this picture we took of Levi at the park.  It was his first time in a swing.  As you can see, one arm is going through the leg hole, but, oh well!  He had fun.

Sitting up.

Levi is doing such a good job lately of sitting on his own.  He’ll occasionally fall to the left or right, but he’s really caught onto this concept in the last week or so.   

This also mean less back breaking bath times.  It’s so nice that he can sit on his own in that slippery plastic tub.  It helps to have him sit on a wash cloth too.  Today he seemed to actually be enjoying his bath rather than tolerating it like he used to.

Back to the blogging thing.

We decided to pick up blogging again.  We haven’t written anything on here since the day Levi was born.  It really is amazing how fast he is growing and the new things he is doing every day.  For instance, this morning we found Levi in his bed on his belly swatting at his bears.  He hates his tummy.  It was pretty cute.

He’s getting to be quite the little man.  We love his smiles and his giggles and especially the way he holds his toes.  It’s incredible to think he’s going to be a walking, talking little being in just a little while.