One month goes by fast, especially when you don't want it to. I've really loved having another baby and after knowing how fast everything has gone with Dayton, I just want Levi to stay little as long as he can. But aside from the sentiment, to catch up, here's some of our favorite pics.

The life of "big brother" hasn't been too traumatic for Dayton . . . yet. He likes to hold and kiss Levi, plus, there's all this new stuff lying around just waiting to be gotten into. Dayton has adopted Levi's bouncer as his personal little recliner. We often find him with the vibration blaring, relaxing with a sippy cup listening to musical lullabies.

Here is our little man at 3 1/2 weeks, giving his first attempts at smiling, which I, of course, have not been able to capture successfully. This is my closet candid shot yet.
And as for sleep, I think we're finally catching up . . .

I was so tired one afternoon, so I turned on cartoons and fell asleep next to Levi on the couch. When I woke up an hour later, Dayton was cuddled up by us. See the gap in the pic below? That was me. I managed to slither out and take this picture. They slept here for another two hours!

Oh, and finally, a belated Happy Easter to you all!

Our Lucky Levi

Levi Wallace King

March 17th, 2010, 2:58 pm

7 lbs 2 oz, 20 1/4 inches long

Today I am 39 weeks, 5 days and yes, still pregnant. Whoever said no news is good news has definitely never been pregnant, especially because all I want right now is to wake up in excruciating pain and hurry off to the hospital. Until then, we are enjoying Ben's spring break and are grateful that Buffalo has given us an unusually warm day so we can walk . . . and walk . . . and walk . . . .

And here he is, the big brother to be. Can you believe Dayton's going to be the BIG brother? I can't. Wish us luck!

What do you do in February?

Oh, the question I have asking myself building up to this February, one of the coldest months in Buffalo. This is what we decided to do:
#1-POTTY TRAIN

I've been told this was "ambitious", but with Ben in Syracuse, myself with a headcold, and Buffalo hitting below freezing temperatures, could there be a better time to stay inside, crank up the heat, and let Dayton run around in his underwear?

That being said, this was definitely not an easy task. Maybe it was because Dayton's "reward of choice" happened to be the candy in the University of Utah Pez dispenser that was given to us as a prank- in fact, I'm pretty sure the candy was cursed (notice, in the next picture we put Dayton in a BYU shirt) After 1 1/2 days with little success, we callled on our friend Kalisa for a little pep talk. Gratefully, we took her advice and stuck with it because that afternoon Dayton finally started getting it. As you can see, he was happy about it (and so were we!)

*Sorry Ben- I couldn't bring myself to post the "messy" picture

After a Friday morning start, by Monday we were accident free and have been since. We even braved the mall today without any "mishaps". Dayton's gotten pretty used to the idea and has even been waking up dry since Sunday night. The picture below was not even planned- promise! He picked up the comics and said "bathroom".

#2- "NESTING"

I've felt kind of bad that I haven't really done much for the new baby- and he'll be here next month! So, after inspiration from a friend's blog I made a "car seat tent". Hopefully baby #2 likes it!

#3- PLAYING THE PIANO

Okay, so I haven't played the piano much for the past few years, which makes me kind of sad, but since Ben's been gone I've spent some of my evenings after Dayton goes to bed putting on the headphones and catching up. Apparently Dayton notices more than I know- he calls the headphones "goggles", has to have the music in place, and humms as he plays :)

#4- CHEESEBURGER DORITIOS

Okay, I usually don't blog much about things other than our little family, but have you guys tried these things? Seriously, they taste just like a Cheeseburger- I swear I can even taste the lettuce and tomato. These fascinate me- it must be February!