Gotta catch up!

I have to say, keeping up with a blog when there are 2 kids involved is definitely different! Especially when they are mobile! Levi is 1, obviously, and can take up to 7 steps! He has 6 teeth going on 8. He is VERY busy... which means he must be brilliant! :) He gets into EVERYTHING. He can crawl up and down stairs. It's the down part that makes me nervous, cuz sometimes he likes to sit down in the middle of the flight of stairs... and lean backwards. It's dangerous!! He can sign more and all done. I've been working on others, but those are the 2 he's decided he likes. :) His favorite foods are BBQ meatballs (homemade), perdue chicken nuggets (yes, the brand matters!) and spaghetti. He's allergic and/or sensitive to so much... I feel like this is all he eats! He does love Malt-O-Meal for breakfast, or toast... but the others... he eats a lot of that! He does good with his veggies if he has the puree with fruits in them, then he just sucks it down! So he does good with all veggies that way... spinach, broccoli, peas, etc. Now, if I try to give them to him alone... it's spit out and thrown on the floor. That's another problem... everything is thrown on the floor. I scold him, spank his hand...etc. NOTHING WORKS! If anyone has a trick on how to keep a 1 year old boy from throwing cups and food on the floor, please enlighten me! He's like a little hurricane. A cute one... but quite messy! And oh... the random tantrums. I work on ignoring them. Today he threw on because he couldn't get his sock off. Yeah...
Madilyn is definitely almost 4. She has such independent thinking. I've been working on being polite and respectful. She does ok with others, but it's towards her parents that it's not always working out. She is continuing with phonics, and learning letters and learning how to write them. We watch some leap frog videos on netflix and use every day life for teaching also. She's learning to clean up after herself, and I had her help me put her sheets in the washer and dryer the other day. She also used our "swiffer vac" the other day to clean up what she had spilled all over the kitchen floor. She's definitely getting old enough to learn some responsibility. It's nice! We're working on it. :)
I now have a 1 year old trying to put his foot on the computer and close the lid... gotta go! I'll try for more later.