Jude is a fun, high-maintenance kid. He never runs out of things to say and loves to interrupt adult conversation. Often he’ll interrupt just to interrupt and when he is acknowledged he might say, “Nevermind” or “I forgot” or “I thought you’d never stop talking.”  We’re working on that. Jude loves playing in the front yard and riding …
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The Adventures of Leaping Levi
Levi is really too mobile, smart and curious for his own good. He started walking at 9 months and attempts any trick that Jude tries. Levi is always getting himself into trouble. A couple weeks ago while I was at work, Andy had the front door propped open and the screen door shut but not …
Update on the Olsons
It has been forever since we wrote. Part of the reason for that is that Andy has several other blogs he maintains and would prefer to spend his time on and I’ve been working crazy hours (at least 6 days a week) all year. I don’t have time for sleeping, shaving my legs or certainly writing on …
More Chaos
Levi can keep us hopping and I had to place 2 calls to Poison Control in the last 5 days on account of him. On Tuesday, I made the mistake of feeding Jude his anti-seizure medicine in some lemonade in a sippy cup. Levi got to it before Jude and gladly sucked down half of …
Little Levi
I feel that Levi really get the scraps. The world sort of revolves around Jude, which is the way Jude likes it. Levi is an adorable, charming, smiley little guy. He’s 11 months old. He’s been taking steps for 2 months and walking now. He was a cute little vampire for a short period with the 2 …
The Know-It-All
Today after church, Jude really cracked me up. A mom of a new kid in the nursery came to pick up her kid. He was wearing a name tag that said “Matt” on it. She said something like, “Matthew, it’s time to go.” Jude piped in correcting her by saying, “His name is not Matthew.” …
“I’d rather be a monkey than a human!”
Ever since he became a toddler, Jude has been hard to get in the bath and almost equally hard to get out of the bath, because he ends up having so much fun. But, after his brain surgery, his head was sensitive for quite awhile and it’s been a huge struggle to get him in …
“I think I’m going to die of sickness.”
Maybe Jude takes after his Mommy and is a bit of a drama king (which is totally fine with me since it makes him entertaining and anything but boring).  Tonight after throwing up and uncontrollable coughing Jude said, “I think I’m going to die of sickness.” Poor sweet darling!
Jude’s Hearing Results
The hearing exam was the last of the many exams that Jude had to take. It was this morning. He passed, in spite of his respiratory sickness. Now, I can only hope that we all start feeling better soon and that we can stay healthy for awhile. That way, Jude could wait 3 more months …
Sick Again
Jude just can’t catch a break. Since he’s been out of the hospital, he’s gotten sick 2 times. I think this time he has a cold or flu and maybe pink eye. We’ll bring him to the open clinic tomorrow morning. I just feel so bad for him. I want Jude to remember what it …