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Life with Levi
He said yes!
By Amanda Rodeheffer-Olson
Assistant Editor
The wait is finally over.
Levi said yes!
He says it quite often, too. And not always when he means it.
It all started a couple weeks ago. Everything was no, no, no, no, no.
Then, one morning, he woke up and just started saying yes. No rhyme or
reason, just yes.
So finally, when I ask him if he’s hungry, he says yes. If I ask him if
he wants water or a snack, he says yes. And if I ask him if he’s ready
to go night-night, he still says no.
But it’s a step in the right direction.
And once he started saying yes, it was like the floodgates opened. All
kinds of words started coming out of his mouth. The best part was that
you could understand most of them. Now don’t get me wrong. He’s not
speaking fluent English. But he’s also not speaking straight Minion
anymore.
He’s talking about lots of different things. He likes to tell me what
he does with Daddy on their days together. He likes to tell me what his
movies are about, and how he wants to go “byes”, or just about Daddy in
general.
He especially enjoys talking about Daddy. Every time Daddy goes
anywhere, I have to listen to Levi tell me “Daddy go byes” until Daddy
gets home. And if Daddy goes to work, it’s “Daddy go work” for eight or
nine hours. It was cute at first, but I’m starting to wish he only
spoke Minion again. At least when Daddy goes somewhere.
While sometimes the repetitiveness of what Levi says gets old, when he
finally comes up with something new, it makes me proud. I’ve been
trying to get him to start saying please for a long time. So long that
I was beginning to think that I should just give up. So the other night
when I was giving him a snack I was shocked when he looked up at me and
said, “Peas, Mommy?”
I know it’s small, and it sounded more like he wanted a vegetable than
that he was asking for something, but that one little word almost
brought tears to my eyes. All that time when I thought that he hasn’t
been listening to me, it seems that he has in fact been taking mental
notes.
So needless to say, if you’d ask Mommy if she was proud of her little
boy in that moment, Mommy would give an emphatic yes. And unlike Levi,
she would mean it wholeheartedly.
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