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Life with Levi...
The life of the party
By Amanda Rodeheffer-Olson
On Sunday afternoon, I hosted a Thirty-One party.
Or should I say, Levi hosted a Thirty-One party.
When I decided a few weeks back to host this party at my house, I knew
that Levi would be at it, and I figured that he would be pretty good
since my mom and sister would be there.
For those of you who aren’t familiar, Thirty-One is a company that
sells purses, bags and storage containers in cute, colorful patterns
that can be personalized (and for all you men out there, they make
great gifts for females).
With that said, I’ll get back to the party.
Most of Levi’s toys were locked away in Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom, so
he had to find other ways to occupy his time.
He started by helping my mom, Grandma Yvonne, eat her food before the
party started even though he had just polished off a banana.
Picture a baby bird with his mouth hanging open for food, and you’ll
know what Levi looked like for the first 15 minutes.
After he finished off the last of Grandma’s goodies, he decided that he
needed to sit up on the sofa with Mommy and my cousin Bethany.
My kid has no idea what personal boundaries are.
He sat smooshed right up against Bethany for the next 20 minutes to a
half hour “helping” her look through her catalog. He also made sure
that she didn’t hurt herself with the ink pen that was given to her.
After the book got boring, he figured out that the pen had a cap, and
that the cap would come off.
Thankfully, this didn’t end up as bad as it could have. He just spent
10 minutes or so taking the cap off, then putting it back on. Off. On.
Off. On.
By this point, he had been sitting still for quite some time. And when
he sits still, he gets tired.
And getting tired is bad…
Really bad.
So rather than fall asleep, Levi decided that it was time to get up.
And make the party a party!
First he took Grandma Yvonne’s reading glasses and put them on. The
funniest part was that since they magnify things, he was running back
and forth between Grandma and Rachel, the consultant hosting the party
(who also used to be Levi’s babysitter).
But instead of running right up to them like he normally would, he was
stopping two feet short of each of them.
Objects in glasses may be larger than they appear, apparently.
After he tired of running around, he decided that he needed to test the
flexibility of the glasses by pulling the sides down as far as they
would go.
The glasses survived, thanks to Mommy.
With his newest “toy” taken away, he moved on to testing the durability
of the Thirty-One products that Rachel brought. He shook them, threw
them, and even sat on one.
They all held up. Guess they passed the test.
At this point, Aunt Brittany (AKA Aunt Beejy) rescued some of Levi’s
toys from Mommy’s bedroom and took him to play in his room.
Thanks Aunt Beejy!
There were only a few thuds that made Mommy wonder what was going on. I
later found out that he and Aunt Beejy were tossing his baseball back
and forth, and that Levi’s arm is better than Aunt Beejy thought.
Towards the end of the party, Levi came back for one last hurrah.
For his final act, he attempted to pull everything off the table that
Rachel had set up with her things… Thank goodness nothing is breakable!
Then, it was naptime… Because Lambie, not Levi, was tired. And since
Levi loves Lambie so much, he decided that he would sacrifice himself
for his lamb.
And after “helping” so much with so many things, Levi decided he had
earned one, too.
Helping must be hard work, because Levi didn’t even put up a fight, and
slept for a couple of hours.
And since he put in so much hard work, Mommy let him sleep.
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