Crazy May

A lot has happened since my last post, both in activities our family has attended, and in milestones Micah has reached. I'll try to fill you in as concisely as possible. :)

Micah and I traveled to Grand Island to help out with my cousin Lauren's graduation party. While we were out there, Micah surprised us by pulling up on some chairs and a coffee table. Unfortunately, he has yet to figure out how to lower himself back to the floor, so if he stands up, it always ends with either a fall or a need to be rescued.

A week later, while Josh was supposed to be in Mexico, I had planned to ride with my parents out to Colorado to see my brother and his wife and their new baby. Josh's Mexico trip ended up being cancelled (Swine flu!), so he was able to go along. We had a good time. On that trip Micah attended his first professional baseball game, visited Garden of the Gods, and checked out the Focus on the Family Visitors Center. (If you've never been there, check it out. There's a ton of fun stuff for kiddos, and it's all free!)

We also discovered on this trip that Micah can be a bit of a bully. He outweighs his 16-month-old cousin, Natalie, and when we put him in a walker he used it to ram into her and steal her toys...we'll have to work on that. You can just see his eyes fixate on something and he makes a beeline for it!

Micah now has three cousins--two girls and one boy. Here's a picture of the newest one: Three-week-old Kenny (and they're wearing the same outfit, how cute!) I look a little scary in this one, but oh well.

Here's a family shot with Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods in the background. Beautiful.

Some other new things in Micah's life are eating finger foods (those Gerber puffs--he loves them!), crawling on hands and knees, and as I discovered today, he can now climb stairs. Which means we need to buy more gates...

We have more adventures in our immediate future. Next week the three of us will be taking a group of teens on a mission trip to South Dakota (Grandma Brown will meet us there--Yea!). Two days after we get back, we're heading to a small camp in Kansas where Josh will be the pastor for the week, and then when we get back from that it's time for VBS. More updates to come!

Roaring

I forgot that in a previous post I told you to stay tuned for a video of Micah roaring, so here it is (finally!).

Mothers' Day

Today was my first official Mothers' Day, and it was very special. Micah gave me the gift of not throwing up on me all day, and Josh gave me a card and a very pretty flower arrangement. I also got many, many Mothers' Day wishes from the kids in our youth group. They can be so sweet! Sometimes I feel like I'm a mom to all of them.

My parents came down for the day and we just relaxed, watched golf on t.v., and went out for supper. What a super day.

And for your enjoyment, here's a funny video.

He Crawls!

Micah's been army crawling for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I'd let you see him in action.

April Pictures Posted

If you wanna see some more pictures from April (and I think you do), check out this link!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=75124&id=506485788&l=2db423b90a

Happy Birthday, Kayla!

Hello family and friends! I can't believe it's May already. That means summer "break" is nearly upon us (although when you're the family of a youth pastor, summer is NOT a break.) Here's an update on Micah. He's now 7 months old with plenty of blonde hair and two teeth (pictured above). He's crawling all over the place, and is especially drawn to shoestrings, cords or electronics of any kind, and the little springy doorstops that I've had to replace with rubber ones.

In the last couple of weeks we've enjoyed a visit from Josh's sister, Kayla, to celebrate her 21st birthday. Below is a picture of the Brown siblings in all their glory. We had a lazy weekend of bumming around and playing Mario Kart on the Wii.

While Kayla was here, we took a little time to go to the park. Micah liked having his aunt push him on the swings.

We tried to get a good picture of the five of us. This is the best we could do, with only Micah not looking...his dad and his uncle (purposely) ruined the other attempts. :)

Some of Micah's other tricks lately are "roaring" (stay tuned for a video), playing in his Jumperoo, and twirling his hair as he sucks his thumb (so cute!). By the way, wanna know what happens when you put a laundry basket over a 7-month-old? He tries to lick his way out.

Have a good week!