Lately

So I went to post pictures from February on Facebook, and I discovered that in the entire month, I only took two pictures. So I decided to just post them directly to the blog here, and give a little update on Micah as a 17-month-old.
It's very rare that Micah will fall asleep in our arms anymore, so when he started his nap out on Josh's chest a couple of weeks ago, I just had to take a picture. Soooo cute!


Micah weighs around 29-30 lbs, wears 24-month clothes and size 5 diapers. He's still got chubby little hands and feet that are shaped like potatoes.


Favorite games: Running in circles (preferably with Mom or Dad chasing), holding a ball and letting Mom or Dad hit it out of his hands, being tickled/wrestled/thrown in the air by Daddy, and climbing on anything and everything (kitchen chairs, the arms of the couch, any sort of box on the floor, etc.)


Current obsessions: Movies (his word for movie sounds like "money," and he says it over and over again when he wants to watch a Baby Einstein DVD), socks/feet/toe jam (he says "yok" for sock, then pulls them off and says "ew" over and over as he cleans the lint out from between his toes. He used to eat the lint, but thankfully I've broken him of that!), candy (If he sees a piece of candy, he'll point to it and say "num-num" relentlessly. Guess I gave him my sweet tooth!)


Vocabulary: He's saying a lot more words now, and will even repeat after us if we try to teach him a new one. Some of his most-used words and phrases are: movie, num-num, milk, water, book, Daddy, Mama, a-ball (don't know why he puts the "a" in front), teddy bear, turtle, go-go-go (when he wants to run in circles), waffle, no way, Elmo, pizza, ice, and a bunch more I can't think of. The word he says the most is "yeah," and one I can't get him to say for anything is "please." :)


I don't really think Micah has any idea that he'll have a little brother in 7 or fewer more weeks. We have taught him to point to my belly when we ask him where Baby Brother is, and whenever he sees and points to a baby when we're out and about, I ask him if we should get one and his answer is always, "Yeah." But I still think he'll be quite surprised when a little baby moves into his house. He's such a sweetie, though. Lately he's been hugging and kissing all his stuffed animals, and he blows kisses to just about anyone, so maybe he'll be sweet and gentle to his newborn brother. :)


Speaking of Baby Brother, I had an ultrasound last week where they measured the baby, and he's already 5 lbs, which puts him at around 9 lbs if I go to 40 weeks. Maybe 37 weeks is a better option...

Jump!

Micah is learning to jump...and it's so funny I just had to share.

Pictures

I posted pictures from January, including more mullet pics. You can check them out by clicking on the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=145853&id=506485788&l=06d6062d98

Tickles

It's always good to hear a little guy laugh!

Silly Boy

Here's just a video of Micah being silly while I cleaned up dinner one night. He has no clothes on because they were covered in yogurt (which I allowed him to feed himself--to a very messy end).

The Haircut Story

This is the story of Micah's first haircut.
Once upon a time, 15-month-old Micah's hair was getting a little crazy:
....so his mom decided it was time for a haircut. She put him in his high chair with a laptop playing his favorite Baby Einstein DVD in front of him. Here's what the front looked like Before:

and the back Before:

His mom also gave him something to lick and keep his hands busy, as this was a tip suggested to her. However, she didn't have a sucker, so she foolishly used a chocolate-covered peppermint stick that she had in her Christmas candy stash. This turned out to be little of a distraction, because as it turned out, the chocolate melted all over Micah's hands, and then falling hair stuck to it, causing said hair to end up in Micah's mouth....causing him to rub his face to get the unpleasant hair out. Thus, it only made a huge mess:

As it turns out, Micah hates getting his haircut about as much as his daddy does. Every time his mom would comb some hair up and hold it between her fingers, poised to cut, he would whine and pull his head away, resulting in a long, frustrating ordeal. You can tell by his face how much fun he's having:

It's really a good thing that the plan all along was to give Micah a proper mullet, because half a haircut is really all he could handle at once. Here it is in all it's glory--business in the front and party in the back:

And now the Brown family has a white trash baby:

And a good-looking one, at that!

Christmas!

Well, I'm a little late with this post, but there's a good reason. My computer broke (well, the power cord broke) right before Christmas, so I wasn't able to get online for a while. But, my super awesome husband bought me a new laptop for Christmas, so now that I've got it up and running, I can get back to posting. I still need to get my files off my old computer (including the Christmas letter that I started but never finished or sent), but hopefully this will tide you over until I can get everything organized.

We spent a week in South Dakota with the Browns for Christmas. We got there on Monday and literally didn't leave the house again until Sunday, thanks to a blizzard. Micah had a mysterious fever the first three days we were there, but luckily he got over it and was able to have a good time. He was so much fun to watch play with the cats. At the beginning of the week he would barely pet them, but he got more agressive the longer we were there.

Here's a link to check out some more pictures from December. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=138409&id=506485788&l=1c2224b466