July 18, 2012

My ten month old baby is growing by leaps and bounds! His newest game is standing up and sitting down. I put him in the pack n play this morning and kept hearing him banging against the side of the thing. When I stopped to watch, he was pulling himself up to stand and then plopping back down on his butt again and again and again. It was very cute. He pulled himself up on the toilet when I had him in the bathroom with me too. Definitely time to make sure those toilet lids are kept in a lowered position! And yesterday, Michael took video of him doing the same thing on the edge of our bed. I have a feeling it's all downhill in terms of trouble making from here!!

July 6, 2012

I had a wonderful day off with Micah today. We're in the middle of a ridiculous heat wave so I spent most of the day figuring out how to stay cool. We went out for breakfast like we often do. Micah had a bunch of scrambled eggs instead of eating all my worthless white bread. We tried to put him down for a nap, but he's so proud of how well he can sit up that he couldn't stay laying down and he just sat in his crib and cried for the whole hour. Part of the problem is that he sits right up next to the railing, often dangling his feet out, and I don't think he can get himself laying back down from that position. When it came time for his 12:00 nap, Michael went in every thirty seconds and laid him back down until he gave up and slept for two hours. He really needed it!

After that nap, the two of us went to the mall. Micah befriended a three year old at the mall playground. She was completely in love with him and he was fascinated by her. It was adorable.

July 5, 2012

We had a fantastic day off yesterday. Micah is so close to real crawling (Michael says he took two real crawl steps this morning) and he's trying to pull himself up to stand, and is getting really mobile, and it's so fun to watch him learning. We started the day yesterday by going out to breakfast (that was after ignoring Micah crying for 45 minutes starting at 6am, his new wakeup time). After his first nap, I met Sondra and walked to the park to watch the local kids decorate their bikes for the 4th of July and parade around the fountain. Micah enjoyed it and also kind of enjoyed dipping his feet in the fountain. After that we went to get a drink at the Bryant Market and someone Sondra knew shared a slice of muenster cheese with Micah which he loved. Then yesterday afternoon, we went to the pool and Micah really enjoyed the water. He especially loves splashing in the troughs along the edge of the pool. He was also really amused by us going underwater and then reappearing in front of him.

This morning when I went into his room, he was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding on to the bars of the crib, and swinging his legs over the side. He's so adorable!

Working on crawling skills at the park this morning:

Trying to stand up, also at the park this morning:

June 30, 2012

Micah got his first band aid today. We are spending the weekend at Matt's family's camp because it's in the mid 90's in pittsburgh but about twenty degrees cooler in the allegheny national forest where we are.

Not surprisingly, there is a lot of beer consumption at the camp. And Micah sure does love empty cans and bottles. So he was playing with an empty beer can and it turns out that those openings really are sharp. He cut the middle finger of his right hand just next to the finger nail. Didn't bother him a bit but I noticed because it was bleeding like crazy.

The only way I could get it to stop was a band aid and it was completely fascinating to him. He just stared at his fingers while he opened and closed his fist again and again and again. It was adorable. Eventually, her put his whole hand in his mouth and started sucking on it and I had to take the band aid off to be sure he wouldn't get it off in his mouth.