Monday, April 29, 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

Micah is changing every day. Last week he learned to play the harmonica. We've shown it to him a bunch and every time he gets his hands on it, he puts it to his mouth and hums which is adorable. Last weekend, we gave it to him, blew in his face, blew on the harmonica, nothing we hadn't done before. He took it, blew in it, it made noise and he had it all figured out. He spent all last week happily playing the harmonica and it was adorable.

Some time in the past week he has also started giving hugs (always followed by a kiss on the lips). He will give hugs almost on command, although sometimes we ask and he shakes his head "no" which I think is equally adorable.

He also has become a serious high-fiver and learned to pound fists in the last week. He says "high figh!" and give you a high five, then he say "pow" and holds out his fist to pound.

My allergies arrived yesterday and he does nothing but mock me. Every time I sneeze he says "ah choo!" It's probably the thing he pronounces best. Adorable.

The newest thing is that he saw Michael jump off a skate board this past weekend and now he's trying to learn to jump. Last night while we were eating dinner, he took a big thick book off the shelf and set it in the doorway to the kitchen. He held onto the door frame while he stepped up on top of the book, then he crouched down just a little bit, straightened his legs, and quickly stepped off the book with the biggest smile on his face. It's completely adorable and we've done our best to get video documentation. His feet never even leave the ground but he really believes he's jumping, he just bends his legs and then straightens them quickly. I even heard him count to three as he did it this afternoon!

I love this baby so much.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Thursday, April 11, 2013

One of our friends said his daughter "only" has about thirty words the other day. She's two months younger than Micah and I don't think I've ever heard her say even one word. But thirty sounds like a lot. I'm wondering how many words Micah has. Here's a list:


  1. Mama
  2. Dada
  3. Kaya
  4. Micah (MY TAH?)
  5. Cece (The babysitter's daughter)
  6. Harper (Another baby she sits for "AHH PUH?")
  7. Baby
  8. Hi
  9. Bye Bye
  10. Hello
  11. Book (BAH BOO?)
  12. Banana (MAH NA NAH?)
  13. Apple
  14. Orange
  15. Peas
  16. Cereal
  17. Cheerios
  18. Cracker
  19. Oatmeal
  20. Bread
  21. Cottage Cheese (CAH CHEE?)
  22. Water (WAH TEE?)
  23. More Please
  24. I did it! (after he uses the potty "Ah dih ih!")
  25. Up Please
  26. All Done
  27. Help Please
  28. Upstairs
  29. Potty
  30. Chair
  31. Bathroom
  32. Brush Teeth
  33. Night Night
  34. Diaper
  35. Bottle
  36. Shoes
  37. Button
  38. Boots
  39. Socks
  40. Pants
  41. Eye
  42. Ear
  43. Mouth
  44. Nose
  45. No No No
  46. Lie Down (to Kaya)
  47. Good Girl (also to Kaya)
  48. Tree
  49. Doggy
  50. Puppy
  51. Meow (MAU)
  52. Neigh
  53. Moo
  54. Baa
  55. Quack Quack (DWAH DWAH?)
  56. Tweet Tweet (SHWEE SHWEE?)
  57. Cock a Doodle Doo
  58. Bird
  59. TV (TEE?)
  60. Outside
  61. Ball
  62. Beep Beep (BEE BEE?)
  63. Choo Choo
  64. Rock Rock Rock (on the rocking chair "WAH WAH WAH")
  65. Beer
Okay, I feel better now. :)

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Thursday, April 4, 2013

I have been really enjoying my time with Micah the last few days. A couple nights ago, we had a bunch of time to ourselves and had such a lovely evening. He's got a new cold so he's feeling a little under the weather. Also, he's learned to climb onto chairs but is not so good at getting down. I watched him climb down from a chair in the dining room, turned around, and he must have gotten back up there because in the blink of an eye he had fallen and was crying his head off. I picked him up and held him, sat down on the sofa with him, and he just fell asleep on my chest and slept there for an hour. It was nice and I know I will miss it when he doesn't do this anymore.

Then we had dinner together and he was actually willing to each much of what I fed him. We sat on the floor and colored together. I drew a picture of a tree and a bird in it. He looked at it, pointed, and said "Twee Twee?" (tweet tweet). Then he started handing me crayons and pointing to different places in the tree, saying "Twee Twee?" and I would draw a bird wherever he pointed. Then he got up and walked around behind me and gave me a hug and rested his head on my back. He did that a few times. And then he started patting me on the back and it was like he had just learned how to do it. He was standing to my right and patting me with his left hand, then he tried to figure out how to do it with his right hand, but he couldn't make it work so he kept patting me with his left hand again. It was just funny.

That night when I went in to nurse him at 4:30am, he finished nursing on one side and then said "More?" "More?", I switched him to the other side. When he was done, he said "Maaa Maaa?" and then he said "Hi." When I picked him up to hold him with his head on my shoulder like I do every night before I put him back to bed, instead of sucking his thumb while resting his head, he patted me on the back. It was just so sweet. I love all of those little moments with him.