Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Micah woke up in the middle of the night last night crying, I could tell he was saying he wanted something but I couldn't tell what it was so I went in. He wanted to use the potty. I put him on the potty and this is my best recollection of the conversation that followed. Note that Micah has no indoor voice, I am quietly responding, but he is screaming in my face! :)

Micah: Look at Micah's teeth! (opens mouth)
Mama: Nice teeth.
Micah: They're triangles!
Mama: No, your teeth are squares.
Micah: Mama's teeth are triangles!
Mama: Mama's teeth are squares too.
Micah: Oh.
Mama: Doggies and Kittens have triangle teeth.
Micah: I see a person!
Mama: There are no persons in here. Do you see a rabbit in your night night?
Micah: Rabbit in the night night!
            I see a rocking chair!
Mama: Yeah, there's a rocking chair.
Micah: I see one TWO rocking chairs!
            I see one two THREE rocking chairs!
            HEY! BOOKS!
Mama: Yeah, you have lots of books.
Micah: Read a book!
Mama: It's too dark.
Micah: Read a book!

So we "read" Otis. I can repeat most of it from heart anyway. Micah kept saying he couldn't see the tractor and kept asking what the darkest parts of pictures were. I would tell him and then he would say "too dark." He sat on that potty for 20 minutes just peeing and just talking away. Hilarious.

Monday, November 25, 2014

Micah knows we're taking a plane to Gamma's house. He talks about it all the time. Last night was the cutest. Michael and I told him it was time to go to bed and he said, "No go to Gamma's house." We laughed and said we were going after three more nights, not until Wednesday. He said, "No, Go to Gamma's house NOW!"

The other morning, according to a text from Michael, Micah's first words of the day were, "Bob. Uncle Bob. And Aunt Karen. Go to see them. Ride in airplane. Uh huh."

Wednesday, November 20, 2014

Last night, Micah pulled one of the sofa cushions off and put it on the floor in front of the sofa. Then he jumped from the cushioned part of the sofa, to the cushionless part, and then from there to the cushion on the floor. 

"One! Two! Three! Ready? Jump!"

"One! Two! Three! Ready? Jump!"

Tuesday, November 19, 2014 - Why?

We had our first "Why" conversation after preschool at Waldorf today. 

Mama: Our car is over here today?

Micah: Why?

Mama: Because the parking lot was full and so we had to park over here on the street.

Micah: Why?

Mama: We parked over here because it's a one way street and so we had to turn left.

Micah: Why?

Mama: Because the street is too narrow, so they had to choose only one way for cars to go.

Micah: Why?

Mama: Well, they probably picked this way because the other streets go the other way.

That was so fun!

Micah said "the clouds are moving. Hey clouds! Where you going?"

Friday, November 1, 2013

Micah is a little boy. He has opinions about what he wants to wear, what he wants to eat for dinner, what he wants to do before his nap. He remembers the words to Go Dog Go and "reads" them before I do. This morning he picked up his cellphone (an old, no longer used cell), started to have an imaginary conversation with grandma and then announced, "I wanna talk to gamma on ah computer!" So I called grandma and we got on Skype!

He can put on his own socks and shoes, he can put on his shirt, he can put on underwear and pants, though he can't quite pull them over his butt! His toys have imaginary conversations with each other. The ducks in the bathtub are constantly asking "Oh doing up there?" "Oh doing down there?" while one duck is sitting in a cup of water up on the soap ledge. (For some reason "oh doing" means "what are you doing.")

He's totally potty trained except while sleeping though he doesn't always want to take the time to sit on the potty. I can almost always convince him to do it as long as the firemen use their potty in the fire house too. The same trick generally works for tooth brushing, if I list all the other people who brush their teeth, he'll usually do it too. Cece brushes her teeth, and Mariah brushes her teeth, and Erin brushes her teeth, and Sophia and Harper and Ernie and Bert, etc.

Tonight I was ready for a tough bedtime but when I told him it was almost time for bed at 7:35, he jumped to attention, demanded another bite of macaroni, and then he turned and walked out of the room to go upstairs for bed. It was such a nice surprise and we had such a nice bedtime. We read Otis, two Frog and Toad stories, and then sang Puff the Magic Dragon.