Christmas at home

Since we're going to be traveling for Christmas this year, we decided to open our gifts to each other this past weekend. Micah loved his new rug with roads on it and his sidewalk chalk! We could hardly get him away from it when it was time to come inside. We had Dan's directing class over for dinner last night --Grandma Inouye's spaghetti sauce was a hit! Dan will be grading finals furiously until the day we leave for Minnesota, but hopefully after that things will be more relaxing. In the new year, I promise to post pictures of Micah dressed up in his ring-bearer outfit for Josh and Amanda's wedding this weekend. Congratulations! And of course we'll have lots of Delaware photos too since we'll be there for Christmas. Until then, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Playdough!

Micah is enjoying his playdough! We had to get it out three time this weekend. Paaay-dooo! Micah's recovering from a nasty ear infection, but other than that, it was a nice weekend. Dan and I got to go to a banquet and Christmas concert at OBU. I'm done with class for the semester so now it's time to focus on the holidays: Cookies baked: check. Presents sent: check. Cards signed: check. Bags packed: ummm...working on it.

Thanksgiving!

Micah and Tommy

Micah with June and Glenn

Micah with Laurie and Tammy

Micah and Petey

We had a great time over Thanksgiving with friends in Corinth, MS, our old stomping grounds. We stayed with Miss June and Mr. Glenn for the weekend and enjoyed dinner at Tommy's house with about 15 other people! Although Micah decided that it would be more fun to throw the food than eat it (I disagree!), we still had a nice night. Micah got to watch parts of the Wizard of Oz for the first time and spend quality time with Boo, Tommy's dog. There were many people we wanted to see and we didn't get to all of them, but I'm glad we were able to go even for a short trip! We're looking forward to the Christmas holiday and Dan's brother Josh's and Amanda's upcoming wedding in whcih Micah is a ring bearer! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday too!

O Christmas Tree

We put up the Christmas tree this weekend since we didn't know when we'd have another chance to do it before the holidays! We're now re-thinking our clever plan since Micah seems to be more interested in trying the pull the thing down on himself than anything else! Hope that tether holds! This is a cute video of him seeing the tree for the first time (we put it up while he was napping). We are going to be in Corinth, MS, our old stomping grounds, for Thanksgiving this year. We are looking forward to seeing all of our friends again! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday too!

"Dad, can I have the keys?"

He might not be asking for the car keys just yet, but Micah is fascinated with his new remote controlled car. After getting over the initial shock of seeing the car move and not knowing how that was happening, he thought it was a lot of fun! The "steering wheel" has a horn and two buttons to move the car forward and backward. He can even steer by turning the wheel whichever way he wants the car to go. Now if we could just keep him from pointing his other toys at the car and syaing "Go!" We tried to explain that only the steering wheel works, but this hasn't sunk in yet ;-) In other news, we finally buzzed his head again as you can see. He hates getting his hair trimmed so we always buzz, which is the quickest way to get it done. I figure when he's in the wedding in a month, it will have grown out to a nice length. On Friday, he fell on the playground and got a huge bump on his lip ;-( The poor kid looked a litle lopsided this weekend, but the swelling has gone down now and I think he'll live! We had a nice fall weekend, raking leaves in the backyard and visiting with friends... and working on papers (Dan grading them, me writing them). I can't believe it's almost December!

puzzled

Micah plays with his puzzle from Grammy and Pop Pop, minus the sounds which were a little too scary last night ;-)

Birthday cake and presents

Micah is opening a present from Nana and Papa Inouye--a remote controlled truck!