Who me?

A moment of silence for all the cute outfits Micah is too big to wear now! This may be the last time he gets to wear this little overall getup from Grammy so here it is. The weather is turning chilly in the mornings so I'm sure we'll be having to break out the pants and socks soon. It reminds me of just last year about this time when it was Indian Summer in Mississippi and I couldn't wait for him to get here!

Dan and I will be taking a nice trip this weekend to Memphis to see a musical with some friends from Corinth! Micah will spending the day at home with one of his caretakers from daycare who babysits on the weekends. When you live in a town as small as this one, getting out to the "big city" every once in awhile is a must (and so is seeing high-quality theatre for Dan).

A Balancing Act

Here's a cute video taken over the weekend of Micah toddling around the living room, teether in hand. He's got some pretty saggy pants on--he's outgrowing a lot right now--but he doesn't let it get him down! He had a low fever again this weekend which we are attributing to some new teeth coming in. Hopefully, he won't develop any illness. We've had enough of that for awhile!

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Here are a couple of videos I took this week of Micah being his goofy self. He loves to play with his bottle at dinner and the one video showcases that and his growing set of teeth. I have yet to get a good shot of them for you! The other video is of him crusing the furniture in search of something to occupy him--toilet paper! He loves pulling pieces of it off and stuffing them in his mouth, a pasttime that I discourage him from doing ona regular basis.

Future Farmers of America Here We Come

I just love these overall shorts--I had to post a picture of our little farmer in them.

We're all doing much better today, over our stomach flus and the like. It's been a busy but good week. I've been working on getting HSU's movie and TV ads in place for fall, Dan's been making beaver tails and crowns and generally overseeing all costumes for OBU's production of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe opening today and teaching classes, and Micah's been really good at mimicking our words. At dinner as he was enjoying banana chunks and I was repeating the word. He came out with "ba-na-na." Now, granted, this word is made up of syllables he already knows how to say, but it was the first time he had put them all together to say the word. This feat was followed by "ar" when I was saying "star" and "up" when I was trying to demonstrate that. I doubt he knows what any of these words mean, but can't a girl brag on her kid a little bit ? :-) He's just having fun making all the sounds he can make, all the time.

Long Time, No Blog

DJ "Jazzy" Micah
Micah attacks a formidable enemy--the new gate!

Well readers, I appreciate your patience this last week. We were offline due to illness--Dan's mine, Micah's. We're all on the mend now for the most part. Here are a couple photos of our little explorer. Yes, the new gate is working!

Casualties

Micah sports his fat lip Negotiating sippy cups

Well, it's one of those days. Yesterday at day care Micah banged his lip--no great damage done, but of course he's got a bit of a mark there. I guess we can expect a few more of thse bumps and bruises as he's getting around more now. We're also trying to encourage him to use the sippy cups but there's not a whole lot of interest there. I try to bring them both out several times a week just in case. I've got a cold and Micah's got one too, or something like it. This morning he has a sick tummy so I guess I'll be spending the afternoon at home while Dan watches him in the morning before class. I'll be glad when it's Friday again.

Check, please

"Waiter, this Cheerio is not cooperating. May I have another?"

"Aah, Cheerio bliss."

Here are a couple photos from our weekend. Micah's been experimenting with some different finger foods--not all of which he likes! We esacped the clutches of Hurricane Ike with little more than a few downed branches in the backyard and a light rain through the night. We didn't even lose power, for which we are grateful. Having talked with some friends in east Texas, things were pretty rough in other places. Micah is battling allergies again! We had to take him off of his Claritan temporarily so we could put him on a cough med when he had the cold. Now we're putting him back on, but of course it takes a week or two to really start working so we've been using the "Boogey Snatcher" (read: nasal aspirator) regularly. Above is a video of him taking a few steps! He's gotten all the way up to 7 or 8 at a time now.