birthday day

Micah's big day started in our room.  He was so excited the night before that he had trouble sleeping and woke up around 2.  I let him bring his sleeping bag to our floor but after about an hour he decided our ceiling fan looked like a mouse head and it scared him so he got in bed with us.  It has been YEARS since he ever slept in our bed (he's just never been a fan) so it was kind of sweet until I had to get up to feed Logan and came back to him and Zach taking up the whole thing!  After that we played with the balloons we had left all over his floor and then he had a breakfast of brown poptarts and hot tea.  His request.  He's easy to please!

We dropped him off at school and then came back at their lunch time to bring a treat for him and his friends. He is not a fan of icing so he didn't want cupcakes.  He finally decided on popsicles with ice cream inside (creamsicles) and they were a hit.  Plus I didn't have to make them so everybody wins!

He and Connor watched a movie of his choice in our room that afternoon and then played until Zach got home.  He had phone calls from my mom, Bella and William, Uncle Tim and a mega phone call from quite a few members of Zach's family!  Then it was PRESENT TIME!!!  I LOVED his faces as he was opening his presents.  He got a Mario game and a Lego Star Wars game for the Wii and was ECSTATIC!  

After presents we went to dinner at Tokyo (a.k.a rice and soup store) where the three boys demolished some sushi with eel and salmon, soup, fried rice and chicken.  After we got home there was some Mario gaming and then bed time.  I told Micah Happy Birthday one last time before he went to sleep and got a smile for it.  Love that smiley boy!

I did my annual birthday interview with Micah today.  Here are his responses....

favorite food- sushi, rice and soup and chicken
favorite snack- goldfish, cheez its and ritz crackers
favorite color- red
favorite games- Mario and Duck Duck Goose
favorite things to do- make stuff and ride scooter
favorite friends- Kaiden, Cambree, Cole, Bella and Sawyer
favorite movie- Mysterious Island (Land Before Time)
favorite show- Curious George
favorite animal- tiger
When he grows up he wants to be Mario :)

embrace the camera: february 16th

Yesterday these two turned into a brand new 5 year old and 3 month old.
 Micah wanted to know how many months he was too.  I told him 60 and he felt old!

{embrace}

5

My precious Micah May is 5 today.  5.  I can barely believe it.  Has it really been 5 years since I entered the  world of mommyhood.  There are so many things I love about this big boy and sitting here thinking about them is already getting me choked up.  Here are some things about my big 5 year old boy.

*  He has such a sensitive heart.  While worry and easily hurt comes a long with his sensitivity I feel confident that God is going to use it to know and understand the needs of those around him as he grows.
*  Loves his little brothers.  He wants me to put Logan on the couch just so he can stare at him and wants me to wake Connor up from naps so he can play with him.
*  Can talk up a storm!  One of my favorite things is us being in the car and him saying Mama let's talk about ________.  It can be sports, food, parties, cemeteries, heaven or what your body would look like if it was cut open.  There's just no telling!
*  Still loves to dress up, imagine and create.  He also LOVES to hum...CONSTANTLY!  He can pick out a tune pretty well which makes Zach very excited.  I hope his artistic side continues to grow.
*  Starting baseball this year.  He's on the Red Sox which makes him happy because red is his favorite color.  His coach is a great christian family man (thank you Lord for that blessing!) who is also an actual baseball coach.
*  Is starting to get into sports in general.  He loved watching college football this year and remembers the majority of SEC teams and their mascots already.  Crazy how boy brains work.
*  Enjoys going to school and bringing home what he's learned.  It's amazing how much a little brain can hold and remember!
*  Has given up his 'blue bear' completely but still has a firm hold on his blanket and his stuffed curious george.  It's been three years since we started watching monkey and he still loves it and watches an episode every morning while eating breakfast.
*  Totally obsessed with Mario thanks to his buddy Kaiden at school.  Zach got us a wii for Christmas and one of his presents for his birthday is a Mario game so he'll finally be able to actually play Mario too.
*  We watched half of Empire Strikes Back and he loves it so the Star Wars phase has begun.  Can't wait to watch all three with him.
*  Learning to let go of his cautiousness and get to know people much easier.

It's a pleasure being the mama of this little boy and while he is far from perfect and on certain days his personal idiosyncrasies and normal boy misbehavior make me fine tune my parenting skills I could not be prouder of Micah and more excited about seeing him grow up!

birth day
February 15, 2007

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valentines

It all started with me trying to make my life easier and save a little money too.  I had good intentions but you know what they say about good intentions. So....

I found this super cool and free Valentine card printable online.  I am one who likes to make our valentines instead of purchase them, and this one was perfect. It was very boy friendly, did not contain stupid messages and was basically free because I already had cardstock at my house to print them on.  My even more frugal plan was to put pixie sticks on them instead of glow sticks because glow sticks are pricey and you can get a bag of 100 pixie sticks for like a dollar.  Or so I thought. Yesterday Connor, Logan and I went stopped by a drug store and a candy store and nothing.  Not one dang pixie stick.  Zach stopped by two gas stations and a grocery store on his way home and nothing.  Not one dang pixie stick.  I am racking my brain to figure out what else can go on there.  I mean it's not like any kind of candy can be a light saber!

On his way home from YoungLife he stopped at yet another gas station and Kroger.  I'd like to say I remained calm as he gave me what he thought were good suggestions at replacements but I did not.  Granted my almost 3 month old had decided to stay awake from 3 that afternoon until what was then 10 that night with barely a 45 minute nap in between so I'm using that as my excuse for informing him, in my not nicest voice, that he's suggestions were awful and to just by a few packs of gum and I'd tape two sticks to the card.

Twenty minutes later, Logan is still awake and I'm sitting on the couch crying because Zach came home with Freedent gum that smells like my grandmother and looks ridiculous because the wrappers on the sticks are white and say wrigley on them.  Not very Jedi!  He explained that he thought I was putting the whole pack on there which is why he bought those because they were apparently the only kind that were the longer skinny packs and not the square packs.  Either because he loves me that much or he was scared that I was having a large breakdown that was only going to get bigger, he went back to Kroger and bought gum with bright blue wrappers on the individual sticks.  Now that's Jedi.  So another thirty minutes, Logan is still awake, and I've finally finished my  not so brilliant, not so easy and not as cheap valentines.

My sweet boys took one look at them this morning and informed me that they were awesome and that they'd always wanted valentines exactly like that.  

embrace the camera: february 9th

"I don't want to take a picture!"

"Seriously mom I'm not fond of this picture taking"

"Ugh...fine, take the dumb picture"

joyfully {embracing}

dentist

Connor had his first dentist appointment this morning.  Not my favorite day ever!  We noticed a few weeks ago that he had a cavity in his back molar.  After getting over the fact that I'm obviously a terrible mother because my not even 3 year old has a cavity, we made an appointment to get it checked out.  He was all good in the waiting room and was even showing us how he was going to open his mouth BUT then they called us back and there was another kid SCREAMING like someone was killing him and it freaked Connor out.  Understandably so!  Dr. Proctor checked all his teeth and said everything looked good except of course for the massive cavity. Turns out it's actually pretty common and doesn't make me a redneck like I was previously fearing.  Forgive me for the rude generalization.  On February 20th we head back to get them fixed, praying that the 'laughing gas' chills out our wild one enough to take care of business :)

just because

Just because they're adorable

Just because I love them more than I could have ever imagined

Just because looking at this reminds me that all of it is worth it