Knuckles or NuNu

Micah has many aunts and uncles...I mean MANY! With just Zach and my siblings there are 11 (13 if you count Jered who is marrying Zach's sister and Krista who will be entering the family sooner than later if Andrew has anything to do with it). Each (especially on Zach's side) claims to be the favorite. I do not want to burst any bubbles, but I can tell you my younger brother Tim and Zach's youngest brother Joel are close to having top rank at the present moment.

A few weeks ago while I was at the Deeper Still conference Zach was in Gainesville, GA with his family. I'm not sure how much rest he gets while he's there because his aunts and uncles play with him, pass him around, teach him things CONSTANTLY. It's pretty amusing.

During this particular weekend Joel taught him how to do 'knuckles' which is when one person makes a fist and bangs it against another person's fist. I thought it was still referred to as 'pound it' but apparently that just proves my lack of coolness. Since this lesson Micah has been doing it all the time. After the normal high five people give Micah to make him actually pay attention to them instead of his mama (another post). He always balls up his cute little fist and says "nunu" so that they will give him 'knuckles' It is so darn cute and apparently makes him much cooler than his parents, but that wasn't going to take much. Sorry Zach...you're still cooler than me though!


It's so funny to me how kids pick things up so easily, but then again it also worries me!

family love

Micah had a great time playing at my parent's house with his cousins Keelie (KiKi) and Haley (Laley). While Keelie can't do much more than stare at their goofy selves, He and Haley ran around playing with everything imaginable from measuring cups to baby dolls to cars. Micah LOVES cars and my mom has a huge basket full of them. By the time we left they were scattered around the house, including the crib he slept in.

It was great to see my niece and son playing. It does make me feel old though because I can remember my brothers and sister and I playing together and I just think I can't believe there's another generation starting already!

Musical prowess

Haley has no fear of getting wet

Micah was trying to just get his belly wet

Keelie was watching from the comfort
of her excersaucer

Everybody LOVES Uncle Tim and
he definitely loves them

blueberries and bathtime

My sister in law Christina's family has lots and lots of land outside of Enterprise. She so kindly took Jen, Micah and Me with her and Haley to her grandmother's to pick blueberries. The bushes were really full of plump berries so much so they had started to split. I do not eat blueberries but Zach does and so does the rest of my family plus it's just fun to do stuff like that occasionally. Haley and Micah were too cute. Haley kept eating the blueberries off the bush and Micah would pick them and squish them between his fingers. I was having a great time until I realized that there were bees EVERYWHERE and they seemed to go near no one but me. Most of you know how I feel about buzzy things flying around me. NIGHTMARE! My sister Jen got cute pictures of the kids though while I was fending off the stingers!




Later that night when it was Micah's bath time Haley decided she need to take a bath with her
Mi Mi (long i sound) so we plunked her in there with him. She is very good at getting herself wet, but she didn't want to stop there. She decided Micah's hair was a little too dry and wanted to help him out. Don't worry though because he got her back by peeing on her at the end of the bath. Oh boys!

home again!

What pitiful blogging! I am ashamed (hear voice of Jacques from Nemo)!

I have been visiting my family in Enterprise the last week and had high hopes of taking tons of pictures while I was there and blogging every night about what we did. However my hubby HAD to have the camera because he was taking pictures of some new friends of ours so that left me cameraless. Thus another reason I need a small hand held digital to take everywhere just in case!

Mrs. Vickey, a wonderful friend of my mother's and also known as my shopping mama, let us borrow her camera so I could take shots of my sister and her little girl and the rest of our outings in Enterprise. So I did get the tons of pictures I was hoping for but I had no way of downloading them on to my mother's computer. I stole the memory card to bring home and since it does not fit my camera I am forced to go find one of those little digital thingies at a store and get a picture cd so that I can come home, download the pictures, edit them, and send them to my ol' tried and true snapfish account for the masses to see. The trouble we go through to store memories!

So this is all to say though I am sorry for leaving my tens of viewers with nothing to read from the mays be prepared for a few posts on my visit to Enterprise, AL. I had a great time and it went by waaaaaayyyyyy to fast but I am definitely excited to be back with Zach and all my bestest friends that I hope missed me so much because I sure missed them!

hand full

We have gotten Micah back to his normal blue bear'ness' meaning he sleeps with him and occasionally will carry him around the house. However, he now has his hands full of other things...random things.

Every morning he picks a few objects and carries them everywhere. If for some reason he needs a hand to do something he puts those objects in his other hand to free him up. As of right now, ALL IN ONE HAND MIND YOU, he is carrying a piece of sidewalk chalk, a miniature boat oar, half of a medicine syringe, and a plate stand. For all I know he is a budding MacGyver ready to disarm a bomb with all of his "tools".


For this particular pictures apparently we were fascinated with the screwdriver and hand broom!

scrappy excitement

This is a super short post and I'm sure the majority of you who read this won't care but I am so super excited about it that I just had to tell people.

I was introduced to a blog by my bestest friend stephanie called 3 peas in a pod. It is by a girl/lady/woman whatever named emily who makes some of the coolest scrapbook pages i have ever seen. Anyway she was having a give-a-way of some of her scrappy stuff because the lucky dog is now a guest designer for CMK and gets tons of her own freebies. Anyways i was chosen, randomly by her oldest son, but still chosen and now will get some extra cute/fun/cool/hip scrappy stuff to play with. I am determined to take my time and use it all wisely so that when I do the whole post update thing for this one I can show you all super cute stuff that has been created.

yay!

the 4th

What an absolutely glorious Independence Day! I can't remember the last time I had this much fun celebrating the 4th. The Cardozas and Mays(us) went to the 4th of July Parade in Oxford, GA. It is a teensy weensy little town east of Conyers. The parade was fun...lots of firetrucks, lots of kids, and lots of politicians. Oh well I guess that's what you get in an election year. Micah and Isabella did such a great job. We are extremely impressed at their abundance of attentiveness and lack of fussiness. We got such cute pictures of them as 'proud flag waving Americans'!!Showing off his flag waving skills.

Leslie, Isabella, Micah and I
waiting for the parade to begin.

Micah was laughing hysterically at Isabella
touching the blades on her little fan.

OMG! Are they not the most handsome pair EVER!!

Ol' Uncle Sam

Micah loves firetrucks.

Family pic

She was so excited about that little flag!

That afternoon (after nap time!) we went to a barbecue at Dave and Heather Butsch's house. They had barbecued a whole pig, lots of beef, and lots of chicken. There was tons of other food, drinks, and people. The worship band from our church played tons of songs from Jimmy Buffett to the Dixie Chicks. Micah had a great time running around, dancing to the music, and playing in the water.

Being chased by Auntie Stephanie.

Can I catch it?

Freezing but having fun

That is one puffy diaper

Zach rockin' out

Dave, Chad, and Zach feeling young