He's Growing Up

Before our eyes, Micah is turning into a little boy. Sometimes it seems like he was just born and I can't fathom how he can be nearly 15 months old. He really is changing quickly, and every couple of days he learns a new word or skill. It's amazing how quickly he absorbs information!

So, here are some recent pictures and some of the things he's up to!

He loves books! He has two small cloth baskets that hold his picture books, and there are many times when both baskets are nearly empty. His books will be spread all across the floor, some open and some closed. Micah loves to look at pictures!

Micah's still not walking, but I'm not worried. He's climbing on everything he can, including Maverick! (Doesn't Mav just look thrilled about it? He may not always love having Micah crawl on him, but Maverick is the most patient dog - he just licks Micah's face and lays there.)

He makes all kinds of animal sounds. His first was dog, then cat, cow and elephant. He's working on more of course, and I think he just figured out monkey but we'll have to try it out a few more times to be sure. I'm amazed at how he has been learning new words so often - he's saying all kinds of things, 'dog', 'ball', 'Hi' (it's kind of like aloha - it means hi and bye!), 'mama', 'da', 'What's that?' is 'isat?', 'Nana or Anana' for Banana or Anna, "Ma' for Maverick, and more. I really think Micah's a smart little boy!

Micah also loves his little cousin Anana, as he calls her. He's always gentle with her and he's interested in what she's doing when we're all together. Soon enough, she'll be on the floor crawling around after him.

He loves hiding under his clothes, and also trying to put them on. In the next picture he's trying to put on his jacket. He laughs and laughs when he does this. He really has a great sense of humor - any time someone is laughing, he starts to laugh too. He's started throwing his head back when he laughs, which is so cute!

Micah really is a sweet, funny little boy. He's changed our lives and we're so thankful! Every day is enriched by his presence, and that just makes me excited for all of the fun times to come. 

A Very Bad Word

Micah really has a mind of his own these days. He's all over the place - crawling wherever he can go, using Maverick's back as a footstool to climb onto the couch, and pulling anything he can reach off of anything he can reach. There are times when I'm exhausted after following him around for an hour, but this is such a fun time in his life!

He's starting to talk! He says 'dog', 'oof' (woof), 'yoww' (meow), 'hi', 'mama', and 'da' (dad). Those are only the words we can recognize. There are many many sounds in his vocabulary, a recent favorite is once again squealing, and I know he's trying to say more than we can understand. Laughs and smiles come so easily to this happy guy, and he's a real joy to us each day!

Here are two videos from this week - look how much he's changed, and so quickly!

One recent development is that Micah can recognize if he has done something wrong. He is such a sweet-hearted, and sensitive little boy, he hates when we tell him 'no' (and not like he's being rebellious - I think he's genuinely saddened) - but mostly he hates it when he has disappointed David. With the most gentle reprimand, almost a whispered 'no' from David, Micah dissolves into tears. He cries and cries, then wants to go to his Daddy to be consoled.

Usually when I tell him no, he doesn't really care. Most of the time he'll stop doing whatever it is I tell him not to, but there are no tears like with his Daddy. I sometimes get the guilty pout sequence. The other day, Micah was playing and climbing on Mav when he leaned down and bit the couch. All I said was, "No Micah, don't bite the couch."

Probably eating a tasty snack of dog hair - his favorite.

 

'No Micah, don't bite the couch." Head goes down immediately.



"I'm so ashamed of myself - I can't even look at you Mama."



Then face down on the floor for almost an entire minute. Unfortunately I missed the step where
he pressed his face into Maverick's back for 30 seconds.

And then, within minutes, back to playing like nothing happened.

Oh, he's so sweet. I'm going to bookmark this post so that someday I can come back to it and remember how obedient he was to David and Me!

Two Months Old

Wow, time flies! Micah is two months old on Sunday, just two days away! I can't believe how much he's grown and changed in such a short time. I was looking back at the first video I posted on here, what a difference! Some of the new things that Micah is doing:

* Sucking on his hand! He's found a new, free toy, which is always there. We recently discovered that sometimes when he's fussy, all we have to do is move his fist to his mouth, and he's happy!

* Talking all the time. Of course, he's not actually saying words, but he is saying consonants in his little sounds now.

* Got his first set of vaccination shots... what a bad evening that was. He was a little fussy in the afternoon, but anytime he was awake in the evening he screamed and screamed: even when he was eating.

* The last two nights he has slept from the time he went to sleep (9:00 or 10:00) until 5:00 in the morning, then back to sleep until 7:30 or 8:00! How nice for Mom to get extra sleep!

Micah (and David and I) got to go visit his Grandpa and Grandma Tevelde in Washington last weekend. It was a long trip, 7 hours each way, but he did really well! He slept almost the entire time that we were driving, and was quite a happy little guy during the visit.

He also got to meet his best friend (pre-selected by me and my good friend Katie), Noah. Noah is three months older than Micah, and was much more aware of Micah than Micah was of him, but we could tell that they're going to enjoy being best friends. 

Here are some pictures from the weekend trip:

Cuddling with Aunt Stephanie

And with Grandpa

His Grandma (my mom) and I got to give him a bath in the sink

Micah loved watching football and soccer with his daddy!

with his best friend Noah... Micah's asleep.

Micah slept most of the time we were visiting with Justin, Katie, and Noah. Then he cried when he woke up, and Noah wondered, "What are you doing?"