more playground pics

You can see from these pictures Micah was well taken care of at the playground. He wasn't so sure about all of these tunnels and houses; he apparently is a little clausterphobic? He loved the mulch and I did not. That stuff is pretty yucky to me. It seems to make a lot of dust and irritated our eyes. That was just a random sidenote, but Mick wanted to put that stuff in the backyard and I say no thanks. Today is our last day of Micah and me time so hopefully we can make it one more day and then Mick will be home tomorrow and I plan to read and sunbathe all day! Ha Ha, yeah right!

play with bay

We met Nana and Bay at the playground today and Micah wasn't real sure about the whole thing. But Bay carried him around like a little mother hen. I am so thankful that we live close to his cousins so that he gets to play with them. He thinks Bay is so great and he already looks up to her soooo much. It is late and I have no help again tonite but I wanted to get a few of these up...more tomorrow ...

potty talk

This is funny to me...now whether it is funny to those reading is altogether different. If you don't like to discuss bodily functions skip this post...but in our house it is a daily conversation. And I am not neccesarily talking about Micah with that.
But back to Micah. He never poops when I leave him with Nana. I thought this was strange til I realized that she never leaves his side. His potty time is usually spent under the kitchen table where I leave him playing until I hear some straining and grunting and then I go change his stinky self. On Tuesday I had to leave him with Nana for most of the day. He never went. As soon as she walked out the door, he went to the kitchen table and pushed a very large present out. Turns out the boy just needs his privacy. Too funny! Nana wont let him go anywhere alone so he just holds it til he gets that alone time. We love Nana and are so thankful for her constant love and attention for Micah but his colon really thinks she should back off! Sorry for the crappy story but I thought this would be fun to read to Micah later in life.

pure sweetness!

Although these past few weeks have been hard there are moments in the day that I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. This morning we had one of those moments. Micah has not been sleeping well at night ( I think he misses his daddy). So when he gets up in the morning he isn't so rested...or in other words he is cranky and ornery. But he has taken to putting himself down for his nap. It is so cute. I really enjoy watching Regis and Kelly if I can so he plays while I do that. Micah usually goes down for his morning nap right after that. But two days this week he has crawled up in the chair with me and fallen asleep on me. The first day he fell asleep on my shoulder but today he wanted to sit beside me and watch tv. (He never watches tv so I figured it would be ok) I didn't think he would give up so easily but all of the sudden I could feel drool running down my arm. Out he went without a fuss or fight. I wanted to sit and hold him the whole nap...but I am not that crazy I know what would happen tonight if I did that...he would want momma again. Micah is getting so big and when I carried him to his crib I had to be careful not to bonk his noggin or his feet because he has gotten so tall. As I kissed his sweet face before putting him down I thought about how crazy it is that he is mine and I am his...what an amazing gift. Thank you, Jesus!

water, water, everywhere!

Mick did get to see us on Monday for a brief period before he had to get back to school work. During that time we went to dinner and on the way home we heard Micah chuckling...not laughing really but chuckling. I look back at him and he is banging his sippy cup on his leg. I am like well now that is just so funny, Micah. I gave him his cup in hopes that he would perform a miracle and drink out of it like other kids I know...not that I am comparing! Then I realize why he is laughing. He had somehow gotten the top loosened and poored the whole cup out onto himself. Hardly any got on the seat because his intentions were obviously to soak his clothes. He found the whole scene amusing and Mick and I couldn't help but laugh too. Of course it was deemed my fault because I was the one who gave him the cup...like I loosened it and hoped that he would poor it all out, right!

Notice the circular wetness on the belly...
Notice how dark his right pant leg is...that is because water was dripping from it, it was so wet. What a silly boy!

crazy week

I am a single mom this week...I don't know how real single moms do it. The past three weeks Mick has not been home much at all but this week is the worst. Seriously he will not get home this week before ten o clock any day! Yikes. Micah and I are just flying solo this week. Funny how Micah decides to stop sleeping through the night on our craziest week. Oh well. I have had lots of silly little things that I would have posted about but I can't do it with a baby on my hip. He is napping now but I know that is shortlived so I will have a few silly stories to follow, if he keeps snoozin'!

Happy Birthday Sunny!

After Micah's haircut and lunch with the Harper's we went to one of my best friend, April's daughters birthday party. We have been so busy that it has been hard to get together with them and that makes me sad. April and her husband aren't from Dville originally...we met them in Sunday school at our old church. They still go there though, so we don't see them at church anymore. They have two kiddos who were just babies(or seemed like it) when we met them and now their youngest is turning 5. Time goes by too fast.
This is April and I. We don't have very many pictures together lately since we haven't seen each other in so long. I am looking rough in this picture but it is one of the few of April and I...
This is funny because I insisted Mick put Micah in the jumpy thing. I waited for it to clear out and then I made them hop in . But as soon as they got in...if you look below you see what happened. Mick wanted to kill me.
For Sunny's birthday it was a Hannah Montana party. April made it look so cute and I know Sunny loved it. We got Sunny a Hannah Montana wig. Here is April trying to put it on. It was really creepy actually because Sunny has really curly hair and it was really straight. Anyways, it was a fun Saturday for us and even though it was busy it was nice to be together as a family and see friends that we hadn't been able to hang out with in a while.
Today marks a week, no five days left in the baseball season and I have never been so glad. In years past I have hoped for the playoffs or even a trip playing some south Ga. team, but not this year. I couldn't be happier that we stunk. Just teasing. They are a good team and they are good boys. It has just been a weird year. There is alot going on in alot of families and it is a transition year for Mick as well. We will see what next year holds...prayerfully we will make the right decision for our family.