Making noise

Although Micah likes to stand any chance he gets and he also likes to crawl with something in his hand- a block, stuffed animal, toy hammer, whatever. Today he had a toy with a little jingle bell in it and I could hear him coming down the hallway. Hmmm... Maybe not a bad idea.

9 mo and happy new year

Well, Happy New Year!
It's crazy that just a year ago, we were planning for and anticipating Micah's arrival.
This is his 9 month pic, as good as it's gonna get I think.  He's holding the 9 block- for a brief second he wasn't chewing on it.

He's starting to take just a step while he's standing at the coffee table. I anticipate that any day he'll cover some ground as he goes after something.

He loves looking at books with us- especially the ones with finger puppets (although he just tries to get the puppet in his mouth) and flaps.  He also is determined to knock down any tower John or I tries to build.  Sometimes we can only get 3 blocks stacked before he completes demolition.

He's standing

Well Micah pulled himself up to stand at the coffee table. He's a little shaky yet but I don't expect it'll be long before he's walking around the table.
He was really telling me something today too in the car. Just "ba ba ya ya"ing about something. He likes to come help me unload the dishwasher and climb on bailey if he happens to be lying close by.

Christmas

We celebrated Christmas in Charlotte with the Kilbys in order to meet our 5 week old nephew Badin. Micah continues his habit of putting everything in his mouth- even tried to "taste" Badin- who didn't really care for that.
And so we continue figuring things out and enjoying life with Micah.

8 months and oh, so busy!

Micah is fully crawling now...everywhere and will sit on his knees in order to reach higher after something.  I can see the wheels turning sometimes in his head and I think he's trying to figure something out.  I wouldn't be surprised if I see him "walking" on his knees one day in order to get after something.  He is a joy and a happy little guy the vast majority of the time.  

 The one good pic during our photo shoot because.... 

this is the reality of trying to take his picture.  

Thanks to Aunt Sarah for his Christmas shirt. 

a little catching up

Micah at 6 months, and he has 2 bottom teeth.

 Now in November, at 7 months. At 7 1/2 months, two top teeth are beginning to make their presence known- next stop....steak :).  He's almost about ready to really take off crawling.  He twists and turns and scoots around and can cover some ground and spends a good bit of time pushed up on his hands and knees.  He hasn't quite coordinated forward movement like that yet but he'll flop back down on his stomach and he's gained a few inches.  So, he's gotten close enough to try to chew on all kinds of unacceptable items.  We have to up our game...

This is what happens when Micah decides he's done with the photo shoot. 

We also took a trip out to Marker-Miller Orchards on a warm Saturday after a couple weeks of cold.  We got a couple of good photos but it was tricky because he just wanted to grab the leaves (and eat them).  He also got himself twisted around enough looking at the pumpkin that he toppled himself right over. No worse for wear. And so we continue the adventure- trying to stay at least one step ahead.

5 mo already?!

I feel like I could probably say that every month. He smiles readily and laughs quite a bit too. He seems quite amused by the people he meets and his parents' antics.  The flight to Chicago last weekend didn't go very smoothly but we survived, and vowed to drive the next time, although 11 hours in the car could go badly as well.  It was a great visit though with the Van Drunen family!