We're back! (to the internet, I mean)

Today for lunch Micah had macaroni and cheese and mixed vegetables. He could have had a brownie but he didn't want it. I thought I would start out with this picture. When I was looking for pictures to upload today, I found a folder from the end of October, 2008. Aw.

Here is Amy sleeping on her dad. This picture was taken around the first week of October. I think she is so cute when she is sleeping on her dad. I think it's because she is not sleeping on me.

Micah snagged Amy's car seat. I like the look is giving her.

Amy started pulling up on everything around the first week of October. This was one of the first few times.

I had another picture here, but when I went to capture it, I realized it was a nursing picture that I wasn't willing to share. You're welcome.

I started to think Amy ought to have her hair out of her eyes. I didn't really think my scrunchies would work, but what do you know- they do! Sort of. . .

This may be the most unflattering picture Amy has ever had taken, but she was soo relaxed. . . . In't it sweet?

Amy sleeping in our new bed at our new house. Even when she lays longways, there is still room for me now. Yay! (I had taken to sleeping across the foot of our queen bed).

Micah and Amy help put away the dishes at our new house. Micah has now decided EVERYTHING goes in that drawer.

Crawlin' crawlin' crawlin'. .. .

Watching Daddy and Micah blow bubbles in the back yard. (WE HAVE A BACK YARD!!!!)

Oh, "Hi, Mom!"

These are her favorite toys.

Michael had a Windows 7 launch party. Verrry exciting. . . .

Micah and I did a puzzle. A Windows 7 puzzle.

Pastor played the Wii at our house warming party.

I caught them playing together. . . not sure what they were doing. . . Micah is enjoying her more and more as she gets bigger.

Speaking of getting bigger and bigger, Micah is not Tigger, Micah big boy. Not little, Big boy. HE tells me several times a day. So, I have informed him that big boys go potty in the toilet. He has asked to sit on it a few times, but wanted off before anything exciting has happened. I have curtailed his gumball consumption, hopefully he will be pleasantly surprised when he deposits something in the toilet and gets to go to the gumball machine in the gets bedroom. . . We'll see.

He's been sleeping all night in his bed, and not only that but willingly taking himself there when it time to go to sleep, so that is pleasant. He has also taken on several new chores since the move. He help put away the dishes (as you saw in the pictures) and he has even more laundry responsibilities. I figure by the time he is four I won't have to do the laundry at all ; ) He loads all the wet things into the dryer and carries dry things from the dryer to the guest bedroom where he helps me put them on hangers. I still do all the putting away though, for my own peace of mind.

He's also big enough now to carry the serving dishes of food to the table at dinner time. He takes particular pleasure in this task- there is a lot of responsibility involved and I think it makes him feel really grown-up.

On the other hand, he is also getting big enough to do more disobeying. His favorite act of rebellion right now is changing the DVD's in the DVD player. He just takes out the one that is playing, puts it in the right case and gets another one. Trouble is, he doesn't expend much caution toward keeping the DVD's unscratched. Lets just say he has a smaller selection than he used to.

Amy is growing too. She has figured out that if Micah is bothering her (read: looking at her funny) if she looks and me and fusses I'll get after him. I, too, am beginning to figure this out. I think she is growing again. She eats and eats and eats some more. Both solids and breast milk. The one thing she is not getting much of is finger food. The only one she is really good with is toast. It's funny, because the baby food makers base finger food readiness on crawling ability. Micah was capable and competent with finger food long before he could crawl, she has been crawling forever, but seriously can't handle cheerios at all. She swallows them before she gums them. Augh.

She popped out her two bottom teeth the other day. I found them when I was trying to fish something out of her mouth. Surprise!

Micah and I are trying to teach her to clap. She enjoys the attention.

The Many Adventures of Micah-ther-Boy

Today Micah had chicken nuggets for lunch. He also played with toilet water, tried to swim in the pond at our new house, put my sandals in the fridge at our new house, drank water out of his mud puddle (also at our new house), took a long car to couch nap, splashed in his cereal at dinner and gave his sister kisses. Micah has busy days.
Amy seems to have gotten over her urgent need to be fed supplemental solids and has only been having her liquid foods. She has also been wearing out her knees, so she decided to try her feet on for size.

Amy wants to play with Daddy, but just can't keep up.

Leaning on the couch playing with Dad. Dad is Amy's favorite.

She may be smiling here, but I have learned grass is not Amy's favorite.

Micah has almost learned to stand on his head. After this I stood on my head (I was surprised that I could), but he still didn't quite understand the feet in the air part.



After looking for about half an hour, this is where I discovered my sandals . . . I checked the oven about 15 minutes into my search, but obviously my shoes are too cool for that.

Since I had to get the camera out to take pictures of my shoes, I thought I would take a few more of the new house.

Since no one is living there the appliances are unplugged- that is why the fridge is so far from the wall.

We really have six chairs to go around the table, the other three just haven't wandered over yet.

The closets are all hanging open because I was looking for my shoes.

My new bed in my new bedroom.

My babies sleeping in our 'new' car. Aren't they sweet.

Amy woke up when we got home. See how red her knees are? Poor baby.

Micah kept sleeping.
Why Amy's knees are red.
Amy's solution to the red knees. . . use feet!
I didn't realize when I chose this picture that Micah's eyes were like that. . . the point of the picture is actually the HUGE bowl of cereal Michael gave him for dinner.

Oops.

I think Micah may have had pop-sicles for lunch today. Hmm. That's too bad. He had a good breakfast and a good dinner though. . . Poor Amy is starving because I have only fed her liquid foods today and really I have decided she is doing best with two (small) solid meals now. She has had meals of bananas, avocados, and rice cereal. Avocados seem to be her least favorite, but as they are the healthiest I hope to change her mind. I will make her some sweet potatoes after we move. I hope that is not too long from now. We close at the end of September, but I am secretly (I'm not sure I have even told myself) hoping to move in next week. Interesting. Our land sale should close this week, but we are still praying for a buyer for our trailer. I can't imagine that God would take care of the huge obstacles that he has taken care of already and not take care of that too. . . He has been so good to us.

Micah has been. . . a mess... I guess you actually call it a two-year old. Sometimes he is so sweet to his sister and other times he tries to see how many things he can stack on her. Sometimes he gives her his toys, and other times he takes them away. When he is in trouble he runs away from me laughing hysterically instead of coming as I ask. This gets him in more trouble of course. At least I have time to secretly laugh while I chase him.

Amy is. . . I'm not sure crawling is the word. But yeah . . . kind of a primitive crawl. She gets around about as fast a turtle, so it's not too stressful yet, but she is getting stronger in that position every day. . I'd say I have a month at the most before she is racing around on all fours. I'm already having more and more trouble keeping her on the carpet.

When she wakes up from her nap in the back and Micah hears her he says "Oh no! Amy sad, Amy crying!" And runs to her. "Fast" he says. This is nice because it is sweet and because sometimes he hears her before I do. This is not nice, because sometime she is not all the way awake. Oh well.

Micah figured out how to get out of his room, so he is now officially trained to stay in bed until around 6:00am when he comes and joins us. I am looking forward to using the king-size bed that is ready and waiting for us at the new house.

I guess that is all I have right now, and I really should go feed this little girl something substantial before bed. And I guess I should put the little boy to bed too. . . hmm. . . maybe he will eat something to make up for his popsicle lunch.

Good Egg

Today Micah ate a whole pear for lunch in like. . . 2 minutes. I had to fish the core and stem out of his mouth. (He tends to chew these a long time instead of swallowing them or spitting them out). He also ate 1/4 of a nectarine and a few bites of beef roast, which we refer to as meat. In other news, we made an offer on a house yesterday and it was accepted today. Of course, we have inspections, and all that jazz to go through, but for all intents and purposes, we should be moving pretty soon! It is a complete miracle we are getting this house- techinically. . . it's just impossible, but God has just made everything fall together and we are just kind of standing around with our mouths open. And crying some times. . . me, not Michael. And hopefully we have a new long distance freindship too. Sadly, the people we are buying the house from have to move to Anchorage. I don't have a lot of pictures of the house because I was carrying Micah because he just woke, so they aren't very good pictures either, but here they are plus some I will steal off her craigslist ad. Yeah. . . we buy everything on craigslist. Actually, to look at the pictures click this link, you can then click on the first thumbnail and use arrows to get to the next ones: ----link removed--- Thats just way easier. . . But here are the ones from the ad:

The living room The kitchen The outside from the front lawn. The two windows on the left are bedrooms, the one on the other side of the door is the dining area. The lawn hasn't been cared for all summer. These are the pictures I saw that made me want to look into this. I had seen the ad without the pictures a number of times and ignored it.

And finally, all the pictures of the kids I haven't posted in so long: (these are from most recent to least recent . . . .