This is what we spent all of Labor day doing: building a sandbox. It has been very worth it in my opinion - the kids can spend hours out there playing. Now I just need to convince them not pour the sand on each others heads.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The best toy ever
This is what we spent all of Labor day doing: building a sandbox. It has been very worth it in my opinion - the kids can spend hours out there playing. Now I just need to convince them not pour the sand on each others heads.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Happy Birthday Micah!
We celebrated Micah's first birthday with both sets of his grandparents and our family. I love first birthdays because everything is new to them.
We started with presents. Micah was far more interested in climbing on them than actually opening them. He climbed up on this box and was so happy with himself.
Conner helped Micah open the present that he gave him. Then he showed him the book:
Here is Alan's wrapping paper. He wrote "GO MICAH GO" all by himself. Each of the boys got Micah a book because a lot of our board books have fallen apart due to Alan and Conner's love.
Micah checking out his new trucks
Then we moved on to the cake. For Alan and Conner's first birthday I made a cake that represented the stuffed animal that they attached to, that helped them sleep at night. Micah has never attached to anything to help him sleep at night so I had to come up with something else. One thing that he really loves is dirt. He loves to eat it. I would even call him a dirt connoisseur - he has sampled dirt from our back yard, sand from our sand box, the wood chips at the playground and many of the green plants around our yard such as grass, weeds and basil from my garden. So I made him a dirt cake. I frosted it with chocolate frosting and then I crushed up oreos to look like dirt. Alan and Conner helped me add gummi worms, chocolate rocks and construction trucks to make it look more authentic:
Make a wish!
Micah picked the frosting off and tasted that and decided that it was good. After that he went to work on getting as much in his mouth as he could.
He wasn't at all concerned about getting dirty
He LOVED the ice cream. We actually gave him some ice cream about a month before his birthday and he loved it. We usually wait but we had a hard time since it was summer and we were eating a lot of ice cream and he was extremely jealous when he couldn't have any.
Yum! That's a big bite for such a small mouth.
Trying to get the last bit out of the bowl
Micah liked playing with the balloon that was attached to his high chair - what a cutie!
Looks like he enjoyed himself
Then it was off to the bath tub for a scrub down and then down for a nap. Happy Birthday Micah!
Conner, Alan and Micah with their birthday hats on, ready to get this party started!
We started with presents. Micah was far more interested in climbing on them than actually opening them. He climbed up on this box and was so happy with himself.
Conner helped Micah open the present that he gave him. Then he showed him the book:
Here is Alan's wrapping paper. He wrote "GO MICAH GO" all by himself. Each of the boys got Micah a book because a lot of our board books have fallen apart due to Alan and Conner's love.
Micah checking out his new trucks
Then we moved on to the cake. For Alan and Conner's first birthday I made a cake that represented the stuffed animal that they attached to, that helped them sleep at night. Micah has never attached to anything to help him sleep at night so I had to come up with something else. One thing that he really loves is dirt. He loves to eat it. I would even call him a dirt connoisseur - he has sampled dirt from our back yard, sand from our sand box, the wood chips at the playground and many of the green plants around our yard such as grass, weeds and basil from my garden. So I made him a dirt cake. I frosted it with chocolate frosting and then I crushed up oreos to look like dirt. Alan and Conner helped me add gummi worms, chocolate rocks and construction trucks to make it look more authentic:
Make a wish!
Micah picked the frosting off and tasted that and decided that it was good. After that he went to work on getting as much in his mouth as he could.
He wasn't at all concerned about getting dirty
He LOVED the ice cream. We actually gave him some ice cream about a month before his birthday and he loved it. We usually wait but we had a hard time since it was summer and we were eating a lot of ice cream and he was extremely jealous when he couldn't have any.
Yum! That's a big bite for such a small mouth.
Trying to get the last bit out of the bowl
Micah liked playing with the balloon that was attached to his high chair - what a cutie!
Looks like he enjoyed himself
Then it was off to the bath tub for a scrub down and then down for a nap. Happy Birthday Micah!
Friday, September 9, 2011
First day of Kindergarten
When Alan was a baby I used to have lots of older ladies stop me in the store or at church and tell me how cute my baby was and then they would always conclude by saying "enjoy every moment because it goes by so fast". At the time a part of me knew that what they were saying was true but the other part of me was thinking "that's easy for you to say, you aren't getting up with him 3 times a night and changing 8 - 10 diapers a day and walking and walking and walking him when he is crying". Well, now that Alan is starting school I agree with them - the time has gone by so fast. When I look at him now he seems so big. When I went school shopping with him I had to buy size 6 pants and size 7/8 shirts. Also he jumped 3 shoe sizes since the last time I bought him shoes (he's now a size 2 in boys). Looking back I can say that it hasn't always been easy but it has been so fun and rewarding to stay home with him and watch him grow and develop into the handsome, smart, funny, loving boy that he is.
I think this picture captures some of Alan's feelings that morning:
Alan was excited to go but he was also a little nervous. The nervousness was gone by the time he got home and he was just plain excited. It has been fun to listen to him tell about his days when he gets home: how his teacher talks funny (she has an Alabama accent), how he met a boy that is "slowly transforming into a friend", how he got a hand stamp for being good. He also informed me that he did really good at school the first day and he thought it was because of his pants, so he had to wear those pants for the rest of the school week. He called them his "smarty pants". It has been harder than I thought to figure out lunches for him - the first day he came home really excited and told me he ate chicken nuggets on a tray. I guess he didn't realize his lunch bag was in his back pack so he got the hot lunch. The next day I showed him where his lunch was but when he came home only the sandwich was gone. Alan said that he didn't drink his juice because not everyone had a juice and he didn't have enough for everyone and he didn't eat his apple or cookies because they didn't have snack time. I explained that the apples and cookies were part of his lunch and that the other kids had something else to drink so he could still drink his juice. After a few days we finally got all the kinks worked out.
Alan on the first day of kindergarten
I think this picture captures some of Alan's feelings that morning:
Alan was excited to go but he was also a little nervous. The nervousness was gone by the time he got home and he was just plain excited. It has been fun to listen to him tell about his days when he gets home: how his teacher talks funny (she has an Alabama accent), how he met a boy that is "slowly transforming into a friend", how he got a hand stamp for being good. He also informed me that he did really good at school the first day and he thought it was because of his pants, so he had to wear those pants for the rest of the school week. He called them his "smarty pants". It has been harder than I thought to figure out lunches for him - the first day he came home really excited and told me he ate chicken nuggets on a tray. I guess he didn't realize his lunch bag was in his back pack so he got the hot lunch. The next day I showed him where his lunch was but when he came home only the sandwich was gone. Alan said that he didn't drink his juice because not everyone had a juice and he didn't have enough for everyone and he didn't eat his apple or cookies because they didn't have snack time. I explained that the apples and cookies were part of his lunch and that the other kids had something else to drink so he could still drink his juice. After a few days we finally got all the kinks worked out.
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