15 months

6/15/15

Micah is standing on his own for several seconds and tentatively tried to take a step yesterday morning. He is still not sure if he wants to try something so unpredictable when crawling seems to be such an effective mode of transportation! He knows so much more than we even realize most of the time. When we are reading him books he can point to most of the objects and animals when asked "where is the ___." If we say "head," or "ahead," or anything similar he immediately and excitedly points to his head. He wiggles his fingers and toes when asked, does the cutest hand motions ever seen for the song "its bitsy spider," and tries to mimic the words we say (today for instance, he said "giraffe" after mama read him a book about giraffes. He can sign "more," "eat," and "milky," and is communicating very clearly what he wants from us a lot of the time. For instance if he wants mama to nurse him he walks over to the couch, points at it, and signs "more milky." So. Stinkin. Cute! He LOVES My Gym and will lift up both his hands in the air for "hooray" if prompted with "hip hip" or when he is excited and thinks it's an appropriate moment for a hip hip hooray. He still loves his dry "o's" cereal and teething cookies and expects them every time he gets in his car seat (clearly, we are not above bribery in this family). He loves to ride his dragon around the parking lot of our complex, knows exactly how to get to the park and demands we go there whenever we leave the house for a walk, blows kisses, gives kisses and hugs, loves to beat up daddy to wake him in the morning (and laughs and laughs about his antics). His favorite toys are still his books but he also loves his toolbox, legos, daddy's guitar, and his teddy bear, whom he now sleeps with. When mama nurses Micah to sleep he will sometimes abruptly sit up and point to teddy bear in his crib so that he can hold him while fe falls asleep (too sweet!). He LOVES music and dancing and will point to the stereo system and says "ah!" until we turn on the music. He makes the same funny smile and faces that mama made as a toddler and cracks us up with his wide range of expressions. He is a happy, serious, inquisitive, silly, smart, sweet, and fun-loving little guy and we just love him to pieces!

7/4 We have started our 4th of July traditions! Mama always went to the parade in her small town for the 4th of July and now we have the HB parade that is in walking distance of our house. Micah LOVED looking at the parade floats and kept saying "cah" (car) and getting especially excited for any floats that had music or balloons. If we teach Micah something once he has it down. For instance, mama taught him to raise one hand above his head when music comes on "woop woop" and now he does it every time! He loves to be around and observe people. He is such a joy.

7/5 Micah is officially walking! He took a couple steps for daddy the other day but today he is actually cruising. Mama was getting ready and Micah was playing on the floor of her closet when she asked him to come over to her. She crouched down in front of him and he tried to grab her hand but she backed up and he walked right to her! He then proceeded to walk all over mama and daddy's bedroom like he'd been doing it all along! So cute! We have decided that our guy waited until he was ready to have it down like a pro and now he is just all over the place. So cute! We also bought his first potty today! He is much too young to even think about being "potty trained" but we wanted to have it around for him to get familiar with so that when he is ready he can initiate the process. We let him pick in Target and of course he picked the one that look like a fire truck.Well, it shouldn't have been any surprise to us that he would want to climb aboard the potty and ride it...or that he would be frustrated that the wheels were simply a decorative piece and it would not roll... no matter how much he tried to push it across the floor. Poor guy! He is doing so much these days. He knows all of his body parts now and will point to them when asked (head, shoulders, knees, toes, nose, eyes, mouth, belly button!) Soooo smart! He can also "roar" like a tiger in this cute soft whisper, meow like a kitty cat, MMMMMM like a moo cow, and quack like a duck. He can point to most things in his book when prompted "where is the__", still loves to dance and "raises the roof" whenever his jam comes on, signs "more," "milky," and "eat." Says "guitar" when he wants to play with daddy's guitar, still loves drumming on anything he can get his hands on, and will drop it like it's hot if he's feeling the beat.

14 months

4/22 Micah's New Shoes!

5/3 Micah LOVES sitting in the drawer

5/5 What's for dinner?

5/9/2015 Still swimming!!

5/12/2015 Still likes peek-a-boo!

5/13 Micah shakes his head "no" and once it sounded like he actually said "no", he pushes and makes the sound to makes his cars go "vroom," and drums on his legs  and sways when you tell him to "dance dance."

5/17/2015 Beach day to see the duck drop at the pier