Not Short Just Fun Size: July 2008

Micah made me laugh when...

7/5/12
Sam was calling for Mommy and Daddy after we put him down for bed.
M- No Sam, if you call for mommy, daddy comes up, if you call for Daddy, mommy comes up.
Sam called out "I need go poo poo." Ryan and I both ran up. :)

5/22/12
Micah started to talk to a mother and daughter (Micah's age) who we met as we were all walking to the park.
Micah- Hi I'm Micah M-I-C-A-H
Tracy (mother)- Hi Micah, did you learn to spell your name at school?
M- Yeah!
T- Where do you go to school?
M- I don't know, law school or something?

5/21/12
You know you listen to too many audio books and not enough music in the car when you have the following conversation.

Me: Micah, I forgot to grab books from your bedroom. Will you please run downstairs and grab the books you want to read for quiet time?

Micah: Mommy the upstairs books are a "great supplement for parent child reading time!"

4/17/12
Me: Micah you are in time out for throwing dirt on Sam.
Micah: You're wasting your time Mom!

3/22/12
Tonight we we're sitting on the front porch. Micah and Sam we're playing with their fire truck that uncle Jordan gave them. The boys were very delighted to see a large fire truck drive by. The truck stopped and flashed it's lights and honked the horn, and the fire fighters waved to the boys. It was a great show, micah's only complaint was that "the truck didn't say meow, meow"

3/11/12
I was trying to get Micah to put his pants back on after he finished using the bathroom. I reminded him repeatedly, and finally I told him he would have to go to his room if he didn't listen. He was so angry with me he shouted "You make me the laughing stock of the neighborhood!" (He got this line from an Aurthur book) All I could do was turn around so he couldn't see me laugh.

1/10/12
M- Sam can I have that book please, because your reading it upside down
S- (with the book upside down) No

12/3/11
I was trying to get Micah to stay at the table and eat dinner, but he was pretending to be a puppy. He kept directing me and Ryan on what to say. Teasingly I said, "I didn't know puppies were so bossy. Micah breaking charachter replies, That's for sure!"

10/14/11
I was holding Sam in the baby carrier, he was sleeping. Micah asks, "is that how the babies sleep in Guatemala?"

9/29/11
After an afternoon of shopping, I sent Micah to time out when we got home for not staying with me. After time out we had a talk about it. After saying everything I had to say Micah replied, "if you don't know where I am, just look by the buttons, that's where you'll find me."

9/20/11
When Micah is being disobedient I give him a warning and then count to 3 if he continues break rules. Today he was playing with the dishwasher rack full of dishes. I asked him to stay out of there and we closed the dishwasher. He went right back to playing in there so I started counting. Then Micah stand up angry at me and says "No more Mommies counting at kids!"

3/4/11
The boys were in bed and over the monitor we heard Sam start crying, then we heard Micah start singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to Sam. So sweet.

2/20/11
a couple days ago Micah came up to me holding an ice cream scoop and asked, "Mom, can I have a big giant scoop of peanut butter?"

1/7/11
cleaning up the toys today
Ryan- are you going to help me or what
Micah-(thinking about his "options" chooses) what.

1/3/11
Micah got dressed after his bath and said "I'm Micah again!"

12/2/10
Mom, we need snow.

11/21/10
I heard Micah singing, "Heavenly Father had a farm E I E I O."

11/13/10
Micah usually uses this line when he sees something he shouldn't play with. He learned from Toy Story

Sid (from T/S)- Danger, keep out of reach of Children. AWESOME!

Micah- Danger, keep out of Kids. Oh Well!

11/12/10
Micah has been using lines from books that we read. Today he said "I made a big mess, Daddy is not happy to see me." This is interpretation of a few lines from The Cat in the Hat.

Micah loves to strike up conversations in the elevator. His usual approach to make small talk is "look at the cute baby" as he points to Sam

11/2010
Micah noticed I was getting ready for the day, he walked out of my room and into his, I heard him call out. "Mom, do you know where my dress is"?

10/29/10
Micah was playing with his cars this afternoon, apparently they weren't doing what he wanted them to do. I heard him say,"No cars, go to time out"

10/2010
Ryan and I are always calling Micah a "silly goose," and he is always correcting us "silly geese"

10/2010
We call Micah big guy a lot. Recently he has started calling daddy, big man.

10/09/2010
We had to make a quick run to the grocery store so I just through shoes on the boys Micah looked up at me in shock and said, "Oh no! I'm in the elevator, in my pajamas!"

9/21/10
Walking into my bedroom at 6:30am, "Wake up Mom, the sun is Shining!"

9/20/10
Shaking Sam's hand, Micah said, "Hi, nice to eat you."

8/31/10
Micah had a little toy that looked like a hand bag around his wrist and said, "By Mom, I going shopping! You know where keys are?"

8/23/10
Micah dumped a bucket of balls on Sam's lap and said, "Here kid, have a ball."

8/15/10
We drove past the Washington Monument to show it to Micah, he loves it! He calls it Washingment :)

8/14/10
The radio in the car started blaring when I switched from the fm transmitter to a cd. Micah yelled out to me "WHOA MOM, TOO LOUD!"

8/8/10

Upon walking into the family room at Nana and Papa's house Micah said, "what's going on here?"

8/8/10
Making smores at Sara and Weston's house and Micah called Marshmallows, Fartmallows.

Everyday

Micah doesn't have down the saying "See you later alligator" "In a while crocodile." This is how his conversation usually goes.

Grandpa: See you later alligator

Micah: See you later crocodidle or bye crocodidle

5/21/10
Today we went to the Living Traditions festival. Ryan and I let Micah push his stroller. As he was pushing through the crowds, Ryan told Micah to watch out for people. Then Micah started yelling "Watch out people."

2/19/10
Micah was pressing a lot of buttons on the TV at his Nana and Papa's house. I look at him and say"Micah, please don't push anymore buttons" "Why?!" He was clearly not expecting an explanation.

2/2/10
Oh my heck, this boy is surprising me every day. This morning while we were getting ready, Micah counted in this sequence 1,2,3,9,10. What a bright little boy I have!

2/1/10
I was exercising and Micah was playing in the same room. I was working on curls and I counted each one out loud, when I got to 9 Micah called out "ten!" Besides 1, 2, go, I didn't even think Micah could count.

1/2/10
Micah has foam letters he plays with in the bath tub. During his bath he actually spelled the word "jet" but not knowing this he pointed to the left side of the word and went across exclaiming "Micah."

1/1/10
Micah and I had just waken up from a nap and we sat down on the couch and began flipping through t.v. channels for him. I stopped on a foot ball game for him. After a few minutes of sitting and watching very intently, Micah leans forward and yells at the t.v., "Come on!"

10/25/09
After family prayer tonight Micah reminded me of all the people we left out of our prayer. "Co-ee (Cody), Howie (Haley), Ka-dee (Katie), Ee (Eric), Mama (Grandma), his fish sound for Grandpa, Nan (Nana/other g-ma), Papa (Pop, pop/other grandpa) Gah-bee, happy (I guess he needs more hapiness in his life).

10/16/09
Micah has discovered the art of tattle telling. Ryan wouldn't let Micah play with something in the kitchen (I don't know what it was) and Micah ran into me with tears and said "Mommy, Dad" as he pointed to the kitchen.

9/27/09
Micah was putting a puzzle together in sacrament meeting. Every time he got a puzzle piece in, he folded his arms and said "amen."

9/22/09
Micah keeps jumping on my back and making monkey sounds. I love the way he clings to me, now I have an idea of how a mother monkey feels.

9/14/09
Micah and I were playing with building blocks today. I was working on an awesome tower. Then Micah comes along and pushes over my structural masterpiece and yells "OOPS!"

Micah was trying to tell me something using sign language. He knows a few ASL sings that he uses pretty often, but this was different today. Micah making signs and gestures I've never even seen before, he was practically making up his own dialect of sign language! It was very hard to keep a straight face. I finally had to ask him to show me what he wanted. A ride in the toy box of course!

9/9/09
Micah loves to get the courtesy balloons from Maceys. I decided to hold on to the balloon for safe keeping, as we were unloading the car the balloon snagged on the door and became free. Micah was horrified! he kept calling "BA, BA, BA." I felt so horrible.

9/?/09
Micah was purposely dumping out milk from his sippy-cup. I looked at him and said "uh oh Micah." He quickly stopped then walked over to the dish rag drawer and grabbed a cloth, went back over to the mess, bent over and mopped it up!

Sam made me laugh when...

4/17/12
Sam is such a good talker it is amazing. He does run into barriers at times. He is such a champ, he has started to use body language to communicate when I can't understand him. Today he was trying to tell me that his straw wasn't working. When he could see that I wasn't getting it, he started acting like he was sucking from a straw and then he handed me his cup. Such a little thing, but I love it!

4/9/12
Sam really likes to throw his food off the table. On this particular occasion, I was a little more stern that he is use to. The mischievous smile on his face turned to a frown and he got huge puppy dog eyes. I was so worried that I made him sad, I really didn't want to see him cry. I quickly assured him that I wasn't mad at him but that his mess was not okay. I gave him a hug and a kiss. He just sat there with that sad look. I waled away for a moment and as I was coming back I noticed that he looked much happier. When he noticed me however, he went back to that sad look. I asked him if he was sad, he was trying very hard to look sad but not hard enough because he was pulling a half smile/half frown. When I saw this I realized he was just yanking my chain.

3/27/12
Sam has started saying potty and running into the bathroom. So I remove his diaper and sit him on the potty. He likes to just sit their and explore his body (too much info?) When I can see he is not actually using the potty I try to tell him the potty is for going pee pee and poo poo. He grunts a little and hops down with a satisfied look. But every time I try to get his diaper back on he runs back to the bathroom and tells me he needs to use the potty. He really hates to wear diapers!!!

3/26/12
I was changing Sam's diaper and trying to get him to say the word diaper.
Me: Sam say diaper
Sam: Bess you (bless you)
Me: Diaper
Sam: Bess you
Me: Diaper, diaper diaper
Sam: Bess you

3/6/12
Sam kept crying for me at bed time. I went in to comfort him and I held him for a few minutes until he seemed relaxed. I went to lay him back down and he started pouting. I told him to try closing his eyes and singing a song. A sang twinkle twinkle... to him and then left. I stood outside the door for a moment and heard Sam singing, "up, up, up, up, high" (that's how he sings "twinkle twinkle")

2/2/11
Crawling!

2/1/11
First Word
Sam is reaching for a ball and he says "Ball"

2/1/11
Tooth 4

1/30/11
Tooth 3

1/21/11
Pulls himself up to standing!

1/5/11
push himself up into sitting position!

12/29/10
tooth 2 (bottom left)

12/27/10
tooth 1 (bottom right)

12/1/10
Sam likes carrots, he thinks peas are better

11/30/10
Sam can sit up!

11/27/10
Sam Loves peas!

10//10
Sam likes rice cereal

8/15/10
First laugh while mom was tickling him

7/27/10
Samuel rolled over. (just a fluke, as of 8/25 he hasn't done it again) :)

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Transformers, ballroom style!

A few months ago I was up late feeding Micah; this was when we were both new at nursing and it took like 45 minutes for him to eat. Anyway, this particular night I was watching a Ballroom competition and I saw this awesome performance. I pulled it up to show Ryan last night and I figured that the rest of you would enjoy this too.

Recalling the past

Marisa, Heather, Jenna, Cammy, Auburn and Me at the San Diego Temple

I thought I would share one of my memories. A few years a go for Spring break, I along with some of my best friends packed up into my little 1994 Nissan Sentra and drove to San Diego, CA to visit our friend Jenna. There were a lot of great memories that came from this trip but what sticks out in my mind the most is the fact that I could not keep track of a single thing. I was constantly misplacing my keys, sunglasses, you name it I couldn't find it. Luckily Auburn had my back the whole time, she always new where to find my lost items. I guess this is one of those you had to be there moments.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Weekend Fun

This last weekend was so great. The greatness started on Friday afternoon when Ryan came home and surprised me with a box of chocolaty, nutty, caramels, a hat, a Carmelle apple and tickets to the Jazz festival; needless to say I was surprised. So thank you Ryan the treats were yummy and I love you so much.

Later on Friday night we went to a BBQ that our friends Drew and Emily hosted, the best part of it all was getting Micah into the pool. He loved it so much, he was kicking, splashing and giggling the whole time, I think he is going to be a swimmer like his Dad.

On Saturday Ryan and I decided to go yard sale hopping to see if we could find some used bikes, mainly because gas prices are ridiculous. As we went from house to house our search was seeming fruitless, then to my surprise I found a great deal on a car that I couldn't pass up. It was actually a saucer for Micah. I was so excited to find this because Micah wants to be held in the standing position all the time.

Saturday night was date night, so Ryan and I went to the Jazz festival. We had such a great time, we go every year. This year was the first time that the city charged for the festival, but somehow my honey got our tickets free. Ryan likes to think that the only good thing that Rocky Anderson did for Salt Lake City was make the Jazz festival free, I thought that was a funny joke but I'm sure he did a lot of other good things for Salt Lake. FYI Ryan isn't a "hater."

Sunday was pretty relaxing, I always enjoy the Sabbath. Like a lot of people my favorite part of Sunday is going to church and spending time with family. You just can't beat a nice sunny weekend to be enjoyed with the family

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Good News Minute!

I have been playing around lately with different templates, sorry if this has been confusing. Anyway I am pretty sure I have found my favorite one. What do you think? I lost my fun poll about who Micah looks like with the changes, I'll get one back up and you can vote again if you'd like too. Micah is changing so much, I think he looks more like my twin Brother Jordan right now.

Good News Minute

I was recently called to serve in the Nursery at church so I don't get to participate in good news minute in Relief Society. I wanted to share with all of you that West Jordan has started up the Farmers Market again, it is now in Veterans Memorial Park every Tuesday from 3-7:00 and it goes all the way to October 8. The most exciting part is I live right next to the park so I can just walk over and see if they have anything I want. YEAH!!! I also would like to add that Ryan will have a story coming out soon in the Salt Lake Tribune about the farmers market, keep a look out for it.

Micah made me laugh when...

Sam made me laugh when...

Lindsay, Ryan Micah and Sam

Lindsay and Ryan

Micah

Sam