Not Short Just Fun Size: This is for all of the skeptics out there.

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) :)

Why is it that every time you try to show off your baby, he (or she) doesn't deliver? For Micah's first Birthday, My brother Alex got Micah a program called "Your Baby Can Read". It is a great program and Micah LOVES it. I could tell that after the first month Micah's language had increased. A few weeks ago I was testing him to see how much he had learned. I would hold out 2 cards with 2 different words Dog and Clap. Then I would ask him "which one says dog"? And I swear to you he picked the right one. I did it a few more times with other words and he kept getting them right! I was so excited to see how well Micah was learning from this program. When Ryan got home later I tried to show him Micah's new skill, no luck. Eventually Ryan saw that Micah could actually read. I have also tried to share Micah's skills with some family and Friends and nothing, he tends to get stage fright.
Fast forward and then rewind to yesterday, Micah and I were playing with his flash cards. This time instead of asking him to pick between two words I showed him one word at a time and then asked him what it said, "Keys, Dog, Arms Up, Cup, Hat" he would either do the action for the word or call the word out. I was so shocked, I really couldn't believe what I was hearing. He doesn't always say the word or even get it right, but he's new to reading so back off! :)

*The end of the video cuts out, Micah is saying "Kah" (keys)

10 comments:

Jen said...: That's way cool. I may have to try this with my future baby!; April 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM
kristinann said...: Wow!! Very impressive!! Lia wouldn't know any of those words! I need to get workin!! So cute!; April 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Marisa Jean said...: Brilliant. Your child is simply brilliant.; April 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Alissa said...: I want that! thanks for sharing.; April 19, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Camy Katherman said...: I've actually seen the commercial for this program and I have wanted to get it for Aeslyn. I'm glad to see that it is working with someone I actually know. Thanks!; April 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Andrea said...: Very cute! I think most of us underestimate how smart little kiddos are. It is all about memorization. Their minds are much better at it than adults minds are.
Sorry to ramble...I studied human development. I get off on tangents sometimes:); April 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Adam and Cassie said...: I totally wanted to get that and everyone made fun of me. I knew it would work.; April 20, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Marisa Jean said...: I just watched this again, and seriously, he's such a brainiac! I love it!; April 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Courtney said...: That is amazing! I want to know how it works. Do they have a website or something? I guess I could google it.

Hope you guys are doing well- it looks like you are! Micah is adorable!; April 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Lesley said...: Micah is ready for first grade in the fall!; May 9, 2009 at 1:08 AM