Andrea played outside with Micah and Elisha outside on Thanksgiving day! They had fun running around in the leaves. We didn't do a good job of documenting our Thanksgiving activities: Melissa & Charleston's house Thanksgiving morning for birthday banana pancakes, Oma and Opa's house with Aunt Andrea for Thanksgiving dinner, and Thanksgiving dinner number two at Nana and Pop's on Friday.

Micah meets Norah

Micah got to meet his baby cousin Norah and really enjoyed seeing and holding her. He had to wait until she was a whole week old because we'd been sick at our house. Look how good he is with her and how happy he is. And doesn't Aunt Gina look great?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Look, we made a coconut tree for our fridge, just like the one in the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. The Leapfrog letters work great to reenact the story!

A Few Stories

On Friday we hung out with some good friends and the kids helped Charlotte (the mommy) replant some fall mums. Later that day, Micah made me a flower and put it on my bedside table. It was his sippy cup in his snack bowl. He also commented, "And you can drink it, too." Brilliant!

Last night Micah climbed in Elisha's crib and his foot got stuck between the slats. He was screaming and Elisha was crying out "Ouwa! Ouwa!" This is what she says when she gets hurt. I got Micah unstuck and held him. I picked Elisha up, too. She loved all over Micah, hugging, stroking and patting him. Then she proceeded to poke him in the chest with her little pointer finger and fuss at him very seriously, as if to say, "You know you aren't supposed to be in my crib. I told you we'd get in trouble." Micah got told by his sister for the first time when she was just 10 months old. I wonder if things will continue like this...
Micah has been interested lately in what road we are driving on and which way we'll be turning next. So, our conversation in the car often revolves around where we are going and how we'll get there. On the way to school last week:
Micah: "Mommy, this is Tab Roberts Road, right?"
Me: "Yes, buddy, it is."
Micah: "I know that because it is so curvy."
Me, astounded: "Yes, you're right. You have such a great memory."
I had a conference with his teacher at school last week, too. She had a lot of positive feedback and a few areas, in which Micah needs some work (changing activities, gooey stuff on his hands, not being possessive about toys, cutting and drawing shapes). One thing she said that was really odd to me, was that he doesn't often speak to her in complete sentences. He also won't tell her his whole name. He does both of those things consistently at home, elsewhere and to the teacher's aide, just not to his teacher. Odd...

So big!

We started potty training Micah on July 21st. By the beginning of September he was almost entirely accident free. By the end of September we put away the training potty. Now he can not only reach the potty standing up with no problems at all, but he no longer uses a stool to reach the sink to wash his hands. He can even turn the water on and off all by himself on his tippy toes.
On Sunday in the car we had a conversation that went like this:
Micah: Mommy, God is in the sky.
Mommy: Why do you say that?
Micah: Because when we talk about Him we point up.
Then we talked about how God is everywhere and how He doesn't have a body like we do.
There are some days when he just feels like staying in his pajamas . . . all day.

SuperMicah