Micah's first birthday

Mr. Micah has had a birthday!  Hard to believe it's already been a year since he joined our family!

(If you ignore the first post, here's some from this time last year.  Miss that baby!)

Mr Micah is not so interested in the present.

Daddy helped a little, and he couldn't resist peeking!

But maybe someone else can finish opening this!

PLEASE??

Hmm, this is kind of cool.

(And yes, I had to hold onto Selah to keep her from "helping!")

 He likes it!

Fierce concentration!

Guess he's not the only one who likes it!

Listening to everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to him!

Oh boy!

Now what?

Daddy giving a little help.

Got it all figured out now!

Is this really okay??

Well, just in case you change your mind, I'm going to eat quickly!

A little tired, it's past my bedtime...



But I can still eat, don't worry!

Selah liked hers, too.

Hey Noah, you going to finish that?

I seem to be all out.

Can we have this everyday?

Micah on his First Birthday

It worked!

It all started the Friday before Thanksgiving...

Have you been wondering where we are?  Well, the short version is that the Friday before Thanksgiving we were supposed to close on a new house (the 8th we have tried to buy in Michigan) but of course that didn't happen. So we were out doing errands that day and the van, who had been acting up for a while, just really wasn't doing well.  By Saturday, we were afraid to drive it all seeing as we didn't have a second car in case we got stuck somewhere. So Monday, we got a new van.  And the old one gave up the ghost one exit early on the way home. I was very sad, and then we sold her to the junk yard.  But we were lucky enough to make it to get a new one, and thank God for that! Tuesday, I got a new phone...which is a great thing, but I haven't figured out how to blog from it so that is why you haven't heard that on Wednesday WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!

Things have been crazy trying to get everything moved over and put away.  We have a 3 car garage now...but it's so full of boxes we can't even park our one car in there.  Guess it will be a while.  But I know you would like to see it, so here you go.  Be kind, it's a work in progress!

And we went from 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 800 sqft to 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 2700sqft. It's nice having a little space!

The new house

The jacuzzi tub in our bathroom.  The kids were bathing unsupervised. 

Micah's room

view 2.  It's so huge for a nursery! Usually all the furniture has touched, now we added a chest and still have room left over!

And his closet is incredible!

right side of closet

left side of closet. Used to be he had 2 drawers in the changing table. Now he has those plus a chest of drawers AND this whole closet!! 

the road leading to Selah's suite.

her awesome closet

Her own, boy-free bathroom!  (Which is bigger than the one we all shared at the old place!)

Her furniture...aka the guest bed. COME VISIT!!

Selah's bed.  She's a pistol and still needs that tent on her crib.

The boys' room, looking at the closets.  Yes, plural.  There are two closets!

This is the bigger closet.  We have big plans for it.

This is the smaller one...it's just going to hold clothes!

Their room from the closet.

I know that there are many more rooms but I don't have pictures on them on my memory card right now.  I'll post some more soon.

Sometimes....

Sometimes, every now and then, when you realize you can't find Selah OR Micah, they're actually just playing together nicely! They were rocking bear to sleep. So sweet.

Doesn't take long

For the kitchen to look like this. Daily. Andthen they just move on to somewhere else, as it's way too messy to play in here now!

And then

Of Course, Selah had to come along and intensify the mess for him. She's so thoughtful.

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Yum

He's learning fast as Selah's protege. But since we have already determined that eating one dishwasher tab is not lethal, Micah's decided to see what happens when you fill a water bottle with them. Hey- it's all in the name of science!

The itsy bitsy spider

Climbed up the moving box. Selah sat here and watched it singing the song. It was adorable- and she's very proud of the masterpiece on her leg. Once again grateful for washable markers!

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Notice anything strange?

No, her head isn't on backwards. She's beentaking her clothes off when she's supposed to be sleeping...and we've had some awful messes. So far, this little trick has worked beautifully.

Halloween, a 50th Birthday and 2 Christenings

These are all mixed up.  But if I try to fix them I'm sure you'll never see them so bear with me!



Micah playing with Uncle Jonah.  He is SUCH a happy baby when he's getting attention!

Selah after destroying Daddy's Sears tower- I think there are pics of that somewhere in here...

She got into Daddy's deoderant.  You probably can't tell but there are little blue pieces all over the floor.  And she rubbed it all in her hair- but hey, she smelled good!

Had to buy Miss Trouble a crib and a crib tent because she kept climbing out of the pack n play and making some major trouble.  She hates it but so far it works. (She's sleeping peacefully if you can't tell.)

Daddy left the tea bags out.  Selah ripped one open and dumped it before I got to her. 

Selah shared her apple with her brother- wasn't that sweet?

If you haven't heard, we really hope that things are going work out this time and this will be our new house in less than 2 weeks.  Bryan made the kids a coutdown. We hope to close on the 19th.  I will post pictures once we do, don't want to jinx us.s

Another of Bryan's creations

Sneaking tastes of marshmallow fondant

Chocolate? Nope haven't seen any around here! I'm just playing nicely with my baby here!

Dr Wilhelm, off to surgery

(We went trunk or treating with some friends the Friday before Halloween before heading off to Ohio.)

Cute little monkey and duck

Not liking the hood, though.

Dr Wilhelm after a successful surgery

Cpt Wilhelm, top gun pilot

But Mom!  I shared with Micah, too!

Our niece, Alazay at her Christening

Our nephew Makian got a turn, too.  They both did very well!

Noah was goofing off out of range of the camera.

Last time Bryan lit a candle in this church he dropped it(at our wedding.)  Guess he wasn't so nervous this time!

Uncle Jonah did a good job, too!

The kids got to bring up the gifts, which was fun.

Micah came down with something and has had a miserable week, but Mass was peaceful as he just passed out on Grandpa!

That's Mr Micah for you.

Micah with his godparents, Uncle Jonah and Aunt Allison.

Makian and Alazay's cake

I appologize for being so  far behind. 

My mom also turned 50, though I doubt she wants me to share that!  I couldn't find my camera and thought it was left behind when we celebrated but I do have a picture from my camera of the cake.  (Unfortunately I seem to have lost my phone so I will have to post that seperately!)  It was nice to see all of my family, it's been more than a year since we've gotten together!