Too cute

Micah turns 18 months next week. These photos make me laugh so I am throwing them on the web. I realized that possibly 30% of our photos of Micah are of the eating process. They start to blend together, but they're always cute. Anyway, as he turns 18, here is the latest news:

- Micah has just busted out 3 new teeth this week bringing the total to 15. I don't know how many they get, but this was one painful week. It's nice when they all come together!

- Micah is starting to get some "words" out that we can really understand. "Daw" = dog, "Doo" = shoe, "Dad" = Dad :), "Doose" = juice. "Ah Duh" = all done. These are the most frequent.

- His current favorite activities are hide-n-seek, and doing anything outside. We know he wants to go outside when he points at the back of his bedroom door where his monkey backpack is and then brings us his shoes. If we play dumb, he goes and stands at the door and points until we get the picture.

- His new favorite book is "Dog" by Matthew Van Fleet, photos by Brian Stanton. It's a very cool photo book with lots of tabs to pull to make the "daws" wag their tails and scratch.

- New bedtime ritual: Read 3-4 books. Turn on nightlight and ceiling fan (yeah!!) and then say goodnight to each animal on his wall border. Tiger and elephant get smiles...middle of the room lion gets giggles....and last ones in the room - rhino and monkey - get laughs. Then into the crib with big smiles and arms wrapped around sleep dog and sleep frog. Sweet dreams!

- He's still sweet-talking the other folks on mass transit. Last month he received a brownie, several candy bars, several home-maid muffins, and more. One 12 year old girl on the ferry took his photo on her phone and then e-mailed it to us! This new generation of technology-literate kids will be quite interesting!

- That's all that I can think of in my tired state. Hope you enjoyed the update.