MICAH IS THREE!

Can you believe Micah turned three on Saturday?? Where DOES the time go? ;)

We started the day with the homemade version of IHOP's funny face pancakes. Micah LOVES pancakes (in fact, they were his request for his birthday dinner, but since we had them for breakfast, he changed his mind to "peanut butter and jelly bread"). This is him and his funny face pancake, or maybe it's the pancake with a funny face Micah??

And I'm posting this one, too, because I think its a cute picture of the brothers. In fact, I might frame it on their desk.

And so she wont feel left out, this is Emilia during breakfast, wishing she could eat some of those yummy pancakes:

The rest of the morning was spent getting ready for the big party that afternoon, and it was tons of FUN! Micah had a construction party and had a BLAST getting to do all of the fun "construction-y" stuff. We had a house to paint, a "tower" to demolish, a traffic cone pinata, and they all got to wear 'hard hats' and nail aprons. And they had measuring tapes. Micah measured me and I was "6 pounds." In fact, everyone was 6 pounds except for him. He was 30 pounds. Oh, and Micah told me this the day before his party, "You need to call your mommy and ask if you can come to my party. And since Nana is your mommy, you need to call her and ask. And she needs to call her mommy, too, and ask if she can come to my party, too." Who knew at 30 and as the main party planner, I would still have to call my mommy and ask if I could go to a birthday party, which was even at my house, by the way. Learn something new everyday, I guess.

Micah measuring the house window:

Josiah painting the house:

The wrecking ball "tower":

Emilia 'wearing' her hard hat:

The birthday boy blowing out the candles on his excavator cake:

More work being done on the house...can you see Micah is really concentrating--he's got his tongue sticking out and everything!

A tired three year old, not cooperating with my photo op!

Needless to say, we had a wonderful, fun-filled, exciting day and my kids CRASHED that night. :) Happy, happy birthday to Micah! We love you so much.

I finally got a picture of this...

Ok, I have two pictures for you. The first one is obviously of Molly. The second one is a close-up of her head from that picture...

Picture #1


Picture #2


So I checked on the preview and you can still see it...hopefully you can on the post. ANYWAY. Do you see the little white line on her head? Maybe you think its a piece of fuzz? Yeah, I thought so, too, the first time I saw it (when she was two days old). However, it is in fact A GREY HAIR!! Can you believe it? My daughter was BORN with a grey hair! It fell out when she was about a week old and I thought maybe it was one of those weird birth things (like the hairy ears that all of my kids have had...thankfully, that really did fall off and not grow back!) But then the grey hair grew back, same spot. I find this especially funny because I have yet to have a grey hair--seriously! If you don't believe me you can check for yourself. No. I don't dye my hair and my mom has even done a thorough inspection and come up empty handed (she thought it was unfair that one of her kids turned 30 without any grey). Has anyone ever heard of a newborn having grey hair? Ha-ha! I find this very amusing.

Random pic of me and my little loves:


And the best picture I got the other day of the three of them:


And lastly...a cute quote from Josiah:
"When I yawned someone was ringing a bell in my ear."

Micah's Super Power

This story needs a little background info...
Uncle Rick and Aunt Sue sent the boys a "big brother" present. They both got view masters with a clip on the side. They also got a PBS DVD of "Super Why"--a show about 4 kids with the "power of reading," one of whom is called Super Why. Earlier today we were talking about Micah's upcoming birthday party, which is going to be a construction party. We have mini tape measures to give the kids at the party. The tape measures have a clip on them, like the viewmasters. When Micah saw the tape measures he was very excited about them (he loves to play with Daddy's) and was sad that he couldn't have his yet because he wanted to clip it to his pocket.

Ok, so Micah was playing with the viewmasters when I noticed they had the clip on them. I pointed them out to him and he was muy excited that he could clip these to his pocket. I guess they were a good subsitute for the tape measures. I helped him clip them to his pockets. Try to visualize this: A little almost 3 year old a red viewmaster on one side and a blue viewmaster on the other side. Looks kinda funny, but keep the image in your head, it makes what he does even funnier: He runs across the living room, slides on the hardwood with one hand straight up in the air and one on his hip and he yells:

SUPER WIDE!!

I just started laughing! It took me awhile to realize he thought the boys name on the video was "Super Wide" instead of "Super WHY." Maybe it's the cape. It wasn't too flattering of a fit for the kid. ;P



And !! BONUS !! Today you even get a video because when I went to take the picture I forgot that the camera was on movie setting, which also explains the 'odd' angle at the beginning. I'm glad I made the mistake, though, because a picture couldn't have captured the "Super Wide Dance."



And since you are such wonderful people, I'll throw this one out there, too. It's Josiah and Emilia this morning. It's the first time she's smiled at him on purpose. I mean, he's gotten the "I'm working on something" grins like the rest of us, but she was actually looking at him and smiling this morning, and he was loving it! At the end, Micah was "reading" that book, although you can't really hear it because he was whispering up until the end....

Go Big Orange!

Here's Miss Molly hanging out on her awesome UT quilt made by her great grandparents. Can't you tell she is sooo excited about being a Lady Vol? :)



And I'm adding this one in just because I think it is cute...



The boys are in Atlanta this weekend...actually they are spending most of a week there. Gramma and Grampa took them down there on Thursday and they are coming home on Tuesday. WHOA! It is the longest I've spent without my kids since I've had them (I know, I still have one, but she sleeps most of the day). The house is eerily quiet during the day. I am so used to having 5 things happening at once that the lack of noise is weird! I know the boys are having a great time with their grandparents and cousins and we have managed to get lots done around the house (too bad there's always that mile long "To Do" list to conquer when they are gone!) but I will be glad when they get home. I miss them! And my days are sooooo dull without their constant entertainment! And that is why this post is just some pics of Molly's few awake moments and my ramblings of why there is nothing more interesting to talk about...because this week, the circus is in Atlanta!

Good Morning, Emilia!

Molly was all smiles this morning when she woke up. I tried to capture some of them on video. I missed her when she was smiling non-stop, but I did catch some of her first coo's on here, so that makes up for it!

Part Two...

So, here's the rest of the story on the boys holding Molly. For honesty's sake (and so James can know how things usually end up here) I'm posting this video of Josiah holding Molly, because yes, he got his turn. However, it had a not so pretty ending. Watch closely at the end, you'll see the little "extra" Micah kept leaving on her face. Like I said before, she has no idea what's coming her way...but neither do I for that matter! :)



Ok, I just watched it on the blog and the picture is too little for you to really see, but every time Micah "kisses" her at the end, there is a big line of drool he leaves behind on her face because he is laughing too hard to completely close his mouth. YUCK!

Daddy's Little Helper

This morning John was running late for work. Josiah was asking him to do something with him (I missed what) and this is the following dialogue (Oh, and at some point in time this morning, Josiah had crawled in bed with us):
John: "No, I don't have time."
Josiah: "Why?"
John: "Because I think someone kept turning my alarm off before it woke me up."
Josiah: "I didn't turn the alarm off."
John: "You didn't push any of the buttons on the clock?"
Josiah: "Well, I just kept pushing the one to make the music stop so you could sleep longer."

Awwwwwww...

John: "Like I said, I think someone kept turning off my alarm."
Josiah: "That music was your alarm?"
John: "Yes."
Josiah: "Oh."

Ok...that story reminded me of another. It's probably the other story I was going to post about Josiah last week. Anywho...at school there is a door we go in in the mornings to drop Josiah off. It's down the hallway from the classrooms, though, so it is only open in the mornings and then they lock it and set the alarm to go off if it is opened, since no one is out there to see who is coming in. When they set the alarm, they put a sign on the door that looks like a stop sign and says "STOP. Opening door will cause alarm to sound." (0r something like that) Josiah was asking about this sign one day in the car. He was asking why they hang it up. So I explained they locked the door for safety reasons and put the sign up to remind people not to open it because it would make the alarm go off. Josiah said, "No, if you open the door it makes the alarm go on, not off." I didn't know how to explain this (one of many) strange phrasing in the English language, so I just let it go. But, isn't it strange that we turn the alarm on so that it will go off?

Watch out for Grandma!

This happened last friday at Grandma Day...

We were sitting at the table eating lunch, as usual. Grandma got up to get something (I think coffee) and Josiah yelled out, "Grandma's on the loose--HELP!" No one knows why he yelled that, but we all just started laughing because it was so random!

So, on Sunday I'm telling John this story because it was funny and Josiah hears my re-enactment of it. Well, anytime he hears you retell a story about him he is sure to re-create it for you. He loves to be the center of attention and he loves to act things out, so this is a highlight of the day for him, I'm sure. Anyhow, he starts yelling it again for John like he did at grandma's and then he decides to change it a bit and announces, "Now THIS is going to be the funniest of all!....I'm on the loose, HELP!" Micah wants to get in on the attention, um, I mean, action, so he says, "Daddy, this is going to be the STRANGEST of all!...I'm on the loo, HELP!" HA-HA! He doesn't always pronounce an 's' in the middle of a word, so 'loose' came out as 'loo.' John and I laughed even harder at that. Which of course meant that Micah repeated it about 10 times. So, watch out for Micah in the loo...apparently there's trouble brewing! (I don't really want to explore the truth behind that statement...)

Oh, and here is the video I told you about last week...and a bonus one for being so patient! This first one is Micah and Josiah laughing over Emilia. That sweet girl has no idea what's in store for her with these two older brothers!


And this second one is Molly's first photo shoot with multiple cameras...Micah is starting to try out his photography skills! I thought it was so cute how he was down on the floor snapping away like he was an old pro. I missed most of the times where he said her name or things like "You're so cute!" but hopefully you can imagine that part.