I Can't Believe It

I can't believe the day has already come when I have dropped Josiah off for his first day of school. Preschool, really, but still. Yikes!! Where has the time gone?!? He was so cute when we got there. He was just walking around with the cutest little grin on his face because he was so excited about being there. Micah was a different story. Micah puckered up his lip (like only he can do) and wanted to stay, too. I bribed him to come with the promise of making a tasty treat when we got home. The way to a man's heart apparently works for little boys, too. :) Anyway...when we got in the car I called John because it was just TOO QUIET without Josiah's five hundred constant questions. When Micah saw I was talking he said he wanted to talk to Daddy, too. So I gave him the phone and the first thing he said into it was, "Daddy, I wanted to stay at school." (Really, sounded more like, Daddy, wann day at gool). I don't know how John responded to that but then Micah said, "Yep. Mommy wouldn't let me." That's me...mean ole mom! So that's our big morning. Micah and I will be going back at lunchtime for his first day of "school" and my first day back teaching. For those of you I haven't talked to recently, yes, you read that correctly. I'm the new middle school spanish teacher! So it's a big day for all of us! Here's a picture of Micah and Josiah before we left this morning.

My Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

This is the boys' rendition of the Veggietales song "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything." I know it's a little blurry, but that's because it's just from my camera because I don't have the correct wire to get videos from our camcorder. And yes, Josiah has the hiccups and no, I don't know exactly what Micah is saying! Enjoy!

The New Bed

As many of you know, we have been in the process of painting the boys' room and setting up their new loft bed. We had hoped to paint and set up all in one weekend, but having owned our home for almost 4 years, we should have known no home improvements go as planned! So, two weekends later, we finished. Josiah has said several times that he likes the walls and the stripe on it. And they are both a big fan of the bed. Here are pictures. The stripe is magnetic so the boys can hang magnets and pictures or whatever up there. Oh, a quick bit about the colors. When I asked Josiah what color he wanted us to paint his walls he said orange. Well, I was not going to go for an all orange room, so we came up with the idea of the stripe.



And then here's just some fun pictures I wanted to share.

Micah at Dollywood

This is Micah playing in the waterspouts today at Dollywood. For some reason I think the way he runs these days is totally adorable. Something about the way he pumps his little arms and fists up and down. Today when he was running he was rarely looking where he was going, he was just plowing through the kids. I missed the couple of tackles he made, but I'm sure you can see how that would happen! (more)

Micah's Boots and More

Micah has these boots that his Gramma gave him that he LOVES. They are yellow and blue rain boots that make his feet all sweaty and smelly and yet they are his favorite shoes right now. He has worn them on the last two or three Fridays to our Great Grandma day and today he wore them out to the movies and over to Kate's house. I dont know what it is about these boots that he likes so much, but he wears them ALL THE TIME--even around the house, which is weird because he normally doesn't like to wear shoes and the first thing he does when he gets home is take his shoes off. But not these boots. In fact, the other day he had to put the boots on before he would go potty. Whats with that?! Here's a picture from this morning and one from last week when he was playing frog in boots.



Well, when I was looking for the pictures of Micah in his boots I came across these pictures from a couple weeks ago when we went up to Gatlinburg to spend some time with good friends. Tiff and I have been friends since 6th grade and our kids have known each other since they were babies. I think that's pretty cool! All the kids had a great time playing together and I thought you would like to see some of the pictures I took. This is Mikayla and Josiah fixing the toy with their forks. Isabella is in the back supervising.

Micah enjoyed being a superstar!

This is Mr. Reggie, Mikayla, and Josiah fighting off all the bears and racoons that were attacking the cabin!

And then there was baby Brandon...the boys thought he was the best! They loved holding him and hearing all his baby sounds. Everytime he made a sound Josiah and Micah would just LAUGH! And just like every great toy, they both wanted to hold him at the same time. It was actually really cute how fun they thought he was! And here I was worried about Micah not letting me hold him because he was jealous...I should have been worried about him letting me have my turn!!