Micah's First Birthday

On Friday we celebrated Micah's first birthday. We have been so blessed by this little boy. He is a sweet baby with a great personality. He loves to play with legos (they make a loud noise if you bang them together), cars, lollypop wrappers, Daddy's cell phone and a nerf football. He is a picky eater - never likes jarred baby food and will eat just about anything if it is mixed with a banana. When he is tired he likes to lay his head on my shoulder and hold my hair. Of all the boys he has been the earliest to get teeth, crawl, and walk. So far he is still has blue eyes, which would make him the only one in our family. He's a keeper!

March Madness

Though we have moved across the world we have not escaped March Madness. Ted came home a few days before the tournament started, saying the he intended to 'bring the boys up right'. In his hand was a bracket for each of the boys (only Caleb and Josiah filled them out). The boys were excited and went to dig through their summer clothes - finding their 'basketball clothes'. They have been using our living room as a court, shooting three pointers, and even taking naps so that they can stay up late to watch the games - that is mad!

A Picture Says...

The other day I found Micah playing with out 2nd language/English dictionary. I though that it so represented how we feel sometimes. Though we have been here for over a year and a half sometimes there are conversations that make us feel like we have only just arrived.

Identity

A few weeks ago Josiah was trying to write my name and wanted to make sure that there was an "o" in it. I tried to explain to him that it does sound that way since most people pronounce my name 'Lora' (much to my mother's displeasure), but there was no "o". No, he was sure that there was still an "o", so I walked over to help him. I was wrong, he was right, my name is spelled M-O-M-M-Y!