Big Boy

Tonight when you were in the bath, it struck me what a big boy you are. I took you to the doctor for your 3-year checkup on Tuesday. I just got around to putting your height and weight in your baby book today (37 3/4 inches and 32 pounds). LAST year you refused to do your height and Mommy had to hold you, get on the scale, put you down and get on the scale again so the nurse could do some subtraction to come up with your weight. THIS year, you got right up on the scale, let her get your height, and even your blood pressure! You let the doctor look in your ears and mouth and do the rest of your physical. The only shot you got was the flu shot and it was over so fast you didn’t even tear up!

January 7, 2009

Michael got the Show & Share bucket for the first time at preschool today. The letter of the week is 'l' so he's taking Leo (from the Little Einsteins), Lightning McQueen (from the movie Cars), a stuffed lion and his leaf blower tomorrow. He will show and talk about his toys during circle time.

I haven't even taken it out of the box yet, but my new Nikon Coolpix camera came today! I'm so excited because it's small enough to carry with me where ever I go, but still should take great pictures. Thanks Debbie, Ron and Kyle! This is what I used my Christmas Amazon gift certificates for.

Random thoughts of Michael...

We got Michael refrigerator ABC magnets at Toys ‘R Us today. It will be fun to show him how to spell his name.

He calls the cones road workers set out ice cream cones. He came up with this all by himself.

For about a week or so, he wanted to “wake up all by himself” but for the last two days he hasn’t wanted to. What goes on in that cute little head of his?

Nicknames: Big D (Kyle), Dino D (me)

January 5, 2009

Michael and Max are so happy the big kids are home after the two week winter break.

Michael and Sissy put all of Michael's trucks in the kitchen "garage" after dinner. I put them all away after Michael went to bed (because they were in the way unfortunately) and I'm sure he'll yell at me in the morning.

Michael got his first Scholastic book order today. He's growing up so fast!

January 2, 2009

Michael doesn’t want to sit in his booster seat at the dinner table anymore. We took it off of his chair and he said it needs to go to Grandpa’s house(?). Later, when he was having his after bath snack (a chocolate muffin with milk tonight) I got under the table to try to take pictures of his cute little legs in his blue monkey jammies as he was sitting on the chair without the booster seat watching Ice Age 2. He wiggles too much and most of them were blurry. He finally noticed I was under the table and wanted to know what I was doing under there. So I told him and asked if I could take his picture. He surprised me and let me take a couple snapshots. Of course, he wanted to see them immediately after I took them. Usually he’s not interested in letting me take his picture, so that was fun.

His current catch phrase is “What’s the big idea!?” We thought he heard this on Imagination Movers, but we were watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse this morning and Donald Duck said this so now we’re not so sure where he picked this up, but it’s dang cute!

New Year’s Day 2009

We had a fun day today. We went to the Panera in the Tech Center for breakfast and from there we went to the Denver Zoo. I got some great pictures and Michael had a good time running around. He wanted to see the hippopotamus’ and kangaroos today. Interesting since he usually wants to see the elephants and penguins. He also announced he’s afraid of snakes.

Tonight Chris, Michael and I played 3 board games that Michael got for Christmas (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, the Ladybug game and dominos.) I’m glad he wanted to play, because we’d already watched Ice Age 2 at least twice today and still had an hour until bedtime. He’s learning to take turns so that’s a good thing.

It appears our Upline online backup is finally in the process of restoring the files we lost when our Western Digital My Book Pro bit the big one. Thank goodness because the best quote I can find is $460 and 2-3 weeks to restore. It looks like I’ll lose all of my pictures of Keila’s birthday party at Amazing Jakes, making cupcakes for daycare for Michael’s birthday, Michael’s birthday and Christmas with the Isemingers :-(

I’m going to participate in Project 365 this year. Basically you take one picture a day every day of the year. Sounds like fun to me!

Chris and I are both off tomorrow and we’re going to go see Gran Torino. Jeannie says it’s really good so I’m excited to see it!

Christmas 2008

Michael, Keila and Chris picked me up from work to meet Mom at her church (Bethany Lutheran) for the 5:00 Christmas Eve service. I had asked for a half day vacation twice and was denied twice because I have the day after Christmas off and then there was only one person out anyway. Go figure… I was hoping we would get out early, but that didn’t happen either. Hopefully I’ll be working somewhere else next year! Michael did better in church this year. Chris was actually able to stay for most of the service. He had to take Michael out twice-once because he was being too noisy and the second time because he had to go potty. We all enjoyed the candlelight singing to Silent Night at the end.

Once we had Michael in bed and were getting Santa presents out, we realized two of the Santa gifts for Michael were toys he already had. So at 8:00 on Christmas Eve, Chris was at Walgreens (the only store open) picking up last minute gifts. He got the last 3 dinosaurs and the last two Matchbox Monster trucks. Michael loves both much to our relief! It’s ironic that even though we planned so carefully and were done shopping in plenty of time that we ended up doing 11th hour shopping! Chris said there were only two parking spaces left in the parking lot and the checkout line was 15 people deep! Crazy…

On Christmas day we played with Michael’s playdoh, dinosaurs and Monster trucks. We also went to Blockbuster for the first time since I don’t know when and rented a couple of movies (Ice Age and Aladdin) and a Wii game (Go Diego Go! Great Dinosaur Rescue) for Michael to try before we buy. Chris got me golf themed scrapbook paper and stickers since the last batch I bought is hanging on the wall in Kyle’s room. I also got a gift card to Archiver’s scrapbooking store, 10 (yes 10) pairs of gloves and my list of songs to add to my iPod loaded on the computer! Chris got a couple of shirts and an official Rawlings 2004 World Series baseball. We’re going to have Frito pie and queso for dinner. Yum yum! It’s been really nice to be home all day. All in all it’s been a good Christmas.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Michael's favorite toy still seems to be the drill. Santa will be at daycare tomorrow and they are taking pictures. Hopefully I'll get a good one.

When I was giving Michael a bath the doorbell rang several times in a row. His eyes lit up and he said, "Grandma Debbie's here!" Grandma Debbie wasn't here, but there were Christmas carolers at the door and they sang "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!" By the time I got Michael out of the bath, wrapped in a towel and downstairs, they were done :-(

Michael’s 3rd Birthday (Part 2)

Chris made Michael his favorite breakfast, eggs. Michael only ate 1 bite of the eggs and then wanted fruit loops because that’s what Sissy was eating. Chris was a little disappointed :-(

Michael was VERY excited about the cupcakes we made. He’s been talking about taking cupcakes to daycare to share with his class for several days now. We had to take the lid off of the cake carrier this morning so he could see them. I tried to take a couple pictures of him with the cupcakes, but he’s wasn’t being a very cooperative subject so I don’t have high hopes that I captured a good one. I intended to leave my point and shoot camera with daycare to take a couple pictures of the kids eating the cupcakes, but the batteries were dead! I could just kick myself because I thought about charging the batteries this morning, and didn’t, and I didn’t have any spare batteries in the camera bag.

As of this morning, Michael wants mac cheese and rice for dinner.

When we picked Michael up from daycare, he had a smudge of frosting right between his eyes so they must have been good! He said the kids liked his cupcakes. As always, he wanted to say hi to Ms. Kristal on our way out. She told Michael happy birthday and all the EPS kids chimed in too.

When we got home Uncle Jason, Grandma Debbie and Poppa called to tell Michael happy birthday. Jason told Michael, “Happy Birthday!” and Michael told him happy birthday back :-) He sang along to himself as Grandma Debbie sang “Happy Birthday” to him. From Debbie to Chris the next day, "Michael was so cute last night. After I talked to him and sang HB, he talked to Dad. But before Dad could sing to him, he said Michael sang HB to to him. What a kid!"

He ate all of his mac cheese and rice dinner. After dinner we opened presents. He got a Home Depot leaf blower and tool box, a power drill, a Melissa & Doug wooden tool box with tools, screws and nuts, Melman and Gloria beanie babies(from the movie Madagascar) and a Fisher Price helicopter. He also got birthday cards and money from both Great-Grandma Frieda and Grandma Pat. His favorites seemed to be the power drill and the helicopter. While Michael played with his new toys, Daddy went to our new favorite ice cream store, Maggie Moo’s, and got Michael blue cotton candy ice cream. The rest of us got ice cream too :-)

Michael was way wound up and didn’t want to go to bed. He was being silly and throwing himself into his glider rocker and bouncing himself out like a wrestler using the ropes. I didn’t think there was any way he would go to sleep, but surprisingly, I haven’t heard a peep out of him since we tucked him in.

All in all, a highly successful birthday!

Note to self: Find lyrics for the Imagination Movers bday song for background of scrapbook page?

Michael’s 3rd Birthday

Michael will be 3 tomorrow! He’s very excited to take the cupcakes he and I made on Sunday to share with his friends at day care. I was pulling everything I needed to make the cupcakes together when I realized I only have 1 6-cupcake pan. How does someone who loves to bake only have 1 small cupcake pan?! Lucky for me Keila was at mom’s making cookies and mom brought me her 12 cupcake pan when she brought Keila home. I only had to bake 2 batches instead of 4. Aren’t moms great?!

Michael’s 1st Santa Visit

We took Michael to see Santa at the Denver Zoo Wildlights on Saturday night. Chris rehearsed the Santa visit with Michael for a couple of days before hand. Chris would say, “Santa will say, ‘What’s your name?’ and you say ‘…Michael!’” “Santa will say, ‘Ho, ho,ho! What would you like for Christmas?’ and you say ‘…trucks!’” Sure enough, when it was Michael’s turn to sit with Santa he sat by himself and told Santa his name and that he wanted trucks for Christmas. Kudos to Chris!