22 months

Oh lets see...where do I even begin except to say Micah is definitely keeping us on our toes these days. He is so much fun and has such an out-going/fun-loving and sweet personality but he is definitely a handful (as I'm sure most almost 2 year olds are). Micah continues to love trucks/cars (or pretty much anything that is a mode of transportation)....and when I say love I mean it is usually the last thing he is talking about before bed and the first thing he talks about in the morning. He loves to play with all his trucks, read books about trucks, watch for the trucks to drive by our house, and point out all the trucks/cars/vans/semis, etc he sees when we are driving. Trains are another favorite...we can hear the train from our house and he always is so excited when he hears it. He will ususally put his finger to his lip and say "shhhhh" when he hears the train and then we will listen to the train drive by. We recently went to a steam train museum where we got to ride a train. Micah of course had lots of fun. Micah also loves to play train with Corey. Corey will often not even be in the door from work when Micah is asking him to be a choo-choo (which means Micah rides on Corey's back).

Micah is talking up a storm these days. He is putting words/sentences together and is starting to copy a lot of what we say. He has started saying things like cool, wow, I did it, awesome (and then he'll even say dada awesome, etc). He knows most all of the names of his cousins/aunts/uncles, etc. It is fun to be able to communicate with him. We are working with him on trying to use words when he needs something or needs help instead of just whinning/crying. He is starting to do better...for example he will say "up please mama" when he wants me to hold him. Micah is also good about knowing most of his colors and most of his letters too. He can recognize most of his letters and tell you what they are for (ex: d is for dada, p is for papa, g is for grandpa). Even when we read he will point out the letters that he sees. Actually last night when we having dinner there was a mushroom that was in the shape of a P on his plate and it took us a few minutes to figure out why he kept saying "P for Papa". Haha....he is one smart cookie! He also loves to sing his ABCs and has most of the song down pretty well. It is so cute...just before his nap today we sang ABC's and then after he was down he said "Yeah I did it". He was so proud of himself. But speaking of singing I will also say that he is very particular about what song he wants sung to him. If we start singing him a song he doesn't like he will wave his hand and say no no no until we find one he wants.

Micah has so much energy. What I wouldn't give for just a quarter of it. From the moment he wakes up he is just ready to go. I can always tell when he got a good night sleep/good nap b/c he wakes up so happy. Like yesterday he woke up in the am and starting saying very loudly "hello, hello, hello". And then this morning he was jumping up and down like a wild man when I went to get him. It is always nice to have a happy baby though. He did a gymnastics class (and by gymnastics I mainly mean he ran around in a gym and played with some equipment/toys) at the Y the past few months. It was mainly just for something to do now that we can't be outside. I'd say he had fun and if nothing else got to expend some energy.

And you'll notice from the below pics that after we got home he apparently thought he was still at gymnastics and was climbing on everything.
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About 2 months ago we got Micah out of the crib and into a big bed. I wanted to do it in plenty of time to have him sleeping well before the baby arrived. Well...it was a good idea, but thats not exactly how it worked. I'd say for the first month it went awesome. He was sleeping great (after a couple nights anyways) and never got out of his bed. And then it was like something clicked and he realized that he could get out and play and it was all over after that. I put the pack and play up and would give him one or two warnings and then he had to sleep in there. However, after a few nights in the pack and play he learned to climb out of that and being 9 months pregnant it required more energy than I had so we decided to put Micah back in his crib in the baby's nursery. And now hes back to sleeping great. I'm not too concerned as the baby will be with us for a while and then once she is sleeping better we can work on getting Micah in his big bed. I just can't deal with 2 kids not sleeping so it's fine by me for now.

Micah continues to love people and love playing with other kids! One of the nursery workers at church says that Micah is the nursery greeter as he always says hi and bye as the kids come and go. It is nice that we are able to leave Micah and not worry that he is upset...usually he doesn't even notice that we are gone. He has a great personality and it is so fun to watch him interact with others.

We are still trying or starting to figure out what works with Micah for discipline. We are still having issues with him biting and hitting. He pretty much just bites and hits Corey and I...though he did hit someone in nursery the other Sunday when they wouldn't give him the car/truck he wanted. He has gotten lots better about biting but now he hits when he is mad (which this is usually when we go to change his diaper and he doesn't want to have it changed or doesn't get what he wants). We have been doing time-out I'm just not sure it is overly effective for him...either that or we just need to continue to be persistent. Obviously we know he is only 2 and expect this type of behavior we just want to be diligent about working to correct it. So, we'll see I know that the battle is just beginning! :)

So, that's a quick update...I could write pages and pages more but thats a quick picture of Micah at 22 months.