John 3:16

I hope you can understand him! We're pretty proud of our little guy!

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So my brother-in-law reminded me today that it's been a month since I last blogged! Oops! Life has been pretty crazy around here lately. Joel just finished teaching his fall Driver's Ed course, which means very late evenings. We have also had a solid two weeks (at least) of sickness in our house. It started when Caleb and I both got ear infections at the same time. Then Caleb and Micah got the flu from daycare. One day was spent puking, and thankfully it was a Friday, so my mom was able to be here with them. The following Monday Joel and I both stayed home with the flu. Again, mom was a lifesaver - taking care of the kids and bringing us Sprite and crackers. Then on Wednesday Caleb had diarrhea all day, Micah had it Thursday, and mom caught it from all of us. Goodness...that was probably more than you probably wanted to know. Anyway, keeping up with school and youth group and worship team and teaching Sunday school has been a challenge with everything else going on!

The boys are ever growing and changing. Caleb's speaking is getting clearer and he's stringing more words together into sentences. Of course he comes out with random funny things often! I just love to sit and listen to him talk, especially when he's playing on his own with some people or animals and having a conversation with them. His prayers are also precious, and he's getting very good at reciting John 3:16! Which reminds me, I need to work on getting that on video! But he did say it to Uncle Josh today! His current favorites are football (playing and watching), Veggie Tales, looking at pictures, Hi Ho Cherry-O, and pumpkin bars (taking after Daddy!). He idolizes Joel. He loves to talk about Dad, pretend to be Dad, wrestle with Dad, call Dad, etc. But anytime he talks about Dad, it's not just Dad, it's MY Dad. Every time. Adorable.

Micah is growing quickly also. In the past couple weeks he has really become very mobile. He has gone from army crawling to all-out crawling in a hurry. Today we quickly realized we needed to put up the babygate by the stairs! He pulls himself up to standing next to everything now too. He's babbling and experimenting with finger foods. He has delighted me by babbling "ma ma ma" quite a bit lately! I don't think Caleb said the "M" sound until he was around 18 months! Micah loves to chase after his brother, and Caleb has been very cute about playing with him (most of the time!).

So that's the update on us. I'll leave you with a couple of videos. The first one was a quiet night while daddy was working, and I just loved how Micah was catching on to how to use the toy microphone! The second one is actually a very short video that Caleb took. He loves to grab the camera and snap pictures of us, but this time it was on video mode, but he did a pretty good job showing everyone the snow we got last weekend! Check out my facebook for a couple other new videos.