TWENTY FIVE

We are in full Mario Madness here! We decided to go with a Super Mario Brothers theme for Micah's birthday party this year since he just adores watching daddy play it on the Wii or watching the Mario Brothers cartoons on netflix. I found a website with totally cute figures you can print out on your printer and then with some cutting and folding, end up with something like Mario here. Awesome. These will definitely be used for birthday decorations. There is also Luigi, Piranha Plant, Goomba, Toad, various blocks and other stuff too. Micah is going to flip for this one!

SIXTEEN

Micah, my cute little man, sitting like a big boy in church today. He sat and looked through each of the books in the pew - the Bible, Hymn Book and Chorus Book. He's growing up so fast!

FIFTEEN

Micah has been getting better and better at drawing. Today, he was saying, over and over, "two eyes, a nose and a mouth!" As he said each thing, he would draw what he said. It was so cute. He would draw a face, erase it and start again. I'm glad I had my camera handy to catch one of his many faces.

ELEVEN

Wow. As we were brushing Laural's hair, she set her glasses down and guess who saw them and thought it would be a great idea to try them on? What a different boy he looks like with glasses on!

SEVEN

Micah: 1, Mommy: 0. Micah doesn't like to go to sleep right away at bedtime, so he spends his time doing a variety of things. He jumps and bounces in his bed, throws everything out of his bed and strips himself down to his diaper. I decided to try to prevent his nightly strip down by putting a diaper pin under the zipper. I figured if he couldn't get the zipper down, the jammies would stay on. Well, my little man outfoxed me again. He got the zipper down under the pin and got his legs out but the pin did keep him from being able to get his arms out. When I checked in on him, this is what I saw. A half stripped, fast asleep little boy.

SIX

My son drew me a sun.

Micah is really starting to learn some control when it comes to drawing. He is actually taking some time and concentrating on what he is doing and trying to make pictures instead of general scribbles. He was so very proud of the picture he drew me. He just makes my heart swell sometimes.

Bonus pic! Fresh, hot tortillas!

I made homemade tortillas today using my new tortilla press and kept them hot in the tortilla keeper - both Christmas presents from my mother-in-law. So yummy! We had tortillas for lunch and dinner today!

FOUR

Guess who just got a haircut?

This is the after picture of Micah's 2nd haircut. His 1st haircut was just about a year ago. He looks so sweet and like such a big boy with his new short do, but I already miss those sweet curly locks. After 3 people mistaking him for a girl yesterday, though, I decided it was time. I've been putting it off and yesterday wasn't the 1st time he was thought to be a girl while we were out and about.

TWO

Kitchen Dance Party!

My kids love to dance. Most of the time, the dancing is in the form of simply jumping up and down. We have regular kitchen dance parties in our house. Here, we have my two jumping beans getting down (and up) to a little Apollo 440.

ONE

Well, I managed to get almost a month with posting photos last year. I took pics every day until a couple weeks into February but I totally failed at posting them. So, this year, I am going to give it another go. Something tells me I should just give up and go for the Project 52 and just do one photo a week but I think I will try 365 once more. If I fail this year (I won't!), then next year, it's P52 for me. So here is Day 1.

Goofy little monkey with a chocolate donut face.

Photo taken with my cell phone (poor quality) in my very messy bedroom. I would be more embarrassed if the mess in my room wasn't caused by the fact that very little has been accomplished during the 2 months that I've been ill. Once I am completely recovered (a few more weeks), I will have no excuse.