the red hat

This was my dad a few years ago...

This is Michael a few days ago...in that same hat!

How cool is that!?! My mom found that little red hat and has been hanging on to it. I have had that picture of my dad in my room for a long time. I love it! It makes me smile all over! And the cute little boy that wears it now...he makes me smile all over too!!

10 months

Happy 10 Month Birthday Michael Lance!!


This day actually snuck up on me. Today marked the beginning of tax season for daddy, so momma had the morning by myself. Needless to say, after trying to get out the door, then having to come back in to change a diaper and already running late on the first day back to school after the break and daddy already at work early...oh my, we didn't get our 10 month pictures taken until this afternoon.

After being at home for two weeks, I didn't know how Michael would react to going back to Anna's. Let me just say, he's learned the word bye-bye! I took him yesterday and while I was standing there talking to Anna, he went to her and started saying bye-bye. Guess he was ready to go back. She also told me that he hasn't taken a nap under two hours these last two days! Guess he likes it there! :)

Michael is growing and changing and doing lots of new things. He now has 6 teeth with the 7th almost there.


With these new teeth comes eating real food! This boy LOVES to eat. It's so funny. Here's a little video of him eating pancakes and smacking! Eating has been a lot of fun.

His most favorite food of all time is blueberries! He also loves sweet potatoes...


Michael is all over the place. We look down for 2 seconds and he's in the other room. We now have to shut the doors to the room where Kirby's food is. Yes, I had to go digging for dog food in his mouth one day. He has sort of learned the word 'no' which I feel like we say quite often. We try to take his attention away from what he's doing and give him something he can play with. I was doing some things in the kitchen the other day and it got quiet. yeah. I looked around the corner to find him climbing up his chair to get the remote controlled car that was on the hutch! Oh dear. I think we are going to have to also take the bumper pads off his crib because he's using them to climb too.


With crawling and climbing and exploring comes bumps and bruises. He got his 2nd busted lip the other day. He did this all by himself. He was on our tile floor and just slipped. He was tough though. (And this is the best picture I could get of it.)


Michael got some way fun toys for Christmas and he is loving playing with them. He got a fun John Deere truck that he loves driving all over the place. He also got this choo choo train. He has really started walking behind them and having tons of fun with it. He's not trying to walk on his own yet, but will walk all over the house holding your hands.


Michael got to go to his very first basketball game tonight. We went to watch the Indians. They did awesome...it's going to be fun to watch them this year. Michael enjoyed all the action. He even caught a basketball that the cheerleaders were throwing...ok, daddy caught it, but Michael got to play with it.


Happy 10 Month Birthday to our little Indian!

like mother, like son

One of my favorite things as a child was Psalty! I (according to my fans) was always a beat off of the music, but could dance like a champ to Psalty. Santa found 10 of Psalty's CDs and delivered them to Juice & Pa's house for Michael. What is funny is that I can still sing all the words! Michael and I have had fun listening to these CDs this week. I turn it on in the morning while he eats his breakfast and while he plays.

and a merry christmas it was...

Michael had a super fun first Christmas! He got all he could ever want or need and more!

Michael had a special visitor on Christmas Eve, but he really didn't like him.

Even Michael's friend Cy didn't know what to think about Santa...

He really liked Santa's Elf much better...


Santa did make his way back during the night and Michael woke up to this on Christmas morning! He was in such a great mood. He went straight to the basketball! He has enjoyed his rides around the house in the wagon and loves the new books and toys. Santa was good to him this year!

After Michael played with all his toys from Santa, we headed over to Grandma & Granddaddy's for Christmas morning breakfast and gifts with them. We were sad because Uncle Ryan and Aunt Maggie couldn't make it. Silly snow storms! We'll get to see them in a few weeks hopefully. He was glad to get to hang out with Grandma, Little Jo, Aunt Mary and Granddaddy.

Michael thought his new suitcase from Grandma & Granddaddy was the coolest...he loved climbing in and out of it.

He also loved his baseball rocking 'horse'.

After a fun afternoon with them, we headed to see Juice, Pa, Uncle Curt & Uncle Bruce. And what do you know...Santa even stopped there to leave a few things for Michael!



Ready for some breakfast:

momma, kirby, daddy, uncle curt, pa, michael, juice and uncle bruce...

sweet boy...

yea!!! Mommy got a porch swing so I can spend my summer days swinging and watching Michael play in the yard!


We hope your Christmas was as blessed as ours was...

now where to put all these cool new things.........

merry christmas

from our home to yours....may it be a blessed holiday!