Everyday....A New Adventure

Everyday with Micah just gets more interesting. His language skills are slowly improving and he is beginning to say things that tend to just make Charlie and I look at each other and smile. Micah is pretty calm for a two-year-old and can attend to certain things for a long period of time. One of the things that he has enjoyed for a while is pulling his books and bedtime stuff into the living room and reading books to his pal Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse and Micah are inseparable. They go on trips together, nap together, eat together, watch television together, etc. This morning he pulled his stuff onto our bed and was quietly reading a few of his favorite books to Mickey Mouse. He was talking to Mickey Mouse just as if Mickey were talking back. He did this for quite a while as I worked on the computer. Those are the sweet moments that I wish would last forever.


Then there are the times where he shows his two-year-old side. Thankfully those seem to be surfacing less and less these days. Having a young child definitely makes you realize our fallen human nature. They are very manipulative and don't care what they have to do to get what they want. Well anyway, Micah needs lots of sleep to be able to function. That is a good thing, but can be bad when he does not get the sleep his body requires. He goes to bed at 7:00 every night and has been sleeping later and later every morning. This morning he did not wake up until 9:00. That was 14 hours of sleep, which is the recommended amount for an almost 3-year-old. I knew that he would probably not lay down for a nap at the same time, so I decided I would just let him skip his nap. Some times he skips his nap on his own and plays in his room for over an hour until I let him out, so I didn't think he would need one today. Well, he started acting ugly(tired) around three and I told him to go to his room until he could stop whining. We don't let him out until he stops pitching his little fit. It got quiet pretty soon after he went to his room. I waited about 8 minutes and went back there to tell him he could come out, only to discover that he had fallen asleep sitting up on his couch. Notice our dog in the picture. She is the boys' guard dog.