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Things for which I am thankful:

...sunny days that make for squinty pictures...

 ...the fact that for this little girl, i am willing to love pink and frilly things...

...this type of joy, seen so rarely in adults, and for such simple things as a tiny taste of turkey...

...how cute babies look in grass...

...the type of love that leaves no room for doubt...

...and for the hope i have that no matter what may come our way, our lives - past, present, and future - lie safely in God's hands alone...

the little things

The perfect storm....and a lovely evening:

1) A chilly night. (If you're living anywhere besides SoCal, you can pretend that by "chilly" I mean something colder than 59 degrees.)

2) A peppermint white mocha.

3) The Ralph's parking lot with only a dozen cars.

4) One hour at the sparsely populated grocery store, free to peruse the aisles with enough time to sift through a stack of coupons, sip my coffee, plan meals, etc.....

5) .....all made possible by the little baby I love so dearly, home asleep in bed, without whom grocery shopping would still feel like a chore. :)

half a year

When Micah was teeny tiny and brand new, everyone said, "Enjoy it now....it goes by so fast!" As her parents, while we treasure the moments we have with her, we also can't wait to see all the new things she's learning to do with each passing day. Her growing up is bittersweet. With each new day we see more and more of her little personality developing, and we have yet to see something we don't love. On October 30th, she celebrated her half birthday and I couldn't help but be amazed at how much can happen in so short a time. So much has happened, even the feeling of holding her in my arms for the first time seems like a distant and fuzzy memory, and I can't lie- it makes me a bit sad.

But on to the less mushy stuff.......at her six month appointment, Micah weighed in at 15 lbs 6 oz, which is about the 33rd percentile, measured 26 1/2 inches long, which is about 67th percentile, and her head is a whopping 17 inches, which is about the 64th percentile. At right about the 6th month mark, she started crawling, pulling herself up on our shorter furniture and other surfaces (ie, pantlegs), and cutting two bottom teeth.

We love you, baby girl!!

Halloween in November

We really did dress Micah up for Halloween, and we really did take her out to a Halloween carnival at church, and we really did take a whole bunch of pictures......on October 31st. And yes, I know it's now nearly Thanksgiving and I'm just now posting them. Please don't judge me.

Our Little Woodchuck

This was humorous enough to me as is, but it's 10 times better with the volume turned up.....

(And yes, those are her two little teeth you can hear scraping on the wood.)

.our curious little monkey.

Now that she can get around pretty easily, Micah has started "getting into things," as they say. So far, nothing too bad, but it's in that space between going down for a nap and getting up from a nap where she is left alone with nothing but her mischievous little mind and her active little body. So far, a few things she's learned to do:

1) Climb up to standing. This makes me want to remove the bumper around the edge of her crib.

2) Lounge. One cute reason I have NOT yet removed the bumper. :)

I think curious monkeys make the cutest monkeys. :)