Happy Birthday Micah!

Today was Micah's birthday so we went to the Children's discovery museum. The first picture is getting up and getting ready to go. This is Micah's morning face.



Christy and her daughter Madeline joined us. Madeline is 4 months older than Micah. We are friends from church so Micah sees Madeline at church.


Madeline and Micah ended up sitting with each other on the dragon. Micah was playing it cool and then went in for the kiss but got her arm instead. Oh well, maybe next time.


The two ended up together again and shared a meal. It is cute to see them at this stage parallell play but not really play together.

The last picture I wanted to show what Micah has been doing sometimes the last few days. I think he is looking through his legs at the world upside down. I think it is hilarious.

Prof pics and a visit with friends

These first three pictures are some we had professionally done for Micah's first birthday. I thought they were cute. We didn't get digital prints so I had to take a picture of the picture since I was too lazy to scan it.




The next pictures are from we went over to see David and Tanya. We went swimming which was fun. I didn't get many of us swimming because of camera/water issues. The two don't mix well. : ) We had a good time. Micah was flirting with Tanya. Actually Micah seems to like giving kisses. Especially to girls. I guess we have a ladies man on our hands. : )

Pictures at the park

Today we went to the park and took some pictures of the family and Micah. We just got pictures done of Micah professionally but we didn't get digital prints. Maybe I will take some pictures of the pictures and post them like Chris did. Next blog entry.

These were some of my favorites for the day. Toward the end I told Jeff that we should move because I was seeing a lot of wasps around. Just about then Micah started crying. I thought it was because I walked past him but when I picked him up he wouldn't stop crying. I checked his feet for a sting and didn't see anything. We thought he was just tired so we tried to cheer him up. I knew something was wrong when my giving him a pony ride didn't even work. Finally a little bit later his foot started to turn red and I found the sting site on the side of his foot. Poor kid. I included that picture at the end. Of course Jeff thought Micah was crying only because I walked past him so that is why he was taking pictures instead of consoling him.

Happy Hallow

Today Micah and I went to Happy Hallow Zoo and Park here in San Jose. It is always fun.

This first picture is of me telling Micah we are going to go to Happy Hallow. : )


They have a petting zoo so Micah and I always have to pet some of the animals.
Micah is thinking about petting the goat.
Micah is thinking twice about petting the goat. I forget what it was like to be the same size as the animals.
We rode on one of the merry-go-rounds. Micah wasn't sure what he thought.
We then rode the Danny the Dragon train. This is before we began. Micah was making friends with the neighbors.
And the house of mirrors. Micah was moving too fast to catch on film but I put in my two favorites of myself. I really do have a long face.
I like in this one how it looks like I am reaching down to pat Micah's head as he is running past.

Dead leaves for dad

Whistle Blower

Virginia - Part 2 (finally)

The first two pictures are from Jefferson's home, Montecello.




We then went to Mitchie Tavern. We got to try out a feather pen like they used to write with. I have always been curious to try one. It was actually a lot easier to use than I thought it would be.

I really liked the ladie who gave the tour. She had us do a dance here that was a lot of fun. She wanted to dance with Micah, but this is a picture of him running away from her. Oh well.

Next stop Ash-Lawn, Monroe's home. Too bad we forgot to get any pictures of the actual home. : )




We then went to Colonial Williamsburg. I guess that someone donated 300 + acres to the College of William and Mary. (right next door to Williamsburg) They choose to keep the area as close in appearance to the original town as possible and open it for people to see what it was like back then. They had a play where they acted out stuff that was happening back then. Revolutionary type stuff. It was interesting.


We got to see a lot of people working in their "trades". The people there even though they were paid to teach an audience really did make the product just like they would have if they lived back then. All of them were facinating. It made me realize how fast everything happens now compared to back then. I had wonder when they had time to take care of kids when everything you did seemed to take WAY longer.


The last photos are from historic Jamestown. I guess that just a few years ago they discovered the original site of Jamestown and have been slowly escavating the area. It was pretty facinating to hear about all of the cool stuff they have discovered. Jamestown was the first successful English colony and it has been 400 years this year since it was planted. I think it was the first capital. When people got tired of being eaten by mosquitos because the site was surrounded by swamps, they moved the capital to Williamsburg. (the pictures just above) But Williamsburg was only 6 miles from the coast so when we went to war with Britain they were afraid of attack and so they moved the capital to Richmond, where it still is today.



This last picture is for Mom and Jim. Our rental car was a jeep. : )

Virginia - Part 1

This first picture is of the mom of one of my friends, Jenni, that I used to work with. I worked with Jenni three years ago but we still keep in touch. She grew up in Virginia, Fairfax County, right outside of Washington DC. Since we still talk I called her to see if she could recommend anything I had to see in DC or Virginia. She listed off a few and asked if we needed a place to stay since her mom still lives there. It turns out we didn't need a place to stay but we still had lunch with Jenni's mom anyway.
What Jeff and I both noticed was how fast Micah bonded with her. It was strange since he is really shy with strangers now-a-days. What Jeff and I came up with, since the same thing happened with a girl on our plane flight home, is that if you give Micah space and let him come to you he seems to relate better.



Our first stop was Luray and then we drove over to the Shanendoa Valley. We paid to drive through what is supposed to be an absolute gorgeous drive, but honestly I wasn't all that impressed. On our way back from the drive we stopped by Woodrow Wilson's home and garden. Some pictures are included.




This is a picture of a "park" we walked over to later that day. Since it said it was a park I was a little suprised at the lack of toys or grass or anything park-like at all. We then asked a guy where a real park was and found a great park. We even got to feed the ducks and fish.






Our next stop was at the University of Virginia. It was a really nice campus and had a cool history behind it. Jefferson designing it.