Wendy and Jeff's Blog: January 2009

Micah's first stitches

Micah got his first stitches today. He was playing with his Grandpa Kevin and tripped and hit his head on a chair. We almost just put a bandaid on it but since we were so close to the hospital we decided to go in and have them check it out. It turned out that he needed four stitches. He was very brave. The doctor and nurse who did the stitches said that he did AMAZING at least five times. He was very brave. Good job Micah.

They told him to climb up and he laid down. He was very patient waiting for the stitches.

I told him to make a grumpy face.

Then I told Micah to smile.

Post stitches. You can't see them very well but there is the beginnings of a nice black puffy eye.

Visiting the Oregonian Budds

We had a last minute trip up to see David and Sarah and the kiddos. It was a lot of fun. Most of these pictures are from Sarah because I am so bad about taking out my camera. Thanks Sarah.

The guys had a great time boxing each other on the WII.

We did a lot of just hanging out.

We also did some science experiments with dry ice. Very fun. Here Ellen is doing a fantastic job of making her screwdriver scream.

We are about to test what happens when we put dry ice into warm water.

I think this was the kids favorite part. Dry ice, warm water and soap. A seemingly never ending supply of bubbles filled with carbon dioxide to play with. Probably my favorite part also.

I love Brennan's expression in this one.

We also had to make a trip to OMSI. I love OMSI. I wish we had something even close to as wonderful in San Jose.

Here we designed cups to fly from a wind current below. I think Isaiah's flew the best. Way better than mine.

The real highlight of the week was the Blazer's game we went to. I had never been to a professional basketball game before and now I have some high expectations. Hard to beat free parking in a private parking garage, then up to a private club/suite for dinner at a table reserved just for us and onto our 8th row awesome seats. Oh and don't forget dessert in the private club/suite at half time. Sarah and I had our sweet tooth cravings satisfied and then headed back to our fabulous seats to finish the game. It was a good game although the Blazers lost.

Close enough?

David made a great poster. He even got a nod from one of the players.

Thanks for having us up. We had a great time.

Last Christmas pictures

I just found some pictures from when we were last down in LA. We went to the park and to a small zoo in Irvine. It was fun.

Hmmm....

So I have tried very hard with Micah to prepare him to have the "talk" about Al. Micah got to say goodbye to Al at the vet but when he has asked where Al was I had told him that Al was staying at the doctor because he was sick. In the last couple weeks I talked with Micah about how things die, like plants and even animals in order to prepare him. Micah helps me throw away parts of plants that turn brown and die. Micah was even asking about where certain foods came from and I had told him that different meats come from animals that die like beef or ham. After a couple weeks of distance from Al I thought that if Micah brought up Al again I would gently let him know that Al had died but we still had pictures and our minds to remember him so we didn't have to be sad. This is how the conversation went.

Me: Cats have been pooping in the dirt in our yard.
Micah: Yes, but not Al. Al is a good cat.
Me: Yes, Micah I want to talk to you about Al. Do you know what happened to Al?
Micah: Al's sick. He is at the doctor.
Me: Yes, but I want to tell you that Al didn't get better and he died. But we can still remember him and we have pictures of him too.
Micah: Al died?
Me: Yeah.
Micah: (Looking not upset at all) Eat Al?
Me: No, no, no. (I start laughing)

Obviously I way over analyzed the situation. : )

Micahism???

I got out my old film Nikon camera to mess around with it tonight and started taking some pictures of Micah.

Micah : Why are you taking pictures of me? Why?
Me : Because you're cute.
Micah : Oh. Yes, I can see that.

And he continues to play and let me take pictures based on my satisfactory answer.