Party Time

The last day of school before Christmas break was Party Day for Micah's class. Stacy was able to attend again! He missed Every special event last year due to work, this year he has been able to make it to 2 so far. The first thing that the kids did was a Nativity wreath. It looks really cool, but had probably 50+ pieces, and was more of a parent craft than a child's. After the wreath was finished the kids heard a Christmas book, then they did a book swap and ate lunch. After lunch they decorated sugar cookies and made candy canes out of pipe cleaners and beads.
I was really worried about what we would do during this extra long break from school. If it were just Micah, we could easily fill our time.... but adding Patton to he mix, makes me think twice about "just runing to Target." So far the break has flown by though. Last Monday we had lunch with Sarah and baby Noah, Tuesday we watched Hannah, Wednesday we finished our shopping. Thursday we baked/ dipped things for Christmas. Friday was Christmas Eve at Pa-paws, Saturday was Christmas. Sunday was a Snow day. We have even enjoyed spending time with Stacy, as he has some time off.

Ho Ho Ho

Last Friday I took the boys to have Santa pictures taken. As I've probably mentioned in all years past, I LOVE this Santa. He comes to a small studio in downtown Winder. He is the sweetest guy. For Micah's first trip to Santa, I was very nervous, being that he cried most of the time.... I was sure I was going to be paying for a picture of a crying baby. Instead I ended up with a very melancholy Micah. Not happy, but not crying..... he was just there. This year, I was not at all afraid of what Patton would do. I was sure he would do great.... It was Micah that I was worried about. He has become quite the cheesy boy when it's come to pictures recently. I was worried for no reason at all. Look what I got!! I LOVE IT!

Baby Noah

I was beyond excited when Sarah called me to tell me that she and Kyle were having a baby. I was even more excited to learn that it was going to be a boy. Sarah and I have been friends since the 2nd grade. I am SO hoping that Patton and Noah will be great friends as well. Sarah's water broke while she was shopping at Kohl's last Saturday. Noah was born on December 5th. He is a tiny little thing. He was 6 lbs. 8 oz at birth. His tiny little head was about the size of a softball if not smaller, and his hair.... My goodness, he was and still is a doll baby! I was able to visit him on his birthday.
Micah and Patton got to visit when they came home. Micah must have asked Sarah 5 times if she let "little people hold Noah." He was SO proud to hold two babies! He sure does love babies and always has.
There are 3 months between Patton and Noah..... Look at the size difference! Don't you just LOVE his hair?!
I have been trying to do a little catch up, so look below for several new posts :)

Way Behind

I feel like I have been Way behind on my blogging recently, but I have several good excuses. The First being my surgey, second is as soon as surgery was over and we attended Micah's Thanksgiving party, Patton got sick. I'm not surprised in the least but there is NOTHING worse than having a sick child/ baby. It was awful. He still has a little bit of a runny nose, but there is nothing that you can do for a little bitty other than a humidifier and saline spray, which we do constantly.....Now there's a Christmas party this week.... Poor Patton Boy. That leads to the third reason I've been behind, when Patton got sick he passed it to me. Mine began on Black Friday. We finished about half of our shopping and even bought ourselves a TV for our Christmas, but due to the fact that I just didn't feel good, we didn't finish. Believe it or not, I am STILL shopping and Christmas is less than 2 weeks away. Thank goodness for Publix and giftcards :) My cold lasted for about 4 days. I don't like being sick at all, but one of the most miserable sicknesses is a cold.... watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing= unhappy Miriam. Lastly, as a mother of 2, I don't have very much free time at all. If I'm not feeding, changing, or holding Patton, I'm playing with Micah, or cleaning. At night time, when I finally do get to slow down and relax for a bit, I've been working on a new Blog Book. I LOVE the way the last one turned out, it's just VERY time consuming. Anyway, now that I think I'm almost caught up, I'll do better.
It's almost Christmas. I was SO hoping to get some real good pics of the boys for a Christmas card this year.... But as you can tell, I just ran out of time. I was hoping to get some good outdoor shots, but it just got TOO cold Too early. So at the last minute I decided to go to Kiddie Kandids. We used to love them when Micah was a baby. They would take a ton of pics, but narrow it to the best 6 so it wasn't so overwhelming. They would then, print your pics while you waited. I LOVED them! Apparently they went bankrupt due to the fact that their printers were SO expensive. They were bought out by Sears. They no longer print your pics while you wait. Now you wait 15 days. They now take 60+ pics, AND have increased their price as well. The good thing was I made sure that I bought a package that included a CD. I was given the CD, came home, loaded the pics, sent one to Costco.com and had my Christmas cards the next day instead of 15 days laster.....I mean that would be WAY too close! One of the good things that came out of this was.... I joined their "Baby Club." It costed $10 and it means if I wanted to go every day for the next 365 days, I could, and I'd get a free 8x10 everyday. You will not find me inside there everyday, but I WILL take advantage of it, and I'll have them take some when I go back to pick my pictures up.... I may as well go evey 15 days. :) Our photographer was not the best by far, but out of the 60+ pics, she got a handful that turned out okay. Here are the ones I like.

Thanksgiving Day

Every year for Thanksgiving lunch we go to my Pa-Paw's house. I was SO glad that I was allowed to eat "real" food again. I made sure not to stuff myself, but I greatly enjoyed a lunch of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, rolls, and squash casserole. After lunch we spent some time outside. This year the weather was perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. We got some good outside pics, and Patton got to meet Pa-Paw for the first time. That evening Micah spent the night with The Rents so that Stacy and I could wake up extra early for Black Friday fun.

Thanksgiving Party

After my surgery I was able to go home just in time for Micah's Thanksgiving party. Thank goodness Stacy was off work and able to come, I was still not supposed to lift my baby. Here are Stacy and Patton in another one of his darling new shirts.
Micah's class pic. Nice group of Indians huh? (Even though Micah had just gotten his hair cut, it's gotten long enough for him to play with again) That boy sure does love hair:)
Here is handsome "Brave Eagle." Doesn't he look so sweet?
Micah enjoyed the feast, and ate A LOT of food (surprise surprise)
Had to get a picture of Micah and his best buddy Nicco :)
And Micah with Mrs. Boswell

My last weekend

During the time that I spent at the rent's, I didn't do very much. I didn't feel like it. Near the end of my stay I began to finally like I could and should be doing things again. I knew that I had to get back to my life, so slowly but surely I started to do things. Saturday morning Stacy had promised Micah a trip to the park. They went to Target, bought him a bike helment and he was ready to go. I thought the walk might do my body good, but I tell you what I got pretty tired pretty quick. Micah had a blast! While walking on the trail Micah told me one of the saddest stories I've heard yet. He showed me a spot in the woods and told me that the other day his kitties had come to the park and they heard something in the woods. It was a dog. The dog came after the kitties and that mean old dog ate one of the kitty's paws off. The Firetruck was called, and the poor kitty was taken to the hospital where they gave it a black paw. So now, one of his kitties is all white with one back paw... So sad :( But what an imagination!

Here's my Sweet P in his spirit wear made especially for him by my dear friend Amie at Laffty Crafty. Here's Patton in his modeling debut. I LOVE Amy, and I LOVE this boy!!
Sunday was another beautiful day, a little cooler, but wonderful none the less. It was also $5 day at Zoo Atlanta. I knew Micah would LOVE the zoo, he's never been. The zoo is not one of my favorite places by all means. I have an awful childhood memory (very rare) of being told that we were going on a family trip to either Six Flags or the zoo. We ended up at the zoo. I pouted the whole time. Mama told me just that we did end up going to Six Flags on a later date, but all I remember is being dragged to the zoo. This story told, now that I am a parent, I'm all about finding a deal, like $5 as opposed to $25+, I also LOVE to see Micah excited and I knew he's be SO excited at the zoo. Well, we got to the zoo and couldn't find a parking place. We were rerouted to the back parking lot. It was Full too. We ended up parking on the street. We enjoyed our walk through Grant park on the way to the zoo. When we finally made it, the line was SOOOO LONG! We were sure that we'd be waiting for at least 1 hour, probably closer to 2. We thought and thought about what we should do. Stacy said he'd rather pay full price than wait in that line. Micah said he'd rather go to the aquarium. Mama thought we should spend some time at the park. That's what we did. We had a good time. We let Micah play on the playground, got some good pictures, and ended the day with a delicious lunch at The Flying Biscuit.
This is another one of Patton's new shirts that I bought from Amie. Perfect for sweet P huh?