14 months, baby!

This past week has been a very long and busy week, as I was selected as an alternate for jury duty downtown Chicago at the Federal Courthouse. The case went Monday - Friday, as well as tomorrow and I've been working 13-14 hour days. I can certainly say that I have empathy for Christian and his commute (more so than I ever wish I had, haha) and I'd venture to say he could understand the same for my role, as he was home much more than normal:)

All that to say, I was definitely on the short end of Micah time and tried to soak in every second this weekend!!!

I had a great time with my boys all weekend making good use of the sunny weather we had. Saturday we went for a family bike ride as well as a trip to the pool (which Micah loved) and today we headed out to Brookfield Zoo after Micah took a great mid-morning nap. The weather was quite steamy - about 93 degrees sans humidity and Micah can sweat with the best of them. The poor boy was drenched from head to toe about 15 minutes into our zoo visit, but we made the most of it and traipsed around as much as the zoo as possible.

I can't believe Micah is already 14 months!! The summer is almost over and tomorrow is already August. We have had a great month and I am so blessed to be this little boy's mom.

Monthly highlights:

• we travel to Colorado and have a great time and Micah does pretty well traveling, despite the fact that he slept not at all the entire time in transit
• Micah has the most terrible burn on his entire hand and we are still reeling from those effects (although he hardly looked at his hand today - serious progress from yesterday alone!!)
• Aunt Kari lived with us for about 2 1/2 weeks, and it was so fun to have her around and watch her interact with Micah - she will be deeply missed while in Africa for the next year
• Micah loves holding our hand and walking us around to wherever he wants to go - but if you change courses from his plan, he is NOT happy!
• Micah also started walking up and down the stairs with minimal assistance.
• He started signing eat this month...can we call that his second word? :)
  

Classic childhood - taking everything in, as usual:)