These are the latest phrases we hear coming out of Micah's mouth. It's amazing to watch a toddler's imagination start to grow and Micah has been fascinating this summer. Back on our Labor Day trip to Glen Arbor, Christian and Micah enjoyed smores by a campfire and watching the sun set, and this is where Micah learned all about the moon and starts.
Then this past weekend we traveled to St.Louis to visit my family down there, and were in the car past the boys bedtimes both on the way down and back. I realized how sheltered Micah really is, as he's never up past the sun setting (except for that one night in Glen Arbor) and he was enamored with the darkness that came and the lights that ensued. He just couldn't get over the many, many cars with their lights, the billboards that lit up, the lights on the road, the gas stations and restaurants with their pretty colors. It was just the sweetest thing to watch his little brain processing.
He also, this past weekend, figured out how to climb out of his pack-n-play. Christian and I had put our boys to bed, were downstairs and all of a sudden the hall light was on. Christian turns around, says Kelly? Micah??? Yep. Sure enough, Micah had climbed out of this bed, opened the door, come down the stairs and turned the lights on. Oh man. Let the real parenting begin:) We took him back upstairs, told him he to stay in his bed, and shut the door again. I sat at the top of the stairs waiting...and sure enough, 2 minutes later, door opens with Micah standing there. "Me go poop-poops." Micah, you didn't go poop-poops. "No, me go peep-peeps. Change diaper. Me lay down riiight here." Okay buddy. (To his credit, he was very wet for having just put on a new diaper.) Back in the crib, and thankfully he was down for the count. I just figured we were not going to have this battle of climbing out of the crib since Micah is almost 28 months and hadn't done it. Boy, was I wrong. Thankfully a big boy bed was in the agenda for October...and it seems like we were right on track with that one!
I truly love my Micah baby so much. Although he's long gone being a baby, he'll always be my baby. He is really testing Christian and I...exerting his free, stubborn, strong will...and that combined with being a 2 year old...there are some days we are both spent. It's hard for me to discern the behaviors that are occurring because he's 2 vs. strong willed, and I know time will tell for that. Christian and I are constantly asking for wisdom, as directed in James, trusting that the Lord will guide us in this amazing parenting journey. We are doing our best to stay consistent, trusting that Micah will indeed learn that we are the parents, and it's his role to listen and obey. Through these trials we face, however, my love for him never wavers...and I know that is how the Lord feels for us. He's always there, always with open arms and regardless of our stubborn, strong willed, independent behaviors, he's there. If only we would trust Him in the first place instead of constantly relying on "me do it." Ahh, the never ending illustrations/parallels of parenting and God's love for us.
So, maybe I digressed from the title of this post...but as the sun is now sleeping as well as my two boys, I look at their peaceful bodies rising and falling with each breath and thank the Lord for the little miracles of life and joy He has given us. Each day brings a new set of emotions but the overwhelming wave of happiness and love is what I cling to. Oh, before I forget, one more Micah moment. I pulled out of the driveway last night for a much needed girls night, and he stands on the balcony and shouts out "I lub you Mommy." Insert heart melt here. It was actually the first time he's ever said it unprompted and without repeating it after I have said it to him. It was almost enough to keep me home from girls night. Almost :)
I close with the below picture. He might bring me challenges and test me daily, but it's his job...and it's my job to continue to set those boundaries in place to provide a place of safety. Look at that picture though...it's impossible not to love a kiddo that has that much joy (going head first down a slide, no less!)
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