Life with the Lauffers

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Prayer answered

For all of those that were praying for us, we have made a decision! We trust God's hand in this and believe Micah will receive great care next year with the provider we have chosen. Thank you for lifting this need up for us. If you remember to pray for us, come August, that would be great as we would love a smooth transition for Micah. It will probably be a bit difficult with him being with me all summer to going to another place 2-3 days a week. But, we have a little time before then;)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Needed: Prayer and wisdom

We are in the process of choosing our daycare provider for next year for Micah...and it is crazy how scary it can be when you don't know the people from any personal recommendations. This past year we have been blessed to have our friend Noelle watch Micah, which was such a wonderful gift. We knew and trusted Noelle, she has 3 kids of her own, and we knew she'd do a great job. Unfortunately she isn't able to watch him again next year, and after a few attempts at following various leads, we were left to finding our sitter through care.com.

We have interviewed 4 people thus far, and are down to 2, and I am asking for prayer for wisdom as we make this decision. We want to feel peace and trust that Micah is in the right hands next year. The 2 people we are down to each have pros and cons, but we truly believe that both would give Micah good care. There are soooo many factors to consider when finding care (aside from the obvious of trusting your child with them, the location, the price, the set-up of the house, the other children that will be there when he is there, etc.) and it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

I know God answers prayers and speaks to His children, and so I am asking for that to be done right now as we are at that point. I pray, Lord, that you will speak to us and give us peace and wisdom and discernment as we figure out who Micah would best be suited with next year. Amen.

1 year doctor stats

Micah had his 1 year appointment yesterday and I wanted to make sure and record all the stats we learned while there:

weight = 24 pounds (67%)
height = 29.5 inches (38%)
head circumference = 19 inches (93%)

Not much has changed:) We still have our large headed, big bellied, short little boy, haha!

And, we changed him over to his convertible car seat this week! So many changes in one week. After our trip to Michigan last weekend to celebrate the life of Christian's grandmother (she passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 90 - wow!) the 5+ hours in the car motivated us to switch Micah to a larger car seat to see if he would be more comfortable. We had a good weekend, however, and were grateful to be able to make it to the memorial service to celebrate such a wonderful lady and her living legacy.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Love of reading

Micah was playing with his toys by himself and just walked over to me (that's right, walked, because this boy is a pro at walking these days!) with a book in hand, holding it up to me, apparently wanting me to read it to him. I love that this boy enjoys reading as much as he does. And I love that I have the entire summer ahead of me to read to him as much as he wants:) Thank you, Jesus!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Wheaties and future Wheaties?!? :)

Last week we had some pretty fantastic weather, of course after Micah's birthday party when it was nice and humid and overcast and rainy...but I'm not bitter or anything;). My friend Claire, a Wheaton grad, was in town for 10 days for back-to-back weddings so me, Katie and Claire decided to meet up and get all the kiddos together for a little park play date. No matter that Katie made up 60% of that kid equation:), we had a great time and the kids certainly enjoyed being outside! Micah has started walking up a storm the past 2 weeks, and this park play date just helped him practice even more. I also realized how big he is getting, as he was next to two 4/4 1/2 month old babies and not the baby himself any more:( Oh how I wish time could slow sometimes...

Claire and Adelaide

Katie and her newest member, Sam

Picnic lunch with all the kiddos

Sam and Adelaide getting to know each other

Ellie and Josh, truly the big kids:)

Me and Micah - it was quite a windy day!

Aww...baby love...

"Momma, it's a little bright out here for me today."

"But I'll still give you a big smile!!"

"Now, if only I could find sunglasses like those big kids are wearing...I wonder if they're in here anywhere."

"Who are those kids, and why are there two of them in the swing?" (says Micah, in the background).

Such a sweet smile.

Finally enjoying the swing! It only took a year:)

We almost got both babies to look at the camera at the same time.

Plum tuckered-out from the park play date:)

Wheaton College grads, all grown up!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Micah's 1st Birthday Party

Last Saturday, despite the windy, humid conditions, we had Micah's first birthday party at Phillips Park. It was a great celebration and a perfect place for all the kiddos to play and burn off some energy. There were around 35 adults/kids the showed up to celebrate Micah turning one, and we were grateful to have all of our close friends and family there. As could be expected we took quite a few pictures:) Thanks to our friend Tim for taking over the camera so we could get some good memories of the day! We celebrated Baby Mickey Mouse style, thinking that was approrpiate since he had his pictures taken with Mickey each month.

Happy 1st Birthday Micah! We love you:)

Checking out the cake and balloons.

Excited to open up the fun gifts...although the wrapping paper and being the center of attention was also pretty fun:)

Getting ready for the infamous smash cake! He daintily picked at the icing until he realized the sweetness that ensued. Then he had a pretty good time chowing down on the cake. I think the sugar coma came in about 10 minutes though. That combined with being the center of attention made for a tired little boy!