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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Wednesday
Feb062008

A monumental day and a night time routine...

DateWednesday, February 6, 2008 at 01:47AM

A break-through! To date, despite his parroting of many, many other words, we've been unable to get Micah to say his own name. He's insisted on calling himself "Baby" when asked his name. (Before that, it was "Gob Gob" if you recall.) Tonight, totally out of the blue and with no prompting, he declared to me that he was not "Baby"...he was "Mike" and said so with gusto. Sigh. It's so adorable to hear, but also a little sad...he just keeps on growing up.

One other quick Micah story for the night...every night for the past couple weeks, he's delighted in going through this little routine before he sleeps. He must tell Nathan and I that "Asher's crazy" and "Noah's crazy" and "Mommy's crazy" and "Daddy's crazy" and "me, crazy"...though tonight, of course, it was "Mike's crazy."

Crazy kid. 

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AuthorAmanda | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

What a cutie Amanda!! I love the things kids say!

February 6, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie

he's such a handsome thing! and a great photo ... love the catchlights!

February 10, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterlaura vegas

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