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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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Thursday
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Nine

DateThursday, July 31, 2014 at 12:14PM

This is my baby. He turned NINE yesterday.

(This is the picture we took earlier this month for the back of his haiku book.)

We did a pretty low key celebration here...because he got his "big" gift months ago (his new release for archery)...because it was a rather dreary, rainy day that made it difficult to be motivated to do anything, lol...and because we had other things to do (related still to all the house projects thanks to the hail storm). But. He opened his gifts from his brothers in the morning (and played with them all day), went to karate, and then we went out for dinner and dessert up in Old Town. Good times! :)

In keeping with tradition-ish, here are nine things my Micah loves right now (in no particular order):

  1. Pokemon...He loves the card game, the video games and (mostly) the characters.  
  2. Cooking...Micah actually took over some of the dinner responsibilities while Nathan was in Hawaii for work a couple different times this summer (Noah would like me to add that Micah didn't work completely alone...Micah made the plans and such but Noah worked as the muscle, reaching things Micah and I couldn't, etc).
  3. Writing...As evidenced by his haiku book...
  4. Reading...He's been particularly voracious in his reading lately. Thanks to his reading, he calls many fictional worlds home...Hogwarts and Middle Earth and more. ;)
  5. Super heroes...Micah's not as narrowed in his hero love as Asher--he loves most all of them...and the villains. ;)
  6. Stuffies...Koaly is still the favorite but Micah truly loves all his stuffies and includes them in his daily life in many and various ways, lol.
  7. Minecraft...He and Asher have been crazy busy building things lately. Often, they work to recreate some of those fictional worlds they've read about or seen.
  8. Hugs...My sweet baby still adores hugs and doesn't feel himself to be too old for them at all.
  9. Extracurriculars...Micah continues to enjoy karate and archery on a regular basis, and we're so proud of the strides he's made over the years developing his skills and confidence and self-discipline.

And that's my Micah right now...

AuthorAmanda | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

He's such a special boy! It will be fun to watch him grow up and see what areas he settles on. I love that he is so comfortable with himself. np

July 31, 2014 | Unregistered Commenternan

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