They're growing up.
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 11:56PM Um, did you realize it's almost July? Okay, not like tomorrow, but way sooner than it's supposed to be in my head. My youngest two will celebrate birthdays in July. Sniff. Asher will be 5 (oh my gosh, how did that happen?!) and Micah will be 2. Asher and I had our "special night" tonight (Nathan and I rotate so the boys have a special night out with each of us every three rotations...complicated but we figure it out). I love our special nights. It gives me a chance to really focus on one boy and is always surprising to me to see how much they're growing. For all that he's in practically the smallest percentage on the growth charts, my middle guy is becoming a big boy.
Of course, he'd better prepare himself for the fact that his baby brother is going to pass him up soon in the weight department. Out of curiosity tonight, we put all the boys (individually) on the scale. Noah's a slim 43 pounds...Asher's a wee 34 pounds...and my baby Micah is already at about 29 pounds (or 30, hard to get him to stay on the scale *laugh*). Um, folks, the other two didn't hit 30 pounds until they were 3 years old. Micah seems bound and determined to do his own thing...while they all started out as big babies and stayed in the top percentiles through 12 months, the first two slimmed down considerably once mobile and are now on the smaller side for their ages. Micah doesn't seem to share this disposition. He's not slowed at all and has weighed more than either of his brothers at the same respective ages since he was 5 months old. I'm already dreading feeding him as a teenager (never mind the fact that when he turns 13, his brothers will be 16 and 17.5...yeah, three teenage boys are going to eat me out of house and home). :)
Okay, I have to share this picture with you.
Nathan took it while I was away at CKU and he was building and launching rockets with the boys. It just melts my heart. Look at my sweet boys. Micah was apparently upset over not having long enough legs to catch up or something (as the other two ran to retrieve rockets) and Asher came over to help his baby brother out. I have a whole series of pictures that follow this one of Asher helping Micah up and them walking toward their daddy holding hands. Seriously going into a layout soon! I'm constantly amazed by how very much these three sincerely love each other...so blessed.
Reader Comments (7)
you're right...awesome pic!! how sweet are they??!!
Brings tears to my eyes! I miss them so much! Glad your back to posting on your blog -- that was a long week without updates when you were at CKU. nan
Yikes! that should have been "you're", not "your" in my previous post. I'm a stickler for grammar and punctuation and really hate it when I mess up. My staff would have a good laugh! nan
How cute are they in that photo!
cute picture! supposedly 2 July babies here - poor Hayley won't get a party until later though. Hayley is over 40 lbs now - you need to feed the boys more McD fries. LOL!
beautiful pics....beautiful kids!!!!
Definately a sweet picture!