What a long strange week it's been

This was a huge week for the Black family. We returned from "vacation" in Pittsburgh (although we've decided that as wonderful as it is to see people we love, it's just not restful to run around like that!), Micah started daycare, I started back to work, Micah got sick at daycare, Tim and I had to take time off work to take care of him, and finally Micah turned 20 weeks old. I get tired just thinking about everything that happened. Since I last wrote, here's a glimpse into our lives.

This is Micah hanging out with my good friend Kate. They immediately liked one another. See Kate, I told you you'd make the blog!! :)

Here's Micah with my friend Aimee's daughter Isabelle, who was born in November. She's so adorable it makes me want a little girl... On closer look, doesn't this resemble the movie "Twins" with Micah in the Schwarzenegger role and Isabelle playing Danny Devito's part? They're the right sizes for it!

Micah got tired at our friends' house one afternoon, so we did what we always do when he gets this way at other people's houses - we plopped him on the floor for some rest time. Our friend Kirk thought Micah rolling around was very entertaining so he imitated Micah, which the rest of us found hysterical.

The gang's all here... Tim is blessed to be part of a really close-knit group of guys, and they still like him even though he's so far away from everyone now. Fortunately, we wives love each other too and here's all of us together at Steph's 30th birthday party. If only Micah would have been looking at the camera! He needs to take a cue from his friend Chloe who's already very camera-savvy.

The rest of the country may have been in a deep freeze, but upon our return to Florida, this is what we were greeted with - my sunflowers came up!! I don't have much of a green thumb so it thrilled me that seeds I put in the ground actually came up. They didn't really fit in with the Christmas decorations, but they're beautiful.

Micah's first day of school!! It wasn't too traumatic to leave him because I was running late so we didn't linger at the daycare. It was soooo good to see him at the end of the day though. As much as I enjoyed being back at work, I really missed him. This is Micah at the end of his first day of school. He was so tired he passed out right in Tim's arms. He did well for his first two days, and then caught the virus that was going around the center, so after a vomitous Wednesday night, he spend much of Thursday recovering while Mommy and Daddy scrambled to take more time off from jobs to which they had just returned. Although he's not yet eating as much as he was before the virus, he was well enough to be back in daycare today. And finally, here's Micah enjoying one of his Christmas presents. Not the standy-toy-thing, although he enjoys that as well. What he's intently staring at is the TV, on which is showing his new "Praise Baby" DVD. It's like Baby Einstein, but it's set to praise songs. He's exposed to them early, and Mom and Dad get to listen to something with words on it. Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa! (By the way, notice the tree still up in the background. This is what happens when you're away from home until January 7 and then you immediately go back to work. We're hoping they'll be put away spontaneously with no help from us. If that miracle doesn't happen, we plan on putting them away this weekend. But this is a record to have them up this long, even for Christmas-crazy me!) Until next time...