B-Day Party #2

We continued to celebrate Micah's 1st Birthday by having another party for him, but this time we were able to have some family here with us. Some of Randall's family were here visiting us (Aunt Janet, Uncle Mike, & Cousin Matti & Thomas). Enjoy the pics of Micah's 2nd B-day Party!

Believe it or not, this cake is homemade! Thanks to Aunt Janet and Matti for helping with some of the decorations (the cake looked much easier in the picture then it was to make, but we still had fun!)

Big Sister, thinking it should have been her Birthday Party!

Morgan was a Big Helper to Micah with opening presents!

Birthday Boy w/Dad & Mom

The cake part is always the best part of the 1st b-day party and the moment every 1 year old is waiting for, at least this 1 y/o enjoyed every moment of freedom when eating the cake!

When the cake was gone, Micah thought he would lick the plate clean as well!

Green icing all over his face, but overall, Micah was a pretty clean cake eater!

Happy 1st Birthday Micah!

Happy 1st Birthday Micah!

It's hard to believe Micah had his first Birthday yesterday. He is growing up so fast and changing so much. We decided to celebrate his birthday with the kids at the nursery/school that he and Morgan go to during the week. We made a cake, cookies, had chips, bubbles and balloons and I think the kids (esp the local kids) enjoyed the American food and playing with the bubbles!

As to be expected, Micah had no clue that it was his birthday but loved his Cheetos and cake! Here are a few pics we took of the Birthday Party:

Micah is stuffing his mouth with cheetos

Morgan loves her new friends!

Cheese!

You can't go wrong with a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake!

"Not fair, I'm the birthday boy and i have to be the one in a highchair!"

Balloons, Cookies, Chips! (this is much different then a local 1st Birthday party around here; normally they have a lot of food, loud music, maybe a D.J., family, friends: apparently the 1st Birthday of a child's life is the one most celebrated here)

Happy 1st Birthday Micah! We Love You!

What is Morgan Singing About?

Lately we have heard Morgan singing new songs that she learns at her school. There are some songs that we recognize or at least understand the words and then there are some songs that we can not understand much of anything. Finally we got Morgan on camera singing a song that apparently is pretty popular here.

A little background on this song: It's from Lebanon and is apparently about a boy who eats too much chocolate and has bad teeth. Therefore he has to go to the Dentist. It has funny "sounding words" but its really cute when Morgan sings it.

Please feel free to leave comments about what you think the song is saying!

Our First Christmas on this side of the Ocean

We had a wonderful Christmas with dear friends (who are like our family to us) this year, as it was our first Christmas on this side of the ocean. It was Micah's first Christmas, so of course we had to take many pics and video of him. Both kids were a lot of fun as Morgan understood presents and was excited about opening them beyond the pretty princess paper. And continued to ask "can I open 1 more?"Whereas Micah had no clue as to what was going on and loved playing with the paper and watching his Big Sister laugh and open her presents.

Micah's P.J.s say "Baby's First Christmas" and loved having the santa hat on!

Thanks to Mrs. Joyce and her class, Micah found cars in his stocking and Randall even got to enjoy chocolate covered cherries (which is a tradition for him and his Dad to have at Christmas). It was a fun surprise for him!

Morgan's new thing is polly pockets (Thanks MiMi and Paw Paw!) and she was excited to open them but kept saying "I don't want Micah to eat them!" haha! everything goes in to Micah's mouth these days!

Yes, this is a drum, but it does have an off switch! Micah loves banging on it and always laughs when it makes music.

Thanks to Grammy & G-Pa, Morgan got to dress up in her Mrs. Clause dress and loved spinning around like a princess of course!

Likewise, Micah was a little Santa and was so much fun to watch as he paraded around in his suit and hat.

To end our Christmas evening, we got together with other friends and sang Christmas carols and praised Father outside, under the stars. It was Awesome!

On our way home from visiting our friends, we decided to venture out and drive out to the coast line as we were only minutes from it. To our surprise, it was really peaceful and not crowded at all at the beach area where we stopped. Of course we were not prepared to play at the beach or in the ocean, but we still had fun watching Morgan run around and took some pics to share...

It was really cute watching Randall with the kids and trying to keep both of them from jumping in the water.

There was no one around to take our family pic, so we did the best we could...

It was so bright for Micah, he had his eyes closed a lot!

We were determined to get a family pic at the beach and this was the best we could do! haha! By the time we got back to the car, everyone except for Micah had sandy feet and we were all a little wet from the waves hitting the shore and the wind blowing the water towards us. But it was fun and we hope to go back soon (prepared to play of course).