Happy St. Patricks Day!

It's Terrible being Two (or nearly two)

Because most of you know all about Micah's recent bumps, bruises and breaks, I was hesitant to post this picture!


This photo actually does a great job of hiding an awesome black eye and bruise across his noise, which are the result of two injuries that just so happened to occur within 45 minutes of each other. Micah is way into helping with tools, but got a little over excited with the hammer and nailed his eye while helping daddy on the truck. Then a little while later (while waving goodbye to daddy), face planted into the window sill (don't worry, he caught himself with the bridge of his nose). What I kept giggling about was that every once in a while for the rest of the day he would grab is head and say "ouch". Not once with two scull fractures did he even act like his head might be hurting, but it sure did yesterday! I just have to keep telling myself... "He will survive!" (We are crossing our fingers and praying!!)

Get Off My Back Uncle Shane!!

Uncle Shane has been impatiently requesting an update, so here it is. Just a few pics (mostly of Micah in our unexpected 8 inches of snow last month). It's finally warming up, so Micah has been spending most of his days outside! More pics to come...

Busy Week at the Harris House!

We have had a very busy week at the Harris house. Micah learned to bake brownies, daddy learned how to put bead board up on the walls (our kitchen makeover), mommy learned to paint stripes on the wall (Madi's bedroom makeover)(trim will go on top of the stripes...), and Madi had the biggest week of all... Madi learned to roll over and then got to eat her first bowl of rice cereal! Below are pics and a video to showcase our accomplishments.

For Aunt Suzie and Emily

Just remember... I could always do worse!


For everyone else, please know I would never really make my daughter wear such things!! I'm not that ridiculous!

Bad Habits

Bad habits must run in families... Yep, this is Madi... Same two fingers, just different hand!

Micah Made a Mess!

Life is never boring with Micah around. I'm sure that most have heard by now, but Micah spent last night at Arkansas Children's Hospital! Micah is my big helper around the house, and his favorite chore is doing the dishes... Yesterday, Micah was so excited to do the dishes with daddy, but all fun ended when he pulled a big pot lid out of the sink which caused him to slip and fall backwards off his chair onto the tile. He hit the back of his head on the tile and his face got clabbered by the lid! He cried, but not hard, and he just wanted to be held. About ten minutes later Micah started throwing up. Mike called the base clinic (our pediatrician) and they thought it would be best if we took him to the local ER to get him checked out...just in case. Mike and I both thought they would just look him over and send us home, since by the time we got to the ER he was fine and just wanted a "nack"(snack)!! No such luck!!! They did CT and found "a possible fracture". Dr. Montgomery thought it would be best to send him down to the Children's Hospital in Little Rock to get a neuro consult. So.... Micah and mommy both got their first ride in an ambulance. The docs and nurses at Children's were great, and confirmed that he had not just one but two skull fractures. The fractures should heal on their own, but the real concern was that he had a head injury bad enough to cause them in the first place. We were lucky to have no bleeds, swelling, or for that matter even a bump where it happened. They kept him overnight just to make sure he didn't develop any complications and sent him home this morning. He had a great time...endless ice-cream, huge playroom, and lots of new friends! Mommy and Daddy just hope he didn't love it enough to want to go back any time soon!! He came home and has been going a hundred miles a hour since... Here is a video of how he is spending his afternoon. Thanks again for the tractor Grandpa D!!