Friends

We have been spending a bit more time with some of Micah and Noah's friends lately. It has been so fun to watch them learn to interact and enjoy other kids. They remember most of their names and often when we go to the park or a party etc, they will name their friends one by one and ask if they are going to be there. I can easily get them in the car if I just tell them that a few of their friends are going to be wherever we are going.

Just a couple of funny stories:

(1). I got this email a few days ago from the Mom of Micah and Noah's friend Derek (unfortunately for us (but great for them), they just bought a house and moved away):

So I've been teaching Derek the primary song "Follow the Prophet." He gets a kick out of it and incredibly (thanks to the creativity of primary songs) is learning the prophets' names. I do the Adam verse, then Derek always says, "How 'bout Noah?" So we do the Noah verse. Then I try to move on to Enoch or whatever and Derek interrupts, "How 'bout Noah?" I say "Again, we already did Noah." Then he asks, "How 'bout Micah?" I always say, "There is no Micah verse." Anyway, I think you should write a Micah verse so Derek can sing it. :)

(2). We had their friend Bennett over last week to play for a couple of hours while his Mom ran some errands. Within 10 minutes of being here, Micah had thrown a fit about 5 times over Bennett playing with something that Micah didn't want him to touch. Bennett hadn't taken anything from Micah or done anything wrong, Micah just didn't want him touching any of his toys. After about 10-15 min, Micah comes over to me and in his saddest most whiny voice says: "Micah no like Bennett!" It was funny that he was so disturbed...just interesting to see how they interact. We put the toys away for a while and started dancing/playing outside. He warmed up pretty quick and later that morning was playing just fine. Now he even asks for Bennett on a regular basis and he screamed the whole 10 min ride home from his house last night b/c he didn't want to leave Bennett.

And here are just a few fun pictures from when we had their friends Caleb and Davin over a few weeks ago. We love Caleb and Davin and their fun mom, April. Whenever I mention Caleb and Davin, Micah always asks, "And April?":