Following up........

Micah is growing so fast! Three weeks old now. She definitely has my smile and my toes which I got from my Dad. I wish I had a scanner so you could all compare my baby picture to her. There are a lot of close calls. Beautiful lips! She loves being outside which means she will fit right in. Music calms her down. Particularly female vocalists. Of course she doesn't really ever get too upset. Only when she is hungry. Ben Loves her!!! He likes to hug her a lot which can be a little scary : / A.J. loves to hold her. It makes him happy when he is the one to calm her. Daddy is in heaven. This little girl is loved so much. We all feel very loved these days. Andy had to go back to work yesterday and my in-laws left this morning so I am completely on my own now. YIKES! It is going o.k. so far except that Ben has been running fever the last two days and very clingy. I think we are getting through it though. Now, I must prepare a new schedule for our family to live by so we can make this three kid thing work.

Adios...

Catch up

Pictures I haven't had time to download/upload.....................................................

Ben looking so much like daddy.

Haircuts.......

Just a few fun times......

A.J. on the first day of school. We went to Sonic afterwards to make up for me forgetting my camera that morning.

Here is a picture of the boys spoiling me.

Here is a picture of Micah and me a few hours before delivery.

Sugar Sugar

That is what she is.......sweet. Waking up only once or twice a night to eat and immediately going back to sleep. She eats every 3-4 hours during the day and is awake a few hours all together, if that. She is focusing on my face for longer amounts of time and mostly just looking cute. We went for the two week check-up today. She is back up to her birth weight and very healthy. Second PKU test was done. I cant stand that test. I wish there was a better way of doing that. I have a lot of pictures to upload. No time........

Introducing.........Micah Carys

My baby girl was born on Labor day. How appropriate. So here is the scoop. I went in Mon. morning for blood work and pre-op stuff. After that, the anticipation nagged at me. We met my Dad for dinner and to hand off the boys. I wanted to cry as they drove away. I had a hard time getting to sleep. We woke-up around 4 am to load up the car and get to the Hospital by 6am. Once there, we began getting ready for her big appearance. My blood work from the day before showed low platelets so we had to wait an hour for new blood work that still came back low. They were the same and didn't dip so we went ahead with the surgery. I was immediately irritated with the I.V. It was very uncomfortable. Around 8am they wheeled me back to the freezing cold O R and moved me onto The Table. Anesthesia gave me the spinal which was a problem . The first one wouldn't go in but the second time was fine. I think I gained some more back problems from that little failure but only time will tell. Once they laid me back down and put up the shield Andy came in Dr. got started. She must have been very gentle because I didn't have near as much tugging and pulling as I did with the boys. It seemed like only a few minutes and there was my beautiful baby girl's face looking over the shield at me. My first thought with the boys was that they looked like their daddy but I was stumped with this one. She began crying and I began crying. Andy followed her over to be weighed and cleaned 8 lb.s and 7 oz. 20 inches long. Hardly any hair........little black fuzzies. The Dr. said, "O.K. I'm tying tubes, last chance!" I said O.K. go for it. She then proceeded to say that it was a really good decision because the lower part of my uterus, under previous scars, was worn so thin that if I had labored there is a very good chance it would have ruptured. We got all fixed up and as they were getting ready to wheel me into recovery they stopped, took the baby from Andy, put her in my arms, and said " Mommy carried her in here and she gets to carry her out." As I looked at her I decided she reminds me of Ben. Only more.... girly.

A gift from God, Love. Those are the meanings of her names. I can not even explain the way my heart becomes so tender every time I look at her.