Welcome George

Sorry it has been so long since I posted, George was born 2 weeks ago but life with 2 small children is a little crazy.  So finally here is George's birth story.
Robin flew in on March 21st and much to our surprise, George hung out until his scheduled c-section date.  It was really nice that he hung out for so long because it allowed time for Micah and Robin to get adjusted to each other again.  Our c-section was scheduled for 7am on March 28th.  My doctor told us to arrive at the hospital 2 hours in advance, but to call the hospital before we left to make sure that my surgery was still good to go and that they had rooms available.  It is a half hour drive to the hospital, so we woke up at 4am so that we could leave at 4:30.  I called the hospital and they told me that my surgery was good to go, but to come a hour early.  Since we were already awake and since my doctor had clearly written 2 hours in advance and told us that, we decided to head on to the hospital.  We would rather be early than be late and end up having to wait hours and hours for another open c-section time.  We arrived at the hospital a little after 5 and waited to check in.  The person in front of us was from a funeral home, picking up someone that had been in labor and delivery...way to make a pregnant lady feel confident right before her surgery.
We checked in, but the lady told us that the prep area for scheduled c-sections doesn't open until 6am.  She pointed us to the waiting room and we got to hang out there for a hour.  Finally around 6:15, they came and got us and took us to the pre op room.  I got all ready and the anesthesiologist came to talk to me about medicines.  I told him that I am allergic to morphine and percoset.  He asked me what my symptoms were and I told him and he was like oh you are actually really allergic, it's not just an I itch thing.  So then he had to go off and search for some medicine for my spinal that didn't have morphine in it.  Apparently no one did this in advance and it is not a simple medicine to grab instead.  Eventually he found some in a pharmacy at the hospital and I was sent off to the OR.  With a c section, the dad has to wait outside the OR room until the mom has the spinal and the doctor's begin the surgery.  So I walked into the OR room, got up on the table and waited for my least favorite part, the spinal.  I sat there and an anesthesiologist put the numbing medicine in my back (it feels like a bee sting) and then went to put the spinal in.  When he did that, my right leg went crazy and hurt incredibly bad.  Apparently, that is a bad thing.  So he numbed me in a different spot and tried again, and once again HORRIBLE pain shooting down my right leg.  He tried multiple times and it kept happening.  During all of this, I was sitting on the table with my head hanging down, my chin touching my chest and my back had to be rolled as much as possible and my arms dangling down.  When he couldn't get it, another anesthesiologist in the room attempted and the same thing happened multiple times.  It still wasn't working, the pain was still going down my right leg.  Finally, they gave up and called in the head anesthesiologist.  He came in and he attempted it multiple times as well with the same results.  At this point, my neck was killing me and my back felt like a pin cushion, not to mention my crazy twitching painful right leg.  At this point I was crying and I began begging for them to just completely knock me out for it.  I was insisting that I would be fine to be asleep for it.  As soon as I started begging for that, he finally got it in.  Apparently since my last c section, my spine has curved and made it very difficult.
The c section finally started and Brandon was able to join me.  I immediately told him about the horrors of my spinal, but he helped me focus on other things.
Just a few minutes later, George Joseph was born at 7:52am.

 He was 21 and half inches long and 7 pounds 10 ounces.  They brought him over to us and took some pictures, but those are all on Brandon's phone so I will post those pics later.  Brandon went off to the nursery with George while they finished up with me.  They took me to recovery and Brandon joined me there.  George had to hang out in the nursery for a little bit while they waited for his temperature to regulate, but Brandon brought me lots of pictures of him.  Not much later, they moved me to my actual room and George joined us very shortly after that.

He is incredibly long and skinny.  He did so good and my recovery was a lot easier this time too.  My c section was on Friday morning and I was eating real food by Friday night.  Saturday morning they took all my monitors and IV out and I got to shower.  Micah came and met his baby brother on Saturday at lunch time and did so good!

We hung out at the hospital on Saturday..

And we were released by Sunday before lunch time.  So we were only in the hospital for a little over 48 hours.
Life is going really good here, Micah has been doing so good with Baby George.  I am so proud of him.  I will post a lot more pictures and more stories later, but I wanted to get the basic birth story done while I had a moment of peace.

My boys

So it is only 2 and half days until our baby boy is here.  We have been trying to talk to Micah about Baby a lot.  He knows that baby is in my belly, he will say Hi baby and rub my belly.  He has also given my belly kisses.  It could be a challenge that after baby boy is born for him to realize and understand that my belly is not baby anymore.  Anyway, recently an interesting thing has been happening between my boys.  Whenever Micah and I snuggle on the couch, baby boy will move to the side of the stomach that Micah is sitting on.  He tends to hang out on my right side, but if Micah is on my left side then he will move to the left side.  The boys have already started fighting too.  The other day Micah was sitting on my left side snuggled up to me and baby moved to that side.  Baby kicked Micah and Micah sat up, glared at my belly and then pushed on it.  Then baby pushed back and started going crazy in there.  Micah was not impressed and said "no no mommy!" like I had some control over it :).  I can't wait to see how the two interact once he is born.  I know it will be quite an adjustment and I am nervous on how Micah will be about sharing me.  He is not clingy to me at all, but I am always there and always available to him, so there is no need for him to be clingy.  When his time starts being shared, it could get interesting.  But here is a picture my friend Robin took the other day of Micah, baby and me.

I am just going to enjoy these next two days of my small family.

37 Weeks 5 days..

Well the past week has been quite interesting. Auntie Shannon came and visited us for a few days during her Spring Break, which was a lot of fun.  Micah loved having Nan Nan here.  On Thursday Brandon woke up incredibly sick and ended up having to go to the Emergency Room.  Luckily Shannon was still here, so she watched Micah for us while I was at the hospital with him for hours.  Brandon had the Norovirus, so the next few days were us staying far away from Brandon so we didn't catch it as well.  We seemed to have been lucky enough to avoid it.
A few pictures from our week..
Staying away from Daddy while knowing that he was home and hiding in a bedroom was hard, so Micah and I found a new playground to play on last Friday.  We had a little picnic and then some fun on slides and the horse.

After Daddy was feeling better, it was time for Micah and Daddy to clean all the germs out.

He loves vacuuming!
And then he also found Daddy's beret the other day and was so proud that he looked like Daddy...this is him practicing being a Drill Sergeant.

In pregnancy world, I had a doctor's appointment today and it went really well.  I only have one more appointment and then my repeat c-section!  It is so crazy to me that it is so close.  Only 9 more days or less until there are 2 little boys here.  The doctor kept saying "if you make it to next week, you'll have an appointment on Wednesday then the section on Friday."  If I make it..sounds very hopeful.  My big goal right now is to make it until Saturday.  Robin flies in Friday night and then I can breathe easy.  She will be staying with us for the next few weeks and will be here to take care of Micah and the dogs while Brandon and I are in the hospital.  I'm so thankful for my amazing friend, so thankful that she loves my little family and I completely trust her in taking care of my little man.  Friends that amazing aren't easy to find.
Since I doubt I will find time on Friday to do a 38 week update, I'll go ahead and do it now.  This was me a few days ago..

He feels so incredibly low now.  It is painful to walk or move around at all.  My hips are killing me and so is my back.  I had no idea how exciting and painful putting on pants could be.  On Friday he will be the size of a pumpkin or as long as a leek! He will be about 18.9 to 20.9 inches long.  He weighs somewhere between 6.2 and 9.2 pounds!  His head is about the same size as his abdomen.  He also might have about an inch of hair.  His organs are now mature and ready for life outside.  He now has a firm grasp too.
I am still in complete denial that he will really be born in the next week or so.  I'm so excited to meet him, but also nervous about the change he will bring in our lives.  As of the time that I am posting this...I am more pregnant than I have ever been!!  I have officially passed Micah's birth time! I had him at 37 weeks 5 days at 3:06pm.  We are in new territory now.  It also means I can now vividly remember how big Micah was on this birth day, how alert he was and realize that this baby is now as big as Micah was that day.  9 more days!

36 Weeks

Well today I am 36 weeks pregnant.  I can't believe that it is almost done.  Only 3 weeks or 21 days or less until I will already be holding my baby boy.  Daily life has become a lot more difficult.  It is hard for me to get on the floor and play all day with Micah.  We have been watching more TV than I like to admit and he has been playing by himself a lot more.  He will also bring me toys as I lay on the couch or he will bring me books and we will read them together.
Update on baby...
He is somewhere around 18 inches long and weighs almost 6 pounds now!  He is the size of a honeydew or as long as a head of romaine lettuce.  He should be able to breathe on his own at this point.  He is gaining about an ounce a day.  When this week ends, he will be considered early term.  The new thing is any earlier than 37 weeks is a pre-term baby, 37-39 is early term, 39-40 is full-term and 41 weeks is late term and after 42 weeks is post-term.  So confusing now, but if he stays put one more week, he won't be considered a pre-term baby!
This is my picture earlier this week..

I liked how Micah was staring up at me and my stomach.  And below is 36 weeks with Micah.

I had Micah at 37 weeks 5 days, but hopefully that doesn't happen this time.  Robin is coming to visit and help out in 2 weeks, at exactly 38 weeks.  I just need him to hang out until she is here.
In other news, it appears we will be moving in October, but we don't know exactly where.  The next 6 months is going to be crazy and have tons of change.
Also, we have been cloth diapering Micah for a few weeks now and I really like it.  We have gotten a rhythm with it and Micah really likes them too.  I went to the grocery store last week and it was amazing to not have to pick up diapers!  We have a good little supply built up now, we have 9 diapers and 2 more that we need to pick up (already paid, just need to actually get them).  I will post about the different types and what we think of them another day, but they have actually been quite easy.
Only 21 more days or less!

34 Weeks

I actually hit 34 weeks on Friday, but weekends are always busy around here.  This is my 34 week picture.

And for comparison purposes, this is me at 34 weeks with Micah.

Yup when I was pregnant with Micah at this time, we were preparing to move to a new 2 bedroom apartment.
So at 34 weeks, Baby Ferraro is the size of a butternut squash or a cantaloupe.  He is between 4.2 and 5.8 pounds and is around 17.2 to 18.7 inches long.  He can now hear and react to songs that we sing to him.  His fat layers are filling out, which will help him to regulate body temperature.  The good news right now is that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks normally do fine.  If he was born right now, he'd probably have to spend a few days in the NICU but overtime, he would be just fine.
I still feel so unprepared for his arrival.  Technically, we have pretty much everything we need at this point.  There are a few things I would still like to get, like order some pictures for his room to decorate with and buy a double stroller.  I also need things for me like nursing tanks.  I did go and buy the things that I need for my hospital bag, now I just need to pack it.  My goal was to do that this past weekend, but that didn't happen so hopefully I'll get it done this week.
There is only 32 days until his big arrival.

33 Weeks

We have hit 33 weeks now! Hard to believe.  We have had a very busy week!  We got hit by yet another snowstorm this week.  Micah absolutely loves playing in the snow with Daddy.  Next winter, we are definitely investing in waterproof gloves that actually fit his little hands.

 Unfortunately, he couldn't play very much in the snow this week because he has been sick.  We actually had to run out in between storms to get him to a doctor because he wasn't doing good.

The poor little guy has a double ear infection and a viral cold.  The cough is finally slowing down and he seems to be getting better.  Antibiotics definitely help.
Luckily the weather cleared up for Valentines Day, so my boys took me to Greg's Art and Pottery.  It's a paint your own pottery store in Downtown Fayetteville.  Micah picked out a puppy to paint and Brandon made me a vase.

I was so impressed how great Micah did at it.  He was so focused on it.  I can't wait to pick it up and see how nice it looks.  After painting, we went to Bumbledoo which is our local cloth diaper/baby store and picked up a few more things that we needed and then it was to Red Robin for dinner.
As of Saturday, Micah is cloth diapered during the day.  We are waiting for some more diapers to come in the mail, so we can only do daytime right now but he is loving it.  On Saturday, Brandon also went to Lowe's and got everything and made us a diaper sprayer.  We decided we could cloth diaper as long as we had a diaper sprayer.  So far we have all really been enjoying it.  Hopefully it continues to work as well as it has been so far.
I have a list of things that we still need for Baby Ferraro, and Saturday and today we have been slowly working on cutting that list down.  We are getting close to being done!
This week is already 33 weeks! My c-section is scheduled at 39 weeks so it is only 40 days or less until his arrival!  Baby Ferraro is the size of a durian, which I have no idea what that is.  He is somewhere between 4.2 and 5.8 pounds now, which just seems so big!  He is between 17.2 and 18.7 inches long and he will grow up to an entire inch this week.  Micah was 20 inches when he was born, so this little one is almost at full birth height.  He now keeps his eyes open when he's awake, his bones are hardening and his brain is going through major development.
I'm trying to slowly prepare for his arrival, but also balance enjoying every moment I can with our family of three right now.

31 Weeks!

I cannot believe that we are already at 31 weeks.  It is actually making me really nervous right now.  In 8 weeks or less, I will have an infant again.  I'm feeling so unprepared again, but too exhausted to do much about it.  Exhaustion has hit all new levels this week.  My body aches horribly, I'm uncomfortable and can't sleep at night.  All of this is making me think more about baby stuff.  We are moving end of June, early July into a new house so I have been telling myself that we will decorate the cute nursery then.  The spare bedroom is technically baby's room and his dresser is in the closet there and it is all organized now.  I was thinking though that we could get the art for his room and put it above the spare bed, to make it look more like his? These are the 4 different options I'm thinking about..let me know which you like?

I want his room to be Elephants and Chevron.  So far the only thing I have for his room is grey chevron and white crib sheets from Target.

Anyway, today is 31 weeks.  He is now the size of a pineapple or the weight of a coconut.  He is somewhere between 15.2 inches and 16.7 inches long and weighs between 2.5 and 3.8 pounds.  He's going through major brain, nerve and eye development right now.  His irises will even react to light.  All five of his senses are working now and he can even partially regulate his own body temperature now.  His bones are hardening now too.  Only 56 more days or less!

29 weeks and a little bit more

So technically Friday was 29 weeks, but it's been a long weekend so I haven't posted yet.  Baby Ferraro 2.0 is now the size of an acorn squash.  He is already between 15.2 inches to 16.7 inches long and weighs between 2.5 and 3.8 pounds.  He feels massive in there.  He has a definite spot that is his favorite area to hang out, on my right side.  It feels like there is a permanent bruise on the inside of my stomach where he always hangs out.  He should be tripling his weight until birth.  His muscles and lungs are still maturing and his head is growing to make room for that developing brain.
I can't believe that it is already 29 weeks.  I have 10 weeks or less until he will be here.  I feel so unprepared right now, I have not made one burp cloth yet.  We just cleaned the diaper bag out today so we can start packing that.  Micah now has a "toddler pack", he carries around a little toddler backpack with his stuff inside of it.  It is so adorable!  We need to install the car seat eventually.
So far I have gained 9 pounds, which I am pretty happy about.  Right before we got pregnant, I had lost about 10 pounds on Weight Watchers so I haven't even completely gained the weight I lost in just the few months before getting pregnant.
I have 2 pics of this week..I did one in the bathroom like normal and then decided to get Brandon to take a pic of the bump as well.

I have had 3 different random people stop me at church and stores, commenting about how low I am carrying.  What do you think?
And for comparison, this is me at 29 weeks with Micah

Ct Scans

I have been failing at this whole blogging thing lately.  Life has just been so crazy.  We are settling back into life in North Carolina after our long trip to Florida.  Yesterday we had a not so fun day.  Micah saw a neurologist a few months ago and he wanted Micah to get a CT Scan done.  Yesterday was the big day.

That's my boys waiting for it.  Daddy had to get off from work for it because pregnant women aren't allowed in CT scans.  It was pretty horrifying, I could hear Micah's screams all the way from the waiting room.  It is done though and we meet with the neurologist next Wednesday to get the results.  They are only doing the testing because his head is so large.
Other than that adventure, we have just been doing a lot of building with Legos..

And watching tv, he is obsessed with Chuggington and Mickey Mouse

On other news, we are already 28 and half weeks pregnant with baby boy #2.  Babycenter so happily told me today that I only have 72 days until my probable c-section date.  It's only 61 days until when Micah came.  Time is flying by this time!

18 Weeks

Once again, I'm late on posting a weekly update.  I was actually 18 weeks on Friday, but life is just so crazy at times that I barely have time to realize that I'm a new week.  I feel like this pregnancy is flying by.  The craziest part to me is, I'm pretty much halfway right now! I will be doing a c-section again and they will be doing it early again to avoid labor.  If they schedule it for 38 weeks again, then Friday will be halfway.  However, I had Micah early so for him, this would have been half way right about now.  SO CRAZY!
Baby boy is the size of a sweet potato already!  Or in the daddy version..the size of a pint of Ben and Jerry Ice cream! Yum!  It says that he is about 5.6 inches long and 6.7 ounces, however we had our anatomy ultrasound today and the tech said that he's actually measuring at 9 ounces right now....might be all those skittles and sour patch kids he loved in the first trimester.
He's supposed to be growing rapidly and his blood vessels are now visible through his thin skin.  His ears are in their final position now too.  We had our ultrasound today and got a ton more pictures, and I will post some later from that.  However, the ultrasound went great and baby boy had all his important body parts and everything looked perfect!  And they said definitely a boy, no doubt and not a shy boy at all.
My exhaustion has hit me really hard again and my back pain has been really intense.  We've been fighting a cold, Micah has it really bad so I'm thinking some of the exhaustion might be from my body fighting the cold.  I have another doctor appointment on Wednesday, just my regular checkup.
Here is my 18 week picture.

I feel like the baby bump has definitely started to appear now.

17 Weeks

I can't believe I am already 17 weeks.  That is so crazy!  It feels like its all going so fast this time.  With Micah, at 17 weeks I already had his crib.  We have bought...umm...a box of diapers so far!  Baby boy is the size of an onion this week or according to the dad version of baby size..he's the size of a toilet paper roll!  He is 5.1 inches long and weighs about 5.9 ounces.  His cartilage is turning into bone.  I've been feeling him move around a lot lately..like feels nonstop at lot of times.  He seems more active than I ever remember Micah being.  Brandon also got to feel him last night.
I'm failing at taking pics of my non existent bump.  I will try and remember to take on sometime this week.  But here's a cute picture of Micah instead

Missing in Action...

Sorry, I know I have been missing in action lately.  Life has been completely crazy lately.  Brandon had nasal surgery, Grandpa and Amma came to visit and then Uncle Duane and Aunt Jami came to visit.  We did an early elective ultrasound and saw baby move around and dance for us. And we found out that we are having another boy!! Life has been exhausting.  Now the holidays are coming quickly, baby is growing quickly and I'm starting to feel overwhelmed with the added expenses of everything.  I will try to catch up with tons of pictures soon and stories, but here are the pictures from our ultrasound.

 In the one above, you can see his little hand.

This is his Halloween picture :).

And that is his sweet little foot.

Second Trimester!

I am officially in the second trimester!  So exciting to be a third of the way done, and kind of crazy.  This has been a pretty eventful week.  Brandon had some really long days at work and one day he worked so late that Micah was in bed before he got home, so the next morning he built this for Micah.

I love my boys.  They also had a special adventure day on Saturday to make up for time missed during the week, but I'll post about that later.
Besides Brandon working long hours, the first trimester decided to leave with a bang.  I was napping one day and woke up and went to get up, and I did this..

Luckily it ended up just being a sprain.  The doctor was worried that I might have cracked my fibula, but couldn't x-ray without risking hurting baby, so I put it off.  And now, almost a week later, my ankle is starting to feel better so it was just a good sprain.
We had some fun this week.  Micah had another little girl join him in dance class, so now he isn't the only student!  He did so good.

He is really starting to catch on what they are supposed to be doing.  He also had lots of fun at swim lessons of course.

And I overheard Coach Gavin telling another parent that they can't compare their child (who is a year older than Micah) to Micah because Micah is just a "superstar" and "abnormal".  So proud of my little swimmer.  He is just a fish and loves to be in the water.  Going underwater doesn't bother him at all either.  These goggles didn't last long...they were a little too big for him.
We also tried going out to eat at a Japanese place right by our house.  Unfortunately after waiting awhile, we sat down at the grill only to see on the menu that it had a warning to not eat there if you have a seafood allergy.  Since Brandon does have one, off we went and we just grabbed fast food.  But in the waiting area at the restaurant they had a fish tank that Micah LOVED.

Anyway, I am in week 13 now, and about halfway done with this week already.  I change weeks on Friday and it's hard for me to blog on the weekends.  Here is a picture I did take on Friday though

The baby bump is slowly growing!  So baby is the size of a peach now, or about 2.9 inches long and .81 ounces.  Supposedly the head is now about 1/3 the size of the body, but I think Micah's head was more than 1/3 of his body for the first year of his life :).  Baby already has fingerprints!  That seems so crazy to me that at only 13 weeks, baby already has fingerprints.  And this week baby is working on those vocal cords.  I still haven't gained any weight.  I vary between the exact same weight or 3 pounds less than my original weight.  I'm pretty happy with that since I haven't had any morning sickness this pregnancy, I am obsessed with Dominos pizza and Skittles and the month and half before I got pregnant, I had lost a little over 10 pounds.  So I'm quite happy that I didn't just fly right back to that pre Weight Watchers weight.
Hopefully I'll find time to post soon about my boy's amazing adventure together!

Week 12

I'm already half way through week 12.  This pregnancy definitely feels like its going so much faster this time!  We are so busy all the time!  Just this weekend we had swim class..

Daddy and Coach had goggles on, so Micah wanted goggles too.  And see how empty that pool is?! His normal class of like 7 kids was only 2 this week.  And the other kid came late and left early.  After swim, we had nap, then went downtown to Bumbledoo!  Bumbledoo is a baby store in downtown Fayettteville and they were having their grand re opening because they just moved locations.  When we were there, Micah convinced Daddy to buy him an airplane.  He was so cute with it!

Then it was off to dinner with friends!  Sunday was church, Nascar and naptime...It was a pretty great weekend.

So I forgot to update about week 12.  This week baby is developing reflexes.  The little fingers are going to start opening and closing, the mouth will start sucking and toes curling.  The nerve cells are multiplying.  If I push on my stomach, baby will be able to feel it and squirm in response.  The kidneys are already starting to make urine into the bladder!  Baby is about 2 inches long, or the size of a plum!  I've started to feel something, I'm not positive yet if it's baby or not.  It feels like someone is very lightly tickling me inside.  It's in the right area for baby, it just seems really early still.

Now off to a busy day..doctor appointments, errands and going to Bumbledoo because my boys won something at the grand reopening! 

11 Weeks

So today I am 11 weeks.  11 weeks is when I took my first pregnancy belly pic with Micah, so here I am pregnant with Micah...

And here I am today..yup another amazing bathroom pic..

Pretty similair I guess?  I am starting this pregnancy weighing less...but I'm also not losing lots of weight like I did with Micah.  My hope is just to finish this pregnancy about the same weight that I finished with Micah.
Today, baby is the size of a lime! That actually seems pretty good size now!  About 1.6 inches long and weighs about .25 ounces.  So according to my app, baby has a 1:1 ratio head to body..but Brandon says its probably more like 2:1 for our child, if this one is anything like Micah, massive heads :).  Tooth buds are forming and skin is see-through.  Fingers and toes aren't webbed and can move easily in there.  My doctor appointment on Wednesday, baby was moving like crazy.  Baby was moving its little arm, like it was waving at us.
I am still exhausted all the time, and today I woke up to some serious stretching pain in lower stomach.  It's definitely starting to be growing time.
Crazy that is only approximately 27 weeks left?! But now it's time to wake up Micah so he can go to dance class!

Micah's Classes

So Micah has started a bunch of new classes lately.
Every Tuesday morning we have Kindermusik class at our church.  We go and sing a bunch of songs, dance a little bit and play with fun instruments.  Micah has had 2 classes so far, and he really seems to love it.  I was amazed at how much more involved he was in the second class versus the first one.  He seemed to catch on really quickly on what we were doing.  Most of the kids in his class have been going to these music classes since they were 6 weeks old.  Kindermusik is really popular here.
Here he was on his first day..

Obviously it was a success!

On Wednesday mornings, we have tumbling.  We have only had one of these classes so far.  The class in on post.  I don't have any pictures of this class because it was a little chaotic at times.  The first part of class, we had to do an obstacle course a few times.  Micah was really good on the balance beam, he watched another little kid do it first and figured out what he was supposed to be doing, and then he had no problems.  Doing a flip over the bars bothered him the first two times, but he caught on to that pretty easily too.  Overall, a fun class but a little tiring and hard for mommy.  It was a lot of lifting and flipping him.

On Friday we go back to our church for dance class!  We've had 2 of these classes so far and Daddy has been at both, so it'll be interesting this week to not have Daddy there.  He is pretty adorable in dance class.  They've been working on tippy toes, point and kick and marching.  He's also really good at the spinning in circles and side stepping.  Tippy toes was a really hard thing for him to figure out the first week.  He pretty much just became limp when we'd try to get him to do it.  But the whole week after that class, I was watching him and every once in awhile he'd be trying to do tippy toes.  The second class, he rocked the tippy toes! That's all he wanted to do the whole class.  In dance, we have to stretch beforehand and cool down afterwards...

Not many Daddies come to their son's dance class in their dress uniform.  This was during the stretching time, they were about to walk their hands down their legs and stretch to their feet.

On Saturdays, Micah and Daddy have swim class.  Mommy skips participating in this one.  Not wanting to try putting on bathing suits right now...and Micah and Daddy love doing swimming together.  We've had this class for 3 or 4 classes now.  This past week, Micah finally really started kicking his feet.  He'll float all day in the pool, he'll go underwater..he'll do whatever you want.  However, he won't kick or move his arms :) He's completely passive in the water.  So Coach Gavin brought a beach ball this time and Micah was using his arms to try and get the ball and he also kicked the ball with his feet a bunch.  He thought it was hilarious.

He's really good at holding his head up too so he doesn't swallow water.

Those are Micah's fun classes for now.  I don't know if we will be cutting some back or changing some up in the Spring time..I could see Tumbling stopping for awhile just because it is hard on me.  With new sibling in late March/early April, this busy schedule might be hard!  But right now, we are enjoying it.
And random picture of the day..

Totally blaming Mimi for this :)  During her visit, they were playing with the truck and she put Micah in the truck and was pushing him.  So today, Micah emptied his truck out and successfully climbed in his truck, wiggled back and forth to get it to move until he ran into the coffee table...and then successfully climbed out.  He is so adventurous now!

10 Weeks!

Well yesterday was officially 10 weeks.  I've been struggling with a lot of back pain, so I went to the doctor on Thursday to make sure everything was ok.  I just hurt my back muscles pretty good, I have to take it easy.  When I was there though, they did an ultrasound just to double check that baby was all good.

I call this the little ghost picture.  Baby looks like Casper the ghost to me in this picture.  Baby was wiggling around like crazy though during the ultrasound.
Baby is the size of a prune or kumquat (still never seen a kumquat).  Baby is approximately a little over an inch long and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce.  So tiny, yet baby has already completed the most critical parts of development.  Baby is already forming fingernails and hair.  Also is already swallowing and kicking.  So crazy that baby is only 10 weeks and already has fingernails.
I have another doctor appointment on Wednesday, thats my actual next scheduled appointment.  Only 5 more weeks until we find out if baby is a he or she!  The Ramzi theory goes off of which side the placenta is on, and according to that, this one is a girl.  We will see if it's right!

Labor Day Weekend Fun

So this past weekend we had family come visit for Labor Day weekend.  Micah absolutely loved having a bigger audience all weekend.

 His Mimi and cousin Casey came on Friday morning.  They got to witness Micah's first dance class (which is the cutest thing ever, but thats another post in itself).  That night, we went to get Sweet Frog, which is a frozen yogurt place near our house, and we saw this car show happening.  So we stopped and looked at the cars for a little bit.  Micah liked hearing the engines on them.

We saw this amazing truck too.  It's a Mini Pickup truck.  Perfect size for Micah.

Everyone else got here very late Friday night/early morning Saturday.  After a lazy morning of playing and showing cousin Caleb our favorite toys...

We were on our way to the Children's Museum in Raleigh.  We had never been there before, but we will definitely be going back.  It was amazing.  Micah loved it so much.  There was a huge pretend area that he loved playing in the different vehicles and the toys.

Pretty much the cutest fireman ever...

They had a water play area which Micah thought was so cool

There was a HUGE pirate ship in there!

And the place were I really lost my boys for forever..big building blocks!

But the end product was pretty amazing

Sunday was church and just hanging out and then they all left on Monday.  Micah was bummed to see them go.  He liked having so many people to play with.  Luckily, our schedule is so busy with classes, that he stays very active all the time.  I'll post about the classes soon, I keep forgetting to take pictures during his classes so everyone can see how adorable it is.  

This was Micah on Tuesday though..we had a rainy day and Micah is just completely enthralled with rain.