Week Two

Happy Two Week Birthday to Michaela!

We have survived yet another week. Lot's of first:

1) First time to use the moby wrap. (See Photo)
2) First time to Lowes and the use of the Infantino Carrier.
3) First Bath (see Photo).
4) First official doctor's appointment

Speaking of the Doctor's appointment, everything checked out perfectally good. She has surpassed her birth weight and now weighs 8 lbs 2 ounces and has even grown a quarter of an inch (20" long). The doctor says she is a picture of health. Praise the Lord!

We must give a big huge thank you to those who brought us dinner this week. Barb Thornburg, Elaine Goodwin, the Morgan's (Blizzards from Dairy Queen) and even my Mom (all the way from the Seattle area). What a huge blessing that has been.

Helpful Hints

I posted a slideshow that we created with some more photos of Michaela. A really helpful hint is to scroll down to the bottom right hand side of the blog and stop the normal music that plays on the blog. Otherwise you will hear two songs at once, and that isn't any good. Also, if you hit the second button from the bottom right hand side on the actual slideshow, it will go full screen.

Hope you enjoy!

Michaela Slideshow

Day 6

What a great night! Michaela has proven to us that she will allow us to get some sleep. After putting up a long drawn out tantrum at bedtime, she managed to sleep from about 11:00 pm until 2:00 am, again from 3:00 am to 6:00 am and yet again until 8:00 am. She nursed really well between each sleeping.

We were extremely blessed yesterday to have our incredibly good friends Josh and Sarah bring us dinner. They even brought over a Beaverton Bakery cake that was amazing! I think Michaela was jealous for just one second, until she remembered the great meals she was getting herself. Travis and Kalina are coming over this evening and bringing food. It makes us realize how blessed we are to have such good friends and I cannot wait until we get to return the favor.

For the past couple of days, Bev (Brook's mom) has been coming over for several hours a day. This has been awesome as she has been able to watch after Michaela while both Brook and I catch a little sleep. She has also helped cooked dinner several nights this week. I am pretty sure that both of us would have been much more tired if it weren't for Bev.

We also took our first stroller ride yesterday. It was only to the coffee shop and back, but boy oh boy was it fun!

So enough blabbering and on with the photos...

Michaela Faith

We are home! Three nights are in the books and both Brook and Michaela are doing great. Last night was a little rough, but we survived to tell about it. Our motto is one day at a time.
Here are some photos to hold everybody over.

Welcome Michaela Faith to the world! August 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 7 oz and was 19.75 long

Epidurmal is in full affect. Brook is getting ready to push anytime now. Maybe good news within the hour.

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Checked into the hospital around 2:30 am. Brook is progressing nicely and we expect to meet our daughter in less than 3 hours. Brook is a champ and is doing g

Anxiously Awaiting

Baby update...

As of 10:21 am on Friday, August 7, we are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of our daughter. Brook experienced some periods of contractions yesterday that made us hopeful that the time was nearing. But after some careful reading, our professional medical diagnosis was that her contractions were closer to "false labor" contractions than "real labor" contractions.

You can read what we have read...

"Sometimes it's very hard to tell false labor from the early stages of true labor. If you're 37 weeks or more, here are some things that might help you sort it out:

• False labor contractions are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals and vary in length and intensity. Although true labor contractions may be irregular at first, over time they start coming at regular and shorter intervals, become increasingly more intense, and last longer.

• With false labor, the pain from the contractions is more likely to be centered in your lower abdomen. With true labor, you may feel the pain start in your lower back and wrap around to your abdomen.

• False labor contractions may subside on their own or when you start or stop an activity or change position. True labor contractions will persist and progress no matter what you do."

Baby Update

We have recently learned that our blog has a couple daily followers. And that is truly impressive since my history of updating our blog is not real solid. So this blog update is dedicated to our two faithful readers...this goes out to my Grandpa and to Marsha.

The baby counter on the right hand side of our blog is completely accurate. We are still waiting for our daughter to arrive. We have been having weekly doctor's appointments for about a month now and the good news is this: the baby has dropped. She has moved from the -5 position to the -2 position (if that means anything to anyone).

Brook is still feeling good but is getting anxious to give birth. Her last full day in the office was last Friday and she is now working part-time from the comforts of home. Kenji has been blessed with twice daily walks in an attempt to induce birth.

Speaking of induction...there is no plan on the horizon. Although the doctors say that they won't let her go much more than a week or so past our due date.

So that's the baby update. But on a side note, we gotta give a shout out to the Blazers tonight for finally getting the Brandon Roy contract signed. Now let's get Aldrige signed and get ready to win a championship. And we also need to give a shout out to Barcelona for absolutely dominating the Seattle sounders in an exhibition match 4-0. It is nice to see Seattle show up 67,000 strong to watch soccer, now if only their team would have shown up to play soccer.

Hopefully our next post will be baby photos...stay tuned.