Baby Shower Version 3.0

I haven't gotten the time to post on this yet; sorry for the delay. Two weeks ago my friend/neighbor Jill threw me a delightful shower! The theme was, "A Star is Born."


Jill and our friend Tracy made this wonderful cake!! Micah was kind of crabby during the shower (more to come on his crabbiness in a later post), but I had a wonderful time! It was good to see friends and we got lots of nice gifts! Here is Jill, our great hostess (who is soon to have a little boy of her own).

Here are our good friends the Louks: Mara, Joy (holding Micah), Kaitlyn, and Annie.


Thanks again ladies for all the great gifts and and a wonderful afternoon!

Success

Last night, I put Micah in his crib fully awake, with no pacifier, and he put HIMSELF to sleep! Better yet, he slept for 6 hours straight. Yea!!

Smile!

We got our first REAL smile from Micah tonight. I say "real" because it lasted long enough for me to take several pictures (rather than just a passing smile from gas or something ~ we've gotten some of those so far).

It's hard to believe he'll be a month old tomorrow. Kedron and I agree that he looks different (older) today than he did yesterday!

Belated Kudos

I forgot to announce the winner of the "Guess That Baby" contest from the earlier post. Congrats to Mr. Mark Safly who guessed we'd have a boy on August 25th! Yea Marky Mark!

I should also mention that, at a baby shower in July, my Aunt Barb guessed that we'd have a boy on August 25th, and the weight would be 7 lbs 8 oz. Micah's weight was 7 lbs 7 oz! Barb, maybe I should get you to buy me a lottery ticket!!

What it's like to be a dad

While I was feeding Micah tonight, Kedron walked in the nursery and exclaimed, "I just realized I've been walking around with poop on my hand!" He explained that he noticed some mustard-yellow stains on his hand, and that they had probably been there for an hour or so. He had also just finished eating dinner. . . and serving up my food too!

Ahh, the joys of fatherhood!

Birth Announcement Photo Rejects

Here are some less than flattering pic's of our little guy (although even in these pictures he is still the cutest baby EVER!!). These will NOT be going out in birth announcements. . .

The boy and the cat

Several of you have asked how our cat Loco has responded to the new baby. We are happy to report that things are going quite well! Loco is only semi-interested in Micah. We secretly think that Loco is glad that we don't bug him now; all our attention is on the baby so Loco can just relax now!

(can you spot the cat in this picture?)

Bath time

The only thing that Micah likes about baths right now is snuggling in his hoodie towel afterwards!

Our trip to the doctor

Micah had his first doctor appt last week. His weight then was 6 lbs 12 oz (his weight at birth was 7 lbs 7 oz). The doc recommended I bring him back in a week just to check his weight. We decided to do this today, and had quite the experience. . .

The nurses make you take off all the baby's clothing, including diaper, when they weigh the baby. Despite changing Micah's diaper just before we left, he decided to poop on the car ride over. So while stripping him down, I apologized to the nurse and got out the wipes to clean him off. I got that all done, and then the nurse says, "It looks like he's not finished yet," and a big arc of pee starts flying through the air! The pee arc took no prisoners as it got all over his body, hair, and the clean onesie I had just taken off and laid by his head. SO, back to the wipes container to wipe him off again. We then placed him on the scale to weigh him, and he peed AGAIN, this time hitting the poor nurse that was so nice to us!! You guessed it; back to the wipes container to wipe him off one more time (I'm not sure what the nurse did; hopefully they have extra scrubs for such occasions). What a stinker! So we came home and promptly took an unscheduled bath!

The good news is, his weight was 7 lbs 13 oz. He is 12 days old and has already gained back his birth weight, which is awesome!!

Birth Announcement Advice?

All right moms, I'm needing some help deciding how quickly to send out birth announcements. I know I should probably do it right away. However, Micah's appearance changes so often that I am tempted to wait a while to send them out. Kedron and I joke that, right now, Micah looks like "Generic Baby" and not like either one of us. Perhaps if I waited a month, he will look more like his own person and less like all other blonde babies :) What do you think? How quickly did you all send out birth announcements?

Also, we are leaning towards sending many announcements via email; to cut down on paper and postage. Not to mention it will save me some time!! Is this tacky?

Number of times we've been peed on in the week we've been home from the hospital

THREE.

Oh, the thrills of having a boy!

The Bardwell Men

Micah just loves sleeping with Daddy!

New parent paranoia? Not here!

You know how most first-time parents are super careful and/or paranoid about everything concerning their child? Well, we just let our kid go a day and a half wearing only one sock. Yes, we knew he was wearing only one, and we even knew where the missing sock was. . . we just didn't have the energy to fix the issue (don't tell Grandma Kathy about this; she has issues with her grandkids and socks, we think :) Also, Micah peed on his bed sheet yesterday, so I washed the sheet, but didn't care enough to put the clean sheet back on the bed. So Micah slept on his mattress pad last night. He didn't even seem to mind!