A few more photos of Micah

Many of you have been asking for some more photos.

First, here is a photo of Julia seeing Micah for the first time. She was more interested in all of the other items in the room but she briefly climbed up on the chair to see him.


Next, Julia holding Micah in the hospital when he was one day old.



Seeing Julia for the first time was enough to put Micah back to sleep. Unfortunately, he has been sleeping more during the day then at night.


Finally, here is Julia giving Micah a kiss on his forehead. She likes to give him kisses and hugs and does not seem interested in letting him sleep all day.

Micah

Our little Micah is here! He was born last night at 7:20 pm and was 7 lbs (never thought he would be so small since Julia was 7 lbs 10 oz and was early and Micah was late and a second child) and 21 inches long. Micah and I got a lot of bonding time last night since Robert sleeps through anything and is impossible to wake up in the night. It's shift change for Mom and Dad now though, I'm going to bed and Robert gets to bond with Micah during the day.

Cherry Blossoms

I know a lot of people are wondering when we are going to have this baby. We are too. We're hoping in the next couple of days as the braxton hicks contractions have stepped it up a notch in the past 24 hours, but if he doesn't come on his own by next Wednesday I'll be induced on the 28th. I'm feeling fine, just ready to hold a baby in my arms instead of in my belly.

I didn't really expect to see the cherry blossoms this year because I figured I would be in the hospital and have a newborn but...still no baby. So yesterday as we were taking a walk we realized it would be a perfect day to go see the cherry blossoms by the tidal basin.

Julia sings "We are Young"

Yes, another Julia post. I know what you're thinking, "these guys need another kid so they don't post so much about this one poor kid." Believe me, we're working on that (by taking long walks to get this baby out!)

Since Kevin moved in everyday either Robert or Kevin have been singing the song "We are Young" by fun. (On a tangent, I love fun. because we loved The Format. It was one of the only cd's we brought with us on our honeymoon and listening to them always reminds me of our honeymoon. But they broke up a few years ago! Happily, the lead singer recently started the band fun. and it sounds a lot like them.) One day at the dinner table Julia randomly burst out singing the song and we all had a laugh.



Here is the original song.

US Navy Museum

On Saturday we finally did a little sight seeing with Kevin and Ellen and checked someplace off our list of places to see in DC that none of us had been to yet. We went to the US Navy Museum at the Navy Yard in DC. Since we did have a two year old with us we went through it pretty quickly and mostly looked at all the big stuff so Julia wouldn't get bored.

And it worked. Julia had a great time looking at all the large boat models and guns.

No princess pose in this one because she hadn't realized I was taking a picture of her yet.

After we saw the museum we toured the USS Barry, which is a Navy ship which was decommissioned in the 80's and is now a permanent tour boat docked in the Navy Yard for the public to tour.

The Princess Smile

Recently Julia's favorite pose for pictures has been what she calls the "Princess Smile." And when I say favorite I mean it's either the princess smile or a grimace or blank stare, we get nothing in between. So while it's pretty cute I'm hoping for a little bit if variety again sometime soon for our pictures. Take a look:

What's Been Going On

We've been pretty boring around here lately just enjoying our last month without a newborn, but since it's been almost a month since my last post I guess I will just post about the little things going on.

Robert's brother Kevin and his wife Ellen have come to live with us until the end of March. Julia is loving all the extra attention she gets from them and they've been a big help to distract Julia while I get baby stuff ready. Ellen, Julia, and I have also been on a few outings, one to Frying Pan Farm

and one into the district to see the Smithsonian Castle and two small museums behind the castle we had never been to, The African Art Museum and The Sackler Gallery (Ancient Asian Art).

There were a lot of masks in the African Art Museum so I told Julia we could make some masks when we got home.

This pregnancy has been pretty comfortable up until now. I am just beginning to feel a little large and uncomfortable, but I guess that's to be expected in your last month of pregnancy. Micah is definitively getting ready to come.

Julia is still adorable.

And we celebrated Ellen's birthday on Sunday!

Little Cougar

This girl cracks me up. Julia's been really into having me spell words out for her recently. Our conversation today before our nap:

Julia: How do you spell "me"?
Me: M-E
Julia: How do you spell "you"?
Me: Y-O-U
Julia: How do you spell "BYU"?
Me: Umm, Julia that is...never mind. B-Y-U.
Julia: How do you spell "Go Cougars!"?

A fitting picture would be one with her BYU shirt on, but I don't have one handy, so here she is pretending to be a princess. She was feeling very girly with her tiara, pink glow necklace and ruffled pink shirt and asked me to take a picture of her being pretty.

A little more Christmas and New Year's Eve

Since we went to the Sandberg's house the day after Christmas they just waited for us to exchange gifts.

My sister-in-law Ashley just had surgery so we all went over to their house to celebrate Christmas with her. She wasn't up to taking any pictures so we didn't take any pictures of the in-laws.

For New Year's Eve my parent's had a lot of family members over for a party at their house to celebrate New Years East Coast time so Robert and I wouldn't be up too late and could catch our flight back home the next day. We had a pinata for the little kids. I love seeing Julia's changing reactions to the pinata's throughout the years. This time, the first candy that fell out Julia picked up and put back in the pinata =).
Julia made it to about 9:20 pm and then asked to go to bed. We ended up staying past midnight anyways playing games.

The gang: