Yep, getting bigger!

I have noticed lately that Micah's sleepers and onesies are getting a little tight on him.

When he was born, he wore 0-3 months clothes.

At 6 weeks, I dug out the 3-6 month clothes.

Here we are at about 12 weeks (3 months), and I dug out the 6-9 month clothes yesterday! This is actually nice because Christian wore 6-9 months during the winter, so I have a whole wardrobe ready for Micah!! He still fits into his 3-6 months, and some 6-9 month clothes fit and some are going to be bigger. We will work between the two sizes for now.

I put a 6-9 month onesie on him today and it fit him great!! Grandma Mary bought him this outfit right after he was born. We had him all dressed and ready for church this morning...and then he decided to fill his pants. :( Unfortunately., he did not wear this outfit to church!

Who knew my 3 month old would be wearing 6-9 month clothes?? Oh right, when you start out at 10 pounds, you are just going to move through clothes a lot faster!!

Got Any milk?

Matt and I are heading to Mexico in less than two weeks. He won an award from work and the prize is a FREE trip to Las Cabos, Mexico. And yes, we are leaving all four children behind.  I tried to talk Matt into taking Micah with us, but since there will be about 80 other people from his company there, he thought it was not the place for a baby. I tend to agree. Honestly, I think it will be a big drinking party the whole weekend!  We are also going to be doing some activities, like zip lining, that we would not be able to do if we had the baby along.

In order to leave the baby behind, I need to get enough milk pumped for him to drink while I am gone. We are going to be gone for four days. That is a lot of milk!  I figure he eats 4 ounces each feeding (I am guessing) and he eats six times a day. That is at least 25 ounces a day. I need to take this times four days and I have 100 ounces of milk! At the minimum!

So far I have 55 1/2 ounces stashed in my freezer. I have at least 55 to go and I have less than two weeks.

I was pumping about eight ounces a day until a couple of days ago. Ever since last week, I am only getting 2-3 a day. Why?? Mr. Micah has decided he wants to eat 7-8 times per day. Instead of pumping off any extra milk, he is eating it! I really hope I can get enough milk pumped and I don't have to give him any formula.  He is also MSPI, so if I had to do formula, I would have to get the really expensive kind!

I am assuming he is going through a growth spurt right now because he is also sleeping 11-12 hours straight at night!  Either my body needs to make more milk or he needs to slow down a little. :)

Friday Night around here.

Every Friday night seems to turn into movie night around here. I think it's a great idea to spend time as a family on a Friday night, but I usually end up doing my own thing. Why? Because the rest of my family insists on getting science fiction, super heroes, or some movie I have no interest in. They are also usually PG-13, but Matt insists that they are ok. (I am done fighting this battle!) Tonight they are watching "Fantastic Four." I read through the summary and didn't really have a huge desire to watch it, so I am spending my evening doing something else, like sitting on the computer, doing laundry, and reading a book.

Honestly, I am not a big movie watcher. I spend a lot of time in front of the TV during the week while I nurse Micah. By Friday night, I almost need a break from the TV instead of sitting down and watching it some more. Honestly, I would rather play a game or do something that is interactive. I talk to kids all week, I would LOVE to interact with an adult more! (But the other adult in the house likes to sit in front of the TV and do nothing on a Friday night.)

Lately, I am usually busy with Micah when the movie starts, so even if I want to watch it, I end up missing half of it due to him. Tonight, he fell asleep right at the beginning, but like I said earlier, I had no desire to watch tonight's movie.  The kids even said, "Mom, you won't like this one." Gee, thanks. Last week, they got a movie that interested me, so that was very enjoyable and I could tell they did it on purpose.

There are a couple good things that I do enjoy about Friday nights.  It is our informal night when it comes to eating. Each person has a favorite spot where they sit in the living room and once supper is cooked, each person gets what they want and we start the movie as we eat off TV trays. Unfortunately, we only have seating for four in our living room, so usually someone has to sit off to the side. Tonight, my spot was behind everybody and my chair was the exercise ball. Sometimes Christian and I will share the recliner and a TV tray, but by the time I got done with Micah and got my food tonight, everybody had their spots claimed and there was no room left for me.

Another thing I like is that if I don't like the movie or have no interest in it, I kind of have a couple of hours to myself to do what I want! (When does that ever happen??) I have to take care of Micah, but tonight he fell asleep so early that I had time to myself! I ended up curled up on my bed reading a book, which isn't too bad either! Silence is golden! Until the movie is over and then it is time to get everyone to bed....

New Camera!

We are part of a small group through church and we meet every Sunday night. This has been good for everybody, including our children.  We are with another family with 12 and 10 year old girls and a 7 year old boy; this matches up almost perfectly with our kids! They are also homeschooled.  There are other families in our group too, but these are the ones our kids have really become friends with this last year.

While us parents are doing a Bible study, the kids are usually upstairs or downstairs playing. But these older girls do not play, they come up with big endeavors!  At the beginning of fall, they planned a newspaper and they really wanted to sell it! Between the four of them, they had written articles, picked out games, and typed everything out! Quite the self-motivators! I think they also wanted to start selling ads, but by that time, the enthusiasm kind of fizzled out.

Their next idea was "Modest Models for Christ." They were making books, drawing pictures, and even making videos of how young girls/ tweens should dress to be modest. As parents, we were very proud that they had actually been listening to us!

Their latest adventure is movie making! Courtney loves to write scripts and put on plays, so I am sure this was her big idea! The other three are just going along with it. They came up with this idea a couple of weeks ago and even though we did not have small group last Sunday, we had this family over anyway, so they could film their movie. These girls worked hard for at least two hours on this movie while their mom and I sat in the living room and talked. :)  We love this self-motivation!  (I was watching their movie Sunday night when I kind of got queasy from the non-stable camera.)  They had written the entire script, memorized it (kind of), made props, and filmed it all.

Courtney has been so serious about this movie endeavor that she mentioned to Matt that she wanted her own camera. (She had been using either a camera on an old cell phone or our nice camera up until this point.) She has enough money from dog-sitting, so she and Matt picked one out on Amazon and she ordered it.  Why shouldn't she have her own? She is old enough to be responsible.

Her camera came yesterday and she is super thrilled! I foresee many movies in our future!

Another first!

After a successful night of sleeping in his own room, I decided to try something else new and I put Micah in the church nursery! He had just fallen asleep on the way to church and I knew if we took him to church, he would probably wake up from the music. Or if he didn't wake up from the music, he would wake up when it stopped and then I would have a crying baby. I am getting tired of making a dash to the door with a loud baby!!

I got him registered and put him in the nursery while he was still sleeping in his carseat. I told the lady who was working to try to get him back to sleep if he woke up (this kid gets overtired WAY too easily) and if it reached a certain time for him to eat, then feel free to text me and I will come feed him.

I took him there about 10:45 and about 11:30, I received a text that he needed me. Perfect!!

I fed him and by the time I was done, church was over. The lady said he was awake about 15 minutes before they paged me and he was happy! YAY!

This little amount of time was perfect. This was the first time I actually left him in the care of somebody else and it was really nice to have a short break.  It is also good for him to get used to somebody else taking care of him for a little bit.

It was really weird sitting in church with just Matt!!

First Night in Own Room!

Last night, I did it. I moved Micah into his own room. It was time.

I moved his swing from our room to right inside his door and once "Magic Megan" got him to sleep, we put him in his swing in his room. This was at 9 pm last night.

I didn't hear from him until 7 am this morning! He did great!

I think this will work! Now to get him out of his swing and into his bed!

Time to move to your own room.

Micah has been in our room since he was born, but now I think it is time to move to his own room.

He has been consistently sleeping through the night, so I don't even get up with him anymore. He does sleep in his swing and if he starts to fuss or rustle in the middle of the night, I just reach over and turn the swing on. Sometimes I wake up a couple hours later and the swing is still swinging. :) He hasn't slept in his pack n play for a couple of weeks now, I think we can take that down. With the pack and play and the swing beside our bed, our bedroom is a little crowded in that area! He doesn't really NEED to be in our room anymore, so I thought I would try his crib out last night.

I got him to sleep last night and put him down in his crib in his room. And just like I thought, he woke up right away! He knew what I was doing! I tried to settle him down for about 15 minutes, but eventually picked him up. I knew he wasn't going to go back to sleep.

I went back to our room and nursed him again and laid him down in the pack and play. Again, he wasn't having it. He wanted his swing!

I then put him in his swing, but by this time, he was over-tired and just cried. I just let him cry it out as the swing swung and he eventually went to sleep.

 Maybe I will try plan B tonight, which is to put the swing in his bedroom and let him sleep in it. I think once we get his stomach settled down, he may be willing to sleep flat on his back. We will get there eventually!