Micah First Four Weeks

Micah's first four weeks have been a bit of a blur.  He's up to eat every 2 hours which is tough particularly when he doesn't go right back to sleep at night.  I've included one of his glow baby pictures from the beginning when he had jaundice and was on a billy-blanket.  He is changing very fast and really getting chubby from all that eating.  Hopefully that will translate to more sleeping soon. 

"New Hat"

One of my friends from work got Micah some sleepers with the elastic bottoms.  Maya decided that they would make great hats and ran around with them on her head.

Helping Mommy with Laundry

One of Maya's favorite things to do is "help" me with laundry.  As you can see most of my folded laundry ends up on the floor in a pile.  She then shakes it very hard to "beat it into submission".  Here she is taunting me :)

Newest Member of the Sabnani-Zegarra Family

Micah Levi Zegarra was born at 9:38 am on January 21st.  He was 8.3 lbs and 20 3/4 inches long.  Like his older sister he also has quite a bit of dark hair at birth.  Though his will obviously be cut sooner to keep unlike his sister's. 

He is having some issues with jaundice, but other than that things are going well overall. 

Mommy is attempting not to push it too much and recover from her c-section.  The not pushing it part is the problem.  That said off to drink a bunch more water and lay down for a little while.

The good, bad, and ugly

I have rarely been as thankful to receive a call from my boss as I was this morning!  The words "the office is closed due to the snow" is something all administrators in education love to hear as usually even if the schools are closed we have to go into the office.  Thus, I was able to stay home with Robert and Maya. 

Robert's hernia repair surgery went well yesterday.  He is in pain, but hopefully that will become less as the days go on.  I really need him to be better before my c-section on the 21st.  And I guess we also need baby boy to stay nice and comfortable in the belly until then :)

I also got some bad news on a couple fronts today.  Since November, the state of Ohio is not allowing anyone until the age of 14 into the hospital for visitation.  This includes the maternity ward. So I will not be able to see Maya the whole time I'm in the hospital.  This was rather upsetting, probably more so because I'm totally hormonal, but they had better release me after 3 days!

The other news involves my grandparents.  My grandfather has liver cancer, which we know is fatal.  However, this week things have taken a turn for the worse.  He spent the majority of the week in the hospital.  My mother cancelled her trip to India with my dad and the group from NNEC (mission trip then seeing family in India and Singapore) to stay home.  We found out today that he may only have 2 more months if this next round of chemo doesn't shrink his tumors a little.  At best he has 8-10 months. This news coupled with my grandmother's rapidly increasing dementia has made for a constant string of bad news.  This stress on top of Robert's surgery and my having to do everything at 37 weeks pregnant has made the week quite stressful! 

So thankful that it is Sabbath and I can hopefully take a break for a while.  Here's to praying that Maya sleeps past 5:30 am!

New Year's Day

I feel like I should at least acknowledge that there is a New Year with a post.  We spent the day (and all the days of break before) getting the baby's room ready and going through the house trying to rearrange everything in the best way possible.  In the process Robert made his hernia worse so he will be having surgery on the 7th.  Hopefully I will not go into labor early and will wait until the 21st for my scheduled c-section.  If not it will be very interesting seeing the two of us try to get Maya in and out of places.  At 24 pounds she will be above the amount we can lift.  He should be able to lift her by the 21st...fingers crossed. 

Still no name for the baby.  We can only come up with silly names at this point.  We are going to have to get serious soon though!

I've done a lot of cooking and baking over the break.  Tried out some cookies/bars that I've been meaning to try from Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies.  I must highly recommend the "Chewy Almond Cherry Bars".  Wicked yummy!  Robert was also a fan of the double chocolate chips which used Andes mints instead of chocolate chips.  The dough freezes great so I put some up for after the baby is born.  There is also a great recipe for Peppermint Bark Cookies in the Dec. addition of Bon Appetit.  I've only been nibbling here and there because I got a sinus/bronchitis infection after eating one cookie!  Such is my luck. 

I'm resisting the urge to check my work email until Sunday night.  Need just a little longer to not think about all the work things that will be added to my list of things to do come Monday. 

Happy New Year's all!