One Week Old

Micah's first week has been full of sleeping, eating, pooping, and lots of hugging, snuggling, and kissing!! He is such a sweet baby. He is finally starting to do a little better at night. The first few nights he just wanted to be held and would cry and cry all night if he was put down. The last few nights however we have let him cry and it isn't long before he has cried himself to sleep. I feel awful just laying there as he is crying/screaming but I know that he is completely fine (i.e. just fed and clean diaper) and needs to learn to fall asleep on his own. Because the second he is picked up he just looks at you with his big blue eyes as if to say thanks, that's just what I wanted.

He has become more alert and a little less sleepy during the day. After he is fed he will often stay awake and just look around to see what is going on. He has really dark blue eyes, so dark you can barely see the pupils. Corey has blue eyes and I have brown so we'll see what color he ends up with.



It's a funny thing what lack of sleep can do to you. There was one occasion on which we supplemented Micah with some formula. After we fed him I was concerned because I thought we had overfed him. A couple of days ago I was on the phone with Shelby and I was telling her about feeding him the formula and how we fed him 20 ounces. She acted shocked that we actually fed him that much but I told her he gulped in right down. I then went and talked to Corey about this and he said something along the lines of "Kasey, 20 ounces is the size of a bottle of pop". Oh yeah, so I guess what we actually fed him was 20 ml's. I was sure to text Shelby and clear up the confusion! :) One more incident a few mornings ago...Corey was grabbing a class from the cupboard and as he got it down a bunch of water spilled out of it onto the stove. He then proceded to ask who put the cup away half full of water. I informed him it was either my mom (b/c she was here to visit Micah and help us out) or it was me (due to lack of sleep).
Guess it was the later! :)

And lastly, I am very thankful for technology. With all our family in MI it of course was sad that they could not be here to welcome Micah into the world. We however traded lots of emails, texts, picture mail, and even Skyped. Micah was able to meet lots of his family via Skype. We were skyping with Shelby and Riley and Shelby asked Riley who the baby was. She proceded to inform us that Micah was "Baby Jesus". Haha, too cute! Shelby even said later that night Riley prayed for "Baby Micah Jesus"! :)