20 months!

Adah, my little sweet potatah how in the world is it that you will be 2 in just 4 months! I can hardly believe how much you have grown in the last month and how much you know! You are so smart, strong willed, sassy, opinionated, sweet, loving, caring, sensative, demanding, etc! Daddy and I just love you to death! You are such a great big sister (most of the time)! You are very protective of Michaela when we are out in public and someone wants to look at her...you start to cry and say my baby, my baby! You wear mommy out everyday....you and your sister both do! We are so excited that our friends Nikki and Hayden live here now and we are gonna start going to My Gym with them so that you two can meet lots of friends and learn and play! It is exciting that they are finally here since Hayden's daddy is the opposite crew ENG(same job as Josh) on the same boat as daddy...that means you and Hayden will grow up with each other for the next 3 years at least! Its so exciting to finally have a friend that we won't have to leave in the next 6mths!

Here are some things you are up to now:

- can say and identify most of the alphabet

- can count and identify numbers 1-5

- you repeat EVERYTHING

- you talk NON stop

- you love to dance

- you love raisins

- almost able to jump

- just moved you up to size 5 diapers even though you could still wear 4's for a while

- you tell me when you have to poop or te-te....or when you already have

- funny thing: when M toots you have to announce it to the world

- you love to play ring around the rosy

- nap for 2 hours on average once a day

- you are as picky of an eater as your daddy

- you LOVE water to drink and would rather have that than anything else...you also have to have it when you go to bed and when you nap

- still love Dora

- obsessed with cereal still

- can walk up the stairs on your own(thank goodness) without using your hands

- still take a paci at night and nap

- you can communicate to us everything you want, need, don't want, whats wrong, and so much more

You are such a joy to watch each day and I am so thankful that I am able to be home with you! I love you more than words can say! I can't get enough of your squeezes and kisses! Mommy and daddy are so proud of you and can't wait to watch you learn and grow!

(I know she is doing so much more and there are more things I ment to share but I am exhausted and Josh just called and isn't coming home....so I'm off to take care of M and go to bed!)

After just getting a call from Josh saying he wasn't going to make it home, Adah always seems to find a way to make all worries and sadness go away! She insisted on wearing M's headband and proceeded to dance around the living room laughing! I almost wet my pants! I just love her to death!

My sweet potatah drooling as she watches Dora!
Reading...her favorite activity!
Adah and Michaela last Sunday morning....Adah insisted that M lay on the couch right next to her!
Here are a few of just Michaela:

My sweet girls!

Not much to say...not much new going on other than learning life with a newborn and a toddler! We are beyond tired with Josh back at work and waking up to start his day at 3:30 every morning and not getting home until 8pm or later it makes for long days and nights for me! Michaela has now decided that she likes to scream at night and not sleep so that is loads of fun! Here are a few pics of my precious girls!

Sweet little Mmm-kay-ya (as Adah calls her)!

Adah playing with my iphone! These are her first set of pig tails! I just love them but she wasn't too excited about them....then didn't last too long!


Adah wasn't sure what to do at first.....poor Michaela is falling over!
"Oh no mommy....make her stop crying!"
Such a good big sister, loving on her baby!

Michaela Marie Dishmon

Miss Michaela Marie Dishmon was born December 22, 2010 at 2:24pm. She was 7lbs 3oz and 19inches long! Such a cute little peanut!

Story of your birth:

Mommy and daddy were sure that you would have come before your induction date. Mommy was 4.5cm dilated and 75% effaced for a week and a half before your induction date! Needless to say you didn't not want to come on your own. On Wednesday December 22, 2010 ( 1 week before you actual due date on the 29th) mommy and daddy headed up to Chesapeake Regional hospital to welcome you into the world! Big sister Adah and Aunt Ashley waited very impatiently at home to hear the news of your arrival! Mommy got all checked in and they started me on pitocin around 9:30 and mommies OB Dr. Grimes came in soon there after and and broke her water. Mommy made it til about 11:30 and decided that it was indeed time to get an epidural! Mommy finally got the epidural and they upped the pitocin. Mommy unfortuntely was able to feel all of her contractions as the epidural didn't really take anywhere but her legs! Just before 2 mommy was ready to push! Mommy only had to push 4 times and you were here...thank you sweet girl for being so tiny and easy...haha! You were a much easier labor and delivery than your sister was not to mention a whole pound and 4 oz less and 2 inches shorter!

Michaela, mommy and daddy are so in love with you! Your big sister Adah just can't get enough of you! Adah hasn't been able to really hold you or be around you much yet because she has been sick since the day you were born! I can't wait to see the two of you interact and play together! You are such a good baby so far! You only cry when you are hungry and you sleep so good! You start out in the pack n play but seem to always want to cuddle in bed on mommies chest after your first feeding of the night.....mommy is more than okay with that right now!

You had your first visit to the ER on December 27th because you become very jaundice and we had to get your bilirubin levels tested since there were no dr offices open due to the snow storm we got the 2 days prior! Good thing Gpa was here to go with us and Daddy stayed home with Adah! Your levels were definitly up from when you left the hospital but not too dangerous yet so they sent us home and you had to go get your levels checked again with in 48hrs.

On Wednesday 12/29 you had your first Dr. appt....you were 1 week old and it was your due date! Mommy really likes your pediatrician Dr. Gerbus and you did so great at the appointment. You jaundice is going away so that is good and you are eating and growing just as you should! At your appointment you weighed 7.7 and were 19 1/4inches (that is awesome considering you game home from the hospital 7.0!) You are nursing every 2 hours during the day and every 3 at night. The Dr. said that you can now go for one 4 hour stretch at night and you seem to like not being woken up so often!

You had your first outing on 12/29 to Kohls and Dillards with mommy, nana, and Adah! You went out to eat for the first time on 12/30 at Plaza Azteca with mommy, daddy, Adah, nana and gpa!

You don't seem to mind tummy time...in fact we laugh because you look like you are just going to get up and crawl away...when we put you down you bring your knees up under you in the crawling position and just lay there looking around!

Michaela you are absolutely perfect! We thank God everyday for you! You and your sister are your mommy and daddy's world!

We love you sweet pea!

The hospital took a few pictures of Michaela while in the hospital and you can access them and even buy them here:

You will have to search by my last name and our city which is Chesapeak, VA

www.our365.com

password: 102801346430152

Finally in mommy's arms....after being weighed, measured and wiped off!

Getting checked out in the nursery with daddy!
First bath at the hospital!
All clean and back with mommy...isn't my hat cute?!?! The hat was given to us by the hospital..some sweet old ladies made them for the Christmas babies!

Ready to go home a little over 24hrs after birth (12/23)! Luckily Aunt Kathy sent mommy a cute newborn outfit bc I was too tiny to wear the outfit mommy and daddy had picked out for me!
Hanging out at home in my bouncy seat (Thanks McClure's)! I LOVE this seat!

Me and my Big Sis Adah! She is so proud of me! We love each other so much!
Christmas day...hanging out in my chair again while my sister opens up her presents!
First sponge bath at home!

Hope ya'll enjoy the pics and update on Miss Michaela's birth...not sure when I will get a chance to update again.

DPP December 20

Adah took a 2 hour nap today...not that I knew she would sleep that long....but while she napped my sister and I did a few more sewing projects that I have been needing to get done before baby girl gets here! Here are two that we did today: (so they aren't exactly perfect...but I'm learning and working on getting better but I thought for my first time they were pretty good!)

That sub kinda looks like it is a dolphin jumping in the water...haha still cute!

I thought this one turned out pretty good! At least it is straight!