Baby Micah

Happy Birthday, Micah!

 Our friends Pam and Steph welcomed their new baby on Monday.  We have been anxiously awaiting his arrival and we are so glad that Micah is here safely!  Pam's blood pressure got a little scary all of the sudden, but everyone is safe and healthy and should be heading home tomorrow. Woohoo!

Doesn't she look great?

I got to meet him when he was just a few hours old, but we waited until Tuesday to take Emmy up to see him.  She was a little overwhelmed by all that was going on since Pam was being moved to a new room as we arrived, but once we got them settled back in and Micah got to eat, Emmy got to hold him. Unfortunately, he was still a little hungry and not too happy to be held by someone not that much bigger than him.   I'm sure they will get to be great friends soon!

Emmy holds Micah for the first time

Today Mary Ann and I took lunch up and ate with the happy family and I took Emmy back later in the afternoon for another visit and we got to see one of the nurses who took care of her in the Special Care Nursery! She was Micah's nurse for the day and she remembered us. How fun! She was one of our favorites. And, then we saw Buffy, one of the nurses who took care of me before Emmy was born, who is now works in Labor and Delivery.

It's all coming back to us...

One of the many events that have kept us (well, me) busy in the last few weeks was the baby shower for Micah in September.  It was lots of fun to plan and execute!  Mary Ann (one of my co-hosts) took some lovely photos of the event. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out (it was a BIG shower!) so if you will indulge me, I'm sharing some photos below and you can see more if you go here.

Congrats, Pam and Steph! Micah is amazing and we look forward to getting to know him. :)

Invitation and the "guest book"  (the mobile in his nursery is Hey diddle diddle and was Pam's when she was a baby, and this inspired our theme!

Amazing cake! No, I did not make it, but a friend does it on the side so she helped me out. Worth every penny... it was beautiful and delicious!

Food table - we had such fun coming up with food for our theme: Jack be Nimble Roasted Nuts, Old Woman in the Shoe Skins (stuffed potatoes), Three Blind Mice Cheese Straws, Peter Piper Pickled Prawns, Little Boy Blueberry Scones and Little Miss Muffet Lemon Curd, Mary Mary Quite Contrary Salad Cups, Cow Jumped over the Moon Pies, and Wee Willy Winkie Wieners.

Hosts and honorees

The invite said "Hey diddle ddidle/The cat and the fiddle/The cow jumped over the moon/Let's help Pam and Steph get ready/ For baby Micah is coming soon!" so we repeated this phrase on the banner and the favors.

Favors: Chocolate Brownie Cookies shaped like moons