Catching up...September

September:
Well September was fast and eventful. Brian did a triathlon at Gulf Shores and some very dear friends of mine let us stay at their house on Ono Island. We are so thankful for that and had a lot of fun!


Bright and early before the tri started


Exiting the swim


Biking


Running


My bestest friend, Amy came to hang with me during the race. So thankful for her!


Micah's first sink bath


Sunset from the porch, love the orange behind the Auburn flag :)


playing in the pool

We have gotten 2 teeth

showing off my pearly whites

And then of course no fall in the south would be complete without some football. And we are a house divided, so Micah supports both sides.


Roll Tide!


War Eagle!

7 Months:

Catching up...August

August:
We finalized Micah's adoption and we couldn't be more excited. We are so glad we can move on with life knowing we are Micah's forever parents and that there is nothing more to worry about. We had family and a few friends over to celebrate.



With our judge in Tallahassee



We went back to the Ronald McDonald House for a new picture



Micah with his Cookie Cake to celebrate. And yes we even gave him a teeny smidge of icing. (no judging)

We are in the swing of going to work for me and MDO for Micah. I am so glad Micah doesn't have separation anxiety yet. So far he loves to go to school and his teachers love him too.



First day of School



7 months

6 month photos

I had been wanting to get some professional photos of the 3 of us for awhile now and we finally got the chance. We did it the week we got back from Florida to celebrate the finalization of Micah's adoption. I also wanted to get some photos of Micah in his dedication outfit before he outgrew it. I was excited for one of my friends from high school to photograph us. Check out Laine Williams Photography.








My Personal Favorite...I wish I remembered what he was doing.

Florida

Brian, Micah and I have been in Florida for a few days. We got to meet Micah's birth father and that went really well. He was very nice and easy to talk to. He and Brian talked sports and he held Micah pretty much the whole time and even fed him a bottle. He also brought him a Build A Bear. Very sweet. We took Micah to the beach on St. George island and to some very cold springs at Wakulla Springs state park. We have had a great time and can't wait for tomorrow as Micah will be legally ours!

I was hoping to be able to post some pictures as tomorrow unfolds but I guess I will have to do that through Facebook. Picture post when we get back!

A tasty little salsa...

We were supposed to go to Brian's parents today for 4th of July, however Brian's grandmother was put in the hospital early this morning. Brian went to the hospital while I stayed home with Micah. I was going to make this salsa I found on the label of a Ro-Tel can. So I decided to go ahead and make it just in case we continued with our plans. I am fairly sure they have been canceled by now. The salsa turned out delicious and I just had to share it.

Spicy Black Bean Salsa
(I don't think it is spicy...however, I left out the Cumin)

1 can (15 oz each) Ranch Style® Black Beans, drained, rinsed
1 can (10 oz each) Ro*Tel® Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies, drained
1/2 cup whole kernel corn, frozen or canned
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
Tortilla chips, tacos or burritos, optional

Directions
Stir together beans, drained tomatoes, corn, onion, cilantro, lime juice and cumin in medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes to allow flavors to blend.
Serve with tortilla chips, tacos or burritos, if desired.

Happy 4th...ENJOY!

5 Months...

Well I missed taking official 0 and 1 month photos. By the time we got back he was 2 and a hlaf weeks and then we just got busy and never took the 1 month photo. But I will throw an unofficial one in for good measure...Enjoy.

Day 1:
Our first family picture


One Month:
Relaxing outside


Two Months:
Meeting our buddy Mills who is 2 weeks younger than Micah




Three Months:
One of my favorites




Four Months:
My First Mother's Day




Five Months:
Brian's First Father's Day

As promised...some pictures on the blog.



This is probably my current favorite picture. All smiles!



Our first attempt at rice cereal. A high chair is needed for sure!






Much better!



Micah likes to fall asleep in crazy places!



Yep, asleep in the pool.



I love my Bob!

Terrell in Waiting

Praise to Jesus, he deserves all the credit in this one!

Micah is officially in waiting to become an official Terrell!

We had a conference call with Micah's birthfather yesterday and he decided to give up his case and let us be Micah's parents forever. We cannot explain how much of a blessing this is. A weight is totally gone!

His rights will be terminated this coming Wednesday and then we will finalize sometime in August. I cannot believe it is this soon! Please be in prayer over the next month or so as we reach this much anticipated time for us! We will have to have a big Terrell sized bash when we are final. We can't wait!

New Post soon with pictures.

LIZ

Children's Hospital

I never thought I would be sharing a post with this title. But at just over 2 months Micah wanted to take a tour of Children's Hospital and spend a few nights so he decided seizures were the way to get there.

To catch you up...on Tuesday, April 5, I was at work and Micah was asleep on the floor. He startled himself awake like many babies (including himself) do, but it didn't end there. His eyes went up and his arms got real stiff. It lasted about 30 sec. It was the weirdest thing. We had his 2 month check up and shots the next day so I figured we would just wait until then and I would ask our doctor about it. I almost decided not to say anything. But I put my big girl panties on and mentioned it. Our doctor said it was probably nothing but to be on the safe side lets not get any shots today. She was on call that night and told me to call if anything else happened. I scooted home to let our dogs out and then Micah and I headed to Brian's soccer game. After the game was over, Brian was holding him and he started doing the same thing (this was about 7:00pm). Coincidence I thought. So we go home, eat dinner, sitting on the couch and there he goes again at about 9:30 pm. I was done with coincidence, we called the answering service and the doctor called us back and told us it was time to head to Children's. It was now 10:00 pm and man was Children's PACKED!



Here is Micah in the waiting room. I wish I was getting to do a little sleeping. We sat in the waiting room for 2 hours before we got called back. So now it is Midnight. And guess what we did when we got called back...yep we waited another 2 hours. Now it was 2:00 am. We finally get some attention. Lots of needles and pokes, and questions and rehashing all that has happened.
(Little did I know that our doctor had woken up about 2:00 am and called to check on us. When they told her we hadn't been seen I think she got a bit upset. Maybe we would have sat there longer...Thank you Dr. McCain)



This was just after the first round of sticks...poor guy. Little did he know what was ahead of him.



Protocol for 2 months and younger is to do a spinal tap. Since he was so close they decided it would be a good idea to check for infection. They numb his back so the sticks aren't so bad. But holding a 2 month old still is torture to them. He screamed so much, he was eventually hoarse. This was just afterwards, he got a bottle and all was right in Daddy's arms.



Finally around 6:30 am we got taken up to the Special Care Unit. When we came in this is how he was all swaddled and passed out. He was a trooper, but by now he was pooped. In this unit they have hours they are closed. When we got moved up there was during a closed period, but they let us stay for about 20-30 minutes.

We then left, drove to Brian's school to leave sub plans, headed home to shower and head right back to be there when the unit opened back up. We stayed with him most of the day and eventually he had a seizure around lunch time. The plan was to get him hooked up to an EEG machine so they could catch them on video and on the machine.



When we got back to the unit after another closed time he was all hooked up, and they told us we couldn't hold him. Oh that was so hard. But if he was to have an episode he needed to be where the video would get it. We understood, but when your baby is in trouble you want to hold them close.







As much as it pained us, he was doing ok. Babies are so resilient. He ended up having 3 more seizures while he was hooked up the EEG machine. I am not glad he had seizures but at least they got some information to work with.



Finally got to hold him!



Started medicine Friday night about 8 pm. Finally got to a room Friday night at 10 pm.





Saturday mid day we busted out!

We have an MRI scheduled in May. We have had to up the medicine twice since we have been home due to some small seizures. But as of today we are officially seizure free for 1 week. Woo hoo! Baby steps!