Three Weeks with Micah!

Here's our lil Micah Jay at 3 weeks!

Micah still sleeps most of the day but when he is awake, he is really AWAKE and bright eyed and alert to everything going on around him!

He has found his thumb! He did this a few times in the hospital, then we covered his hands so he wouldn't scratch himself. But now that the mittens are off, he's defintiely a thumb sucker! I LOVE to watch him sleep... He makes the cutest lil grimaces... and sweet smiles! Lil buddy got his first BOTTLE this week and loved it! I think he chugged the entire 4oz in about 5 minutes. He had to stop for one little burp break!

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Fun Facts about our 3-week-old:

MICAH...

-Loves to hold your fingers. It is so sweet! -is really starting to respond to our voices and make sweet faces (not quite a smile, but almost!) when we talk to him!

-very rarely cries... he GRUNTS instead! If he's hungry or poopy or gassy, he just grunts. If you wait too long then he'll make some serious noise, but he gives you quite a bit of warning. He is so PATIENT! -eats so FAST that he chokes and gets milk in his nose... then he snorts like a little piggy until he finally sneezes it out! : )

-always has the hiccups. He's got his own little routine after he eats... first he burps, then he toots and normally has a huge diaper, then lastly he ends with the hiccups!

Easter... Oh, Happy Day!

He is Risen! We had a wonderful weekend full of pancakes, chocolate bunnies, and eggs filled with lots of goodies. But most importantly, we celebrated the cleansing power of Jesus through his death and Resurrection! My boys definitely haven't grasped the weight of their sin (nor have I, really) that Jesus carried on the cross, but Wyatt is beginning to understand the meaning of Easter...that Jesus died, was buried in a tomb, and then rose from the dead! All of this so there would be a LIVING HOPE and LIFE ETERNAL for those who believe and are saved! Wyatt offered to pray at the kids' table before Easter lunch... It was the first time I heard him thank God for JESUS!

Oh happy day, happy day!

The church we attend, Harvest Bible, had a pancake breakfast on Saturday morning. Yummy!

Then the kiddos got to play lots of fun games in the gym while we waited for the egg hunt to begin!

Isaac really wanted Baby bro to participate too! He would get his hands on Micah any chance he could get... But Micah man was comfy, cozy in the car seat and slept through the entire event! On your mark, get set, GO! The egg hunt began in a mad dash to fill your basket with as many eggs possible. Isaac was ALL about filling his own basket! And Wyatt was pretty proud of his collection too! Luckily they split them up by age group so or Isaac wouldn't have had a fighting chance with Wy guy and Dax! : ) On Sunday morning, the boys got to open their Easter baskets that Grandma Becky had left for them! They were pretty excited about the sweet treats inside! They also got a cool new art set from Mommy and Daddy. Disastrous, I know, but so much creativity inside!

Micah was snoozing away in his handsome little Easter outfit UNTIL... we got to church! I always try to strategically plan feedings but my efforts always seem to fail. Ugh! Micah was hungry so Mommy missed much of the service. I did get to hear the message, but it's not quite the same as experiencing the Easter message front and center!

Here are 3 of my 4 handsome fellas. Daddy didn't have enough arms to keep all 3 contained for a photo. Hey, you take what you get these days!

It's not only Wyatt who is completely enamored with Auntie B anymore, Isaac is too! You will usually get the arm shove if you try to take him away from his Auntie B. I love how much they love her! She is just a kid magnet... for my kids anyway. She has definitely found her niche in children's ministry!

Uncle Trent and Auntie B had us over for a beautiful Easter dinner and set up a pretty cool, color coded egg hunt for the kids! Isaac just wanted the candy inside... forget the egg hunt, just give me FOOD!

Isaac was supposed to be searching for YELLOW eggs, but apparently thought Ashtyn had better treats inside her PINK eggs... so Ashtyn had a little helper, aka the egg snatcher!

The Easter outfits didn't last long enough for a picture together. Willie the Wildcat and Fireman McCulley were on the hunt...

Micah got to meet his Grandma Great and Papa Great today!

Micah and Mimi

Micah and Poppy

This little man is definitely LOVED!

If Uncle Trent is around it means PLAYTIME!!! Isaac can't get enough!

Isaac was into everything! Here is attempted to take Poppy's phone away...

and help himself to a Cadbury egg from Mimi's Easter basket! Doesn't he look like a little painter here in his white, spotted outfit? Ha!

My kids are like little scavengers when there's chocolate around and act completely deprived! I guess we don't eat much candy in our house, so when someone else offers it to them they snatch it and eat it as fast as they possibly can in fear that Mommy is going to take it away! :)

Philippians 3:10-12

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Two Weeks with Micah!

Here he is at TWO WEEKS. This picture looks a bit like his one week photo, don't you think? Although, he is getting LIGHTER. Our little 'darky' (as Daddy calls him) isn't quite so dark anymore : ( He's not nearly as fair as his big bros, but I'm wondering if he'll end up looking just like them? We'll wait and see! I was kind of thinking it would be fun to have a little bit of variety among the McCulley boys! Anyhow, Micah is a sleeper indeed (I'm hoping the sleepiness remains!) I rarely get a snapshot with his eyes open! ; )

We got a fun package in the mail this week from our sweet friends, The Criles! Joe is very excited to now have HAWKEYE gear for all 3 boys. Big bros proudly sported their jerseys all night long... now to get Micah in his black and gold and get a photo without him being tackled...

Isaac LOVES his new little brother. Micah got to meet his Papa and Grandma McCulley this past weekend! It's so hard to get a picture with all 3 boys looking at the camera. We're learning to appreciate the candidness of life and photos these days! Micah also got to meet his Aunt Jen and cousins Ellie and Alexa who stopped over on their through KC to IA. Wyatt just ADORES Micah. I think having a new lil bro has been so GOOD for Wyatt. He has been such a helper and so responsible and obedient! He is taking his role as the BIGGEST brother very seriously. Here are Wyatt's frequent questions to Micah: "Micah, are you shy?" He thinks because he doesn't talk yet that he must be shy! "Micah are feeling well today? Are you sick or well?" "When my new baby brother gets bigger can he ______?" It has been such a fun week together! Just one more week of Joe being home then I'll be flying solo with THREE lil rascals. Yikes! The laundry is definitely piling high and the house is always a mess, but life with 3 is fantastic. I wouldn't trade it for anything!

We've discovered Micah to be incredibly GASSY! It is so funny to hear him grunt and wiggle around in frustration and then as soon as you pick him up he has a huge explosion, then is super content again. (Thank goodness for all of the Pampers we've been given! The Target brand that I buy certainly wouldn't do the job with this fella!). So it totally remind me of a scene with Steve Martin from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels... I just have to laugh at all of the face Micah makes. He is so expressive! I'm now on day 5 without coffee and not even a single headache. It seems to be helping a ton with Micah's gas issues so it's definitely worth the mid-afternoon sleepiness. It's probably a good time for me to break the bad habit anyway! We'll see if I survive once I'm with them all day on my own without Joe's help!

That's my only report for the week on Micah... He's very GASSY. That's it! Nothing else new... sleeping eating and pooping is still about it!

One Week With Micah!

Here's our lil Micah Jay at one week old!

Sleeping, eating, and pooping is what consumes most of his days... every once in awhile he opens his peepers to see what's going on in the world around him! He's a big dreamer and very expressive in his sleep... I could sit and just watch him for hours! He makes the cutest faces!

Micah has been the BEST BABY so far! He is so sweet and very CONTENT. I just adore my new man! He normally sleeps most of the day and just wakes once at night to be fed then heads right back to sleep again! We are not lacking on photos of Micah in this house! Wyatt is my shadow with the camera. I think he's taken more pictures of his lil bro than I have! We've had beautiful weather this week so Micah has gotten lots of time outside with his brothers!

He got to watch (OK, to be honest, he slept through it all!) big bros riding in the car together. Isaac has quite the chocolate face here!...

and he got to see Wyatt riding around the cul-de-sac on his new bike! Not long before Isaac wants a turn on the bike too, I'm sure!

Micah had his first appointment with the pediatrician and he is GROWING! He was back up to 8lbs 3oz (we left the hospital at 7lbs 13oz) and was 21.5in long. I'm thinking he was not quite stretched out all the way and accurately measured on his birth day because he couldn't possibly grow TWO inches in one week! I guess he's not quite as shrimpy as we originally thought! :)