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Catching Up . . . Big time!

Jul 28

Posted by Becky in Felicity, Michaela, Our Family | No Comments

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Wow, it has been a very long time since we last updated.  Sorry!  It has been a busy month.  Michaela is getting so big.  She has her 4 month well check tomorrow with her doctor so we will know for sure then just how big she has grown in the last 2 months.  Felicity continues to be a very helpful and loving big sister, but does have her moments where her 2-year-old side comes out and comes out BIG!!!

IMG_6378Michaela has hit a couple of major developmental milestones and has had a bunch of “1st’s”.  Around the end of June she found her toes.  Now she plays with them all the time.  When you lay her down on her back the first thing she does is play with her feet.  Shortly after discovering her feet she learned to roll over from her back to her tummy.  Now she goes in both directions.  The day she learned she could roll herself over she was so proud.  She would roll from her back to her tummy and then from her tummy to her back.  That is how she spent her day, rolling back and forth!

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Her first for this month were the first time swimming, her first time in the big bath tub and her first bowling trip!  On July 4th we went over to Randy’s sister’s house (Aunt Jane and Uncle Peter’s house) to go swimming.  Michaela loved the water and thanks to Auntie Margaret for the bathing suit small enough to fit her.  She had fun, but also knew her limits.  When she was done swimming she let us know.

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We decided a few days ago that she was just getting to big for her tub that fit into the sink.  That and she was splashing and kicking and getting everything soaking wet!  So, we started giving her a bath in the big tub.  She is still taking a bath by herself though.  She is not quite big enough to take a bath with big sis yet.  Now she has tons of room to kick and splash around!  Although we have pictures of this event, they may not be internet publishable.  :)

Her last “1st” just happened on Friday.  Friday the 25th was Randy’s 31st birthday.  We went swimming in the morning and then went bowling in the afternoon.  It was also Felicity’s first time bowling.  We had a great time and both girls were so good!  Felicity did very good bowling.  She even beat her dad!!  She did have the assistance of a ramp and the gutter bumpers.  I took a pictures of the scoreboard at the end of the game, but since Randy came in last on his birthday, I won’t post it . . . out of respect for my elders!!  :)   Just kidding babe.  I love you.  Anyway, we had a great time!

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Michaela Update

Jun 15

Posted by Becky in Michaela | No Comments

Michaela turned 3 months this past Friday (the 13th, guess it is not so unlucky, huh?).  She is getting so big now.  She is reaching for and sometimes grabbing toys that are within her reach, she likes to talk to us, she loves her play gym, she is smiling a lot and has started to recognize mommy and daddy and even Felicity when we walk into her eye sight.  But her big accomplishment to date is that she has learned to roll over.  She can roll over from her tummy to her back (not with a lot of frequency yet) and does it pretty well.  For a few days before she first did it, she was getting really close to rolling over from her back to her tummy.  In fact she was so close to doing it that we thought she would do it that way first.  But she surprised us one day but rolling over the other way.IMG_6267

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Michaela’s Baptism and Jackie’s Graduation

May 22

Posted by Randy in Michaela, New Photos, Our Family | No Comments

This past weekend was a very busy one! Saturday was my niece Jackie’s graduation from Salpointe Catholic High School, my HS alma mater. It was very exciting to live vicariously through her and remember what it was like moving from HS to college. I think Jackie could have done without all of the ceremony and pomp and circumstance.

My brother Ted is Jackie’s godfather, so he flew in with his oldest son, Nick on Friday to attend her graduation. Nick is graduating from 8th grade in the coming days also! Ted is also Michaela’s godfather, so we were fortunate to be able to schedule her baptism for this weekend to take advantage of Ted being in town.

Michaela was baptized at our home Parrish, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton at the 9am mass. As I mentioned, Ted Post was the godfather and Becky’s eldest sister, Ann Polakowski was her godmother. Ann came in to Phoenix on Friday, and came down to Tucson on Saturday. It was her and Hayden’s first time meeting Michaela too.

I really enjoyed having the baptism during mass, and truly welcoming her into the church community. I was a little nervous lifting her up, but I didn’t drop her so everything worked out fine. But I think half of our family and probably the congregation was hearing “The Circle of Life” from the Lion King in their head when I did that.

Of course private baptism ceremonies are nice sometimes too, like what we did with Felicity. Afterwards we had a little party at our house of course. It was a really nice day and it so special to have most of our family there for the event, especially Michaela’s godparents! Thanks Kris and Erik for lending us your spouses!

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Blooming and Growing

Apr 28

Posted by Randy in Felicity, Michaela, Our Family | No Comments

IMG_5991 The past few weeks there have been so many things blooming and growing around our house! We have these shrubs in the back yard, I wish I could remember their names, but they struggle all summer long and they did pretty well over the winter…but now they are like solid flowers! They are so beautiful! And our rose bushes are doing better than they ever have before. Our little Arizona Ash tree is greening up like crazy too. I might have to trim it a little it’s getting so top heavy.

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IMG_5990 And of course, our little Michaela is growing like a weed too! She’s six and a half weeks now. She’s not sleeping through the night but she’s getting close. Once in a while we have a night where she goes from about 9 or 10 until 5 am. But usually she’s up once sometime around 2 or 3 am and again around 5 or 6. She’s really filling out and I think she looks completely different than when she was a newborn.

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IMG_6013She is getting pretty good at holding her head up already, and her legs are really strong. I think she sometimes rolls herself onto her side by accident but not consistently yet. And she started smiling a week or two ago. It’s kind of a mouth wide open kind of smile, but its cute. We usually have to work at it to get her to do it, except for her big sister Lissie, she can usually do it really easy! And speaking of Felicity, she still loves being a big sister and recently got to give her sister a bottle for the first time. She was very excited, but being a 2.5 year old, she lost interest after about a minute and Dad had to finish up!

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Welcome Michaela Kate!

Mar 18

Posted by Randy in Michaela, New Photos, Our Family | No Comments

Becky, Felicity and I are very excited to announce our special arrival, Michaela Kate Post! (pronounced Makayla). Click here or on the photo for more photos.

She was born on Thursday, March 13 at 7:39PM and weighed in at 8-lbs 2-oz, and was 19-in long. She is healthy and beautiful! Becky is doing well also. She looks more than a little bit like her big sister! Felicity was at the hospital when she was born and got to see her that night. She took to her new sister right away, and is just thrilled have her around. I think she would have held her all night if we let her. She loves holding her and trying to give her binky (pacifier) to her. She doesn’t seem too bothered by her crying either which is good.

Michaela Kate Newborn We came home from the hospital Saturday night and are adjusting to the new routines with the help of Grandma Ellis who will be with us for the rest of the week. We’re bleary-eyed and exhausted most of the time but we are so thrilled and blessed to have her in our family.

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Video Friday: Due Date Edition…Still Waiting

Mar 7

Posted by Randy in Michaela, Video Friday | 2 Comments

Yep, today is baby post’s due date but we’re still waiting for our world to change! The good news is that we know we have less than a week to wait. We have a scheduled induction for next Thursday the 13th should baby decide not to come out on his/her own! Becky is hanging in there, pretty uncomfortable and starting to get a little cold or allergies or something. We’ll keep everyone posted if anything develops.

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4 Days and Counting

Mar 3

Posted by Becky in Michaela, Our Family | 2 Comments

Well, we are now down to 4 days to our due date, but like everybody knows most babies don’t come on that date anyway.  So, I guess you could say that we have anywhere from hours to another couple of weeks before this baby decides to make its grand entrance into this world.  As promised, here’s my latest picture at 39 weeks.  Do I look ready or what?!?!IMG_5552

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Timing contractions 2-5 am…WTF?!

Feb 29

Posted by Randy in Michaela, Our Family | 1 Comment

So last night Becky was having some contractions. They seemed to be slightly more intense than the Braxton-Hicks (BH) contractions she had been having so we were pretty excited…although Becky didn’t want to have a leap baby! So before we went to bed I was timing them, and then at about 2 am, she started having more of them so I..ahem…timed those as well. But it was dark, and I was tired because I didn’t come to bed until 12am. So I tried to stay awake, but I really ended up dozing off the 10-min or so between contractions. In the end, the contractions stopped about 5 am and we went to sleep until Felicity woke us a little before 7. So when we got up this morning, Becky and I both had a pretty good laugh at the paper I was writing the contractions down on! LOL!

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Single Digits

Feb 28

Posted by Becky in Michaela, New Photos | 1 Comment

Well, I am still pregnant! I am getting very anxious to have this baby make his/her arrival, but he/she just doesn’t seem to want to make it yet. Yesterday I reached a very big milestone . . . SINGLE DIGITS!! As of today I only have 8, yep that’s right 8 more days until my due date. Although at this rate I am sure I am still in double digits until the day the baby is actually born! Oh well, he/she has to come out sometime! I plan to get another picture of me and my very heavy, back hurting belly very soon (hopefully tomorrow). When I do I will be sure to post another blog.

Preggie Portraits by Michele Molnar Randy has also posted the rest of the pregnancy pictures that I had take by Michelle Molnar (or her blog). Look under the photos tab for them. They are not all of them, just our favorites.

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More Preggie Pictures

Feb 14

Posted by Randy in Michaela, New Photos | 1 Comment

Well Jennifer, you asked so here you go! Actually we were quite a bit behind in posting Becky’s pregnancy pictures. I updated the pictures in the Baby 2 – Ultrasound and Preggie Pics photo set, so go check them out. Just for kicks, I put the whole series of photos below so you can watch the bump grow. Also, about a month ago, I took some portraits of Becky, similar to what we did with Felicity. They turned out very cute. But about two weeks ago, one of our friends, Michele Molnar, came over and took some MUCH better portraits of Becky. She was working on building her portfolio. She gave us a DVD with all the photos on it, and as soon as Becky tells me which ones I can post, I’ll do that. In the meantime you can see them on Michele’s Blog.

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32 to 33 Weeks 32 Weeks

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35 Weeks 35 Weeks

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