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It’s been 14.5 months!

Kitty Baby Love — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:01:26 +0000

Mikah thinks he’s *sooo* cool- he is throwing his toy car around his back.

I woke up one morning and found this on the chalkboard. I love how just the little kitty’s head is peeking out of the bottom.

Aahh, life.

Mikah is showing more and more of his personality- He is super friendly, social, and a bit sassy too!
The bad – He discovered how to take things out of place (like pulling clothes out of the laundry)
The good – Ben and I have been firm about having him put it all back. Generally once we do 1 or 2 items, he’ll copy us (he loves to copy things we do), but sometimes he’ll put up a fight. Once it took a good 10 minutes to get everything back in order (that’s like an eternity in baby time). It’s all worth it though. Better now before it turns into a bad habit. When he finishes putting it all back he’ll sign to us “finished” and sometimes clap his hands. It’s really adorable.

8 Months

Kitty Baby Love — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:53:34 +0000

A little late, as usual, but here nonetheless!

Mikah is so freaking handsome. While I’m not one for beauty pageants, I recently entered Mikah into the Regis and Kelly Beautiful Baby Contest. I think the prize is worth it- 1 winner will receive $125,000 toward a collage education, and 4 runner ups will receive $25,000 for a college education… Plus some other stuff, but the fund for college is our motivation for doing it. It’s a long-shot, but nothing to lose!

It’s a kitty totem pole.

In other news, Ben and I have been preparing for a trip to Hawaii! As mentioned, we spent this past Christmas with just the 3 of us (and the kitties). While my family doesn’t usually celebrate Christmas anyway, I still felt a little melancholy around New Years. So I called my mom and booked a last minute ticket to Hawaii (off season tickets + 10% off sale for total of under $540 for 2 people!).

Ben and Mikah have never been to Hawaii so I am very excited for them to see where I grew up. More importantly i’m happy that my extended family will finally get a chance to meet Mikah before he gets too old.

Breast is Best

Kitty Baby Love — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:46:28 +0000

Breastfeeding has been such an amazing experience for me and Mikah. I started leaking a couple of months before he was born, so I had no fears about producing or not producing enough milk when he did come. What was unexpected was the gorge a few days after his birth when my “real” milk came in. It felt like I had horrible breast implants! 3 weeks later my nipples were still tender, but I refused to give up and I am glad I didn’t. Now breastfeeding is no longer painful, but joyful, and there are no words to describe the bonding between him and I.

The list of benefits from breastfeeding is extensive, including:

fewer allergies
high IQ
protection from asthma
fewer each aches
saving money
convinience
better teeth
bonding

Really, there is no reason someone who is capable of breastfeeding to not do so.
This post is inspired by One Love, from which the following photos are also taken…

Surrender: “heidi and hans – nap time”

CHRYSALIS

Hungry crying
stirs me out of dreams
into a dawn
of musty canvas, damp
pillows, ribs that ache.
I crawl over the breath
of a sleeping husband, stumble
out of the tent into a thick
morning

to sit on the ledge, legs curled
against the moss, feeding a warm
baby who nestles
his cheek against my breast,
milk dripping
from the sides of his mouth
as he drifts into sleep.

In the marsh that stretches before me, cattails touch
the mist. Jewelweed opens to warmth. And I wonder

what other woman in what other time sat here
like this, her sleeping son cradled
in the crook of her leg,
watching the great blue heron rise
from her nest, weaving herself
into the pattern of dead leaves and new ferns,
eyelids closed, chin raised

touched by the sunrise, drenched
with the morning,

waiting

awakening

Poem by Jo(e)

Happy Breastfeeding!

Mikah

Kitty Baby Love — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:52:35 +0000

On May 18th at 2:56am,

after 9 hours of labor,

Mikah Sage C. gracefully sailed his way into this world via a gentle home water birth.

It was the most incredible experience I have ever had.

Ever since Mikah’s emergence, I feel as though I am walking through a dream. My days are a kaleidascope of tiny white pearls of breastmilk at the tip of nipples, seedy mustard yellow wet diapers, tiny pink lips in shapes of upsidedown U’s crying, and bright brown almond shaped eyes staring off into the unknown.

…I can’t believe he is finally here!

9 months of incubation and a week of counting past the due date, and now he is here. This amazing spirit finally decided that it was time and made it’s way into this world. Ah, and now I can say that I am the mother of Mikah! …Miraculous.

Today we celebrate his 3rd week of life.

[And for anyone in San Francisco interested in a home birth, I highly recommend Awakenings Birth Services. They provided us the means to having our desired home birth. Such a blessing.]

Etsy finds

Kitty Baby Love — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:01:03 +0000

This week is the week our first-born, Mikah, is due. Unfortunately he has not yet come so Ben and I are just waiting around for him to arrive. *sigh*

In the meantime I’ve compiled some items that I’ve found on etsy.com that I would love to buy in the future. I especially adore baby shoes! They’re just so cute!

$30 Recycled Lambswool Baby Shoes by woolybaby
$21 A cat eating a fish pouch by Mairuru
$45 Pure – 1 – Mini art feeling by ArtMind
$20 Green and Gray by tinywhales
$53 Folding bag by mehran
$32 mini bunny sculptures – set of 3 by prettyrandomobjects
$65 LARGE kitten with wings by SuspectShoppe