A little late, as usual, but here nonetheless!

8 months


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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!


Kitty Totem Pole

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.

MIKAH

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.]