Well, finally Micah’s due date has arrived. According to the doctors, he was due Thursday, July 24, and he had an appointment with the pediatrician, Dr. Kantor, that day. In addition to giving his 2nd hepatitis B shot, Dr. Kantor weighed and measured him. He is now a whopping 7 lbs., 2 ozs.! I think he has been eating very well! I was hoping he would weigh about 6-1/2 lbs., so I was very excited. He is also 19-1/2 inches long, 2-1/4 inches longer than he was at birth! What a growing boy!! Maybe that growth in length explains why he still doesn’t have much fat on his little bones. 🙂
The best news of the day is that Dr. Kantor thought it would be fine to take him out of the house at this point! So we went shopping. Micah’s first shopping trip with Mommy! We went to Franklin Mills, and he was a trooper! We found deals on kids’ clothes at Childrens’ Place and Carter’s, and then I got Daniel new jeans and khakis at Levi’s Strauss and Marshalls. Since I hadn’t eaten anything all day (except the coffee Daniel french-pressed for me in the morning), I stopped at Arby’s for dinner. They gave me the wrong sandwich, so once they corrected my order, I ended up getting the other sandwich (a market fresh ham n swiss) for free–Daniel’s lunch for tomorrow!! 🙂
Mara spent the day at the Jersey shore with Darla & Diane . . . and Jessica, Noel, Amanda, and another friend, plus Daniel’s Aunt Lorraine, Uncle Phil, and their five kids. So I guess she got a lot of attention. They said she didn’t really like the feeling of the sand between her toes, and they took her out to the waves, which she wasn’t terribly excited about. And once a cold wave hit her, that was all she wanted to see of the ocean. . . Maybe next time, we can build sandcastles together or something. . .
She was wiped out by 10:30 p.m. when they brought her home. She lay on the changing table, eyes drifting shut, calling out weakly, “Dadda? . . . Dadda? . . .”