Micah: Two-Weeks Old

Micah went to his two-week check-up on Wednesday and he is a perfect, healthy, growing boy! He has gained a pound and an inch in two weeks! He weighed 8 lbs. 11oz. and he is 21 inches long. He is probably closer to 9 lbs. now. He's a growing boy! Micah is a little grunter. He is not quick to cry, but he grunts for a while first. He's a pretty patient baby. Right now Micah mostly sleeps, eats, and poops - and we love him dearly! Here are some cute pictures of our two-week-old baby boy!

Our fun weekend with Aunt Cheryl, pictures of Micah, Grandma's Birthday

Lea and Jonah love their baby brother Micah so much!

What proud older siblings!

Cheryl flew out this weekend to see the baby and to be here for my mom's birthday. We loved having you with us Cheryl! You went back to Utah too soon!

She bonded with her new little nephew!

Handsome Daddy with his handsome son.

Micah does NOT like baths! He cried the whole time!

Poor cold, naked baby!

Sunday was Grandma's birthday! Lea and Jonah and Mommy set up a treasure hunt for Grandma to find her present - a much-needed car charger for her cell phone.

Yay, she found it!

Happy Birthday!

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

The weekend before baby Micah was born, Dan took Lea and Jonah to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and here are some pictures they took. We have season passes, so we will be going there a lot.

Cute kids - Lea and Jonah are best friends!

They were really fascinated with the anteater.

They all had a great time!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here's our newest little leprechaun!

All three leprechaun's - they are the gold at the end of our rainbow!

Family

Here is a beautiful father and son moment. Dan is such a terrific dad!

There has been lots of activity around here with the new baby and adjusting schedules. After playing outside and having a very active day Jonah just stopped in the kitchen, said "I'm worn out!" and dropped to the floor falling almost immediately asleep! So cute!

Baby Micah and Great Grandma Urrutia

Micah Kenneth Boyer

Yay! He is here! Make sure you read Dan's post below about Micah's arrival! I am very tired but I wanted to add a special detail about our handsome boy. His middle name is Kenneth after my dad and everyone agrees that he shares a lot of features with my dad and my side of the family. I think this is a very special gift from God and I know my Micah is a very special boy.

Baby Micah

3:50 in the morning, yesterday, Aleena startled me awake by telling me, "Dan, get a towel, I think my water just broke." It was a little disconcerting, not because Micah was coming a week early, but because Aleena really hadn't had much, if any pre-labor in anticipation of the water breaking.

I called Aleena's mom, let her know we were bringing Lea and Jonah, and started hauling their sleepy little bodies to the car. After they were in the car, Lea stoped me while I was making another trip with luggage to ask me, "Is mommy's belly big enough to have the baby?", she followed that with "is it March time yet?" So cute. After dropping the kids off and checking into labor and delivery, we tried to will Aleena's labor to pick up. By 1:00pm, her contractions were actually diminishing. The risk of infection after your bag of water is broken are greater the longer delivery takes, so we decided to help Aleena out. Aleena had read that one way was to apply olive oil to her nipples and twist them as hard as she could stand...we chose to have Petosin administered in an IV instead. By about 4:30 pm the contractions were strong enough to go for an epidural. After it was administered, we thought Aleena might take a little nap in preparation for "pushing time" so I ran home and got some things I forgot. I got a call from Aleena as I pulled back into the hospital parking lot telling me it was time. I took my place holding Aleena's left leg for her as it was pretty much limp from the epidural. After 45 minutes of hard, exhausting and a bit confusing pushing, little Micah popped out. The confusion came, from my point of view, from the fact that although the epidural made Aleena perfectly comfortable, she could not feel when to push, and the machine that was supposed to tell us she was contracting wasn't working, so it was a little bit of a guessing game. Micah's heart rate showed some distress through delivery. He came out with the cord tight around his neck. Despite this, he scored perfect 10's on his apgar tests. Micah is 7 pounds, 15 onces and 20 inches long. We love him dearly and are very excited. Aleena is the best babymaker in the world, albeit a very sore one. She is doing very well, and may come home with Micah tonight.


Beautiful Aleena and Handsome Little Micah

Micah has his Daddy's biceps

Silly Day!

Yesterday the kids dressed silly and had crazy hair for preschool to celebrate Dr. Suess' birthday. They loved their hair do's and crazy clothes. They both loved the whole idea and felt special all day! Especially because of thier hair! For some of the pictures Jonah is wearing a funny hat but ultimately I spiked his hair up with mousse and that was definitely a hit with him!

Handsome Jonah with crazy hair!

Lea's funky hairdo!

My silly kids!

Carbonara Pizza Recipe

Well, here is the pizza recipe that I used! I substituted bacon for pancetta and I added sliced tomatoes on top too and I did make the pizza dough from scratch and that recipe will come soon. Enjoy!

Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Carbonara Pizza

from Rachel Ray

ingredients

1 refrigerated pizza dough (recommended brand Pillsbury), or one from your favorite pizza joint
Cornmeal, for sprinkling on pizza pan
Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), for drizzling
1/4 pound pancetta, chopped
1 cup ricotta cheese
1/4 cup (a generous handful) grated Romano or Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, whatever you have in the fridge
1 large clove garlic, grated
Black pepper
2 large egg yolks, beaten
1 1/2 to 2 cups shredded provolone cheese
A handful of flat-leaf parsley, chopped

preparation

Preheat oven to 450°F.

Roll out dough into a large, thin, round or rectangular shape. Scatter a little cornmeal on the pizza pan or baking sheet before placing rolled-out dough on it.

Drizzle dough with EVOO and prick it with fork tines in a few places.

Place in oven and partially bake for 7-8 minutes.

Drizzle EVOO in a small skillet and heat over medium-high heat. Cook pancetta until crisp, 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and cool. Brush the baked pizza crust with some of the grease from the skillet you cooked the pancetta in for a little extra flavor. Add beaten egg yolks, ricotta, Romano, grated garlic and black pepper to a bowl and stir to combine.

Spread the ricotta cheese mixture out over the pizza crust, then top with provolone cheese.

Scatter the reserved pancetta all over and bake 12 minutes or until crust is crisp and the cheese is evenly golden on top. Scatter parsley over cooked pizza, cut into wedges and serve.

Yields 4 servings

Baking Queen!

Well, I am kind of in a blogging funk. We've been really busy with dentists appointments, doctor's appointments, getting cars fixed and replacing flat tires, etc. A bunch of busy but boring stuff. So I decided to do a post about one thing I love to do - bake - and one thing I have loved to eat during this pregnancy- Pizza!I LOVE MY KITCHENAID MIXER!!! I have been baking a lot lately - because I have been allowing myself to eat more baked goods than usual - since being pregnant. :) I've made apple pies, lemon merange pies, cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, breadsticks, cookies, cakes, several varieties of muffins, whole wheat bread, french bread, and pizza! That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I wish I had taken pictures of more of my delicious creations, but at least I have this Carbonara Pizza that I made. It was sooooo good! I think I'll have to make it again before the baby comes!