It has been forever since I have blogged about little miss Micah. So here we go. She is doing WONDERFUL! She is growing so fast and learning so much. She is OBSESSED with Dora, juice, juice cups, her "night night" (her blanket), dogs, and her grandparents. :) She is such a little girly girl. She loves wearing cute clothes, letting me do her hair, and loves to wear jewelry. She is becoming very independent and likes to do things herself, which is frustrating to me. We already know that her 2nd birthday will be Dora themed this year. Brandon actually thought of that the other day. She truly LOVES Dora. She slept with us one night not too long ago and said Dora in her sleep. Brandon thought she had woke up and was asking for her, but she was just dreaming of her I guess.

Her next appointment to see her Dr. about her Gall Bladder is the 17th of Feb. We found out earlier this month that her kidney has started to get larger rather than smaller. Which means it is holding more urine and will not heal itself. So the urologist has decided to go ahead and do surgery. After the appointment about her gall bladder we go on the 23rd to have a Renal Scan, which will test the function of her kidney. I think they are just doing it too see where the blockage is leading to her kidney and just how bad it is. After the test her 2 doctors will talk about when they can both come together and do surgery at the same time. The Urologist will repair the blockage leading to the kidney and a pediatric surgeon will probably remover her gall bladder (we will know more about that after the 17th). The surgeon will also remove a Dermoid Cyst she has behind her ear. I think they will probably schedule it for sometime in March. We will know more soon. What is amazing is that she has had no pain what so ever from any of the problems so far. Except at the very beginning when she had a UTI and that is when they found the kidney problem. Other than that she is as happy as can be.

Anyways back to the fun stuff. She had a wonderful Christmas, and got WAY too much stuff. She likes to go in her room and play by herself. She loves books, and loves being read to. She is becoming so smart. Of course I think she is more advanced than normal haha, I guess that is just me being a mommy. I am so blessed to be able to stay at home with her most of them time until I finish school. She is such a blessing and brings so much joy to my life. I have so many pictures I would love to put on here but I will limit it to about 20, just kidding, that would take forever but here are some. :)

16 month old with a GI Specialist AND a Urology Specialist....hmmmm

Yes, we now have a GI specialist, which I am sure we will be seeing just as often as the Urologist. Atleast this office will be somewhat fun to visit. The office is in downtown Birmingham, and when you walk in they have "Official Stadium Seats" from the original Chicago White Sox stadium to sit in, AND the nurses where White Sox jerseys. At least it is something different.

The doctor looked at all of Micah's Ultrasounds that she has had done on her kidney, the gallbladder is only seen in 2 of these. The first was from July, and the stone was there then also, it just was not caught. And of course in the one from a couple of weeks ago. He said that He thinks it might have been a result from her having some Jaundice at birth. He said it is rare but it has happened before. Although he thinks that this is what caused it he still wants to send her to Children's Hospital to have a couple of test run.

She is scheduled to go next Friday to have a new ultrasound, blood work, and a Hidascan?? All I know about the Hidascan is that they will put and IV in her hand, they will then inject dye into the IV and watch it for a while as it goes to her liver and gallbladder. This is to see if the stone is blocking a bile duct and to make sure everything is functioning like it should. We see the doctor directly after the tests so we will know something that day. My poor little angel will not be in a good mood that day.

Anyways, that is it for now. So too all of you out there reading this (mom, Dad, and ??) haha there it is. Although ya'll already knew all of this......so why am I writing it on here?

Pictures

Here are some recent pictures.

These first few are in Panama City, Brandon, me, and Micah took a trip down there in September.

This is her with her new hair style :0)

Having fun with mommy

Many post to come!

I have been neglecting this blog for way too long! I can not believe I have not put anything up since Micah's birthday. I have been so so so busy with school and everything else I just kept putting this off. About school, I will finally be a teacher in May 2011. haha! At least I have a graduating date. It has taken me WAY too long I know but hey it will all be worth it. Micah is doing great. We have had a couple of things come up with her.

First, about 6 or 7 months ago Micah had a Kidney Infection. We were sent to a specialist and found out that her right kidney was inflamed. We see the Urologist at Children's every 3 months to have an Ultrasound done and for him to check her. Right now he thinks she has an area leading to her kidney "kinked" up, which in turn is keeping some urine in her right kidney. As of right now he does not want to do anything for it (unless she has more infections). If worse comes to worse she will have to have a small surgery to "unkink" the problem. Sorry I do not know all of the medical terms for this issue. :)

Now to the next thing that has come up. When we saw the Urologist last week they did the normal ultrasound. We then saw the doc and he said her kidney has stayed the same (which is good). BUT, they found something in her Gallbladder........a "large" he said GALLSTONE!
I do not know much about gallstones but I knew that a child her age should not have one. He said that this is very rare for a child this young. He said that the ultrasound tech just happened to get a good shot of her gallbladder this time. He does not know how long it has been there because they have never concentrated on that area.

He then called Micah's pediatrician to see what he would like to do. Her pediatrician is Dr. Hale at Birmingham Pediatrics, he has decided to send her to a GI Specialist. Her appointment is next Wednesday, which is also the same day she gets her second flu shot from Dr. Hale. So it should be an interesting day. I am hoping that the GI doctor will want to leave things as is for the time being, although if he does think she needs to have her gallbladder removed I will certainly have a second opinion.

Please keep Micah in your players for these appointments, she will be having blood drawn to try to understand what might be causing her to have a gallstone. I think I hate this more than her because it just breaks my heart into pieces when I have to hold her while they draw her blood.
I will be sure to keep this blog updated when we find something out.

This is her at the Urologist last week

This is Miss Micah waiting to see Dr. Hale a couple months ago.

On a more positive note. Micah is talking like crazy. She says many words of course "momma" and "daee" (which is how she says daddy) It is really cute. Here are a list of words she says at 16 months.

dog
meow
phone
tuck (stuck)
juice
bite bite
hiney
eyes
nose
do (shoe)
dora
Pawpaw
Mawmaw
Nana
Bob Bob
night night- this is what she calls her blankets
bye bye

And the latest is "Mal Mal" she has said this only a couple times.
Some of the other words she uses ALL the time, and others rarely says them but she knows how.

Micah's 1st Birthday!!

For her 1st Birthday we had planned to have her party at "The Splash Pad" in Gardendale, I rented a pavilion about 3 months before hand. Well I never took into consideration that it could rain on the day of her party. Well it did, but a lot of people still came and it turned out good, the kids just could not play very much and Micah never even got in her swimsuit. But it was a great day and we had a blast celebrating our babies 1st birthday.

These are the cakes my Aunt Faye made....They were delicious! She had her own catering business. So let me know if you need something for a special event and I will get you in touch with her. :)

The birthday girl and Big bob...by the way she can now say "bob" and it is the cutest thing ever!






This is her with Brandon's brother, Brad





As you can tell, everyone was under the pavilion


This is my grandmother with Micah. They LOVE each other it is the sweetest thing.


She loved it when everyone was singing to her as you can tell.


This is some of my mom side of the family


Brandon and his dad and brother


This is what a long day looks like on the way home. ;)


Ok, next year there will be some kind of limit on what she can get. She is so spoiled!

Wilderness In The Smokies

Hey everyone! Sorry I have been so bad about not posting! I have been VERY busy with school and looking for a part time job that I keep meaning to update but never find the time. But I am going to catch up! Starting with our trip to Gatlinburg that we took in May. We went to Wilderness In The Smokies, which is an indoor and outdoor waterpark with the hotel inside the park!

It was so much fun. We went with some of Brandon's family and had a blast. The only problem was, Micah would not sleep well at all. I guess it was because she was not use to sleeping in a bed with us. The first night we had to drive her around Pigeon Forge to get her asleep, then the WORST thing happened. We were sleeping so well and all of a sudden me and Brandon hear a thud, and yes, it was Micah hitting the ground. She had been sleeping in between us and somehow had pushed pass the barrier I made and fell behind the head board! She was ok, it scared me more than her, but it meant another ride around Pigeon Forge at 4 in the morning for us.


This is Micah exploring the grounds, the hat she has on did not last long at all!


This is the closest she got to the rides. :)


Obviously she did not like this





Giving sugar!




This is when we went into Gatlinburg for the day.

We are making the most of the pretty weather!

So, this last Monday me and Micah went with my friend Ashley to her parents house out in Corner. It was so pretty! They have about 100 acres of land, a pool, hot tub, horses, cows and a huge pond. The pictures I took of her on the pier at the pond were good but they were taken in between her throwing fits because she wanted to get closer to the edge. She has just started doing this. She will grunt and whine and throw her arms around when she does not get her way. Hopefully this isn't the start of something terrible.
Micah had a blast, playing with the dog, and getting her first glimpse at horses. She actually touched one of the horses.

Then on Tuesday we went to the Splash Pad in Gardendale. This is where Micah's birthday will be. She did not like it too much at first, and I totally do not blame her. But, after a while she warmed up to it and was letting me put her in front of the streams of water. I am hoping by next month she will want to get a little more involved, but if not that is fine.

Speaking of the party, the invitations are almost done and I will be mailing them out around the end of May.

Enjoy the pics!! I put a few others in as well.




She was about to pet the horse in this one


You can see that the horse is about to touch her foot, and when it did she flipped out...




She really like the hot tub...by the way it was not that hot...I don't want people to think I was scalding her.. :)




Splash Pad!




Finally we got her standing still...


She was watching Brandon cut grass....she was amazed...maybe he should do it more often.


My favorite...love the hair.... :)


The only reason I am sharing this is because it is VERY rare that me and Brandon are both dressed up and I wanted to show it off. We were both in our friends wedding this past Saturday, I was a bridesmaid and Brandon was the best man. We had a ton of fun. Here are a couple pics.



Oh yes we danced...not well though