Micah's First Year

I made this video of pictures and memories from Micah's first year. What a great year this has been!

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today, our life changed forever. Micah Ethan Buffaloe was born! This past year has been filled with so much joy watching Micah reach each new milestone. We are beyond blessed and can't imagine life without our sweet boy. He has added so much joy to our family and it's hard to remember what life was like before he was here with us. Below is the post I wrote right after he was born about his birth. What a day April 9, 2011 was, but so blessed by how that day ended!


Changed Forever

On the morning of April 9, 2011, Michael and I participated in a blitz with our church, CrossPointe, to pass out flyers about our upcoming Easter services. I was 37 weeks on this day and miserable!! Everyone that saw me at the blitz couldn't believe I was even there! No, I didn't actually get out of the car and walk from door to door passing out flyers. I stayed in the car and followed the crew that was in our car. I drove back and forth between the neighborhood we were blitzing and the church to get more flyers, drinks, and of course.....to use the bathroom. During the blitz, I had not really felt Micah move at all so I went to Ellianos to get my favorite drink, a Tuscany Toffee Latte Freezer, thinking that maybe I just needed a little caffeine and sugar.

After the blitz, I still hadn't really felt Micah move so we went home so I could lay down on my side because he always moved a lot when I was laying in that position. After an hour of still no movement, I texted my midwife because we were concerned. She sent me to the hospital to be monitored. This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. On the way to the hospital, I texted a good friend, Christine, that just so happens to be a labor and delivery nurse and told her to be praying for us. At this time, we didn't tell anyone else we were going to the hospital because we didn't want to alarm anyone until we knew what was going on.

Once we got to the hospital and were hooked up to the monitors, we saw that everything was fine. My midwife, Teresa, came up to the hospital to check on us. I had just had a doctor appointment 2 days beforehand on that Thursday and I was already 3 cm dilated and 50% effaced so she had told me that I probably wouldn't make it to my due date since that was still 3 weeks away. In fact, she told me that she figured we would have Micah that weekend. Well, here we were on Saturday, exactly 3 weeks early, and Teresa checked me and I was 5 cm dilated and 80% effaced. At this point, she informed us that I wasn't leaving the hospital but that she was going to brake my water and get me started on pitocin.

I was a little shocked because when we headed to the hospital that day, I wasn't really expecting to be staying! Praise the Lord that I'm so OCD about making sure things are done because we already had everything ready for his arrival (nursery was ready and car seat was installed). Before leaving the house to go to the hospital, Michael threw our hospital bag in the car because he had a feeling we would be staying.

It was now about 5:30. We made a few calls to family and sent out a mass text to close friends to let them know what was going on. My parents had bags packed and ready and headed to Valdosta, thankfully they only live about and hour and a half from us.

Once they put us in a delivery room and started the pitocin, we knew that it was just a waiting game. My friend, Christine, came up to be my labor and delivery nurse even though she wasn't scheduled to work that day. It was so reassuring knowing that my L&D nurse and my midwife were people that I knew and trusted and that they were believers as well. Thank you Lord for Christine and Teresa! We knew we were in good hands.

While waiting, some friends came up to the hospital to visit and my parents made it up to see us before the chaos started!

Around 6:30 the contractions started kicking in hard and close together. I had an epidural about 7:15 or so but by 7:45, I felt that the epidural wasn't working on my right side, just my left. At this time, Teresa had left to go eat, thinking that Micah wouldn't arrive until much later. Well, by 8:00 my L&D nurse realized that Micah would be there much earlier than expected!! Christine let us know that it was time and she calmly told us that things were going to get a little hectic as they prepared the room for the delivery. Of course, they called Teresa to come back and she got back just in time. By 8:30 I was pushing and at 8:50 my sweet Micah made his grand appearance. Everything happened so fast that Michael had to quickly find the camera so we could capture those first few moments of Micah's precious life! I didn't even have time to cry because it went by so fast. I'm very thankful that I wasn't in labor for hours though!!

Holding that sweet boy for the first time did bring tears to my eyes. He's such a blessing and an answer to prayer! Michael and I are so blessed and very thankful for Teresa and Christine for taking such great care of us and our little blessing! Oh, what a day!

Party Time

This past weekend we celebrated Micah's first birthday with a party with family and friends. The plan was to have the party at the park in Grove Pointe but due to rain that morning and at the time we would have needed to set up, we ended up having the party at our house. While it was a little chaotic with over 60 people (adults and kids) at our house, the party turned out great and Micah had such a good time! We weren't quite sure how he would do with so many people around but he did such a good job and let pretty much any one hold him that wanted to (which he doesn't do often). We enjoyed cake (which turned out great) and some goodies. We did not open gifts at the party, because we weren't sure how Micah would respond to opening one and having it taken from him just to give him another one. Under almost all circumstances, when something is taken from him that he wants, he has a minor melt down and we wanted to avoid that at the party. Micah enjoyed his smash cake. Although he didn't do much smashing, he did enjoy eating it! After the party, my family stayed because they wanted to see Micah open their gifts. He wasn't much interested in opening gifts so we opened them for him and showed him the gifts from my family. At this time, it was definitely nap time for Micah. After his nap, we let him open the rest of his gifts (which means we opened them for him while he tried to push the boxes around or play with the tissue paper from the bags). He has enjoyed playing with all his new toys this week though, now that they have all been opened! Micah's actual birthday isn't until this coming Monday, April 9th. We decided to have his party early because this coming weekend is Easter and is a very busy weekend already for most people. Overall, we had a great day celebrating with family and friends! We are very blessed!