Our son
Keith William has been in this world almost one week already! Time goes fast when the majority of it has been spent in the hospital. Since he was born via Cesarean they want you to stay in the hospital for 6 days afterwards here in Moscow. I was able to go home on the 5th day, thankfully, I was really itching to see my other babies.
He made his way into this world via Cesarean because the doctor thought it was best for a couple of reasons. First of all, I was past my due date, which wasn’t even exact to begin with, since he was a surprise pregnancy I hadn’t been keeping track of my periods. So his due date was just based on the first ultrasound I had gotten. Second, he was staying put. I was only 2 cm and had been that way for a week, there was no progression at all, so induction was out of the picture with that. Lastly, my doctor told me at my last appointment that I was leaking fluid. So a planned birthday it was. Yes, another vaginal birth is what we were hoping for, but he is here safe and sound. We are thankful for this healthy baby we have been gifted with.
We decided on Keith a long time ago. We have always liked the name and Micah has always been a fan of Keith Green. If you’re not sure who he was, check him out here or here. His middle name, William, is after Katrina’s dad. He is someone we both look up to and are proud to call dad.
Any day now…
…we are still waiting for baby boy to come. His due date is June 9th, but Keira was 10 days early, so I was kinda hoping the same thing would happen this time. The last ultrasound I had they said he was about 7.9 lbs, which is what Keira weighed when she was born. So really any day would be good, before he gets too big.
Me and my babies
A better view of baby boy and his size
I’ll leave you with a song…
Saturday
Last Saturday we went to our friend’s daughter’s one year birthday party. It was really nice and warm and sunny that afternoon. The area where they had the party was at a pond with this trail all the way around and scattered around the pound were these little pavilions. There was even a playground on one side. It was a nice setting, but wasn’t completely relaxing with the kids walking back and forth right beside the pond, that only had maybe a foot high wooden posts around it. Micah did a great job being the grill master for the party. They had lots of different meat that we kept eating as they were coming off the grill. Steak, hot dogs, sausages, chicken, trout and some vegetables too. And they also served fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, very traditional.
The birthday girl
Ruvim, Anya and Nastya
On the way home, there is this huge apple in the entrance to the park area. Little Miss Moody was showing some attitude in the next picture for not getting her way for wanting to sit on the apple for the picture.
Violet and Aunt Trycia
Aunt Trycia helped remedy the attitude
A fairy tale looking Kindergarten nearby the park
In front of the kindergarten
Afterwards we dropped off Aunt Trycia at her hotel, and it started to rain lightly. We rode the metro then we made a pit stop at the nearby little grocery store to our house on the walk home to get the essentials. It was nice to come in from the rain for a bit before walking the rest of the way. We were about 4th or 5th in line since there was only one register open and the girls started fussing over something. The other lady working in the store asked what was wrong, and I just said it was nothing. But she saw I was pregnant and told us to come over to another register where she would check us out. Other people in the long line decided to follow us, but the lady says to them, What, are you pregnant too? We were amused at her blunt rudeness for the other people, but thankful for letting us check out and go. And it was just kind of accepted by the other people as they muttered some stuff under their breath and went back to the line they were standing in.
Six Sandowiches 