He's Here!!!

Well, it was a little rough, but Brandi finally had Micah Glenn Gray at 12:15 pm on May 29th, 2008. He was 8 lbs. and 1 oz. and was about 21 inches long. Both Micah and Brandi are healthy and well!


I was able to hang in there without passing out (barely). Brandi was incredibly strong through a very difficult delivery. And I'm still not sure how such a large baby came out of such a tiny woman. She's resting at the hospital now. Hopefully she'll be home in another day or so and I'm sure she'll give you an update then.

Made it through the weekend!

I was going to let everyone know that I made it all the way through the weekend without having a child. He is a little slow poke! My mom came over friday and we went to O'Charley's to eat and then hung out at the house. Saturday we got up really late, because Jason was not feeling well and couldn't sleep. Then we made it out to Douglasville and bought a mattress at Sam's. We have been trying to find a mattress for so long that Jason could sleep on. He needs a very firm mattress apparently, so his back won't hurt. We had one handed down to us, but sadly it flew out of the back of my parents truck when they were bringing it over to our house. It was a sad day for Jason!!
So now we have one and all is well again. We don't have to sleep on a futon anymore!! It was getting kinda crowded with a big ole belly. Which it doesn't really matter b/c I'm going to be having him within a few days now. Today was a lazy day and we just hung out at the house and I'm capping it off with a blog. I hope everyone has a great memorial day!

Dr's Update...

I went to the doctor this morning for my check up and all is still going the same. I have not dilated any and really no signs of him coming. My doctor is on call this weekend, so if he comes this weekend that will be great!! But if he does not, then I will go in Wednesday night between 5 and 6 and they will give me cervidil (sp?) and pitocin on thursday. Which thursday is the 29th, so that means Jennifer will be happy!! I'm not looking foward to the potossin, I've only heard bad things about it. So this weekend I will try to get in as much walking as I can stand and hopefully he will come on out. That's all I have for now...I hope everyone has a great weekend!

May 21st come and gone...

and still no baby. He decided to postpone his arrival, by how many days...who knows. But just wanted to give you an update so you know. I am starting to have my first contractions that your stomach tightens up but you don't feel them yet. So I guess that's a start! I didn't even know they were contractions until someone told me. (can't wait until they start hurting :(....yay)

Well, Jason's sister, Jennifer wants him to wait until May 29th to be born. Only because her daughter Sara was born exactly 6 years before that. The reason for all of this thinking is because Jason and I were married exactly 6 years to the day of her and her husband Joe. It is kinda ironic that Jennifer's due date was on May 22nd and mine being May 21st. This way we would have our anniversary's and first child both 6 years apart on the same day. It would be kinda neat for it to happen that way. It definitely would help everyone in remembering the dates of stuff. I hope everyone followed that...I'm bad at explaining things. Especially when I have to type it out. Down below I posted a picture of Jennifer and Sara with me in the pictures. The pictures are about 2 years old, that's all I could find already on the computer.


Sara and I (she looks a little like Jason)
Jennifer and I (and her and Jason look nothing alike)

Dr's visit

Well, I went to the doctor this morning for my check up....and she told me nothing! Ok, she did tell me that I have not started to dialate yet. All I'm waiting for is either my water to break or contractions to start. I'm hoping the full moon helps out next week. So everyone cross your fingers that he is not a week late!!!! Oh and earlier he was going crazy! I told Jason to come over and watch the show. He said it looked like an alien moving around in there. I believe Micah was showing off how long his legs are and running them all over the place. Just crazy!

One Week Away!

37 weeks....
39 weeks


The bottom two pictures were taken last night, with one week to go until my due date. I am going to the doctor in the morning to see if I have dilated any and the usual check up. Hopefully I will have some answers tomorrow, but he might be like his mother....late! I was kinda hoping he would be like his daddy and come early. To update you a little, I have been fine and nothing much has changed. I am still working and plan to until either the doctor tells me not to or Micah comes. I have a little swelling in my feet and ankles at the end of the day but nothing unbearable. I just come home and prop them up and they go back down. Other than that everything is going well. My dad says it's because us Bishop's are tough! haha Gotta love ole Wayne! Hope everyone is doing great...hope to have some more news for you soon!

Update

Ok, sorry I haven't been on here to update my progress or anything. It is 12 am on friday morning and I had a really long nap this afternoon and now I am wide awake...so what else better to do than to blog. Some of you may know that I have 2 weeks left until my due date. The only thing that I can tell for sure is that he has dropped. He no longer kicks me in my ribs, it's down lower now. Speaking of the little one, he is moving around right now, maybe to say hi to all of you and I'm coming soon. I really do hope so!!! Jason is getting excited and anxious for Micah to get here so he can play with him. As he says, "I'm hogging him too much." I go to the doctor again in the morning, so maybe we will know more then. But as of yet, I haven't had any contractions or any other signs of his arrival being soon. I have another belly shot waiting to be uploaded, so maybe I can get that on here this weekend. I'll try to update my news more often!