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Random Miles Facts

Posted: June 3rd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 1 Comment »

Miles is one month old which is just crazy. Everyone has told us that time will fly and before you know it he wont be a little baby any more. This is so true. Anyways here are some random miles facts one month in to his life.

  • Miles is 8lbs 9oz. he is in the 25th percentile for his age
  • Miles is 19 inches. he is in the half percentile for his age
  • Miles has gone though 3 boxes and 1 pack of newborn diapers (about 350) . He is starting on his first box of 1’s
  • Miles favorite thing to sit in is his car seat besides on Kimi and I.
  • Miles hasn’t slept in our bed at all
  • Miles hasn’t slept at all. just kidding he will sleep for about 3 hours in his bed at a time
  • Miles is a milkaholic. he wants to be fed every 2 hours
  • Miles doesn’t know what to do with his hands like Ricky Bobby during an interview
  • Miles has pooped on me once Miles Pooped On Mike
  • Miles favorite movie is Madagascar. I think he has watched a total of 5 minutes of it and me 86 minutes. The movie is 86 minutes long and we have watched it at least 5 or 6 times.
  • Miles could be the reason LeBron leaves Cleveland. The cavs went 1-4 in the playoffs after miles was born.
  • Last Night should of been the 3rd perfect game pitched in baseball since miles was born and there has only been 18 pitched before that ever
  • Miles is the man

Night Time Habit

Posted: May 21st, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | No Comments »

A couple nights in a row we had this sequence of events happen when I’m putting him to bed and Kimi is already sleeping.

  1. Changing his diaper and swaddle him
  2. turn off the light so he will be ready for bed after feeding
  3. Feed him a bottle
  4. He chugs the bottle
  5. I burp/watch him spit up the milk he chugged
  6. He is all relaxed ready for bed
  7. He unleashes a juicy fart
  8. I change his diaper in the dark
  9. I look for my phone for light to make sure I wiped him good enough
  10. He pees all over himself/me
  11. Have to change his shirt and blanket while he is crying
  12. Kimi wakes up and asks he if is hungry
  13. I respond no go back to bed
  14. Calm miles down by rocking him and playing 80’s rockabyes
  15. put miles to bed

I’m hoping that this doesn’t become a habit.

Bonus: video taken with my phone


Videos Of Miles

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | No Comments »

Here are the videos we took of miles at the hospital. I uploaded them to YouTube, subscribe to our youtube channel here.


Miles is here

Posted: May 3rd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 2 Comments »

Miles Lewis Fowler born May 3rd 2010 at 4:39 am. He is 19 inches, 6 lbs 5 oz. Everyone is happy, healthy and tired. He came 20 days early and after 36 hours of labor and nearly 3 hours of pushing.


Ricky Bobby

Posted: May 2nd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 2 Comments »

Just got done watching taligadaga nights. Forgot how funny that movie is. The nurses even stopped and watched for a second laughing. Now I know Kimi and Miles are in good hands.

The delieveing doctor stopped in and checked her, almost 5 cm. They gave her potosan to get the contractions closer together. The window for miles birthday being one day afters Kimi is down to only 2 more hours.


4 cm

Posted: May 2nd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | No Comments »

At about 8 o’clock Kimi was 4 cm dialiated. The doctor came in and broke her water shortly after that. The anistegalogist then gave Kimi an epidural and now she is gettng her first winks of sleep in 36 hours. Epidurals are amazing. Going from painful contractions to sleep in a matter of minutes. I might try to get a couple of winks my self.


A warm May night

Posted: May 1st, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 1 Comment »

This event starts on a warm may night on May 1st. We were going to go to a wedding in Columbus for Kimi’s but decided not to go since it was a far drive. Kimi would of been uncomfortable the whole time and the outside chance something could happen. Better safe than sorry.

So I went to my grandma and helped spread 40 tons of dirt. Kimi went out for lunch for her birthday with my mom and a couple of friends. When they got home they woke me from my nap that lasted about 45 minutes. All was well, they did alot of walking and shopping. We were waiting for the cavs vs celtics game come on at 8 which was two hours away. So I was hungry and made a grilled cheese for me since Kimi didn’t want anything. I sat down to eat it when they started.

Contractions were begining. We were skeptical if they were real or not. I mean Miles wasn’t due for three more weeks he can’t be coming early. I w the episode of the office where Jim and Pam have there baby so I knew when we should go to the hospital. Contractions 5 minutes apart duration 1 minute and they are to intense to talk through. Kimi started her contraction master app on her iPhone to record all of that information. They started out being about 7 minutes apart and not that bad of pain. She went and got some fruitloops to eat for dinner and her contractions were getting worse so she claims her loops were getting soggy while she was waiting for her contractions to stop.

The pregame was starting went her first contraction was 5 minutes apart and I was think I was going to miss an amazing game. The games starts and they cavs are playing like poop. Right before the first quater Kimi says “i’m going to start to get my thing together for the hospital at least you got to watch the start of the game.” she gets up and moves around and the contractions slow down now and they are back to 7 minutes apart. We got the all of thing in order to leave but are waiting for them to get closer and more intense.

The second half of the started and Kimi is about 6 minutes apart when Mo Williams dunks on Paul Peirce. The cavs have an amazing second half and pull off the victory. So I’m like sweet I’m ready to go to the hospital now. But Kimi still isn’t there yet.

It is now 11:30 and she decides that we should go just in case since she has had contractions 5 minutes apart for 45 minutes. Loaded up the car with the travel stuff and we were on the road to the hospital. Durning the car ride I hoping there would be a sweet pregnancy song even though I don’t know what would qualify as one. The only song that I was really hoping that would play was salt n pepper – push it.

We were approaching the hospital and I was wanting to use the super secret maternity entrance. Kimi was against it because we weren’t exactly sure where it was. So we decided in the parking garage that has a second floor walkway over the street that leads right to the elevator to get to the maternity wing. I pulled to the garage and the gate is down and no one is letting us in. So we park next to the garage and try to get to the walkway. The door is locked but we get buzzed in. Of course the doors are locked to the stairs and elevator to get to the second floor. All of the main entrance are locked to the hospital and we have to walk around to the emergency entrance.

When we got to the maternity wing they check us in to a room at 12:30. They were just monitoring her and the baby and would admit us if it looked like we were going to have the baby. They hooked up a baby monitor and a thing to. Monitor contractions which looked to be coming every 3 minutes. They checked to see if she was dilated and she was 1 centimeter. Looking good since she was zero at her doctors apt on wednesday. An hour later the contractions are the same and they checked her again ad she was still only 1 cenemeter dilated.

A doctor finally came in at 2:30 the doctor said that the contractions were because of a UTI. They gave her an IV with antibiotics for the UTI. The contractions started to slow down and became less intense. We got discharged at 4:30 a prescription to pick up in the morning. On the drive home the contractions went back to the pre hospital state. Five o’clock my head hit the pillow and i was asleep.

I was woken up to get kimis prescription filled. Of course i had to wait forever because they couldn’t read the doctors hand writing. While i was waiting I though I would be nice and get kimi some doughnuts for breakfast. I got the crispy cream glazed with chocolate. When I get home I give her the doughnuts she responds with don’t you know I only like the regular glazed. Good idea me poor execution.

Kimi never got any sleep and the contractions were a around 5-6 minutes and growing in intensity. She had about all of the pain she could take at 1:45 and called the on call doctor. She returned her call at three o’clock. With the growing intensity of the contractions she said we should head back in to the hospital to get check just to be safe. So we are off to the hospital again.

As we are arriving I spot the super secret maternity parking and entrance. It took us right up to the maternity wing and it was much easier than what we went though last night. We get checked in to the same room with the same stuff hooked up to her. They said that they couldn’t do anything for her if she wasn’t in labor. The checked her and she was 2-3 centimeter dilated and about 90% effaced. They went to check with the doctor with there findings. We were hopeful but unsure what they would do. They admitted her in to the hospital at 4:45 and this baby thing looks like it’s going to happen.

Stay tuned for more hopefully in the hours to come.


I Can’t Wait For This

Posted: April 23rd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: Uncategorized, mike's posts | No Comments »

soon to be little miles

The picture says it all!!!


Late night food craving

Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 1 Comment »

Tonight I got the privlage to run my first late night food craving run. I got to go to Mcdonalds and get a large frie. Miles loves fries.


Swagger Wagon

Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Author: michaelafowler | Filed under: mike's posts | 1 Comment »

My car recently hit the 150 thousand mile mark and have been running with the check engine light on for the past 30 thousand. So I have been trying to hold off buying a new for as long as possible since my current car is paid off. I have been keeping my eyes open for good family cars since we will be expanding to a family of 3 here soon. I have never considered a mini van til this commercial for the sienna.

This one is my favorite. I hope miles doesn’t drink all of our milk!

Swagger Wagon…sounds like my type of car.