36 weeks

So saw the doctor today and it looks like baby is engaged...seems like he has dropped a little more from last week! Dr said that he is still head down but now he can't put his fingers between baby's head and my pelvic bone. Looks like baby is getting ready!!! I don't feel that I'm ready though...I still have to pack my bags, finish putting the baby clothes away and put the carseat in the car!!! Plus my mom and Jaime are still in DC and Jacqueline is going next weekend to DC. We will have to start a pool soon on when this baby will come. Who's in?

Here is how big baby is now:

Labor horoscope...

Just wanted to share my "labor horoscope" with you guys...I did it just for fun, but we'll see if any of it is true!

"The day you deliver, outside will be rainy. Your baby will arrive in the middle of the night. After a labor lasting approximately 7 hours, your child, a boy, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 5 pounds, 10 ounces and will be 20-1/2 inches long. This child will have medium brown eyes and barely there auburn hair."

Well it has gotten the boy part right...and it could be rainy in October. I wouldn't mind a 7 hour labor and the weight...sounds better than 10lbs! Lol...enjoy!

35/35

So judging by the title if you guessed that I am 35 weeks with 35 days left...you are correct! If you had no idea what it meant that is ok too b/c it actually took me a while to figure it out (pregnancy brain =P) I had my 35 week appointment today and from now on I have one EVERY WEEK!!!! How crazy is that!? I remember when I was sad because I had to wait 4 weeks until my next appointment, but it really has gone super fast! Everything looked good today. Baby's heartbeat was loud and strong, I'm measuring right on track (even though I feel that I am HUGE) and the doctor even said the he felt the baby's head on it's way down by my pelvic bone...just not engaged yet, but on the right track! I also had my strep B test today and got the results from my last blood test. Looks like my iron is going up and steady so for now I don't have to keep taking the iron pills, just prenatals! Yay for me =)

Survey time!
How far along?35 weeks exactly!

Total weight gain/loss: 19lbs!!!!

Maternity clothes? yup!

Stretch marks? Yes =(

Sleep: soo uncomfortable...not to mention having to go to the bathroom multiple times in the night!

Best moment this week: Feeling the baby as always and knowing he his headed in the right direction...lol...no pun intended =)

Movement: Yes more active now!!!

Food cravings: still the same...fruit...chocolate...

Gender: Baby boy!

Labor Signs: been having Braxton-Hicks (fake contractions) but nothing more

Belly Button in or out? Kinda in the middle...lol...still in, but just sticking out more, if that makes any sense

What I miss: wine and soft cheeses, being able to sleep comfortably and being able to climb stairs without feeling like I just did a marathon!

What I am looking forward to: Meeting him!!!

Weekly Wisdom: hmm...make sure you always know where a bathroom is wherever you are!

Milestones: 35/35 =)

35 week belly shot

Maternity pics by Meganelle Photography

Last month we got a very special treat. One of my best friends from elementary school was visiting and spending time with her family. It was awesome because I got to visit with my best friend, see her family and take advantage of her awesome photography skills!!! She was able to come over and take some maternity pics for us and we couldn't be more happier with the outcome! We first started out in the baby's nursery and then we went outside to get some shots with the scenery and sunset. We had an awesome time! click here to see the whole gallery! To see the rest of her work checkout her webpage Meganelle Photography. Here are just some of my favorites.

Shopping and San Francisco

Well we got back from camping in the beginning of August...right in time for our birthdays! And what did we do...we went shopping for the baby! lol...I guess that's what happens when you have kids =) But we were very excited to go shopping to get stuff for the baby and the baby's room. Of course my sister went with me for some expert advice. While looking at stuff we were even able to use baby Lace to "tryout" some of the baby things!

Laci trying out the crib set and mobileNicky even tried stuff out...but he wanted to keep it for himself! lol...

Here is Laci again in our carseat/stroller set

We had a really good time at our birthdays. My dad had to leave to Washington DC on my birthday so we dropped him off and went to Goore's and Ikea. Then David left and while he was gone I went to San Francisco to see King Tut at the DeYoung Museum with Jassy, Auntie Sunny and Sammy. It was pretty cool...

And here is my 30 week belly picture!

A little Camping then 3D time!

So we did go camping and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We had a great time and I even went hiking and swimming. I was even comfortable going to bed...it was getting into and out of the bed/tent that was not fun! And having to go to the bathroom REALLY bad when I woke up!!! lol...Here are some pictures of us at camping:
We got back from camping on July 31st and we were able to rest for a little while. The next day (Aug.1st) we had our 3D/4D ultrasound scheduled! I was sooo anxious and excited I started to get butterflies in my stomach because we would be seeing our baby for the first time! We were able to bring up to 11 guests...but we had a little more b/c the kids wanted to see their cousin. Here are my favorite pictures from that day...it really is amazing! I had seen 3D ultrasounds before, but it was like I was seeing it for the first time!!! Everyone loved it!

Of course to show he is a BOY!

Here he looks like he is saying "no pictures please..." lol...

look how peaceful

What a cutie!!!

Baby yawning...

Well I just wanted to share those with all of you. Hopefully soon he will be able to meet all of you in person!!! Sorry I'm sooo far behind in blogging! =)

28 week mark!

We are now in our 28th week of pregnancy!!! Only 86 more days to go! Baby is moving more now...and sometimes it feels so weird I just have to laugh...David thinks I'm weird, but I love it when I feel him move! We got some sample paint so we can start painting the nursery (and when I say "we" I mean David of course). We just need to start moving the stuff out of there.

I'm sooo excited because my oldest and bestest friends just found out that she will be able to make it here in California to visit next month and while she is here she will be able to do my maternity pics!!! Check Megan's work out on her website Megan Elle Photography. She is awesome and if anyone wants to take advantage of her being here for family pictures or anything let me know!!! So we have to get crackin' on our nursery so it will be ready! Of course the theme is going to be airplanes and the colors are baby blue and tan, with a little green here and there. I'm so excited!!!

We also got to register for baby stuff at Babies R Us and Target this past week and that was fun too, but we realized as we were going around the store that there is a lot of stuff and we were really overwhelmed.

The pregnancy is going well...I feel like I have just popped out all of a sudden! The only thing that is bothering me now is I am getting stretch marks and my belly is SOOOOO SUPER itchy!!! I have tried everything from cocoa butter to anti-itch spray and nothing... I feel like I have the chicken pox just on my belly! Lol...well my 28 week check up is this Friday so I will talk to the doctor then! Also more good news is that I passed my 1 hour glucose test! Yay me...no 3 hour glucose test!!! =)

Just for fun...I know i'm kinda behind. Here is my 28 week belly picture! Enjoy!

28 weeks....sorry its dark!

100 days left!!!

I was surfing the thebump.com and noticed that I have 100 days left! It feels like it should be milestone so here I am to blog and do a little survey!

How far along? 25 weeks 6 days

Total weight gain/loss: 6 pounds

Maternity clothes? yes! I am loving wearing dresses right now

Stretch marks? Yes...still =(

Sleep: better since I stole Beth's Snoogle Pillow thing!

Best moment this week: Feeling baby boy move and having other people feel the baby move! (David, Jass, Gi...)

Movement: Yes and its great!!!

Food cravings: not much actually...I just LOVE chocolate!

Gender: Baby boy!

Labor Signs: No

Belly Button in or out? In.

What I miss: I really do miss alcohol...

What I am looking forward to: I just look forward to feeling him move...and thinking about making an appointment for the 3D/4D ultrasound before my dad leaves.

Weekly Wisdom: Try not to watch movies at the theater that are more than 2 hours!!! You WILL have to pee...

Milestones: Daddy David feeling baby move

Now things I'm not looking forward to is my lab appointment tomorrow. Time to do the 1 hour Glucose Test...yuck! And we are having such a hard time finding a name for this baby boy! well if you have any good ones pass it along! until next time...oh! and next belly pic should be coming soon!

This is how big our baby is!!!

We are having a BABY BOY!!!

So it has taken me FOREVER to get back on here...but here we are and I do apologize! We actually found out the sex of our baby on June 9 (our 2nd year anniversary!) Talk about a great anniversary present!!! Here is the little guy:

Ta-da!!! He is definitely a boy! Lol...I wish I would have taken a video into the ultrasound room when we found out because David's reaction was priceless!!! He was ecstatic...I told him he was happier today then at our wedding! =) He saw it right away as soon as the doctor did it and as soon as she said "It's a boy!" David actually cheered like woo-hoo! and his smile was from ear to ear!! It was great...he even high-fived the nurse that was in the room!!! That so far has to be my favorite memory of this pregnancy. As for myself, to be honest...I was a little in shock...I was thinking OMG...I am really pregnant! Well obviously I knew I was, but now that this little person had a gender attached to it...it made it that much more of a reality (if I am making any sense...) So after this was all done lets just say we are both extremely happy!!!!

After leaving the doctors office I called Beth first because she had been dying to know...then I called my cousin Jass because she was going to help us with our little "announcing the sex" project. We decided to make cupcakes and fill it with either blue of pink icing depending on the gender...so of course we filled them with BLUE! Here is what the cupcake looked like after taking a bite!
We were at Nanay's (my grandma) house making them so we surprised her first. It was funny because while we were making the cupcakes I told Jass that I didn't think we put enough filling...and in the video you can see Nanay biting in and not finding the icing...lol...but we think she just got a defected one! Check out the video below! First is Nanay...then we went to Beth's house where my whole family gathered plus Lolo (my grandpa). Sorry if its too loud during that part of the video...but that is always how it is with my crazy family! Last on the video was David's parents finding out. I LOVED everyone's reaction, but my favorite part of this has to be the icing on everyone's face as they say with cupcake in their mouth "its a boy" all muffled up!! This could almost double as a GOT MILK? commercial!

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Here are just a couple pics of the kids and Lolo with the cupcake mustaches! Enjoy!!! So keep a look out for more to come as we try and figure out what to name our baby boy!!!

Little Survey....while I finish the honeymoon blog

Here is a little survey I wanted to put up while I work on the honeymoon blog. Also TOMORROW WE FOUND OUT THE SEX OF THE BABY!! I'll keep you posted!!!

How far along? 21 weeks 6 days

Total weight gain/loss: 2 pounds

Maternity clothes? yes! I'm wearing a maternity dress for our Anniversary dinner tonight!

Stretch marks? Unfortunately yes...I think it runs in the family...

Sleep: Getting better...but still hard to get comfortable.

Best moment this week: I felt the baby move last week and now I feel it all the time!! Find out the sex will be the best moment of this week!

Movement: Yes...it feels like a bubble popping in my tummy

Food cravings: I still like mac and cheese. LOVE root beer...I like cucumbers too! Just a lot of stuff.

Gender: Tomorrow at 2pm!

Labor Signs: No

Belly Button in or out? In.

What I miss: Eating sushi and soft cheeses and medium rare meat!

What I am looking forward to: Finding out tomorrow if we are having a boy or girl!

Weekly Wisdom: You're not fat..you're pregnant =)

Milestones: Feeling the baby move and finding out the sex!

21 weeks belly pic

How we announced...

I hope everyone enjoyed the video on the parents! After we told our parents and immediate family we wanted to tell everyone else but I wanted to wait until atleast after our first appointment when I would be closer to 12 wks (and closer to the end of my 1st trimester). Since our newest addition to our family (baby Laci Claire) was born on Feb.17th we were going to have a welcome party for her. Beth said it would be okay for me to announce our pregnancy to the extended family then. So I decided I would use her kids...lol...I made them all shirts that said "I'm going to be a Big Cousin" and on the back it said "October 2009". Here is a picture of the front of their shirts:

Here is the back of the shirts:
It actually took everyone a while to figure out what this meant...lol...but after a while everyone did get it! Lolo (my grandfather) took a little bit longer than everyone else. After everyone had figured it out everyone was laughing and clapping and he just clapped along with everyone else not knowing what happened. Then Jacqueline found him in the other room and here is the video of him FINALLY figuring it out (probably about 8 minutes after):




It was funny...so now all of our family knew and it was time for all our friends to know. For the friends of ours that lived far away we called and told them the news. Everyone was sooo excited!!! For some of our closer friends we had another Welcome party for Laci and most of them were invited so we did the same thing with the kids and their shirts. We loved to see all of our family and friends reactions! Here is another video of us telling our college friends Sam, Ellery and Laurel at our church's crab feed. It's a little hard to hear b/c music is playing, but you can definitely see their reactions:



We also took Grandad(David's grandfather) out when day for lunch and a visit and we were able to tell him at his favorite restaurant Baker's Square. We had so much fun spreading our good news and feel very blessed that we have so many family and friends to share this blessing with!

I'll try and get some appointment updates next time and info about our Babymoon/Honeymoon that we have coming up!!!

How it all began...

Ok so obviously....we all know how babies come to be. This is our story of how we found out we were pregnant! I actually didn't have any symptoms but was just having weird periods which I made an appointment to see a doctor for. Well the first weekend in February we had our friends Ny and Jr come up to (finally!) visit us! Lol...so I knew we may go out for some drinks and since my period was being really weird I decided to take a pregnancy test...just in case. We didn't have any at home and since we were at Beth's house I asked to borrow one of hers. She didn't want me taking it while we were at her house because she says she gets sad when it comes out negative. So we took it home and while we were getting ready for Ny and Jr to arrive we were cleaning up and David reminds me to take the test. So I go pee on the stick not thinking anything of it and it came out POSITIVE! Well it was a digital preg. test so it actually said PREGNANT. First thought in my mind was "What?!? This can't be right?" So I showed David, while I was shaking, and told him to go get four more pregnancy test......but of course I was overreacting and he came back with two more...I took them both and this is what we got:
I was in pretty much in a state of shock...it was a SURPRISE to us! So at 12:30am I called Beth to tell her and of course she was very excited!!! A little bit later Ny an Jr got to our house and I was still not quite myself. We decided to tell them by leaving the pregnancy tests in the bathroom they would be using. As we were giving them the tour of the house we open the door to the bathroom and... Ny just stared at them and didn't want to look. She knew I had played a trick on David before ( for April Fools Day I had Beth pee on a stick so it came out preg and gave it to David...lol...it was hilarious!!!) but I kept trying to tell her it was for real this time! So after a minute or so of going back and forth they knew what we did...WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!

I wanted to take a blood test the next day but of course it was the weekend and it was closed...I had to wait until Monday, but I took the test and we got the call that night that it was official!!! After the shock and surprise had worn off we were soooooo excited!!! We are going to have a BABY!!!!! We wanted to wait little while until we told everyone...but we did want to tell our immediate family b/c we just couldn't keep it in! =) We told our sisters and brothers about a week before we told our parents. We decided to tell our parents on Valentine's Day since that was the closest holiday. Below is the video of both sets of parents on Valentine's Day. The first video is the Roses we gave them a card a put a picture of an early ultrasound I had done. We told them to meet us at Beth's that morning for breakfast because we had a little present for them! (little now but growing bigger everyday!) The next is the Berrys, we gave them a picture frame that said "I love Grandpa" with the ultrasound in it and a bib that said "Grandma's Sunshine". Hope you enjoy their reactions as much as we did!!!

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