I saw baby pea today!

I am so excited about it too!  Let me start from the beginning.

Obviously I went to Dr. Chen for my 16 week appointment. Firstly I was pretty devastated in the waiting room because a young woman is so upset from miscarrying her baby that was also due in December. It got me thinking how thankful I am. I felt terrible for her, but at the same time glad it was her and not me (that sounds really bad, I know). 

For me, so far so good, that little ball of a uterus is getting harder and harder. There is a little bit of bad news. He wants to monitor me very closely because I have lost too much weight and he is concerned that the baby will suffer. He told me I need to eat 2800 calories a day, including ice cream if that’s what I’ll keep down. 2800. That is a LOT! I think I’ll eat at max 1100. It’s not intentional, I just eat what I like, that is raw foods lately (and absolutely no meat whatsoever).---I re-watched Food Inc not too long ago, so that explains it--- So I have to go back in 3 weeks this time to make sure everything is going okay…which also happens to be the big ultrasound scan.

I am SOOO antsy. I want to find out now! I have never been good with surprises. I’m so terrible in fact I almost found out today!! As I was setting up the next appointment me and the ultrasound tech were talking (our boys are close in age, and don’t sleep well – so we’ve become sort of friends in a way). I guess my ‘antsy-ness’ was contagious and she snuck me back to the ultrasound room so we could find out!! I was peeing my pants, I was so excited. We were looking for a half an hour! I think initially I saw a little penis, but it wasn’t 100% clear. We had such a hard time because  Baby Pea kept grabbing him/herself down there blocking the view! So…I feel more and more convinced that it might be a boy….because my little girl wouldn’t play with herself in the manner we saw! :)

What was even more frustrating is that Christine (the u/s tech) couldn’t even give me her gut feeling about what she thought. It was completely 50/50 in her opinion. I’m totally confused now! My gut said girl because this pregnancy is SOOO different than Elijah’s, but I could have sworn I saw a penis.

I got some really great photos though! I was SOOOO close to finding out the sex. Yea…I probably should have waited for Brad…but I warned him if I had the opportunity to know, I would find out. Oh well, at least we get to do it together next month. July 6th.

Look at my little pea!!

 

Look at that beautiful little femur!!!!!!!!!!

A little blurry, but SOOOO sweet !

The best for last!! Look at this little baby looking at me!!---it’s kind of creepy looking, but nonetheless I love it!!

eek, in all honesty, it looks like a creep skeleton :)

Oh, and of course. What kind of mom would I be if I didn’t wish my sweet Elijah a “Happy 11 months today!!!

Isn’t he TOTALLY Brad in this pic??

Elijah found his penis!

Bath time is a lot more interesting now! It is so cute too. Tuesday night during bath time he was (what I thought) looking at his belly button, but he was actually trying to move his teeny belly out of the way to grab his little penis. I was cracking up. It’s so intriguing to him. The best part is when he stands up to throw all of his toys out of the tub (I’ll be glad when he’s grown out of that phase) he starts peeing and must sit down right away to inspect this new discovery.

Along with new discoveries, he is walking non stop – assisted that is – everywhere we go. He no longer wants to sit in the shopping cart, he has to push it. Kind of annoying, but so cute. He started that last Friday. This little video is him in Sports Authority on Saturday.

The video isn’t the greatest thanks to the crap phone, but you get the idea.  This next video was just yesterday and it cracks me up. I wish the quality was better so you could see Aubrey’s expressions.

In other news work has begun in the basement! Whoohoo! We decided to do this ourselves. We got some pretty reasonable quotes for labor, but in the end we couldn’t afford to furnish AND finish the basement. So now the plan is Brad and his friends will do everything but the mudding and tapping of the dry wall. So here are a few photos of the progress from last night. I’m really excited. You’d understand even better if you saw the toys that have invaded our living space. I mean, we’ve got a blown up baby pool full of balls  as a make-shift ball pit.  what can I say, I’m a sucker for making Elijah happy. But it’s time for the toys to be out of site.

This pic is taken from the corner of our future rec area.

They built three frames last night, one is set in place. This is the rec room where the bar will go. (opposite from the above pic.

This is the other end of the rec room where the tv/entertainment area will be.

This is where the future “bedroom” will be. My dad will probably move down there so we can prepare his room for the new nursery. It is not a legal bedroom because there is no egress window, but my dad is skinny enough these days to squeeze out of that window if he had to. I felt safer having the egress window more accessible where kids will be playing.

As you can also see, there is SOOO much stuff down there. My parent’s whole house is in our basement.  What you see is just a fraction of what is down there, but I’m sure we will manage to make space.

That is the latest in our world. I go visit Dr. Chen for my 16 week appointment on Tuesday. I haven’t told him about me leaving for Mexico the week after, but I’m sure he will be okay with it. I haven’t had any complications or bleeding. The cramping is slowly fading, but my queasiness is still lingering around in the morning (I am 15 weeks now and I still puke in the morning…something better give soon).

We’re going to the Zoo today. I’m excited because Elijah hasn’t been there before. So I’m sure I will have tons of fun pictures to post later on!

Brad thinks I’m crazy

and I am going to agree this one time.

I have been playing the most ridiculous game on Yahoo called Sushi Cat. It is totally pointless, mindless and wastes my life – yet I still love it. Yesterday, I couldn’t get it out of my head and that lead to one of my first “give-it-to-me-NOW” kind of cravings. And that would be sushi. Obviously I can’t eat that, so I settled for California rolls. It’s out of control now. I can’t stop. I have eaten two trays already today. I have that stupid, fat Sushi Cat to thank. I think I’ll use the crazy-pregnant-card on this one :)

Speaking of. FINALLY I see an end to the uncomfortable queasy, cramping feelings. I’m down 15 pounds, have become a complete vegetarian and fresh strawberries are the only things that really satisfy (minus the above aforementioned). Actually I have been pretty much eating raw, clean foods. I am convinced that food aversions and cravings during pregnancy is the body’s way of avoiding unnecessary toxins.  I love eating lower on the food chain, it’s so much healthier. I just need to feel this way after baby pea arrives.

------- What the heck. Seriously, I am typing for two minutes and Elijah has found a thing of post-its from my bag and is eating them like its the best thing ever----geez.

We’ll I’ve lost my train of thought, and obviously can’t blog and be an attentive parent at the same time. Till next time.

Life stinks sometimes.

I think it’s because we are too technological sometimes.

So my computer has been out of commission for quite some time, so I’ve been using the teeny weenie netbook I got for my birthday. Last week it decided it wanted to be super slow and uncooperative until it finally gave me the finger and said repair me. If that wasn’t enough the external hard drive I have a lot of my videos and photos on is broken. I can’t access them. I am so mad and sad at the same time. Now here is the icing on the cake….Elijah takes my phone (which is my fault for allowing him to play with it occasionally) and some how disassembles it and spreads it randomly throughout his toys. Once I found the pieces it was too late. I am now using an old crap phone that has been sitting in the back of the junk drawer for two years now.

The good news is, I have my desktop back and I am no longer going blind staring at a miniscule screen. The crap phone works, so hopefully that will hold me over until October when I can renew. The bad news is I still cannot get access to over a years worth of photos and videos from my external hard drive. For instance, Brad and I are making a tradition to get our photo taken infront of the Jewel Box every wedding anniversary. Here is the one we took this year.

Unfortunately I lost all of the photos from last year…all but one, thanks to me putting it in my blog. It sucks when something like this happens.

So now here we are it’s June! It’s hard to believe. Elijah will be 11 months old on the 15th. I am now 14 weeks along and life is throwing a lot of good (and a lot of curves) our way. I guess it’s too much to catch up on in one blog, but I do have to say that May 25th (our anniversary at that!) Elijah has been sleeping 11-12 hours straight with two solid naps during the day. Is it the formula? I might think so. Is it awesome? More than you can imagine!!!!!!!

Thank you my little Tootum Pie! I knew our day would come!

  

 

Mexico here we come!

Thank goodness we didn't confirm our vacation plans we originally decided on. That being Fort Myers, Florida. We were going to go for a week and rent the CUTEST house on the beach, but the oil spill threatening the panhandle canceled our plans.

Oddly enough, we probably ended up saving money by going to Cancun (minus the arm and leg it cost for me and Elijah to get passports -- but those were actually necessities). I am SO excited. We leave June 26th for 6 days of white sandy beaches at an all inclusive resort. Riu Caribe. Look how beautiful!

Riu Caribe, Cancun Mexico

It's kid friendly with baby pools, parks, etc. I think Elijah will have a blast. Their bottle water is imported, so I feel safe making him formula bottles. (YES! I forgot to mention he is finally taking formula - the milk was leaving him a nasty diaper rash).

I am excited to compare it to the resort Brad and I stayed in when we honeymooned in the Dominican.

The only negative I can think of is we will not have a suite (it was $400 extra, per person, per day!!). So we will have to get creative with nap time. It would have been ideal in Florida having our own cottage so we could lay him down in a bedroom and still enjoy the rest of the home. Oh well, maybe next year with the new baby.

Aggh...that's all I can say for now. Someone is throwing a fit at my feet because he can't slam on the laptop.  "No-No" is entering my vocabulary too much lately.---I know, I know. It's just the beginning.

I HATE crying. Especially in public.

I have the "miracle lady" - Nurse Nancy to thank for that. Friday was my long awaited appointment and I am there completely prepared with 10 minutes to spare. Well, turns out that they gave me all the wrong paperwork to fill out. ... that's ok, I can handle re-filling out some papers. I can EVEN handle the creepy old guy staring at me like I just killed his dog.

What I couldn't handle was waiting for 15 minutes, then 25, then 45 minutes before I hear the ladies behind the desk say quitely "Nancy isn't here yet".

Um......what??

after 54 minutes they finally politely tell me that she is on her way and I can wait or reschedule. Well, by this time my dad (who is babysitting) is probably expecting me back in 30 minutes so he can go to work. I am SO irate. I can't even begin to explain my rage.  I told her I'd wait a few more minutes. I couldn't reschedule. I need sleep!

A few more minutes pass by and the lady tells me that I can have half the session with Nancy and the rest will be over the phone. ....that's when I lost it.

Like HELL I will only have 1/2 of the time with this miracle worker I have been waiting to see for more than a month. I couldn't stop the tears. They just came streaming down my face, and my mouth opened and a few things came flying out that I tried really hard to keep polite. How DARE they tell me that I will pay full price but receive less than what I will pay for.

The doctor came to see what was going on, he took me to the back and assured me this never has happened and she was moments away. I felt so betrayed for some reason. Anyway, I hate crying in general, but it's so easy for me to cry these days. It drives me nuts. I blame you baby pea!!!

As an end to this story, I saw Nancy. I stayed the WHOLE time with her (my dad kindly waited). And she told me that Elijah is just used to his mom and nursing so he needs that comfort to go back to sleep. The solution  :::drum roll::: for one week have Brad go in there and lay him down every time he gets up. ----RIGHhhhhhhhtttt. We kind of already knew this, but haven't followed through with it because Brad works. A lot. So needless to say Brad isn't super thrilled, but we're going to start the process this Friday.

I am so disgusted. She may work miracles for some people, but she still leaves me disgusted.

On a happier note we took Elijah to the Science Center on Saturday and he had tons of fun.

Of all the fun things to see, he HAD to play with this electrical cap on the floor.

Elijah wasn't too impressed with the dinosaurs. However, look below.

He LOOooved playing on a computer (without having to hear "no-no")  :)

yea, I know. His socks are orange. Mommy's fault.

It was a fun family day again. We can't wait to take him to the Zoo whenever this rain will end!!

I am off to Dr. Chen today for my just-shy-of-12-week check up. :::2nd trimester, have I ever told you how much I love you, how much I have waited for you??:::  Just a few more weeks to go!

11 weeks pregnant!

Where is time going? Everything is zooming by! I am trying to appreciate as much as I can, but I don't think I can keep up at the speed of time. Things are going well so far. I am not as queasy at night, so I can eat a nice dinner and I've gotten better managing snacks during the day. --mmm, especially apples.

This past weekend was so great.-- Friday was SUPER great. Brad and I got to go on a date! The first one since Elijah has been born! (that's almost 10 months people---that is some long overdue quality time). We just had dinner and a movie, but it was perfect. His parents we so kind to watch Elijah for us. I also got my first mother's day gifts too! Brad got me a gift card to Panera, since it's my favorite, and Starbucks. And Elijah got me a gift certificate to get a massage. Those presents were awesome, I am especially excited to use the massage when I get more pregnant.

But this was the best part

Can you see it? His little signature? --- Yes, that little scribble made me cry in the middle of dinner.  (I must be pregnant)   :)

The rest of the weekend was pretty good too. Saturday I spent the day with my mom. It was really nice, since we were the only ones that couldn't make it to see my grandma. Sunday was great too. Brad and I celebrated with our moms, and we also got to take a Sunday afternoon nap with Elijah.

He is growing up so fast.We took him to the park yesterday and he had so much fun! There is no greater joy than your kids. That's for sure.

his first time on a swing!

Oh yea! He loves to be walked - he just started that Sunday.

He is a little too fearless! He wants to be too big too fast!

His favorite toy...the one that spits the balls under the couch.  :|

     

He is so funny. He'll stand up on anything!