Our Registry.

By popular demand, I am posting our registry!

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Search by my name and you will find it!

Back to making dinner!

Let the Insanity Begin!

Things are now officially crazy! We have T minus 9 weeks to go to the due date. I am not so worried about to baby, but rather need to finish my work for my National Board Certification and get all of my work done for my fieldwork class and my law class for my Master's Degree. The comprehensive exams are at the end of June! Can I bring the baby in a baby carrier? Just kidding - maybe too much of a distraction for those around me. Somehow I will get through. Remember me in your prayers!

Jose and I had a wonderful mini-vacation in Los Angeles this past week. We went to Malibu and ate at a cute seafood restaurant right on PCH with a view of the ocean (The Reel Restaurant or something to that degree...), walked along the beach and saw a poor stranded baby seal (the worst part being some tourist was trying to push him back into the water - boy we let him have it!!!), and then some window shopping on Montana in Santa Monica.

Here are some pictures of the fun. Time for sleep. Tomorrow is my first day back to work from the vacation!

Hospital and Preschool Tour, all in the same day!

I am about to leave the house for the Preschool observation, followed by a hospital tour. Apparently in this day and age if you don't want to spend a million bucks on preschool starting at age 2 you have to sign up the day your child is born and pray that you will be accepted two years later! Pretty crazy, however, I am taking part in this. The preschool is Occidental College's Child Development Center and it is located less than a mile from our house. Many of my friends and coworkers at Eagle Rock Elementary send their children there and absolutely love it!

After that, I am off to the hospital, Good Samaritan, to take the tour with our doula so we will know where everything is when the baby is ready to enter this world =).

This is my last day of vacation and I feel good about going back to school, but like I still have a billion things to do!

Yesterday, Jose and I went to Malibu and Santa Monica, played on the sand, saw a baby seal resting on a big pile of rocks, ate a delicious lunch at a rustic beachfront restaurant, and finished the day off by shopping on Montana Ave in Santa Monica. What a great end to our vacation!

Here are some more pictures of the nene growing bigger in my belly!

Week 29

For those of you who want to see what I look like pregnant, here I am in November! I will post a new picture soon.

Our little Nenecito is kicking so much more! I feel him all the time. We cannot believe that he will be here in three months! During Christmas, I went to Los Gatos and got him some baby clothes, just in case! Yesterday, I got him a changing table and today I am going to pick up a crib from one of my friends. I have only three more days off to get this all accomplished before I go back to work and begin slaving away over my Master's fieldwork and my National Board work.

What do I have so far for the baby?
* crib so graciously given to us by one of my friends from work!
* changing table, sans pillow to keep him stable - IKEA
* a few cute clothes
* a cute newbee organic cotton beanie that I made - will post a picture
* a knit bib that he will not be able to use for some time, but hey, it was cute!
* a few burp clothes
* books - my biggest weakness! I just cannot stop buying them for him.
* a swing and a bouncer so graciously provided by my pastor and his wife

What else do I need?
*car seat
*stroller
and much much more!

DIY Projects for the Baby

So, I am sitting here, procrastinating and looking to create fun little items for the baby's room. My first DIY project, aside from knitting items that I have made for the baby, which I will post soon, during my breaks from studying, will be a high contrast baby mobile!

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Contrast-Baby-Mobile/

Hopefully, mine will turn out great! The only unfortunate thing is that I just ran out of duct tape! Back to my real work I suppose!

Next up, sewing my own bibs and matching burp cloths!

Week 23

The baby is getting bigger and bigger. I like to call him flipper since I can feel him flipping or moving - sort of like a fish. I can't wait for our Christmas break! I realize that I over extended myself - especially with being pregnant and am just waiting for some down time. Being pregnant takes a little more out of you, even if you don't realize it until later! I just finished eating a slice of pumpkin pie for breakfast. As desserts go, I think it was a more healthy choice - hey, the baby got his vitamin a for the day! But I have to stick to a pretty strict diet from our birthing classes so the baby gets everything he needs for proper development.

We are still thinking about baby names and have a few that we like, but the search goes on. We are both getting very excited for the little guy's arrival! I am reading some childbirth books to prepare myself for the big day. Sometimes I can't believe that this little creature swimming around inside my stomach is going to come out and be a our real-live baby boy!

It's been a while!

It has been about a month since my last entry! Now we know that the baby is a BOY! While looking at the ultrasound, I told the doctor that I could not make out anything except for the head. I asked him what he was looking at and he replied, "Well, it's a penis!" So now is time to look at baby boy names!!!

Jose just finished a semester long English class in two months and we are now going back to some sense of normalcy - the normalcy where you try to get everything done before a baby arrives - my master's thesis, my national board certification, and of course the fun stuff - getting ready for the baby!

I am so thankful for such amazing friends these days. One of the teachers at my school is giving us her crib. My vice principal gave me three huge bags of cute maternity clothes! So many wonderful friends are volunteering to throw us baby showers! We are truly blessed!

Now off to church. As soon as I figure out how to scan things, I'll put the utlrasounds on here. Maybe if your lucky, a picture of my growing belly!