Name, Cravings, and Active Baby

The ultrasound to find out the sex of baby is scheduled right before inauguration week. Finally can be more serious about figuring a name. If its a boy, maybe "Barack" will be its middle name. In arabic, the name means "blessed". Also a boost of self confidence for him, so when he grows up he'll tell everyone he's named after the 44th President of U.S.A.

My new cravings are pickles must be "dill" and "chunky" while large french fries from McDonalds and nice thick chocolate milkshake. Ofc, daily vitamins, milk, eggs, green veggies, and lean meat are part of my diet. But give me a break, I'm allowed to splurge on my cravings.

Finally I can feel the baby. It feels like a bad case of gas actually. Its very odd feeling. hard to describe other than sometimes the movements leads to bathroom jail again. As long it doesn't disturb my sleeping, no complaints. Smile.

I've fallen in love with JCPenny. After various trips to stores and many failed attempts to find pants. Finally, I walked out with a full bag of clothes today. Motherhood and Mimi Maternity are annoying! They sell size 2 Regular "maternity" jeans. Who in their right mind stays a size 2 and pregnant! Not to forget the increased buttocks, that can't fit down those skinny jeans. I was getting so frustrated. If I had the talent to sew, I would love create a petite maternity line. Unfortuantely, my highschool project left me unmotivated to try to sew. The shirt I made, had one sleeve shorter than the other. What's more embarssing, the class required wearing it the entire day get a final grade. Ofc, I don't own it anymore. It went straight to the trash can afterwards. LOL.

Sad Good Bye

Today's surprising event, gave us a reminder always be prepared for the unexpected. Discovered the truck engine blasted, very early in the morning. DJ is going through "grieving" process of his beloved first car that he had for 15 years. It was sad to see the truck end that way. At the same time, we are very thankful that no cars were parked near it. And nobody got hurt. the fire dept says it obviously was the old engine. Another thing to be thankful for, his family had backup cars ready to use. So everything worked out. Except DJ's greif over losing his truck in such a sad way.
Never less, a reminder for both of us, got to be prepared for unexpected emergencies. Again, when will post the pix of blasted car when I finally stop procrastinating uploading the pixes:)

Bathroom jail

After the 1st Trimester I thought would see less of the toilet. Ironic, my bladder is weaker and am going restroom every 10 to 15 minutes. I'm not exagerrating, someone pointed that out while I was attending my monthly scrapbook divas crop.


Doing Kegel excercises will hopefully make this problem less. Meanwhile, got a big suprise this weekend, and received crib, changing table, seat booster, and swing rocker from Sonya. Plus she says more stuff is on the way. Sonya, you rock!


The sad news for me, is I had to buy a new bra. Sooner or later it was going to happen, I'm sad because I want to be "B" size. not another extra number and remain an "A".
I wonder is there any possible way to go back to my old size. Am hanging on to my multiple old bras just in case.


Still wondeirng if I can feel the baby move? Nope! but I felt its heartbeating fast one day while I was laying on my back. Speaking of my back, my upper back right shoulder blade is so sore! I'm not sure if its because my boobs spread out or because I sleep on my side too long. So I'm looking into getting pregnancy massage this month. I found an 1 hour service for an good price. I want the pain gone! the back shoulder is feels liked I cracked my bones. Carrying a baby is a lot work.

BTW, finally discovered the Scanner CD. So will definitly post pregnancy pixes very soon!

Four Down Five to GO!

Happy December,
I'm officially 16 weeks. Its starting to feel like a long way pop this baby out and get back to my normal energizer self. How was my thanksgiving? Peaceful sleep! Happy to just Zzzzz the whole day away. The positive side is started to excercise at least 30 minutes every other day. The first workout from preggie video was so weird. I could feel the weight of the baby move while trying to do floor excercise. That was weird since its too early to feel it moving around.

Many ask when the sex of baby is going to be found out. Looks like it won't be known until Jan 2009.
So hold those curious eyes.

Otherwise, I look forward to the new puppy coming Dec 13th. I really wanna see whose shoes it gonna start chewing first. :) I don't look forward to smelly sliming poop poop though,