All about Alayna!

Tonight's the first night of our childbirth classes! Josh and I are both anxious and excited. :o) Can't believe I'm already in my third trimester! Alayna's getting bigger and bigger...and according to a few different websites: she's about 15 inches long, 2 pounds, might have a full head of hair already and is able to open her eyes now!

Baby registry

We started our registry today! It was a bit overwhelming, but definitely fun. We've decided to decorate Alayna's room in pink and brown (like a dark chocolate brown.) We'll probably be registering at Target too, but figured Babies R Us was a good place to start. Josh used the scanner gun first, but only because he called it before me. :o) We still have more items left to scan, but unfortunately my ankles were starting to swell a little bit and I was getting too tired for us to scan anymore. We'll probably scan more next weekend... Oh yeah, we also start our childbirth classes this coming Tuesday--sooo exciting! We can't believe she'll be here in less than 3 months now!

Alayna's crib

I would post a picture of her actual crib, but my camera and my computer seem to not be communicating. :o( Soooo, here's the picture off the target website. Grandma Patty & Grandpa Eloy bought Alayna her crib and changing table when they were out here in California visiting for Mother's Day. Thank you guys!!! The crib is pretty cool because it can grow with Alayna - it converts to a toddler/day bed and then the back can later be used as a headboard. How wonderful is that?!?! We love it!

Such a long time...

Sorry Mom, Michelle and everyone else who's gotten mad at me for not posting anything in for forever! I've been busy!!! Let's see, just to update a few things since the last post:
- we've moved. we now have a 2-bedroom condo, so we have a room to decorate for the baby!
- the baby is a girl! we finally found out at the 2nd ultrasound because the cord was in the way the first time.
- her name is going to be Alayna Noel.
- she's a thumb sucker! so cuuuute to see her sucking her thumb on the ultrasound!
- she's a wiggle worm and kicks me ALL the time now! josh has felt her kicking too. it's so exciting to feel her!
- i have 4D pics of her but i have to find my scanner...
- i'm 6 months pregnant now! 26 weeks and a couple of days to be exact. time has just flown by!

okay, off to bed now! i'm exhausted! (sleeping's gotten a bit uncomfortable lately. sigh...)

Uh Oh! I Had a Dream About the Baby...

So in reading lots of blogs & posts on pregnancy websites, lots of moms-to-be have all mentioned having dreams about their babies & a lot of times if it was a girl in their dream - they ended up having a girl or if the baby was a boy in their dream they ended up having a boy...I was pretty bummed that I hadn't had a feeling either way telling me it was one or the other. And I hadn't had any dreams about even being pregnant, let alone actually having a child...that is, until last night...


So, was the baby a boy.........or.............a girl? Eeeeeeeeeek! There were two babies! One of each! Can we say, uh oh?!?!?!?!

Family Vacation & other updates

Hellooooooo! I've been MIA with the posts lately - sorry mom! A few updates for those of you who don't know - I'm now in my second trimester! Woohoo! The doctor changed my due date to October 7th and as of tomorrow, I will be 13 weeks pregnant. According to thebump.com our baby is the size of a peach now! (Hmmm, is it weird that I feel like having some peach cobbler now? lol) The gummy bear is a peach now!
Soooo, we had our first "family vacation" this weekend. We went to Arizona for Spring Training. (Are you surprised? hehe) We had a blast & took this family photo on the last day there:

Can you see my bump?!?!? :o) Oh, one more thing in case you didn't notice: I chopped off 5 or 6 inches of my hair! Sooo much healthier now. Yay!

Not Quite a Gummy Bear

Today was incredible. We heard our baby's heartbeat for the first time. Wow. Wow. Wow. Amazing. There's no way to truly describe what I felt at that moment. Just, wow! We got to bring home another picture of our baby too. The ultrasound lady described the baby as bigger than a grain of rice but not quite a gummy bear yet. Hehe, I love it! She also said the baby was moving around in there (she sounded surprised too) so of course Josh interpreted that as "Your son is running the bases in there. He's going to be fast!" Gotta love my husband! :o) So here's the baby:


And if you look closely, you might be able to see what Josh saw:

Note: This is from the pitcher's point of view. Yes, the kid's gonna be a lefty. :o)