The best part of being pregnant is

EATING!!!!

 The best part of my days are Breakfast, Lunch, dinner and Snacks ahahahh! My food aversions have been off and on throughout my whole pregnancy, but this week I've had nooo problem!

This weeks obsession. Dad's chewy cookies. These are delicious! I love milk, but I can only drink milk combined with a sweet snack. It's been that way for me since I was a kid. Do you do the same thing?

The other night I made sure to fill up on lots of greens too.  I made my favorite dish, Thai Coconut Red Curry Shrimp, I added lots of fresh broccoli and Kale! With a side of rice and Avocado. Yum!

Yesterday I went to visit my friend and her little man. He is growing so fast!!! Soo adorable! We walked over to a nearby Wing place.

 

 We ordered wings and fries! I was in heaven! MMM MMM

I think it will be tough getting back on track after baby is born... it's been nice not counting calories while preggo.

Tomorrow I will blog about my 31 week update!

Happy September!

Don't forget to enter in my giveaway!!!!

Weekend recap, nursery and OB appointment.

Friday night was my sisters Champagne Birthday! We all went to a nice dinner DT and I gotta say, I had the most delicious appetizers and steak dish that night hhaha heaven!

My mom was babysitting my nieces so when I got there I spent sometime playing with little M. My mommy skills are not to sharp yet... I gave her, her sippy cup with water and didn't turn the lid tight enough... Baby M poured it all over herself and in the playyard... haha. I now know for next time.
I also fed her, her favorite yogurt... I did ok on that, whew!

Saturday we finally purchased the nursery set! I was a little sad that it won't be delivered until the first week of October.  But it's ok, Baby K's due date is Nov 4.

I went with this set below. Crib and Hutch. I also got a night table and the glider chair in beige :)


We also bought all the extras for his room too! Curtains for the bay type window in his room, shelves for the closet, and a new light fixture too.
It's all coming together!

Sunday we had a relaxing day with family. My husband has 3 brothers and I have a brother and sister... Baby K has lots of Aunts and Uncles (Tio's, Tia's and Zio's and Zia's) that are all anxiously waiting his arrival! Both sides of our families love Soccer... So baby K will surely be confused with ALL the teams he will be cheering for ahahha! Mommy is Italian, and Husband is Honduran... Husband cheers for many different teams, like Brazil and Spain and many others... except Italy ahhah! I don't think my grandpa would be impressed.

This morning I went to my OB.  She said that the baby sounded busy! His heart rate was 141bpm and she heard him kick like crazy. My placenta is placed in the front so it acts like a big cushion to many of the kicks, that is why some days I hardly feel kicks and other times I do a lot, just depends on where he is kicking. She felt around and said his head is down, she measured the belly and said it's growing perfectly! 

Feeling baby kick a lot right now between my ribs!

She also suggested I take prenatal classes. I wasn't going to, but she has been telling me to since the beginning.. maybe I should?

This week I will be dropping off the paper work to the hospital where I will deliver. Time is flying!!! 10 weeks to go!!!!!!!


Hope you all had a fun and safe weekend.

30 weeks pregnant photo and update

This week!
How Far Along: 30 weeks! (70days to go!)
Size of baby: 3.3 lbs!
Movement: much more movement this week :)
Cravings: Chocolate chocolate Chocolate!
Symptoms: Yesterday I had the worst case of heartburn or indigestion whatever
it was, had me screaming in pain! It was between my ribs and was that fire pain
UGH! It was gone within and hour thank goodness!

This weekend we will finally get the nursery! I can't wait! The decals came in
yesterday too and I can't wait to start decorating!

I already made room for where I will place the packnplay and swing.
I'm one of those people that hate filling a room full of furniture.
So I get pretty antsy visualizing where all the extra baby things will go.
I like my space and I will throw away furniture if it's in my way haha!

So I decided to put the packnplay in my long dining room ahahh. Finally see a reason
for it's length haha! There's a perfect corner for it that is kinda out of sight. I can move it to the living room when needed too but for the most part, it's home will be there!




 I moved this sad looking plant to the opposite of the room, still debating on what I'll do with it. I always forget to water it.

The Swing will be in our living room.

And all extras will take over the husbands basement poker room :) sorry hunny, you and baby K can share that room with your toys haha!

The nesting stage is making me a little crazy but once I visualize where things will
go, I feel calm and ready lol. I'm also ready for it all to change anyway once
Baby K is here too ;)

Hope you have a great weekend! Today is my sister's Champagne Birthday! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

29 weeks pregnancy update - bare belly

Bare Belly!

This week!

How Far Along: 29 weeks!

Size of baby: 2.9 lbs!

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I really want to stop weighing myself, because we all know it's going up not down haha but today I stepped on... 29lbs for 29weeks yikes! If I gain steady a pound a week, with 11 weeks to go, i'll be up 40lbs. I will not utter the total weight that makes me ahahha.

Maternity Clothes: Still a Mix of Mat and regular clothes

Movement: feeling his hiccups!

Sleep: 3rd trimester brings on the zzzz's, I'm always tired!

Cravings: Choc Chip Cookies! and milk of course!

Symptoms: Moody! Crazy hormones has me snapping and annoyed at everything and anything! LOL

Again, I apologize to friends and family.

What I'm looking forward to? Holding my baby in my arms for hours!

Strange changes: Stretch Marks on my booty and hips. And peeing a little if I laugh too hard (tmi) LOL

Some new items:
Breast Feeding Book :) I'm learning soo much and also learning about all the myths out there too. Glad I'm reading up on this, I feel really excited to BreastFeed (never thought I'd ever say that out loud haha)


Have a great weekend!

An Amazing birthday mini-getaway

 Friday I turned 30! and I gotta say, I had a great 30th bday weekend.

 We went away for 2 nights about an hour and half north to Blue Mountain Resort.
We stayed at the Mosaic hotel. It was soo nice. The room had a pool view and a cute kitchenette.

We didn't cook there at all (we love trying new restaurants) but I did use the fridge for water and my daily dose of milk :)

We enjoyed live bands, romantic dinners and just pure relaxation.
We also  drove through the scenic hill to enjoy the view and also found a place to park in front of the Lake.
It was sooo nice! Here are some pics!

We saw many families and couples with new babies enjoying there time there. We will definitely bring baby K there next summer! :)Once we got home Sunday we went to the in laws and SURPRISE! the whole family was there and my sister and her fiance too with lots of food and yummy cake!




I'm so grateful for everyone in my life. I'm really excited for the future :)

28 weeks pregnant update

H&M Maternity Tights, Regular Medium top (whoop!)and new flats from Winners.

This week!
How Far Along: 28 Weeks!
Size of baby: 2 and a quarter pounds!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: not weighing myself this week :)
Maternity Clothes: Mixture of mat and regular clothes
Symptoms: I'm really feeling my weight now, on my poor feet.
What I'm looking forward to? Buying the crib set!

Some new items:

More hats!

We stopped doing bday gifts for adults on my side, we decided to buy things only for the kids. So my sister bought me these cd's for baby K for my bday :) so cute. Can't wait to listen to them! (don't worry I won't blast them in the car haha!)

Lot's of bday's in the summer. My brother, Me, My mom, Niece, BIL, Sister! Tomorrow is mine and my moms bday and Tuesday is baby M's 1st bday! So I bought her this cute chair with a stool for her bedroom! What do you think!?

I'm totally eying this one for baby K's nursery!

Since I'm turning.... 30!!! tomorrow, I decided that I need to make sure my vision board gets re-done. At Winners they have these cool vision boards, so I'll be buying one for myself today.

Today is the last day of my 20's.... Tomorrow I'll blog all about my 20's haha :)

Foods For The Third Trimester

Today's BF - multigrain toast with cream cheese, half milk half coffee and cookies

Sooo cookies are not on the list for 3rd Trimester foods haha! But they do make for yummy snacks or side dishes ha!

 I always check out my book to see what foods are best per trimester (I love this book by the way)
It lists lots of foods and why they are good for mom and baby.  There are many things in here that I don't like though, So I just pick out the ones I like :)

There are only 5 things on this list that I will add to my grocery list,

Black beans/Salmon/Eggs/Nuts/and Swiss Cheese.

It talks about taking fish oil pills and I read a lot of mom blogs (and twitter moms) that took supplements, but when I asked my doctor she said not to. So I will try and add more fish to my diet this last trimester..... Try....

Any foods or meal recommendations? Send them my way. First Trimester food aversions are back, and I don't think a diet of only bread, cookies, nutella and milk will be good enough for baby K  :)

**Turning 30 on Friday!!!!!!!

Being Pregnant and Very Aware! Part two!

Ok last month I did a post on how very aware I am since I became pregnant. Aware of germs and my surroundings etc.  So here is my part two....

Recently I started being aware of how everyone acts as well. I'm much more on edge too and I guess short tempered. I'm usually very passive and takes a lot to really make me upset or annoyed. But lately I get annoyed VERY easily. So I apologize in advance ahaha! I notice more on how rude some people are or how I don't agree with certain behaviors... (in noo way do I think I'm perfect, and I am sure I annoy many others too :) But these are just my recent feelings.  I feel like I'm on high alert.

I guess you can say it's like a protective shield I'm beginning to have, baby isn't here yet, yet I feel like I need to shield him from certain situations.  Being Mother Bear?... I think so. Boo!

I'm being more expressive with my feeling, while in the past I may keep it to myself to avoid confrontation.  Yet these days I just blurt out exactly what I think, and some things bother me wayyy more than they use to, even things that are silly and in the past would not bother me at all.

Mom's do you get what I'm saying? Or am I just acting like an emotional crazy person!

I did read in one of my books that Pregnancy is one of the three periods in a woman's life when there seems to be a lowering of the ability to cope with emotional experiences of life. (the other two are puberty and menopause) (The pregnancy journal, A. Christine Harris, PH.D.)

Good thing I discuss things with my husband, sister and friends and I ask "should that annoy me" and they will answer yes or no ahhaahh.

I'm unstable... sigh it's Monday...

Fun Summer Weekend

Friday night we went down to the city to my favorite Thai restaurant. We had a delicious meal, our usual, chicken and shrimp pad thai and red coconut curry shrimp and pineapple. Yum!

Dress from Target last year (not maternity) still fits but needed to wear a shirt underneath for my oversized... you know :)  

After dinner we went to a park to walk around. It was very peaceful and nice, just walking and talking.  My favorite thing to do with the husband.

After walking through the zoo area of the park we noticed that the play in the park was still going on, so we went over and took a seat to watch.

 No pictures allowed during the play, but husband snapped one!

 It was a beautiful evening and mosquito's loved me that night haha!

We got home pretty late and had a busy Saturday so yesterday I was pretty tired but didn't stop me from enjoying my Saturday.

We had lunch on a patio and shopped a bit before heading to a family bbq.

Thai shrimp wrap with coleslaw, spicy and delicious!

Look at this cute track suit I bought for baby K at Winners. Love it!  Husband said it was a must buy, don't need to twist my arm when it comes to shopping for baby hahhah!

At the family bbq my nieces loved being in the pool. Look at baby M, adorable! The best part is when her mom was saying "ready" to dunk her head in the water and her eyes and faced scrunched up getting ready to go under. sooo cute!!!



I can't believe she is turning 1 yo in 9 days!




Today is a very humid day, so we decided to stay in most the day.


Hope you are all having a nice relaxing Sunday :)

Zoe loves sleeping on my belly

 



Zoe's pillow haha!



27 week baby bump update

 
 



This week!
How Far Along: 27 weeks!
Size of baby: 2lbs! Size of a cauliflower!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 26lbs (eek 3lbs gain a week!)
Movement: I feel him everyday now. :) happy mama!
Cravings: sweets, sigh...

Yesterday I made this carrot cake and boy is it delicious! Yum! I guess we know where that extra weight has come from.

** 1 more week till my 30th bday! eeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Hope you all have a great weekend.