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Weekend of Baby and Wedding stuff and dreaming big!

Husband went away on the weekend, so while he was out golfing his day away I spent all day Saturday with my sister.

We started at out favorite Breakfast Place DT (in the Junction) called Purple Onion. I love being down in that area. After BF we walked around and went to some shops. One place had a cat in the shop and the little guy must have smelled Zoe because he was all around me haha!

Sister and our full cart at HomeSense

I can't even remember the number of stores we went to, we didn't hold back and went in soo many stores. I bought a dress, makeup and some house stuff and some baby items.

Being silly, however look at those wrinkles ha! not so funny!

How cute are all these baby clothes! Baby K will love them. My sister bought baby K the gowns and the little shoes, too cute!


We also went to a whole bunch of wedding stores for sister. She found shoes she loves to go with her wedding dress, but they didn't have her size :(  We also found jewelery that will go well with her dress too. Yay!


We even made time to make cakepops! They didn't turn out as nice but they tasted great! Yum!


We ended our crazy day relaxing and watching How to lose a guy in 10 days, we love that movie!

Today I'm feeling a little tired and maybe in combination with preg hormones I'm feeling blah! I haven't been paying attention to my goals lately and I want to be sure I don't lose sight of them. So today I'll work on my vision board and be sure to still work towards the things I was working towards before. It's easy to get caught up in the day to day, and with new baby on the way and thinking like an "adult" really does put limits.  I don't like it, and I don't need to follow what I don't like (ha!) I can balance this so working on my vision board always puts things in perspective.

Never forget to DREAM BIG!

21 weeks pregnant today!

 

This week!
How Far Along: 21 weeks!
Size of baby: Papaya
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 17lbs gain (yikes!)
Movement: Flutters a little more often now.
Sleep: I'm out when my head hits the pillow until the alarm rings.
Cravings: Everything haha! but still not wanting too much of any meat.
Best Moment so far: Finding out it's a Boy!
Some new items:
I went to visit a friend that I hadn't seen for 8 years! We caught up and chatted like no years had passed. It was really nice. She got me these cute gifts (minus Zoe's head in the pic)





Yesterday was our 4 year wedding anniversary :) We went to a delicious Italian restaurant called Zaffarano's  :) we had fried calamari to start and my dish was a seafood risotto husband had a seafood pasta followed by tiramisu dessert Yum! The staff was soo nice there and our waiter brought us 2 free shots with the bill ahahha I told them I was pregnant and couldn't drink that, he understood ahahaha. 
 
After dinner we went to watch Midnight in Paris. We really enjoyed the movie.  Have you seen it?

My pregnancy book recommendations

Since it's my first pregnancy I can tell you that I have at least 15 book about pregnancy and babies. From What to Expect when expecting books to audio books like belly laughs (which I loved too) I decided to pick out my current 4 books plus another one recommended by a mommy friend to share with you all.

If you are a busy mom to be like myself then I'm sure you don't have time to just sit and read a whole book. That's why I love these 4 books the most. Easy to read, and easy to flip through to the part you need information on.

 Love the experts guide because it has so many questions us new moms have with answers in only a few pages each. Question like "Bathing Baby" seems simple right, but not for a first time mom haha!

 I only read a couple chapters of the Infant Stimuli but I think it's great. It talks about what to do with your newborn to stimulate their development. Like buy black and white toys for your newborn because they don't see color for a couple months. I added some cows and pandas to my registry :)

 I bought soo many books on pregnancy nutrition and I love this one the best! It's so simple to read and lists out the healthy foods by trimester with a summary of what nutrients the foods have and how it's good for mom and baby.  A must have!

 And of course a journal :) You can write your experience in here and each day has a brief summary of moms and baby's development through the pregnancy. It also has some tips for moms to be too.

Those 4 books have been my favorite from all the books I bought so far. Hope this helps some first time moms :)

A mommy friend suggested the book "Happiest Baby on the Block" she highly recommends it so I ordered it on Amazon this morning :)

I added all the books to my Amazon Widget to your left, check em out.
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If you have any pregnancy books you loved please share them with me! :)

My 20 week ultrasound

Look at baby K! Today I went for my 20 week ultrasound. It was the same one as last week, but last week baby K wasn't cooperating, he was turned over and the technician couldn't get pics of his heart so she made me come back today.  It was so nice seeing him swim around and move his lips. So cute. 20 more weeks to go!

Last week I ordered some things from Etsy.com.  I ordered from http://www.etsy.com/people/cottoncupcakeshoppe

I will get Kristian's name on the hat.

 And his initial on a cute onesie :)

I've been thinking a lot about the nursery and I have a lot of ideas for it so I can't wait to get started on that!

I haven't been in the mood for any meat lately, so tonight I made a veggie rice dish. Lots of broccoli and brussel sprouts and peas :) If you have any good veggie dishes send them my way :)


My sister just texted me saying she bought cake mix and icing so this weekend we're going to make cake pops! I'll let you know how they turn out! YUM!

20 weeks preggo and wedding weekend :)

This week!
How Far Along: 20 weeks! Half way there!
Size of baby: A Banana!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 14lbs
Movement: At yesterdays wedding I felt the baby moving so much to the music!
Sleep: Why do I end up on my back? Ouch! I even had my first Braxton Hicks contraction when turning from one side to another last week. Ouch!
What I'm looking forward to: Decorating the nursery can't wait!
What I miss: Nothing! 

Yesterday we had a cousins wedding. It was interesting trying to find a dress. I bought 2 and tried them on with my sister and SIL and I decided to go with a dress I bought at H & M.
The wedding was beautiful and it's always fun getting together with the family. 

Here are some pics of our fun.

Bride and Groom

Sisters and nieces  :)

Husband showing my niece the trees

 

My family :)

Grandma having a blast at the reception

Family :)

Cake pops! i ate soo many! haha!

Finding out...

I was a little upset at last weeks "doctors" scheduled ultrasound. The technician was not friendly at all.  (I already knew it was a boy, because I paid for an ultrasound at UC baby) but I didn't say anything to the tech. All she said was "It's probably a boy, I see something between the legs" She showed me the small screen for a second and turned it away. She printed 2 fuzzy face pics and when I asked for better ones she said NO. Rude! I was sooo glad that I did not have that as my experience of finding out the sex of the baby. whew!

At 18 weeks husband and I were too excited and couldn't wait for the doctors ultrasound so we went to UC baby just around the corner from my home...ok we paid $200 for it (pretty expensive), but it was the BEST experience!

We seen the baby on a big screen moving around and sucking his thumb it was soo cute. Finding out it was a boy through that experience was amazing.  We also got 3 print outs and a whole CD of  pics of our little man. So I'm now telling friends to do the same to find out the sex of their babies instead of finding out through the cheesy lab machines. My opinion only of course :) But husband and I were happy we did it, and would do it again for later pregnancies :)

 

My mom's procedure.

 This week was a little hectic. Mom had a heart procedure done on Tuesday.  My sister and I brought her down and stayed at the hospital all day.

 The procedure was to close a small hole in her heart. Everything went well and the doctor was confident she will be just fine. She had to stay over night and I picked her up yesterday.

My sister and I together is always fun. We make each other laugh so much. You would think we are teenagers at times ahah! When mom was getting rolled to her surgery room I said out loud "ROLL OUT" my sister and I just cracked up. It's probably our way of handling these types of situations. Sitting around in hospitals seems like such a norm to us since childhood (with many family members and Dad was always sick, heck and mom has had her fair share) so I'm sure that why we use our humor.

Spending the whole day there was exhausting. We spent some time outside too getting some sun. It was a beautiful day.

I was sooo tired yesterday, I went to bed early and today I'll relax a lot too!

Wordless Wednesday

19 weeks pregnancy update!

19 weeks

This week!
How Far Along: 19 weeks 3 days today
Size of baby: Cantaloupe!
Total Weight Gain/Loss: 14lbs gain
 
Maternity Clothes: maternity pants and bras, most tops I just wear a bigger size and I'm ok so far. I still wear some of my tights, but only the ones that go over the belly.  I can't wear anything under belly cause it hurts! Trying to find a dress that looks decent is a mission.  I have soo many occasions this summer, so this will be fun! haha!
 
Movement: Not much, just flutters here and there. I can't wait to feel kicks!
Today I went for a ultrasound and baby K was being shy and only showing his back.  The technician made me walk around and drink water and still he was facing down. I think he was napping.  So we had to reschedule the appointment for next week. This time I made it for the morning, hopefully that will make a difference. 
Sleep: Not doing so well, I'm ending up on my back which causes back pain after. However I'm compensating through naps.
Cravings: Last week I was obsessed with avocado and cucumber... I may be over it.
Best Moment so far: Finding out it's a BOY.
 
Some new items:
My sister bought baby K this cute outfit :)


When I went shopping on the weekend I picked up this little outfit. Every time I shop for me I try and pick up baby K a little something too!
Love baby clothes!