Meet Our Little Addition!

Rather than apologize for how long it's been since my last post...let's just start over by introducing you to the newest member of our family! Kelly and I are now parents to an amazing baby boy...Owen Max. He was born April 29 at 5:04 a.m. He weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 21.5 in long. Since then, he has been growing like a weed! At his four-month appointment Owen weighed 19 lbs 2 oz and measured 27 in long. My little boy is in the 98%! Motherhood has been great...way beyond my expectations! Owen is the happiest baby and he has brought so much joy into my life. It's amazing how much he learns and changes everyday. Owen smiles, laughs, squeals, coos, rolls from his back to his tummy and mostly sleeps through the night. His only struggle so far has been taking a bottle. What can I say, Owen loves his mommy! He is such a cuddler...I love it!

It's Been a While...Week 34

But we're still busy getting ready for baby Owen to make his appearance! Since my last blog entry...the furniture in the nursery is all put together and in it's place, a few decorations have been added, we finished all but one baby prep class and I've had two of my three baby showers. So needless to say, even the nursery closet, and entire house, are filled with baby items. Who knew one little person needed all this stuff?! I definitely need to catch up and post photos from my two family baby showers. They were both beautiful and fun! And once the nursery gets organized, I'll post pictures of that too.

I also recently had a second survey ultrasound to make sure the baby's growth is on track. I had the ultrasound at 32 weeks (exacly two weeks ago today) and he measured in the 54% percentile weighing 4.5 pounds. Yup, he's definitely on track! And starting next week, I will be having weekly doctor's visits. I can't believe the time has almost come. There are only six weeks, or so, left until we get to meet our little man. I can't wait!

Getting Ready for Baby

Yup, that's been keeping us busy the last few weekends! In fact, as I write this the baby's room is getting painted. We fast-tracked that because we have all the nursery furniture and don't want to set it up until the room is painted. So by next weekend, the room should have all it's furniture in place. We even have the bedding, so I can't wait to see that in the room. I just love seeing projects come together! Yesterday, we spent four hours at Babies R Us registering. I was so exhausted, and we aren't even done! Who knew a tiny little baby needs so much stuff? I hope it all fits in our condo...

We also started our series of baby classes this past week. The first one was baby care basics and this coming week's class we get to learn how to bathe, swaddle, change a diaper, etc. I can't wait to see Kelly do all those things. I bet (hope) he'll be a natural at it! This week we start a five-week session of childbirth prep classes. I'm kind of nervous because I'm sure they are going to show us all the scary stuff too! Oh well, I guess that's just part of it!

Happy 2010!

This is my first post for 2010...I can't believe it's already here! I hope everyone had a nice New Year's. Ours was pretty mellow. Kelly had to work New Year's Eve night, but we did celebrate with the east coast at 9 p.m. before Kelly had to leave for work. I made some appetizers, we had some of my ice cream birthday cake and we toasted with sparkling apple cider. With a New Year's kiss, off went Kelly to work and my mom and I watched Julie & Julia. It was a cute movie and was glad to finally see it. Once the movie ended I went to get read for bed figuring I would lay in bed and watch the countdown shows. Well, the next thing I knew it was almost 1 a.m. and I had fallen asleep with my glasses on. Go figure!

I started the New Year by making Pannetone French Toast (which was absolutely yummy) and watching the Rose Parade with my mom. But I must mention that I did wake up to a beautiful bouquet of red roses! I walked down the stairs in the morning and saw that Kelly had placed the flowers with a "Happy New Year!" note for me to see. What a wonderful husband and way to start the new year! Now back to the rest of the day. We watched the Rose Bowl game, although it was painful to watch without USC playing. Then we went over to Kelly's sister's house. We didn't get to see them at Christmas, so we finally got together for a Christmas, New Year's and birthday party. Kelly and I had a blast playing with our niece and nephew until late.

We spent the rest of the weekend running errands, shopping, picking out baby stuff and celebrating my cousin Judy's birthday with a girls' brunch. We finally decided on furniture for the baby's room and we purchased the bedding. We still need to go back and order the furniture, but the baby's room isn't even ready for it. Remember all those plans I had to organize the office and get the baby room ready over my week and a half off of work? Well, I spent one day doing it and of course didn't get it all done. But now that we'll have the furniture this weekend and we know what color we're going to paint since we purchased the bedding, I'm on fast mode....hopefully! I'll keep you updated and post some photos of our progress.

Christmas Wrap-Up

Just like that, Christmas 2009 is over! Although this year was definitely not like any other. Christmas Eve was fine, Kelly had to work that afternoon and evening. So, I ran some last minute errands and snuck in a mani/pedi. Then I spent the evening prepping a yummy Christmas breakfast to have ready for Kelly when he got home. Well, the intention was there, but by 5 a.m. Christmas morning I was sick. I woke up on my 33rd birthday with the stomach flu. So, I spent the rest of the day on the couch. What a great birthday/Christmas, huh? By night time I was starting to feel better, thank goodness!

December 26 I finally managed to get out of the house. Kelly and I met my Nino and Aunt Diane at Babies R Us to look at some nursery furniture. We then went over to my Uncle Max's house for his birthday/family Christmas gathering. I went with my can of chicken noodle soup, but at least I was feeling much better and was able to see my family.

By Sunday I was back to eating again. Before going to South Coast Plaza, we went to Bergstroms to look at some more furniture. We found a crib and changing table we liked, so that will probably be the one we end up with. From there we celebrated my birthday with lunch at The Clubhouse and walked around South Coast. We ended the afternoon by saying good-bye to my Nino and Aunt Diane as they headed to the airport to fly back home. At night, Robin and her boyfriend Pasqual came over. Robin brought my birthday cake she made for me, we went out to eat and then played one of the new board games we got for Christmas.

Since I was cheated on my birthday, I celebrated again on Monday. My mom took Kelly and I to The Melting Pot for lunch. It was yummy and I ate way too much! Now it's back to the swing of things and getting ready for the nursery. My mom and I spent the day yesterday working on the office. Although we worked all day, I feel like I have so much still to do. Oh well, I better get off the couch and get back to it...