We had our gender reveal for our close family and friends last week and it was successful! With everyone excited to know what the gender was they all arrived on time lol. It seemed like everyone guessed for baby to be a girl (me included)...either way we were all surprised!
Nobody knew the gender before the reveal which made it even more exciting...so without further ado...
Thank you everyone who attended our little reveal and a special thank you to Justin for capturing these wonderful photos!
Now to mentally prepare to have a house full of boys...let the adventure begin :)
I haven't been very good at keeping a progress photo of baby, so here we are last week at 19 weeks.
Symptoms this week are still headaches, but they have gotten so much better ever since I turned to alcohol acupuncture. I've had 2 of my good friends recommend acupuncture to me recently and they both had amazing results from it. I really had nothing to lose at this point. I was getting multiple headaches daily. They were debilitating and began affecting me at work. I tried taking Tylenol, upping my water intake, you name it I did it. Now after finishing my second week of treatment I can definitely tell that my headaches have decreased tremendously. My insomnia has gotten much better as well. Over the past few months I would just randomly wake up in the middle of the night and have a hardest time falling back to sleep. It sucks so bad, because I have to wake up so early in the morning for work. Growing a baby is tough business!
We have our gender reveal party today and we can't wait to see everyone and find out what baby will be!!
We had our anatomy ultrasound yesterday where they check baby from head to toe take measurements and make sure baby is growing properly. We decided last minute to bring Brandon with us and we are so happy that we did. Along with mommy and daddy he was very excited to see what baby looked like.
We had a wonderful tech she was so good to Brandon and was even better at not dropping any hints.
We woke up late Saturday morning to howling winds outside. I took a quick trip to the bathroom before I decided to make breakfast. As I was sitting there the lights went out...good thing I was just going pee! The first thing that went through my mind was 'Oh man did we forget to pay our electricity bill??' my next thought was maybe it was just Josh fooling around with the power, but quickly realized that my husband has no handy bone in his body, so I knew that we just lost power.
We made plans that day to attend Ryan's birthday party. I spoke with Merrie that morning and it looked like the power was still on and they still had power. Brandon was super worried that the party was cancelled, but I assured him that it was still on...
On the way to the party I get a text from Merrie saying that they had just lost power. The party was scheduled to start in 30 minutes! Thankfully Ryan's birthday was baseball themed so most of the food were being prepared on the grill and the weather was on our side, so it was easy to move the party outside!
The kids had a blast playing outside and halfway through the party the kids got a big surprise. A fire truck pulled up to the cul-de-sac! I guess one of the neighbors called because they were worried about one of the trees falling over. The firefighters were kind enough to let the kids sit in the truck and handed out hats for the kids to keep. It was awesome! Talk about epic party! Brandon still talks about that fire truck! Happy birthday, Ryan and thank you for the amazing party!
Here we are entering our second trimester. I'm surprised how quickly it's gone by especially with all the not-so-fun symptoms I've experienced. I'm no longer feeling nauseous thank the lord... Still feeling tired though, but am randomly getting spurts of energy here and there which is a nice change!
Baby is a size of a
I just love this new app! I remember when I was pregnant with Brandon my theme was fruits. These pastries are just too cute and fitting now that I have a major sweet tooth!
Yesterday baby got to experience his/her first ever Seahawks game. Although we lost it was still great to spend time with Nikki and Annie. It's always a treat when I'm with them. Thank you Nikki for the invite. It was a great kickoff to what I feel will be another amazing season and an even better trimester! Go Hawks!
I've realized that I haven't really updated on our new baby on the way. We are thrilled to start another new adventure in our lives. Josh and I were talking about how we get to experience another round of '1st' again. First smile, first time rolling over, and first time walking. Those were all the milestones that we loved with Brandon and know that it will still be as exciting if not more this time with Brandon experiencing it with us.
Baby is going to be 14 weeks tomorrow and is currently a size of a
So cute! What's not so cute was how hard this first trimester was. This pregnancy is different in every way for me. I was more sick this time around. That was what triggered me to take a pregnancy test the second time... Well that and realizing I was 2 weeks late for
my period. My bump also made an a super early appearance this time which I was a little self conscious about, because fitting out of your normal pants after only being 8 weeks pregnant is super normal right?! We announced our news a little early this time, cause I couldn't hide my bulge anymore, oh and I quickly realized wearing a sweater in the middle of summer makes people wonder even more. I also got the 'oh my gosh you look pregnant, but don't want to ask you cause maybe I could be wrong' look 👀 A LOT! I usually would just tell them just to save the awkwardness.
Along with the nausea and awkwardly getting big super fast... I'm also super tired, always, all the time, every second. I'm sure that raising a toddler also plays a big role in why I wanna take a nap under my desk at work sometimes. Any day that I can get a nap in is a great day. I am super thankful that Brandon still naps. The best thing he says to me lately is 'Hey mommy, wanna go upstairs and relax?' Oh my sweet little Brandon. Yes, a thousand times, YES!
Brandon's new favorite show is currently The Octonauts.
So he's been very curious about anything that swims. Josh and I are currently being challenged on our marine biology knowledge. Which we have realized is not so well. This week Brandon has been really wanting us to take him to the aquarium. The last thing you ever want to do as a parent is to disappoint your child, but with our crazy schedule it just wasn't going to happen. So we decided to take him to our local petsmart and carkeek park! Petsmart have a huge section of fish, frogs, and turtles to look at. He was pretty excited about it.
We also decided to take him to carkeek park where they had this awesome salmon slide that he loved!
It was a great day yesterday. We were sad that we had to cut it short cause Josh had to go to work, but non the less it was a great afternoon!
Lately I can't help but think that this little boy is going to be someone's big brother. Dearest little person in my belly, you are in for a treat 😘
Welp, my doc wasn't very happy with me during our last visit with her. She wasn't very happy with the weight I've gained since I've been pregnant. WHOOPSY! She did not buy the 'I just got back from vacation' excuse. So she asked me to take an early glucose test. I remember looking over at Josh and we both had the hand-in-the-cookie-jar guilty looks on our faces. Well I think it's also safe to say that's what got me in to this mess in the first place. Too many sweets for this girl! 🙊 I never used to crave sweets when I was pregnant with Brandon. This pregnancy has been so completely different in every way. More bad than good I'm sad to say. Oh well, I'm still trying to enjoy this pregnancy as it may be my last one (according to josh).
I went in this early morning just to get it over with. I'm a very superstitious person, so I fasted again this time even though it's not asked that you do and I even picked the same flavor drink as last time. I was trying to get luck on my side as much as possible! As I was sitting there trying to pass the time by reading my book, I had this nervousness inside me that got worse as time passed. I also began feeling nauseous ugh! It doesn't take much for me to feel nauseous nowadays. Nausea has been my biggest problem this time. It's pretty intermittent and will usually go away before I feel the need to hurl! Although there has been a hand full of times when i had to visit the toilet boo! I'm really trying to soldier up since my second trimester is quickly approaching and I just don't want to be that whiney pregnant chick.
Anyway, I just received my glucose test not to long ago and I am so happy to say that I PASSED! I still have to take the standard one when I get into my 3rd trimester, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there! But for now 'Let them eat cake!' 😉
We left early Friday morning for our first family trip to Disneyland. Our last family vacation was to Hawaii about 3 years ago. So this trip was very much overdue.
He was so happy to see the planes
The last time we took off for the same flight I was pregnant with Brandon ;)
Brandon did well on the flight. He fell asleep shortly after we took off and the last half he kept himself entertained with his bag of toys and 2 trips to the bathroom.
We were accompanied bay Josh's family, Marcus, and Debbie. We stayed with Joshua's Aunt Elsa in her beautiful house located about 45 min away from Disneyland. His family from the Trias/Perea/Arayata were also there as well. We were able to see a few of them, but it was tough with the others as our schedules conflicted.
Our first day of Disneyland everyone was super excited. I've been to Disneyland many times, but seeing your child experience Disneyland for the first time just blows all of those trips out of the water.
His 3 ride of the day!
Happy 60th birthday Disneyland!
Selfie with Dad and Ninong Marcus in the background going down Splash Mountain
Josh was super proud of his family vacation shirt
Dole whips
Half way through our first day a huge thunderstorm came through and stuck around for a few hours... This really threw a wrench in the gears. So this kinda forced us to take lunch break and Brandon conveniently decided to take a 2 hour nap during the downpour.
So we decided to just buy ponchos and soldier up! The person that we were most worried about dealing with the rain (Brandon) was the one who didn't mind the rain one bit. This was such a huge relief!
Daddy was not very happy with the rain
We got to ride all of the rides we wanted except Peter Pans flight. The line was averaging about an hour! We had another day to spend at the park so we decided to save that for our last day!
Oh, we also had to add the parades and fireworks for the last day too as they were cancelled due the stupid the rain.
So we spent the next day relaxing and spending time with our so cal family, cause we knew we had a long day ahead of us the next day!
It was an extra special day today because Josh's boss gave him the day off! He was originally supposed to work all day, so we didn't really make any plans other than making him the traditional Father's Day breakfast.
We all slept in and made plans to pick up some lunch and bring it to Greenlake. The weather was perfect for it! We had a nice little picnic, played with bubbles, and topped it off with some ice cream!
For dinner we went over to Joshua's parents and enjoyed a wonderful summer dinner out in their huge patio!
On Sunday the girls and I had our very first garage sale! My friend Merrie was the one who coordinated and hosted the whole thing! We didn't really know what to expect from this garage sale, but we decided that the funds would just go toward our next little getaway to Whidbey Island. The weather was amazing, Merrie has a huge yard where the kids ran and played. They even got to set up a little lemonade stand which had very loose operational hours. I think they were open for 2 minutes at a time... when they would be waiting for someone to come they would flip their sign to closed and come running back once they had a customer. It was pretty funny! I'm also pretty certain that they drank most of their lemonade.
Overall it was a very successful we were surprised to how many people actually came! We figured that we probably had 60 people come through! I think that this is going to be the first of many WCP garage sales!
