happy six months!

Already! Feels like the fastest six months ever!

While we're more busy than ever, the last six months have been a blur of happiness and joy. And it's gone by fast. Much like the morning she was born, actually.

But the six months since have been wonderful watching her grow and change. She's accomplishing all the things her brother did before, but we still find it amazing and awesome to experience.

She's rolling like crazy; if there were a professional sport for rolling, she might just win it. Sitting and playing with her toys and grabbing everything she can get her hands on; mostly to put in her mouth. Constantly wiggling around to see what's going on and engaging people with her flirty ways, charming everyone with her big smile (she's a huge hit at Alexander's preschool). And she's got her own special relationship with Alexander - giggling and laughing together over any silly things he does or says.

While we haven't traveled quite as much with her as we did with Alexander (we've been a bit busier after all), she's still managed to visit Arizona, various cities in California and had a delightful tour of her future alma matter, the University of California, where she'll be accepted 4 years after her brother; and had her first Zachary's as well (gotta start them early!).

While our lives are far busier than I think we expected, and our little house is more crowded than ever, there's absolutely nothing either of us would change about this beautiful, happy little girl.

The adventure has only gotten better.

mission control

the missile launch control panel of OB doctor offices. just looking for the place to insert the key and turn before launching baby!

it's a ...

Here we go again! Today we had our 5 month ultrasound for Olive. We had the same doctor as when we did this with Alexander (née Blueberry) and she was all business again. Seriously, if you're looking for an awesome perinatal diagnostic office, we couldn't recommend this doctor more. She's great. The doctor did the normal prodding and moving of the transducer to get the images we were dying to see and take all the measurements we wanted to know were good. In this case everything about Olive came out perfectly: weight was healthy at 13 ounces (same as her big brother!), head and brain big and smart like we expect, heart pumping strong, spinal cord good, hands, feet and limbs all where they should be and looking good. Olive was photogenic and active giving us great views and showing us her emerging gymnastics mastery.

Then we got this image.

IT’S A GIRL!

Alexander was right! He's been telling us for a few days now that it would be a girl. And like last time the doctor was very confident this was for sure.

Proud parents of a girl to be went and celebrated after with some fancy pastries... not as manly as last time, but every bit as yummy!

April 26, 2013

It's confirmed! and April 26, 2013 is our projected due date for our second baby.  She/he is almost 10 weeks old (the doctor said around 9 weeks 5 days - isn't modern technology amazing?! ha ha)!  We are so very excited (and a lil apprehensive) but mostly thrilled that we're adding another joy to our life (and that Alexander will have a sibling).  The doctor also mentioned that everything is measuring perfectly and that mommy's health is great! We haven't shared the news with our Blueberry, but he'll know soon enough!  At 9 weeks, the baby is approximately the size of an olive (at 10, a prune), so we're calling this one Olive. Here's the first picture:

it's a ...

So today we had our 5 month full body scan (the baby’s body, not Dina’s). Last night Dina remarked that she was nervous, and anxious, in a Christmas kind of way - excitedly waiting to find out! But first, something had to go horribly wrong. A whole circuit in the kitchen decided now was a good time to stop working and consequently, our refrigerator turned off. Thinking quickly, Philip unplugged everything (there was a most awesome sizzling sound coming from the panel, the kind that screams danger is imminent) and left to go pick up Dina and head to the doctor’s office.

The picture above is Dina waiting patiently while we stared at the cool technology around us and pondered why they would even put a Dell inside a medical office. I mean it didn’t even get used (like you’d expect anything else from a Dell).

The doctor came in and quickly got to work. All business and techie (in a medical way) the doctor didn’t quite exude personality, but she clearly knew what she was doing. Waving the magic wand (transducer, the technical term, she told us) we started seeing Blueberry for real.

Of course the kid looked good. I mean who doesn’t look good when rendered in ultrasonic waves?

The doctor preceded to poke, push and move the “transducer” around Dina’s belly, showing us different parts of the baby and Blueberry’s weight (a healthy 13 ounces); here’s the head, there’s the brain (big and smart!), here’s the heart (it was pumping correctly), there’s the spinal cord, all the hands, feet and limbs are in their places (and moving again!) and finally there’s this shot:

(arrow added by the doctor for quick identification)

It’s a boy!

So now we now know. Definitely, the doctor added (we think she actually said 100%)! Four months from now we’ll greet our new baby boy. Pretty darn exciting.

And in case your wondering, Dad swapped the circuit breaker in the panel and the refrigerator and all outlets are working again. He’s feeling especially manly right about now. So we’re going to go and kill us some meat or something (is there a tofu animal?).

So

today we had our 5 month full body scan (the baby’s body, not Dina’s). Last night Dina remarked that she was nervous, and anxious, in a Christmas kind of way - excitedly waiting to find out!

But first, something had to go horribly wrong. A whole circuit in the kitchen decided now was a good time to stop working and consequently, our refrigerator turned off. Thinking quickly, Philip unplugged everything (there was a most awesome sizzling sound coming from the panel, the kind that screams danger is imminent) and left to go pick up Dina and head to the doctor’s office.

The picture above is Dina waiting patiently while we stared at the cool technology around us and pondered why they would even put a Dell inside a medical office. I mean it didn’t even get used (like you’d expect anything else from a Dell).

The doctor came in and quickly got to work. All business and techie (in a medical way) the doctor didn’t quite exude personality, but she clearly knew what she was doing. Waving the magic wand (transducer, the technical term, she told us) we started seeing Blueberry for real.

tomorrow!

Tomorrow we have a big dr’s appointment! We’ll have the full ultrasound scan, which means we’ll find out if it’s going to be a boy or a girl!

In other news, Mom and Blueberry continue to do fine. They both did quite well at the heat and ‘rough’ living this past weekend, while camping.

In other news, Mom and Blueberry continue to do fine. They both did quite well at the heat and ‘rough’ living this past weekend, while camping.

Just so we’re all clear - there wasn’t a pregnant women drinking a beer in this picture, she’s just holding the bottle for me. Yes, it’s true. I was drinking two beers. When it’s 105 outside, you’d drink two as well! Unless, you’re pregnant, then you drink water or Hawaiian Punch.

Check back tomorrow for the news!