Baby Questionnaire

About The Father:

• Name?: Manuel
• Age?: 26
• Are you still together?: Married 4yrs

About Your Pregnancy:

• Is this your first pregnancy?:No, 2nd
• When did you find out you were pregnant?: Oct29
• Was it planned?: YES!
• What was your first reaction?: OMGoodness, SERIOSULY...finally
• Who was with you when you found out?: I was still sitting on the potty texting
• Who was the first person you told?: He ironically texted me asking "what's for lunch?" and I replied, "a possible pregnancy"
• How did your parents react?: Excited of course, they had been waiting
• How far along are you? 13wks
• What was your first symptom?: nausea & diharrea
• What is your due date?:July4th
• Do you know the sex of the baby?: Not yet
• If so, what is it?:
• Have you picked out names?: We have a few in mind
• If so, what are they?: Ailea/Audrina Nicky OR Max/Manuel Anthony
• How much weight have you gained?: uhmmm
• Do you have stretch marks?:from the first one yes
• Have you felt the baby move? I kinda sorta think I feel fluttering in there...
• Have you heard the heartbeat?: Yes!

About the birth:

• Home or hospital birth?:hospital
• Natural or medicated birth?:I'm hoping for another natural birth
• Who will be in the delivery room with you?: Hubby
• Will you breastfeed?: I will try my hardest
• Do you think you'll need a c-section? I sure hope NOT!
• Will you cry when you hold the baby for the first time?: duh!
• What's the first thing you might say to him/her? "hi"
• Would you let someone videotape the birth?:no thank you
• Are you excited about the birth, or scared?: I'm ready!

[baby names]

So, a few weeks after we found out we were expecting. He started up with names, boys to be exact. Ever since we were pregnant with Leanna, he was loving the name, MAX! I wasn't at all into it. It reminds me of a dog and well...a friend of ours has the name for her son. But he is still all over that name and of course a JR.

I on the other hand keep thinking of girls names. SADLY, I wouldn't mind another drama queen. I wanted a boy at first but Leanna came along. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love her to pieces. SOoo...it's bizzaire to only consider girl names. At this point I love Audrina or Ailea. I don't know what's up with it starting with an "A", just coincidence. However, my SIL has 2 daughters (1yr old and 1mth old) whose names both start with "A". Plus, my sister has her almost 8mth old with an "A" as well.. Crazy, huh???

Whenever we came to the conclusion of naming Leanna, her middle name was another issue. He wanted to name her Alice (his mother's nickname) wahh..I opted with her Original name, Elisa! Which I absolutely adore. I sometimes want to call her (Leanna) that but I have the funny idea of calling her that once she is a teenager. Who knows if I'll stick with it. haha. When we decided to name our baby girl, Leanna Elisa. We agreed that since we are giving her, his mom's name as the middle name. THAT, if we had another girl, she would carry my mom's middle name, NICKY. [confused yet??]

With that said, thus far I like; Ailea Nicky OR Audrina Nicky. I have about..hmm...6 more months of thinking ...but then again, we'll the determine the sex soon enough. So we can narrow it down further more.....Whew.

Christmas 2008

It was an extremely exhausting day. For starters, I was awoken to no ones' blame (hmmm)
It was in the 8am hr. His watch alarm went on a little while after. I threw a hand at him since it startled me. We then started to chat and cuddle. A first in weeks. Since Leanna has been sleeping over in our room off/on for weeks! She woke soon after...soo much for cuddling. .LOL
We yelled "Merry Christmas, ho ho ho" and got her all wild up about opening gifts. She was ready! I had to give her a quick shower, do her hair up and daddy made us a quick breakfast. I wasn't in any rush to open gifts...hehe. We found the disney parade on and turned it off once we started with the gifts. Leanna went to town, she absolutely loved OPENING PRESENTS! She had soo many expressions and super cheesy smiles as she posed for the camera with each individual present. I got a few surprise presents, thanks to my man. I sure do hate surprised [seriously]. It upset him to see my disbelief! Cuz of course, I started to ruin the moment by pushing the item away and saying WHY!? I can't help it I didn't like surprised. LOL! We didn't do an extravagant amount of presents this year like last. We didn't really want to get Leanna toys. Since she has plenty, a room full. Plus, she doesn't even take a moment to pick u[p] after herself which is getting BEYOND annoying! So we have to work on that. After presents where opened, I was extremely exhausted, just tired. I had only been awake for nearly 2 hrs and I was already laying across the floor. HHAHA. We then just hung out with leanna and her new gifts, showing her how to use this and that. Watching TV. About noon, I started the preparations for our spectacular event, our first Turkey feast ever!!! It turned out gREAT and I'm still disgustingly FULL! Here are some pix of LEANNA the cheeziest kid I KNOW. haha

[Happiness is Me]

[Tuesday December 16, 2008] We went this morning for the first ultrasound. In order to determine how far along I was and the due date. Well, to my surprise it was pretty accurate to what we had already determined. I am 11weeks & 5 days. The due date is JULY 4TH!

It was rather instresting because, I've never had that type of ultrasound before. You can just imagine. Leanna saw the baby and I think she understood but then again who knows. We also saw the heart beating and even got to HEAR it! I was amazed and friggin HAPPY!!

After the ultrasound was completed, I began to mention my concerns for my morning sickness and such. He said hmm, possibly it's a boy since the symptoms are different from being pregnant w/Leanna. Then he said the heartbeat was slower, so there lies the possibility. We shall see....

Time Flies

So, it's been a few since i posted anything. I've been blogging on myspace rather than here. Hmmm...Let's see. As i sit here typing away, leanna is behind me dancing , shaking her thang to Beyonce's "single ladies". She refers to the songs as, the "UH-OH UH0H song". That's too hilarious!
Today has been a challenging day to say the least. It was one of the worst days of "morning sickness" thus far. I woke up rather early, due to his cell phone alarm going off & off. So, I was beyond annoyed. Leanna woke up about 10minutes later and since I had napped alot the day before. I was pretty awake&starving. I absolutely hate waking up feeling the starving sensations, it's disgusting!! blah blah. So, he finally made me some breakfast about 9ish. I ended up puking it out after 2 hrs or so. And after that the day feel to an utter disgust accompanied w/exhaustion! I managed through the day lounging on the couch in&out of naps and watching lil tv. I can't necessarily rest w/Leanna running wild and being obnoxiously loud. It's about 9pm and I still have a slight headache. Ok my keyboard is acting up and it's annoying me!!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

WOW, I've gotten quite a bit accomplished for this festive holiday!!! Let's see, we did some bargained Christmas shopping this past weekend! I purchased a few festive items yesterday along with items to make m y very own WREATH. I started with setting up by bar area with my holiday items, with candy in the jars (Chocolates&Peppermints). Then making the wreath was a tad challenging but I did it! It was my first time ever and it turned out pretty good. I'm PROUD! Today, I started off by cleaning the living room/dining room. I had to change out the fall table cloth with the Xmas tablecloth, vacuuming, rearranging..WHEW. Leanna was being a butthead but I cLeaned! The tree was purchased in the early evening today and we decorated. I still trying to figure out if I want to add more. I guess, I'll see once I get to the store and see what they have to offer. Uhmm...Next, wrapping the gifts we've gotten so far!! This year we opted for surpirses and basically told each other what we would like. I spent carelessly last month and in guilt said those ITEMS i purchased could count as my gifts. ahhaa. PLUS, I got what I was really wanting...a BABY growing in my belly and my favorite two along side! SO, I couldn't ask for anything more. Blah blah blah...He picked out his items, purchased. I was forced to pick something at the store..soooo..I shameless did. And I'm going to love it..HAHA!

In the search for a gift for myself. I found my Mommy-to-be handbag!
::ECSTATIC::

About a week n a half before Leanna was delivered, He surprised me with a handbag. I had been eyeing that handbag for about a mth, oohing and awwing over, A beautiful Dooney & Bourke...it was like $200 and something. To my COMPLETE surprise i got it ALONG with the matching wallet! SOOOoooo, I took it upon myself to make it a "MUST" and anxiously shared with him, my next D&B handbag, it was only $238. I didn't find the wallet there in store. But of course, I found it online, another $100 and something...So, I am anxiously awaiting for that..LOL!

I'm not materialistic, I PROMISE!