Ultrasound Pictures

So most of you know by now that we are having another little girl. I scanned in some of the ultrasound pictures last night so here they are...although they are not as great quality as in person but you get the idea:

Here is the "hamburger" shot or the very clear girl picture:



Here is one foot:



Here is the other foot:



Here is the spine and and back/body shot...I was a little worried about the spine b/c I kept throwing up my prenatal vitamins in the 1st trimester but as you can see it looks good:



And here is a profile picture. Her little fist is up by her face (the little round spot floating above her nose) so clearly she has the "chipmunk" in her...Hannah has my finger pointing down so I guess this one has my fist down. :)



We compared Hannah's ultrasound profile to this little girl's profile and I think they look identical...I will have to scan Hannah's in so my blog readers can make the judgment for themselves...I don't know why I didn't think to do that last night, oh well pregnancy brain! :)

Mini Vacation

This past weekend we flew down to the Burbank Airport (hella ghetto and old) b/c Adam this year has been chosen to be a part of the Grand Lodge of California Officer line and this weekend was a family gathering and welcome of all the future Officers of California. It was fun to get out of the Sacramento Area and fun b/c the trip was all paid for and not by us! :)

It was also fun because Hannah has not been on a plane since she was 9 months old so it was an adventure too. I was pretty confident that she would do well and she did! She loved it! Adam even managed to get her car seat to fit on the airplane seat and so it was like she had a booster seat and she could see perfectly outside. She loved it when the plane took off and banked and turned, she said it was like a roller coaster!

Here she is having a snack on the airplane:


In Burbank you get off the plane outside so here is Hannah posing for a picture with our plane:


We were staying at the Hyatt in Santa Clarita and it was nice! We got there around noon, had a nap, or I should say tried to but with no luck b/c Hannah slept for about 1/2 hour in the car on the way to the hotel. After we "rested" we had a welcoming social hour with goodies and then had time to go swimming at the hotel pool before dinner.

Here is Hannah swimming with her Daddy:


And Hannah going under water which she does non stop!! She is obsessed with it!


And making new friends with some of the other kids of the Masons who are going to be Officers this year:


She fell in love with this 11 year old girl named Grace and the two were cute buddies because Grace loves little kids. So that is nice to know that she will get to see her a lot over the course of the year.

After dinner we were all going to the production of "Grease" at the local community college. It was at 8pm and I was worried about how late it was but really wanted to take Hannah b/c I knew she would love it. She was starting to fade before the musical started but as soon as the curtains went up and the singing and dancing started her eyes popped wide open, she sat up straight on my lap, and she couldn't get enough. By intermission it was 9:15pm and she was clearly tired and I kept saying she should go home with Adam to the hotel to sleep but she would not budge, she wanted to stay. Adam I think would have preferred to go home, but no luck, Hannah is a "Grease" fan like me. :) About 2 songs into the second part of the musical Hannah finally gave in and went home with Adam. She was exhausted! Especially since she only had a 1/2 hour nap that day and many adventures. Adam said she did not wake up when he took her out of the car or put her down in bed...she was out!

The next day she woke up at 7am (even with the dark curtains in the room!) and off we went to breakfast. There they presented all the kids with hand made totes with each of their names on them that one of the older ladies had made and Hannah was so excited! After she got hers she came running back to me as if though she had just won a million dollars. The lady who made them said the look on Hannah's face was worth all the effort she put into them. Of course this was the only time I forgot my camera in the room and someone is suppose to email me a picture of all the kids with their totes, so as soon as I have it I will post it.

Next we had a brief meeting and had to leave Hannah and all the kids with some babysitters (Hannah and I were both traumatized...she recovered quickly as she always does, I on the other hand cried in the meeting to talk about what is coming up this year). I happily left the meeting after only about one hour and a half though so Hannah and I could get a short nap in. After our hour nap, which Hannah had to be waken up from...poor thing we were off to the house of the Grand Master of California for next year for a BBQ and more swimming! Here are some pictures from that:





Hannah and her buddy Grace again:



And after all that we headed back to the airport to catch our flight back. Hannah fell asleep in like the last few minutes of the flight just as we were landing...


She was exhausted! She only slept for like 5 minutes but that recharged her for the ride home. On the ride home we got to see this lovely sunset:


And we also passed a truck and saw a not so lovely thing. On the back of this truck were two big white boards and one said "Be a flirt, flip your skirt" and the other said "Whip it out Wednesday". I was so in shock that it didn't even occur to me to take a picture of that for proof until after we passed the horn ball. Which by the way as we passed him he had another sign in his side front window that said "Flash Friday" and he was looking out the window at us with a big creepy smile...yuck!! It totally reminded me of the horn ball trucker in the movie "Thelma and Louise" that they kept running into and in the end they blow up his truck. So gross.

Anyway, Hannah went to sleep at 9pm last night finally and didn't wake up this morning until 9am!! Which for those for those of you that know Hannah, a 9am wake time is unheard of! Clearly this girl was super tired and so I let her sleep and was quite late to work. She woke up at 9am in a cheery mood and was giving Tulip lots of attention...I think the two missed each other this weekend:

Jamin' with Music Matt

Music Matt (www.musicmatt.com) is a a guy who plays rock n' roll like music for kids, and I swear the kids can't get enough of him. If you have ever been to a performance of his there are all these little kids running around and dancing just like at an adult rock concert. In fact 2 years ago Hannah even flashed him at a concert of his at "Celebrate Davis"...it was a proud moment...yeah right!

Anyway, he comes to Hannah's school each week to teach music lessons, which you have to pay for and you have to be at least 3 years old. Hannah and I have observed a few of these classes in the past and I have been waiting for her to turn 3 so that I can sign her up b/c she loves music and she loves Music Matt. Yesterday when I came to pick her up I couldn't find her anywhere on the playground. One of the teachers came up to me and said she is in the Music Matt class today b/c apparently Hannah came running up to him when he walked through the door and was so excited to see him that he thought she was "cool" and so he took her to his lesson. So I went to the preschool room where his lesson was going on and it was just finishing. The kids were all getting their stickers at the end of class and having a great time...they had just learned about the tuba. After class I thanked Music Matt for letting Hannah join and double checked again that she needed to be 3 to be in the class. He looked at me with a puzzled look and said "She is not 3 yet!". Obviously I said no, that she would be 3 in October. He said she is welcome to join now b/c she does much better in his class then some of the older kids and he loves to have her. Apparently when he walked in she came running up to him like he was an old friend of hers and she was all excited to see him and that is what he thought she was really cool. Our Hannah...I swear that girl is so friendly. So we now have her signed up for Music Matt and she can jam with Music Matt every week. Yay!

So Proud

I am so proud of my little Hannah Banana. At her Montessori school they have a different theme each month and this month it was the ocean. Each month they have many "jobs", as the Montessori way calls it, which are basically learning areas all around the classroom for the kids to work on which relate to the month's theme (they call them jobs b/c mom & dad go to a job so they have jobs to do too).

Anyway, yesterday after I picked her up and we were at home she said to me that one of the jobs was missing a fish and it was "So, so, so, so, so very sad" (yes, she said "so" that many times). She also had the cutest sad look on her face while she said this. I was a little confused so I asked her to clarify. She told me Miss Veronica (a teacher) was showing them how the job worked and she realized a fish was missing and it was so very sad. I agreed with her that is was sad and she said it was lost or someone took it, to which I again agreed with her that it was sad. She then said in a very excited voice, "I bring my fish to school for the job!". I wondered what she meant and she ran off all excited and said "I show you!". She went into one of her many tubs of toys and pulled out a little plastic fish that belongs to her A-Z collection of plastic toys that she has had forever...although this fish is an "X" animal and it is called and x-ray fish...it is clear and you can see the fish bones inside...I know very strange. Anyway, she said she wanted to bring her fish to school to replace the missing fish for this particular job. I told her that was really sweet but that she didn't have to do that because it was her fish. Nope, she wanted to give it to her school, and she was so excited about it. I was so proud of her b/c I had not even brought the subject up or hinted that she could do that, hell I didn't even think about it! She thought of this very kind and generous act on her own!

So this morning she asked me like 10 times if we had the fish for school and when we got to school the first thing she showed me was the job with the missing fish. There are other little plastic animals there, such as a whale, a seahorse, etc and you are to match the plastic animal with the written word for each animal. Hannah's fish is huge compare to these other animals but it doesn't matter, she donated it. She told several teachers and they were very appreciative that she did that. Again I was so proud of her that I almost cried.

Dumb Dog

Tulip I swear is so annoying sometimes. Like when we let her out to run in the backyard and the drip system is going and she thinks for some reason it is something she must attack. I mean come on! It is slow dripping water and the dog goes nuts over it! I get her away from one drip line and she runs to another one and starts diving at it with her nose and paws thinking I am going to get you you slow dripping water! Stupid ass! Yesterday she lost her outdoor running privileges with me in the morning because not only was she attacking the drip lines but then she started digging at them and that was when I yanked her inside.
Another annoying thing she does try to attack the dog on the other side of our fence through our fence! Both Tulip and this other dog, which is a yellow lab, are not out in their respective back yards all the time, but rather get let out there to run around, have fun, and do their business from time to time. Well if it so unfortunately happens that both Tulip and this other dog are there are the same time you would think there was a dog cage fight going on with the snarling and growling and clawing at the fence that goes on between these two dogs. We cannot get Tulip off the fence until we go and yank her off of it...again stupid dog. Does she really think she is going to get through the fence at this other dog? Apparently so.
On the other hand, she does really cute things like sit or lay in front of Hannah's door in the morning patiently waiting for her to get up. And when she hears her wake up she sits up with excitement, wags her tail, and can't wait to be let into the room to say good morning to her. Also if you go into bathroom, Tulip will also lay outside the door waiting for you, or perhaps guarding the door for you until you come out. There are many other sweet things she does but sometimes the above stupid and annoying things drive me crazy!

Baby Update

I had my doctor's appt yesterday and guess what?! My uterus is measuring 19 or 20 weeks vs. 16 1/2 weeks. This is nothing new to me as the exact same thing happened to me with Hannah. I told my nurse that my theory on this is that my torso is so short that this baby and uterus have no where to go but out which is why now with 2 pregnancies I measure bigger then I should. She said that could be a possibility...I am certain of it. This also makes me feel better as I feel huge for how far along I am, so at least I am measuring bigger which gives me justification to feel huge.

While at the appt. we also listened to the rapid heartbeat of this little one and at one point this baby gave off quite a kick! You could hear it in the speaker of the heart monitor and I could definitely feel it in my bladder...ouch! That I would have to say was the first real true movement I have felt from this little one. Up until now I have felt those little flutters which I am pretty sure are the baby but you never know if it is just indigestion or gas. :)

I also had to go get my blood drawn for the alpha-feta protein test which is done around now...this is the test that Hannah tested a false positive for spina-bifida,which freaked us out for several weeks during my pregnancy with her. So I still wanted to get this test done this time but I am bracing myself for a phone call at work like I received last time with crappy, but hopefully wrong news. Or lets just hope I don't get a phone call at all! One thing that sucked was I had to wait 1 hour and 30 minutes before I was even seen in the lab and I also had to give them a urine sample so I was about to burst when they finally saw me! The first thing I said was give me the cup so I can go pee!

Last but not least, our ultrasound it scheduled for August 14th at 9am to find out how this baby is growing and if it is a boy or a girl. That is about 3 weeks away and I cannot wait!

Big 4th of July Weekend

We had so much fun this 4th of July weekend (get ready for a lot of pictures). We all took the day off on the 3rd and headed down to the Bay Area for some much needed cooling off. On Thursday the 3rd we went to the Giants Game in SF with Hannah...it was her first game and it was so much fun! We took the ferry from Larkspur and that dropped us off right at the stadium. Hannah had a great time rooting for the Giants although a few times she said "Go Aggies...Aggies are #1!"...I guess she is pre-programed. :) She kept asking why the catcher was squatting and she loved the Giants mascot, a seal. His actual name is "Lou Seal" and of course we had to meet him which we were lucky enough to find him right outside the "Build a Bear" factory in the stadium where we happened to be building non other then Lou Seal himself so Hannah got an autographed version:



Then Hannah also had a chance to "run the bases" at the park...another kid activity there. She hit a ball off of the t-ball stick and then Adam helped her run...it was lots of fun:



Round the bases!:


And a homerun!!


I think we watched 4 or 5 of the total 9 innings at the game b/c there is just so much to do at that park. In the end the Giants won 8-3 against the Chicago Cubs...go Giants!

On a side note, Hannah is so friendly!!! I swear that girl made friends on the ferry, all over the baseball park and even standing in line at the bathroom!! I have no idea where she gets it from b/c Adam and I were super shy kids and I can't say that in situations were I don't know people I am too out going either. Hannah just makes friends with everyone...kids & adults alike...it is so fun to watch her just be a little social butterfly.

Then on the 4th we watched a 4th of July parade that just so happened to pass right in front of Adam's mom's house so we just had to walk outside. Adam's aunt, brother and Hannah's cousins came over and much fun was had by all. Hannah couldn't stop saying "Happy 4th of July/Happy Birthday" to just about everyone in the parade...again Miss Social Butterfly. Here is a little video of that(this video took quite a bit to get uploaded, but thanks to Paul I finally managed to get it on here...sorry that it is sideways I really was done with the technical stuff and didn't feel like fixing it, but you will get the point viewing it sideways...maybe turn your head):



Here is a picture of Hannah & I in our matching shirts...we went shopping at Walmart the day before...$3 for my shirt and $2.50 for Hannah's! What a deal!





Also right next to Adam's mom's house was a fair that we checked out after nap time. Then that evening we went to the end of Tiburon to watch the fireworks in SF. Too bad the fog was in and we could only see the really high fireworks...at least Hannah wasn't afraid this year and "ooohed and ahhhed" like a pro. On the down side it was like 10pm when the fireworks were done and Hannah was beyond trashed. She just cried in the car for like 15 minutes while we were stuck in fireworks viewing traffic...good times. I couldn't help but laugh...I know I am horrible mom.

Here is a picture of Hannah getting all snuggly with her Uncle Scotty before the fireworks (do you see how bundled they are...I am dreaming of that cool weather right now!):



Watching the fireworks from Uncle Scotty's lap:



And the traditional silly Mommy/Hannah picture (about 5 minutes before the big meltdown):



By the way I was really excited to try out my new "fireworks" feature on my camera...this is the best shot I got...pretty sad:



Maybe it would work better if we were a little closer...guess I will have to wait until next year to try that out.

The next day we trucked it back up to the heat of Davis. Luckily the pool down the street was finally open...only about 2 months late! It was closed all last year because they were re-doing it and then it was suppose to open in May but that never happened...it just opened on the 4th of July. Hannah has become a little fish. She loves going under water and she loved all the fun water features:







So that was our adventuresome weekend. We were all super tired, but we had fun. :)