Start of Week 37

Today is the first day of week 37, four weeks to go. However my most recent ultrasound measures the baby at 8 days further along than expected, he could come a week early. That would put the new estimated due date on May 11th, which happens to be Beto's birthday! The estimated weight at birth is 6 pounds, 10 ounces. I have another Dr. appointment today, I'll let you know if anything new comes up.

I am officially on maternity leave from work, started yesterday. We have some record-breaking , bizarre heat wave going on right now. It was 94 here yesterday. I went out to lunch yesterday for my birthday, with my bosses and co-worker. Then quickly went back home to the comfort of central air. Supposed to just as hot today. I'm meeting my Dad for lunch.

I attended my last baby shower on Saturday at Cathy's house. Yummy food - caesar salad, Aunt Leannie makes a mean macaroni salad and Aunt Nancy made some delicious, fancy sandwiches. I had the turkey/cranberry on raisin bread and a piece of the pesto-mozarella-tomato sandwich, both great. We played a couple games. Like this evil one below where everyone cuts a piece of string to the size that they think I am around. Mom and Aunt Ana cut almost identical pieces, Mom won. Some others would have wrapped around me three times!!! Geesch.


Sunday was my birthday and Beto, Ron and I went to the Giants game. What a beautiful day, due to the previously mentioned heat wave, it was 88 in the City. We had perfect seats, the last row of the view box so the wall directly behind us cast a welcome bit of shade. Giants won!

Peek-a-Boo

I had an ultrasound yesterday and I got a shot of Max's face. Definitely has the Tapia side big forehead and I think he has my nose! You can't tell in this shot but
the tech lady said he already has hair too. 5 weeks left.....come out already!

"I can't see it" How to view.....the picture is head on. At the top of the pic, left of middle is the white egg shape of his forehead. Then under that, to the left is the shaded area of his eye, to the right of that his nose and directly below his lips. He looks like his lips are puckered. Can you see it now ?

The Orange Family

Here's some of our Home Depot family from Baby Shower #2. I don't know where I was for either of these pictures but apparently I wasn't invited. Just kidding. My co-worker and cubemate, Kristin (not pictured) set up and arranged everything for this shin-dig.

We played a game where a team of 3 had to make a diaper on one of the team members with rolls of toilet paper.



Beto and I won, I can make a mean toilet paper diaper.


Complete with doodie (it was mustard).



The cake was made of individual cupcakes, very cute.

And of course, presents for the baby.

Week 34 & a Wedding

Beto and I went to a wedding today of one of our co-workers. The wedding was on a HornBlower Yacht on the Bay, we departed out of the Berkeley Marina.

As you can see, my belly is getting HUGE! Finding a dress was not fun, everything looked like a tent. Beto was part of the wedding party, hence the hot pink, Playboy Bunny tie. It was a small wedding, maybe 40 people, 10 of those being the wedding party, hahahaha! We spent about 4 hours on the Bay and I couldn't help myself when we got near the GG Bridge. I took a lot of pictures. Here are a couple....

I like the one on the right, we were just about to go under the bridge.

I took more scenery pictures than I did of the wedding, oops.

So....how's things? I'm doing good, my belly is getting heavy and sleeping is become increasingly more difficult. There's just NO comfortable position. I still have to sleep inclined to attempt to reduce the heartburn, on my side with a pillow under my belly because the weight of it makes me roll forward and tweak my back. Due to the growing size of my belly, I can't eat as much, it's harder to breathe and I pee a lot. There's only so much room in there and everyone tells me these last weeks are when I'm going to grow the most. I don't know where it's all gonna go!



One more pic...Beto looks nice. I look seasick, but I'm not.

The number of the month is 8, mawah-ah-ahhhh !

So begins month 8, only 8 weeks left. Wait a minute....8 WEEKS, so much still to do !!

In the span of the next 8 weeks:

• Spring will start
• Baby shower #2 will have come and gone
• I'll go to at least 6 Dr. appointments
• The Easter Bunny will have visited
• I will go on LOA :)
• Baby shower #3 will have come and gone
• I'll celebrate my birthday
• Mom's birthday
• Beto's 40th birthday
• Mother's Day

You ever get that overwhelmed feeling when you have so much to do that you don't know where to start, so you don't do anything at all? I'm there. And he's not even here yet, I'm in trouble.

Jimenez Baby Shower - 3/7/09

Beto's family threw us our first baby shower this past Saturday in Los Angeles. We drove down on Friday...

Here's a pic from lovely I-5, the cherry trees are in bloom. The drive wasn't too bad, got to Magic Mountain in just over 4 hours. But then true to it's form, the LA traffic snarled us for the next 2 1/2 hours. We finally made it to our turn off in West Covina just before 9 o'clock. We were hungry and the lakers were playing so we set out to find sumfin' to eat and watch the 2nd half of the game. Little did we know that it was "National Dine Out Day" in West Covina. I've never seen lines to eat out like this. The sushi place we initially had intended on going had such a long wait, that the hostess couldn't even estimate how long it would take to be seated beyond saying "a long time". We left there and tried Red Lobster across the way. It too was packed to it's fishy gills. WTF?! It's 9 o'clock, why are there so many people out? So, we walked next door to Black Angus, sat at the bar and had dinner there. Absolutely ridiculous, apparently people in West Covina don't cook at home. We were both tired from the drive and retired early.

Saturday was the day of the Baby shower...we went out to breakfast to satisfy one of my new pregnancy cravings....IHOP pancakes. Yumm. Did some last minute running around for the party and it started at 1pm. Beto's sister, Liz and his Aunt Vicky planned everything. It was held at Liz's Community Center room where she lives. It was a big room, adjacent to the swimming pool and a pretty view of the valley.

Here's a shapshot of the room with the familia. We were entertained by Aunt Vicky and her never-ending list of baby shower games. She was the life of the party. The games included wearing a doodie diaper which Beto so graciously inaugurated.

We also played baby name bingo, had a baby food eating contest, which I won by the way. I always did like baby food :) Aunt Vicky kept the day flowing and never was there a dull moment. I can't thank her enough.

Of course there was cake and cupcakes. Beto wore a fake belly all day, take a look....

And , oh the gifts!! Everyone was so generous, Max is going to the best dressed baby EVER!

We all had a great time. Thanks to everyone who came and helped us celebrate!

Week 30 !!

Just started week 30, only 10 more weeks to go. I'm convinced he's coming early. Don't know why, maybe wishful thinking, maybe because he's running out of growing room. So I'm putting it to blog right now, I say May 12th (original due date May 19th).



He has been very active this week, lots of movement. Which is a very bizarre feeling let me tell you. Monday evening was especially uncomfortable. He had one of his limbs wrapped around the right side of my body, under my rib cage. You could feel it from the outside. And you can feel when something pokes out. I don't know if it's his feet, or his head, or his bootie, but I get this strange, hard lump that protrudes from my mis-shapen belly, usually just to the left of my belly button. It's the weirdest thing ever. I feel like Sigorney Weaver in Aliens.

So send me your due date predictions, we'll see who comes closest.

This is a picture I found on the web, it's NOT me, but this is what it feels like.