BABY GIRL!!!

This post is a little late, but YES it's a girl. I thought the baby was a boy the whole time... so I had a really big shock finding out it was a girl. About 10 minutes after we found out I was like... wow Dhrumil you will get to see how a girl evolves! :)

It went down like this... I was just getting over my bout of sickness, it was 8am and I was still a little out of it when we went to the Drs. We wanted the ultrasound woman to write down what the baby was on a card so we could find out together alone. We had this whole plan... go to the bookstore where we first hung out, I would open the card, take pictures of our reaction and then we'd go for lunch at the place we ate at right before we got engaged. Sweet and cheesy right? Well the ultrasound lady wouldn't have it. Granted I could have stuck up for our idea a little more, but as I said I was out of it. When we told her our idea she had a fit saying in 34 years she was never asked to write it down, asked us if we got the idea from a different country (again if I was in my right mind I would have found that offensive) and also said we wouldn't believe it if it was written on a card and we didn't see it on the screen (um who can even tell what the baby's parts are on that fuzzy screen anyways?!) So needless to say in order to avoid our experience being tainted even more we just said fine. I am sad that we have the sort of story, but when we found out the moment was beautiful and we both shed a tear. :)

I love how we're all looking down in this picture... including Willougby. :)

Sicky Mc-Sickster

Like my title? That has been my name for the past 2 weeks. I finally realized today I just need to go with it and get better. I have been trying to go to work all week but have only lasted a few hours at a time. Basically I started with a cold that led to coughing which led to me not being able to breath leading to the ER and an upper respiratory infection then onto my Dr. appointment yesterday which concluded I now have something worse than bronchitis but not quite pneumonia.

Being pregnant while sick really does extend it I think. I'm so thankful my mom was visiting this week from Indiana. She has been a great help and it has been nice having mommy around while I feel sick. :) Of course Dhrumil is a great help too, but no one is quite like your mom...

ANYWAYS hopefully I will be feeling better soon and get back to focusing on the baby growing in me and on doing all the fun stuff we have planned for the next few weeks. Before I got sick I was finally feel energy again and it was wonderful!! Also tomorrow we find out if the baby is a boy or girl and so I'M SO excited about that. :) We might go register if I feel up to it on Sunday.

Next post... boy or girl!?! Any guesses? :)

Newport RI - mini Babymoon

Since "babymoons" are all the rage right now I thought that's what I'd entitle the small trips we take before Baby Shah. About a month ago Dhrumil called me up in a small panic "we only have 6 months left so I've been buying tickets all day long." That made me happy and since we don't have enough vacation time to take a nice week long trip before the babe arrives, small weekend trips and events will suffice. It will be an adjustment when the baby is here to not be able to go anywhere at a drop of a hat, but I must say I have some wonderful examples from my friends who are quite mobile with their little ones.

So first on the list was Newport, RI. I have been wanting to go to Newport for a while since I love beauty and history... this town definitely has both. We stayed at a B&B and had quite the quirky woman as a host. :) One of the rooms in the house was filled with carrots... no joke. Fake of course but in every way you could imagine... ornaments, wall hangings, magnets, sculptures and so on. We were the youngest at the B&B by 50 years, but we had wonderful conversations with the other guests at breakfast. I was thankful to have a boost of energy that weekend and we were able to see a lot. The best part was walking hand in hand with my husband and just enjoying each other's company.

I have to say I still can't believe I have such a wonderful man in my life... still hard to grasp I found my other half. I still have those days where I'm like... wow I'm married... I'm old enough to have this life. And then BOOM wait I'm having a baby? Even though I wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember and even though we discussed the possibility of children for a while it's still so hard for me to grasp the reality that there is a baby growing inside of me. I feel like I have a new identity... future mom. I'm still me and yet I'm not. Working through all of these thoughts and feelings has been a little hard, but I'm so excited to see our baby and go on this new adventure with Dhrumil.

16 Weeks!!

I can't believe I'm at 16 weeks. It feels like this whole baby-making thing is going by really fast and then again really slow. I look at myself in the mirror and can't believe it's my body that is changing! I think so many things when I see my little bump... I'm still a kid, I don't feel old enough, I can't believe I'm at this point in my life, is that really me, wow, so excited, so overwhelmed, I can't believe we're going to have another person living with us in 6 months.

AHHH So many emotions, so many thoughts. I started feeling little flutters, I guess I would say tickles the past week. It's like the baby is saying "HELLO IM REALLY HERE" um sorry little one, but I had an inkling with my energy level at 0. :) Even though I haven't been feeling the best this is such an amazing experience... I can't believe we all got here this way. :) I thank God for each day I can be apart of creating this wonderful blessing.

The New Place!

I am very THANKFUL to announce that we our LOVING our new place. :) Nothing crazy has happened and it seems like this place is a keeper for now. Big sigh of relief. I feel so much better knowing I won't have to put a mosquito net over the baby when he/she gets here. :) We love the neighborhood and I have been enjoying taking Willoughby on walks as well as walking 2 minutes to a wonderful Gelato shop (which I say the baby is asking for by name) Below you can see a few pictures I took of the new place. We still have some hanging of pictures and so on to do, but I'm feeling good about where we are at. Back living room... this room is actually really long and is part of the next picture

Family room and family dogOur bedroomFuture room of baby Shah... now catch all/guest room
Future spot of guest room now basement/nothing :)

Kitchen

"I didn't think you were fat"

Since I’ve been pregnant I have gotten entertaining/ frightening comments from people (I am sure many more are on the way as I grow) here are a few…

- “You’re so little, you’re really going to stretch, ahahahahaha” * my loving college roommate

- “You’re so little” *Ultrasound technician as she weighed me (that scared me more)

- “Enjoy your sleep now, you’re not going to get any for a long time after the baby is here”

- Me “I feel like all I do is pee” My loving friend “just wait”

- “being pregnant is no excuse for a bad attitude” *my mom

- “being pregnant is a great excuse for a bad attitude” *my friend

- “I’m tired of you telling me what to do” *my husband during our move… my response – “just wait until the baby is here” ;-)

- "What fruit are you this week?" (in reference to the size of the baby)

- “Drink milk two times a day” *my mother in law

- “Aren’t you cute” *my nurse in response to a question about labor

- "I tend to faint a lot, will that happen during labor?" me to my Dr. her response ** AMUSED SMILE** (ps no it wont just might happen when i get bigger)

- "My stomach looks like that when I puff it out" *my sister's response to me proudly showing my little bump

- "I thought you were to small to be getting that type of belly" *coworkers response to me telling her I was expecting.

On to the Next Step...

Introducing Baby Shah!

Yup that's right... Dhrumil and I are expecting our first baby in early March. We are both super excited that God has blessed us with this gift and a little nervous of course. I can't believe a baby is living in me except when I get those fun reminders in the form of tiredness, sickness and a stomach slowly enlarging. :) So anyways besides packing up our place and moving in a few days I am ever reminded of the small little person who is there going through everything with us. I had many witty things to say in this post (ex... I was able to take care of a plant, a dog and a husband so I knew a baby would be fine) but I'm so tired I think I'm just going to go to bed. A few pictures before sleep over takes me of "the belly"

The day we found out... I think 5 weeks and a few days. I was frantically trying to figure out the next step... call the parents, look up the dr. number.... ah what to do! :)

Right now... um so when I looked at this picture I thought it made me look a lot bigger than I really am. SO either I'm in denial or I actually have "popped" at 12 weeks... I think it was the angle or the pizza I just ate.