belly @ 19 weeks...!

a large tomato!!!

also,this coming weekend is a 3 day weekend... woohoo!

belly @ 18 weeks...!

well, photo was taken roughly around 18 weeks... !
baby has upgraded to bellpepper size!
still kicking, and still sleepy a lot of the times...
but it's getting better!
i think the nice weather is helping too...it hit about 70 degrees today!
at least it felt 70 degrees... yay summer is near!

he felt it...!

holy cow!!
the beh beh is kicking so hard lately, James finally felt it last night♥
the kicks are pretty hard...it tickles O_o
i can only imagine how crazy it must feel when i'm further along--yikes!

in other somewhat related news, erika went ring shopping with me over the weekend.
i didn't know where to start...but i'm starting to find the kind of ring i like.
i didn't know what the budget was so i was being cheap...but now i know i can go up a bit more...
i might check out Tiffany's! squeeee♥

belly @ 17 weeks...!

i'm definitely starting to show now...
wow...i think i'm gonna get huge. i'm not even halfway there yet!

the best part of the day? after i eat dinner i lay on the couch and feel the baby kicking around♥
i've been feeling it everyday--it calms me down knowing that the baby is doing just fine.
i've been trying to get James to feel it but it's still too small and subtle to be felt from the outside.
maybe in a couple weeks!

mother's day...♥

yay! in honor of mother's day i'm posting one of my favorite pictures of me and my mom♥
she's so cute and rockin those overalls!!hahaha
i must've been around 3...which would make my mom 26!

apparently you can get "happy mother-to-be" cards out there, but i'll consider next year to be my first mother's day♥ since i haven't really done any motherly duties just yet.

thalassemia free...!

wow what a relief!!
i just got news that jamus does NOT carry the beta thalassemia trait--just me!
which means the baby wont' be affected ♥♥
oooooOOOOOO~!!!!!!! this is goood news!!!

ivy & bean...!

so i was browsing around Borders yesterday.
i wandered into the children's books and found this!
it's a whole series called "Ivy & Bean"!
hahhaah! so cute!! it's like ivy & mame~!

monthly appointment...♥

so i had my monthly appointment with the OB last week!
took a pee test, got my belly measured, got weighed (yikes... i'm now 107lbs and gained close to 15lbs already!!) AAAAAAND i got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time♥
awwww it was the best sound in the world! the bpm dropped a bit to 148bpm. but otherwise still very normal!
i also asked the doctor about the weird "muscle twitches"i feel in my lower abdomen.
she confirms that it IS indeed the baby kicking around.
i feel it everyday at some point--it's a nice reassurance that the baby is doing good and jumping around♥♥ ***ooh! i just felt one!!***

but there is one concern....
i found out that i carry the trait for Beta Thalassemia.

i tried researching it but it's filled with medical terms, i don't quite understand it but it has something to do with being anemic. not being able to produce enough hemoglobins.
i don't have it myself-- i just carry the trait. (apparently a lot of asian people do).
the problem is, if Jamus has the trait also, then the baby has a 1/4 chance of getting Beta Thalassemia MAJOR.
he's getting his blood tested today and i hope it comes out negative.
doctor said not to worry, since it's very rare for Caucasians to be a carrier.

twitchity twitch...!

now i'm not sure....
i'll be 16 weeks tomorrow but starting yesterday i started feeling these weird muscle twitches in my lower abdomen. it's very random....
i wasn't sure if these were "baby kicks" since they are usually described as feeling like "flutters" and "gas bubbles".
so i googled "baby kicks & muscle twitches"
turns out, quite a few people have described their first baby kicks feeling like muscle twitches!
in the lower abdomen!
now, i'm pretty sure i'm feeling the baby bouncing around...!!
why else would i be feeling these odd twitches in the same spot throughout the day?!
WOW! i can't stop smiling♥