Tattoos

As many of you know, the NBA Playoffs are getting ready to start. I am just soooo excited...that was a little sarcastic but somewhat true because the Suns are in the playoffs this year. Wouldn't it be exciting if they went to the Finals because there will be a parade. Teddy would be so excited if he actually got to go downtown for the parade!!!!! Lets hope that Manni doesn't decide to come around the same time!!!!

Anyway, now that the playoffs are starting up I have been exposed to the "Bird Man" Chris Anderson of the Denver Nuggets. I am just so disgusted with him. I don't understand why professional athletes have to cover themselves in tattoos. Not even just athletes, any professional should never have a tattoo that can be seen by other co-workers, fans, clients, etc. I have tattoos and I can guarantee you that my employer has no idea. I expose them when I want and to whom I want. Which isn't the whole world.

To show that I am not biased, I have also included a picture of Amare Stoudemire from the Phoenix Suns. I just don't understand why they have to have so many or why they have to be exposed the whole time. If I was the commissioner I would make them over their arms and necks.

There is another player on the Nuggets team that has lips on his neck. Just gross and inappropriate.

6 Months

Here are my 6 month pictures:

And what would the blog be without a photo montage of the past three months???? I can't believe I am only 14 weeks away from my due date!!!!!! Oh, just an FYI, the belly pictures are usually taken right before I go to bed. That is why my hair and eyes look the way they do. Well, my hair always looks like crap, but my eyes are particularly little because I am tired. Just wanted to throw that out there if it had ever crossed your mind.

Nats 2

To continue my story about Nats...I hadn't seen any in since the last time I had killed one. Until today...I was using the facilities and when I looked down there was a Nat on my leg!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. I swatted it off my leg and looked around to see where it was on the floor so I could kill it. I finally saw it and it was on the base of the toilet bowl. When I turned around to smoosh it...it was gone!!!!

Was it all my imagination? Am I being haunted by the ghosts of Nats that I have killed???? What does all this mean???

Happy Easter!!!!

For Easter Manni received two presents. One was from Grammie and Don Viejo (Roni and David). It is an elephant rattle that has the crinkle ears. It is super cute.

The second is from Grandma (Christy)...the crib set!!! It so cute and I am so excited I can't wait for Manni to see it.


You will notice that there is a blue teddy bear in the crib. Well, that teddy bear belongs to Teddy (no pun intended :) ) Teddy had that bear since he was little and actually took a picture with it. When Manni turns 1 we are going to have her wear pink cortezes and hold the bear just like Teddy did.

Nats

I have sent out a few twitters about this but I thought I would write about it. I have seen a million Nats around. It is the weirdest thing. There were only a few around the house because I had let a plant die and they came around before I had a chance to throw it away. Of course I have seen them outside with all the wonderful blooming plants and bushes. But the weirdest thing is that I see them in the bathroom at work. It is so weird. I ended up killing one and then another one showed up and I killed that one. To prove that I am not going insane, here is a picture of the Nat after I killed it.


What does it mean???????

Manni's Room

Here is another update of Manni's room. Teddy has done an amazing job!!!! Before I went to bed, the room looked like this.
















And when I woke up, it looked like this:
























Teddy bought a special tool that helps you make straight lines. It looks really good; however, we are getting a chair rail to go around the room, so this is the only time you will get to see how straight the line is.

The room is really coming together and it is looking super cute!!!!

Crumb

This past week Howard Stern was on vacation so I listened to Rosie O'Donnell's radio show on Sirius. Sometimes it is pretty weird, but for the most part it isn't that bad. For some reason, Rosie was giving away gift cards to this bakery in NY called Crumb. They are famous for their cupcakes and black and white cookies. It just so happened that my sister was in NY last week and she made a trip to Crumb, only to find out they were out of b&w cookies. I am not sure what my sister did, but I looked up the website and I am obsessed with the cupcakes. I spent my whole lunch hour today looking at all the different types. There is a reason for that later....You might find this odd, but Howard Stern has Cupcake Wednesdays where someone brings in treats from Crumb and people actually get in arguments over them I actually asked my sister to put in a special order to be shipped to my house. They only have a few locations and they are in CA, PA, NJ, and NY. So if I want something from Crumb, I would have to order it online. I am not sure I would be able to spin that to Teddy, even if the "baby" wanted the cupcakes...

Anyway, I was doing okay with the obsession until this morning. I picked out my outfit and looked in the mirror and realized that I look just like a cupcake myself. So all day all I could think about were the Crumb Cupcakes. That is why I spent my lunch hour eating a salad and looking at cupcakes. Well you take a look at the Crumb website http://www.crumb.com/ and then at what I wore and tell me that you wouldn't think of a Crumb cupcake every time you looked at me...

Swelling and San Francisco

This past weekend was my firt experience with swelling. I have been pretty lucky so far in my pregnancy, but I have a feeling that as it gets hotter I am going to swell more often. This past week it went to 80 degrees overnight. I am not complaining as it was very nice outside, but my body wasn't prepared. As Teddy and I were headed out on Friday to a game night I looked down to put my shoes on and I realized that I didn' have ankles. It was the craziest thing to see. As the weekend continued, the swelling moved up to my hands! It really hurt to have my rings on when I slept, so I would take them off to give my hands a break. I increased my water, I normally drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water a day, so I am not sure how much I had this weekend! When I woke up this morning, I had ankles and my hands looked normal!!! I just can't wait for the pool to get a little warmer so I can start floating in the water when get home from work ;)

You are probably wondering what the heck San Francisco is about in the title. Well, I am going to tell you; however, not without a explanation. I read once that you should be careful what you tell people about your pregnancy. Mainly because people don't want to know everything. Even if they ask you, it is usually just to be nice. So I generally try to be discreat with information, unless you are my mom, Teddy's mom, or my sister. Well this next story isn't that bad...but might make you look at me and hopefully laugh.

The one side affect that I have noticed it this pregnancy is that my feet sweat so much more than they ever have beore. Even when I wear sandles they sweat. And with sweaty feet come stinky feet. It is something that I have been trying to control. I really wash my feet almost twice a day. At night when I get home and in the morning when I am in the shower. But that isn't even the worst or explain San Francisco.

For Christmas my mom gave me a pair of flat black shoes from Payless. They are so comfortable and versitable. I just love them. The only problem is that I wore them without socks and Payless shoes are not made to be worn without socks. Once you do it, they are damaged goods and there is no way to fix them...So that is how San Francisco came about...

Tonight, my cousin Michelle brought me a pregnancy pillow that she used when she was pregnant with the twins. I got to the house a little before Michelle did and I took my black shoes off in the garage because they stink by the end of the day. I was very appreciative that Michelle drove all the way over to bring me the pillow, but I didn't have time to wash my feet. It was dinner time for Molly and Nicholas so we all decided to go to Gallaghers for dinner. It was a lot of fun hanging out with Michelle and the twins...but when Teddy and I got back in the car it smelled like my feet. I know, I know...it's bad. I apologized to Teddy and he only replied with "It's just San Francisco." I asked him what that meant, and he said that he would call me San Francisco for SF aka Stinky Feet...

I guess I could have a worse nickname ;)

Nursery

This blog should hopefully be funny and falls within an incident category which is the point of the blog :)

Last week Teddy and I started working on the nursery. He was pulling nails out of the wall where pictures were hung and I was organizing the closet. It started off good, but I guess Teddy was having a bad day.

Before I started with the closet I noticed that the window sill was really dirty. I made a comment like "Why doesn't the window sill get cleaned?" I really wasn't implying anything. It was just a comment and more of a joke...Teddy responded with "Because I don't clean it." If you can imagine, that conversation did start or end very well. In the end, we both learned that we need to be careful how we word things. They can be taken the completely wrong way.

Once we moved on from our discussion we continued with the room. Since my belly is getting bigger my breathing has become a little different and somewhat noticeable. It is really noticeable when I try to sit on the ground. I don't feel like I am that big, but it is a little harder to bend over to sit down on the floor. I was organizing some picture frames that we are going to put up with our wedding pictures. Anyway, Teddy turns around and asks "What is making you breathe that way." It was kind of a shock because I figured it was fairly obvious but I just pointed out that it was the baby growing inside of me.

It is just kind of funny how the tables have turned. Teddy's snoring really bothers me, I mean really bothers me. But now, he can hear me breathe and it kind of bothers him :O)

I hope people don't think that I am bashing Teddy, because I am not. He has been really good through the pregnancy. I am really luck to have a husband that is willing to help me out. There are a lot out there that won't help at all. I just thought this story was kind of funny as we are just married and having a baby. There are a lot of adjustments being made ;)

During

Teddy started putting the primer on this weekend :) I am so excited!!! Teddy is going to do such a great job! First we had to figure out where the chair rail will go...Once that was decided Teddy was able to start taping up the room :) Here is where he is so far....

Before

Here are some pictures of what the baby's room looks like now. A friend of mine was more than generous by giving us their crib. They are done having kids and offered to Teddy and I at no charge. We couldn't say no as cribs are expensive and it is good condition. There are a few dings in it, but we are going to sand those down and just repaint those spots. It is black and can turn into a sleigh bed when the baby is older :) I really like it :)

This is the South wall, the changing table is going to go to the left of the window.

This is the North wall and the crib. :)

This the wall with the closet.

Before Teddy's sister Lauren moved into the condo, Teddy's dad added more to the closet. This is the right side that has two sections to hang and little shoe racks on the bottom. We are going to paint the closet a darker pink :) If you look closer you can see a little jacket that Grandma Roni and Don Viejo (that is what Teddy's dad wants the baby to call him :) )bought the baby :) It is super cute.

This is the left side of the closet. Those shelves are really going to come in handy and we are going to register for another set of hanging shelves to put on that left side....

More pictures to follow!!!!

Baby Names

Well, I am sure that there are going to be more entries like this one. We are having a hard time picking a name. It is funny because if the baby was going to be a boy we had that name picked out. But now that is is a girl it is so much harder...It also doesn't help that Teddy doesn't have an opinion on the names until we narrow it down to two :) But that is why I love him...he keeps it interesting.

So, now we have 4 names: Amelia, Sophia, Olivia, or Brooklyn. Teddy says he likes Brooklyn for more reasons, but the one he keeps bringing up is the song by JZ that goes "where Brooklyn, where Brooklyn at?" He said he wants to have that song playing when she is born...That is still under discussion...

5 Months

Here are pictures of me at 5 months...I feel like I woke up one morning and my belly was there to great me :)

Names

Now that people know we are having a girl, we are getting questions on the name. So far, we have Amelia Christine or Sophia Terese. We are going to wait until she is born and we can see her before we make a decision. It might not be those two!!!!



We have also picked out her bedroom set!!! It is little lady bugs!!! It is so cute. I can't wait for everyone to see the room decorated. Teddy is going to start putting the chair rail on the walls and painting.



I am so excited; however, I have learned that Babies-R-Us and are not meant to be friends. I am really glad that they have recliners that you can sit in at the store because I usually come close to a melt down at the store and I need to sit down and relax.



I have registered Teddy and I for our Childbirth Preparation Classes. Those aren't scheduled until June but they recommended that you schedule early so I did. We are also going to be taking some classes through our hospital.



We have also started our baptism classes. Luckily, we only have an interview and one class and that's it. We don't have to take 6 months of classes like we did to get married!!!! Teddy and I asked his Aunt Robyn and Uncle Steve to be the babies god parents. We are so happy that they accepted!!!! The baptisms are the first Saturday of every month. So, depending on if she is born around her due date, the baptism will be August 7th!!!



Stay tuned for this month's belly pictures!!!!

She Moves!!!!

I have been able to feel the baby move a little more now. It isn't all the time, but every now and then she will move around. When I came home from work on tonight she was really moving. Teddy tried to feel her and he thinks he did, but he isn't sure. It is the best and weirdest feeling when she moves. I get so excited!!! So far, she likes to move a little in the morning, when I take a bath, and right before I go to bed. I can't wait for Teddy to be able to feel her. He is very concerned that she doesn't know he is around.

That's spelled M-A-N-N-I

That is right ladies and gentlemen, we are having a little girl!!!!! We are so excited.

When I sent out a text to everyone that it is a girl, Aunt Cay wrote back that we can still call the baby Manny, but we just have to spell it with an "I".

Here is a profile picture of Manni :) You can see her mouth is open :)

The next picture confirms that one of my biggest fears with the baby is not true. I was very scared that the baby was only going to have one arm. In all all the profile pictures you can usually only see one arm and it made me nervous. I had mentioned it to the Nurse Practitioner once before and she took a look but confirmede that everything was fine. However, my pregnancy imagination got the best of me and I started having nightmares. It was a light joke amongst the family...but I really was scared about it. So when we went for the appointment I made a comment to the Nurse and she gave us a picture of both arms!!!!

We are so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Scare

Teddy and I had a little scare last night. I was having some pains on my lower left side that started on Tuesday morning. It hurt so bad to walk, move, even use the restroom. I am trying not to freak out about things that happen during my pregnancy so I have made a promise to myself that I will monitor what happens and call my Dr. depending on how long something lasts and how bad the pain is. Anyway, I went to bed that night and around 3 a.m. I was woken up by the worst pain in my side and my back that I have ever felt in my life. I woke up Teddy and called the triage nurse my Dr.'s office has for after hour emergencies. She told me to take some Tylenol, drink 3 16 oz. of water, and wait three hours. If the pains get worse during that time or I see any blood I would need to go to the emergency room. Needless to say I was a little scared.

So I did what the nurse said and laid back down. I was able to get back up to sleep and woke up a little after 7. The pain was there just not that bad. I called the Nurse again and she said that I should call my Dr. when they open at 8 and see if they can squeeze me in. So I did, and they had availability. I didn't go in to work that day because of the pain.

Teddy met me at the Dr. later that afternoon and we waited to see what the Dr. had to say. Basically they said it was ligaments stretching. They ran all different kinds of tests and did a scan to see if a cyst on my left ovary was getting bigger. Good thing, the cyst looks like it has dissolved. So they told me that I needed to continue taking the Tylenol, rest, and basically deal with the pain as there was nothing they could do.

The reason this is even more scarier is that when I was in Show Low we decided to go sledding. I went down this hill three times. And I swear to everyone that it wasn't bad at all. I didn't go in the air, I didn't fall, and I never, ever, ever, ever, land on my stomach. It was just that these pains just happened to come right after the sledding and I freaked out. I had a breakdown about how if anything happened to the baby it would be my fault...Poor Teddy not only had to deal with me in pain, but he also had to deal with the fact that I was so scared something bad had happened to the baby. Teddy did a very good job at soothing me. I was very glad to hear that the baby was fine and the pain was just related to me getting bigger. Apparently others were worried about it also. When I called my sister she confessed that she was stressed about something happening to the baby too. This was a lesson that I think every woman learns when she is pregnant for the first time, it is better to sit things out than deal with the stress of something happening after. And if no other pregnant woman has ever done anything stupid during their pregnancy then you are very rare...

On a lighter note, we were, however, given a sneak peak at the sex of the baby...but it wasn't a very good shot, so you will have to wait until Friday.

Show Low 2010

This past Summer me, Alyssa, Lindsay, Stephanie, and Courtney decided that we were going to take a girl's trip to Show Low for skiing. I have a friend that has a condo up there and when I babysit for him and his wife, they will let me have a free night stay in the condo. It actually works out pretty good!!! I know I can't ski, but I decided to go anyway. To see the snow, watch the other girls ski and relax in the lodge. Stephanie wasn't able to come with us, but hopefuly next year.

Courtney had to work until 3 that Friday, but me, Alyssa, and Lindsay started out at 10 a.m.!!! We were very excited!!!

On the drive up to Show Low we went through a town called Globe that has this awesome antique shop called the Pickle Barrel. They sell sculputers for your yard that are super cute. I don't have a picture of the sculpture I got, but it should be on Lindsay's blog. Mine is named pickle :) Anyway, while we were walking around the shop Lindsay spotted this doll that we thought would look just like Manny when he is older...well, kind of I guess...you tell me ;)

I decided that I am going to dress Manny up like this for Halloween. Broken sandle and all. You think I'm kidding, just wait!!!! My cousin Courtney better get back in to sewing because I am going to need her services :)

All in all we had a good laugh with Manny the doll. He is perched on the counter of the condo we were staying at in Show Low. We are not positive, but each of us heard something making noise in the kitchen area on Friday and Saturday night. Is it possible that Manny came to life????????

On the way out of the shop I noticed this giant horse....I am not kidding this horse is huge!!! And I instantly fell in love with it!!!! Here is a picture of me and the horse, you can see my belly in the picture too ;)

I have vowed that when Teddy and I purchase a house with a yard, right now we are in a condo, I will by this horse for my backyard. His name will be Monty...

The rest of the way to Show Low was pretty fun. We talked, listened to music, and ate Munkins. Yes, I purchased Munchkins for our trip up there. It was a nice treat. I allow myself one coffee in the morning so I bought one for Alyssa and I, but I didn't know Lindsay liked coffee. Apparently this trip was also for me to get to know Lindsay a little more too :)

It took 3 hours to get to the condo in Show Low. It was cold and a little cloudy. Snow was on the ground and on the side of the roads. We were all excited!!! Once we got to the condo walked around and got settled in. Then we went to the patio to check out the view.

Once we were settled, we decided to hit the "town" to get something to eat. Lindsay and I suggested that we eat Native New Yorker, but Alyssa felt we should eat somewhere that we can't have back home. So we decided on the Branding Iron. It was a steak house that was actually pretty cozy. The hostess was an older cowboy, who took a liking to us. :) He put a hand on Lindsay's shoulder, joked with Alyssa and when I got up to visit the salad bar he asked me if I was going to the Out House. Yes, that would be the same as the restroom. I told him no, I was going to get a salad. We all had a good laugh. But this is also incident No. 4 involving a restroom. Make it to 10 and I might start a blog on just bad things that happen to me in and/or around bathrooms. Anyway, on the way out Alyssa snapped a picture of the Out House sign...

There was also an issue of french fries, but I will leave that to Lindsay since it happened to her. But just so everyone knows, french fries are cut up potatoes. ha ha ha ha ha.

When we got back to the condo we decided to play a great game of Uno. But not just any Uno, SpongeBob Uno. Now for anyone that loves Uno I highly recommend this game. It is so much fun and it adds a few different rules and advantages that the regular game. The best part of the game was when Alyssa and I learned Lindsay didn't know you had to say Uno when you only had one card left. We had a few good laughs and finally called it quits and went back inside. But not before we took a few pictures.

Here are the three of us on the patio....fyi I was not drinking...Those beers are Alyssa's and Lindsay's.

Here I am in the snow :)

Here is Alyssa and Lindsay and then me and Alyssa ;)

When Courtney got up to the Condo we hung out for a few more minutes that went to a good Mexican restaraunt in Show Low called Fiesta Mexicana. It was very good and wasn't that expensive. We had to get to Sunrise Ski Resort by 8 a.m. the next morning, so that meant we had to leave by 6:30 a.m.!!!! We actually ended up leaving by 6:45, which isn't so bad.

We stopped and got some coffee and gas and then headed out. We passed a photo radar and were officially off. That was until a Show Low Police Officer came driving past us. Apparently after I passed the photo radar I decided to speed. I won't say how fast I was going, because that is not important. What is important is that the Officer pulled us over and only gave me a warning. Again, I was very nice and didn't argue or give an attitude to the Officer. I admitted to what I did and was willing to take the punishment. Of course we joked about what would happen if he found a warrant that I didn't know about took me in. The vote in the car was that they would continue to ski and come and get me on their way back. Also, no one was willing to pay the $2 service charge to use a different bank's ATM to bail me out. But if no one bailed me out, someone was going to call Teddy to tell him both me and Manny were stuck in a Show Low jail. Then that is when the Officer came with the warning. I was very lucky!!!!

I am going to let Lindsay blog about actually skiing as I couldn't do it :*( Maybe next year. I am however, going to show you a picture of the four of us before Alyssa, Lindsay, and Courtney went to ski some more. While they all went skiing I hung out in the lodge and read. I have to give a shout out to Alyssa and Courtney how went down the actual mountain 2 times. This was even Courtney's first time skiing!!! And there was a snow storm!!!!!

P.S. This was the only photo I had where the snow flake didn't completely cover Lindsay's face!!!!

4 Months

Well, now I am roughly 18 weeks and Manny is getting bigger, so that means my belly is getting bigger. I am really excited. To be honest, I am still a little self-conscience because it is still hard to tell between the donut belly and the Manny belly. But as my sister Alyssa said "you are just in the awkward stage and it is beautiful." So it is now or never.

Honeymoon

I have come to realize that I cancelled our wedding website premature. I never update it with pictures of our honeymoon before it was deleted. So...here they are....Teddy's parents sent us to Cancun, Mexico. It was amazing!!!!Here we are in the car on the way to the hotel. It was a long flight and we are full of smiles even though we are so tired!!!

This picture we are in the hotel lobby checking in. They treat with you a complimentary glass of champagne. Teddy doesn't really like champagne so I finished his!!!

Teddy and I used some of our gift money to have a romantic dinner on the beach. Teddy had steak and I had lobster. It was a great experience. How often can you have a private, romantic and intimate dinner on the beach??????
As it turns out, Teddy doesn't drink wine either. I did know this wine isn't his favorite, but he tried it and didn't particularly care for it. So, since we had paid for the wine there was nothing left for me to do but drink it. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I drank a whole bottle of wine on my own...Teddy actually ended up getting sick so we ended up going back up to the room. Wait...was that Teddy's plan all along?

The rest of the pictures are from the beach in front of the hotel. Which was so blue and clear I couldn't believe it. There are a few pictures where we were eating at one of the restaurants right on the water. I loved it, they had the best shrimp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This picture is actually pretty funny. For my bridal shower gift, Alyssa gave Teddy and I the t-shirts. My shirt said honey and Teddy's said mooner. We wore them on the way home and received a few compliments. Anyway, we came back on Halloween and decided to go to a party at Teddy's Aunt's house. We went as "Honeymooners". My mom was at the condo before we left and she helped us with our costume. She made a hickey on my neck and I kissed Teddy all over his face. It was pretty cute :)