Happy Halloween

I love Halloween!! This year I am too wiped out to do much so I'm just gonna sit back, watch some Halloween movies and pass out candy. I made an awesome shirt, though!

Drew out the design for the ribs and the baby and used it as a stencil to paint on the shirt. The doctors and nurses at my OB office loved it!

34 weeks!

Oh and I don't mean to offend anyone but my nephew is the most adorable little boy to ever walk the face of the earth. Not biased, just true.

I see the light!

Why is it always so dang hard to make opening statements? I seriously have the worst time with that.... Guess I will just jump right into it! Today I hit the 33 week mark and boy, am I tired. My doctor has said this will be my last week of modified bed rest but honestly I don't see myself able to do much even once the bed rest is over due to this recent dip in my energy level. Let's see, it is now 7:35 in the evening and here I sit typing away in my bath robe like an old lady ready to hit the hay! How pathetic. But good news is that the doctor isn't worried about the baby coming once I hit the 34 week mark! :D

Today I was getting a Cinnabon (don't judge me) and the lady taking my order asks me "Are you having twins?" EXCUSE ME, SISTA??! Just because I am getting ready to stuff my face with a cinnamon roll (which I shared, thank you very much) doesn't make me a complete tubby tubby.... I hope! Why I didn't shut her up by stuffing that cinnamon roll in her mouth, I do not know. 

Tomorrow we are going to the pumpkin patch which means the holidays are officially on the way! YES. I can't wait. Just wish I had my James here to share it with me. He makes everything 1,000,000,000,000 times better! I love that guy.

Thank goodness for Skype!

Mood swing

My life feels completely out of control and disorganized. I am aching to feel settled somewhere. I shouldn't have let myself lash out on James either but what do I do? I haven't had a place to really call home in seven months and probably won't for a few more... I need to be positive. Maybe i'll make a list of the things I do have...

1. A healthy baby

2. A hardworking, dedicated husband who loves me

3. A roof over my head

4. Awesome friends who have been way too accommodating

5. Parents who take me under their wing when I need to fly back to their nest for a little while

6. Chocolate milk

7. A bath tub

8. Macbook pro

9. The entire hardbound collection of Harry Potter

10. Clean sheets!

Okay, I feel a little better now. Just have to take it one day at a time right now. Peace & taco grease.

the random mumblings of a bed ridden woman

Today marks day six of bed rest. Only 32 more to go!! I literally feel like my brain is turning in to hot soup already. Sunday I fly back to San Diego (if all goes according to plan) and hopefully I can do more than lay in bed watching holiday TV show specials on youtube. I need to finish my Mei's quilt I started back home and maybe have my mom teach me how to crochet again! It's been too long and I need to start doing all kinds of old lady stuff like that since I'll be a mom in less than 2 months. Just kidding- to quote a hilarious Amy Poehler on Mean Girls "I'm not like a regular mom, I'm a cool mom." hahaha! 

Anyhoo..... I am pretty bored. Can't think of much else to say that will be entirely captivating. Who reads these anyways? Ummm... I am way too excited for the holidays! Halloween and Christmas are my absolute faves! Call me fat but I am so looking forward to fudge, cookies, pumpkin goodies, magic cookie bars, rocky road and hot chocolate until my brain explodes!!!! Sue me :)

P.S. Josh Groban Christmas music is genius. So what if I listen to it all year?

Oh! Here's some pics to get you pumped up, too. You're welcome.

AAAAAND for my sweet Christmas Baby, Mei Li Noel :) Now keep cooking in there until you are good and ready to meet us in December, baby girl!

Anxious Baby Syndrome

 I should be used to curveballs by now. I feel like the past year has been nothing but unpredictable. Rain on the wedding day, James' surgery, pregnant 3 months into marriage, my little sister has a serious boyfriend, spending 12 weeks of summer apart from James during his summer job, coming back to school without knowing where we'll live, thinking we would be moving back to San Diego after James graduates in December but we've decided to stay an extra semester so he can finish up a business minor. Now I have been in the hospital on the labor & delivery floor for the passed 2 1/2 days being monitored and evaluated for preterm labor. Scary!
We went to my 30 week appt and it was business as usual on Thursday morning. Then she checks my cervix and the outer part was dilated 2 cm. That's not that big of a deal but the fact my contractions had been increasing was a red flag. The clinic sent me over to the hospital and they weren't worried until it was my cervix was checked again and the inner part was dilated 1 cm and 50% effaced, basically making my body 6 weeks ahead of schedule. They gave e a series of shots to increase and speed up Mei's lung development and I have been on meds to slow contractions. Good news is as of yesterday I haven't dilated any further but my test evaluating me for preterm labor was positive. It doesn't mean I will have her prematurely but it would have been a lot better had it been negative because that meant I for sure wouldn't have her within the next two weeks at least.
All I can really do is rest. They've put me on formal bed rest so I had to quit my job at the bakery. Very bummed! but when all of it boils down, I will do whatever I can to keep my sweet babe inside and grow her myself :) She is perfectly healthy and has done great with all the exams, prodding and monitors in her space! Our little trooper!
Even with all things unpredictable I know it serves a purpose. It teaches us patience and shows us who is REALLY in charge! Not us, that's for sure.
We are grateful for all the support of our family and friends especially Paola and Michael Black, Otto Zelaya, Oscar Zelaya, Sister Hsu and everyone else who offered to visit and help with whatever we need!
You guys are so great and support at scary times is so appreciated! We have all the faith in the world that everything will be fine.

James- you have been a support like no other when I know there were fun things you missed just to keep me company and be my biggest asset and supporter. You are an angel, a great Father and incredible husband. Couldn't do it without my Shay-mesh! Ruv you rong rong time!