3s a Crowd

Need

I need maternity clothes. I'm busting out of my tops. My pants zip up but it's so uncomfortable and combined with fitted shirts gives me a muffin top.

Here are some pix from the weekend.
Oli had her first mani and she LOVES it. Such a girly girl!
O and CONGRATULATIONS to SB ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT!!!!

Little boxes

Pretty much played with a box all day. Drew on the outside, then the inside. Then turned it into a house for her dolls. Then a rocket ship for herself.

Then occupied herself with a piece of string. First a necklace, then a tightrope, then a jump rope, then a fishing pole, then ribbon gymnastics.

Easy peasy.

Fam Jam

Happy Girl

Family Time

We just had an epic dance party. By we, I mean me, Oli, Mr. Ho and the Disney princesses.

Making memories <3. In one year, there will be one more partaking in the party!

Gone Girl

I started and finished Gone Girl today.  It started off the way I expected it to, then revved up in the 2nd part.  I heard many people say they hated the ending, but despite that, I actually was ok with its conclusion.  For those who hated it, how else would you have ended such a story?  It is definitely worth the read.  I heard Reese Witherspoon is tied to the movie deal.  She doesn't do it for me to play this role though.  Needs someone with more edge.  More WTF, PSYCHO-ness.

I need another book.

I am 15 weeks this week.  I am starting to feel a little better, a little like my old self.  I still get pukey and gag a bit, but it's not as bad as before.  And I think the spit production is weaning.  Thank the good Lord.  Food is tasting marginally better but it's definitely not the same.  Like Mr. Ho said, I can't wait till I get to the "let's eat everything" phase.  This phase sucks.

Olivia is just the cutest ball of cute these days.  Yes, defiant and will throw a pretty good tantrum.  But the things that come out of her mouth just crack me up or make me smile endlessly.  She'll randomly tell me she misses me, which I think she thinks means love, and give me big hugs.  Or come up to me and say, "best friends!" and hug.  When I take her for a potty break, she'll say, "thanks for telling me."  If she likes the food we serve her, she'll say, "umma/appa, good cook!  yummy tummy!"  She'll hug her dolls or stuffed animals and say, "[name of doll] love me!"  When she knocks over her legos or ruins whatever she's building, she'll say, "try again!" with no hint of frustration.  She's just a happy, loving, positive, bundle of everything I could ever ask for.  This age is just so fun.

To bed I go.

Rainy Day Activities

Pipe Cleaners/Stickers/Painting

Farmers Market

Ponytail

Sometimes I can get the hair out of her face by saying its a "ponytail just like mommy!"

It looks terrible bc I have to do it with the quickness or she's over it and will run away without one.

I can't wait till her bangs finally grow out and we can tuck them behind her ears.

12 Weeks

I had my screen for Downs and Trisomy at the Genetics and IVF Institute this past week.  We had a lengthy sonogram and watched the little peanut chill on it's back and move it's limbs.  Got my results yesterday.  My risk factor is 1/10,000 so that's fantastic news!

I also had a 12 week appointment with the OBGYN and listened to its heart beat.  I enjoy sonograms and the heart monitoring because it makes it more real.  On the day-to-day, I just feel tired and ill.  I don't have a belly and I can't feel any movements, so it's almost surreal that I'm going to have another baby.  I look at Olivia and remember her as an infant and I'm so excited to do that over again.  I can't wait to hold a little one.  Here's hoping that since it's the second time around, I know what I'm doing.

Definitely, I'm more scared than last time.  While pregnant with Olivia, it was very dreamy and all, "this is going to be so perfect!"  But I know what it's really like and how much worse it could be.  Looking back, Olivia was a pretty easy baby.  No colic, no major illnesses.  She hit all her milestones on time.  The only hard part was the non-breastfeeding but even pumping became second nature.  I almost think that pumping was easier in comparison to constantly whipping out the boob.  At least with pumping, it's a scheduled feeding?  I don't know.

I'm scared to death of another c-section too.  If it's scheduled, I'm hoping my body won't be as wiped out since I won't be laboring for 20 hours like last time.  But at the same time, I hate all the drugs they give you.  It IS major surgery.  And it definitely impacts how quickly your milk comes in.  PLUS the recovery is so much harder than a vaginal birth.  The doctors say I can consider a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section), but it really is just physics with me.  Olivia didn't fit.  What are the chances of this one "fiitting."  Olivia was even early so if she was full term, she would've been even bigger than she was.  The doctor asked me what size shoe I wore and said there was a midwives rumor that your foot size is correlated to your pelvic opening so NO WONDER my baby didn't fit.  I have ELFIN feet!

So I'm totally rambling because I am totes nervous.

Detail

I love the back of my baby's dress. She dresses better than me.

Hammy

Bean 2

I'm so happy to announce that we are expecting baby #2!  I've been pretty MIA on the blog because I haven't really had anything else to say other than I've been battling some nasty morning sickness.  Well, more like night sickness.  I start off the day ok and then I just get progressively worse throughout and then puke at night.  It's a lot of fun.

No, it's not.  And it's enough for me to think that I am so done after this one.  But I guess, never say never...  Actually, if I get baby fever after baby #2, someone slap me and remind of how bad everything smells - especially the refrigerator.  And how I get excess spit build-up and have to constantly spit.  Or how I think I'm craving something, eat it, and then puke my brains out.  Or how a shower completely drains me and then I have to puke some more.   Or how Olivia's diapers make me gag, and they never used to.

Olive has been pretty cute about everything.  Everytime I race to the bathroom, she says, "Umma's baby hurt."  And Mr. Ho has been amazing.  Cleaning, cooking, occupying Olivia while I lay useless on the couch.

12 weeks today.  Praying for a healthy pregnancy.  And hoping for this nausea to stop soon.

Yay!  Baby Ho 2!

Playroom Funtime

Bundled Up

Idk why but she wants to sleep with this winter blanket.

Drive-In

Grin

How cute is she?!!

Her grandfather took her out for ice cream and then went to their house. Notice the random clip in her hair? Oli refuses barrettes and my MIL is obsessed with getting her hair back someway somehow.

When my FIL texted me the picture, he prefaced it with "I did not put the clip in her hair." lol

Identity

Mr. Ho is showing O clips of Mulan and he said, "you like it bc you're both asian."

O replied, "Appa, I not asian!!"

Hearing that in her baby voice was so funny!!!

Sass

I like when I ask if she needs to potty she responds with, "No, umma. I pee a lot already."