32 Weeks

 

Gender: Hula Girl!

Movement: Her movements are ticklish especially where her feet are. Neal makes us smoothies every morning and she lets us know that she appreciates them very much!

Sleep: Has been good except the night before the shower and after the babyshower...my bones and body ached so much that I only slept a few hours!

What I miss: Caesar Salad!

Cravings: Savannah's loving pineapple juice

Symptoms: Feeling great this week with a few symptoms that are carrying over from last week.

Current Mood:  EXHAUSTED from work! They're working me to the last minute! I'm super excited about all our events coming up.

Random Updates:  We had a doctor's appointment yesterday and everything looks great! She's still  head down so that's really good. Her heartbeat was in the 120-130s and measuring perfectly. Our next appointment is in 2 weeks and we get to see her again on the ultrasound at week 36.

 

We got AWESOME news that we can't really reveal yet...but all I can say is that I'm so proud of Neal!

 

The downstairs bedroom looks exactly the same when we brought home all of her babyshower gifts. I have every intention to come home and work on the room and write thank you notes...but find myself exhausted to even cook dinner!

Savannah's Ladybug Baby Shower

We had our AWESOME baby shower this Saturday! And we had such a blast!

Here are some photos from the party but in case some of you wanted to download the real photos or see all 800 photos you can visit http://nealandcherrie.shutterfly.com/

Here are the beautiful decorations that were sprinkled across the Clubhouse :)

The candy table was a hit! "Savannah Snacks" really hit everyone's sweet spot...even the adults!

"Savannah Specialties" was bombarded with delicious food from the Manalos and Emerys. Everyone loved all the filipinon and mexican food :)

"Sweet Savannah" was probably everyone's favorite station...we even had Halo-Halo drinks that EVERYONE enjoyed!

We also played some funny baby shower games...it was great cause even the little kids got involved...

And we had a very fun photo booth shoot that just made the party even more fun!

All these photobooth photos can be downloaded from http://nealandcherrie.shutterfly.com/

After a fun, long day we enjoyed opening presents...and wow, were we overwhelmed! Everyone was so generous and thoughtful...this little girl is so lucky!

We would like to give a special thanks to both of our parents and sisters for their tremendous help! My aunts and uncles who helped in the kitchen and aunt who decorated. My cousins Lea, Alyssa and Law who took over the photography for the day. My cousins Chona, Lani and Suzanne for helping during the party and hosting the games. To our beautiful grandmas who always make it to all our events and give us great memories. And to everyone else who took the time to come celebrate with us and was so generous to Savannah and our family!

On Sunday we laid out all of her gifts and we are now overwhelmed on how to sort these out!

I thought we had things under control and knew how we wanted to organize but I didn't account for all the laundry I now have to do, assembling all the new baby activities and actually storing these away! But we're SUPER excited to do it and it is starting to feel so real!

This is my favorite picture! I love how they are always up for my shinanigans!

And last but not least, I would like to thank my wonderful hubby for everything he has done. He has been so involved with everything...from helping make baby shower invites, help make all my signs and crafts, load practically half of our house the day before the party, help set-up the party, take care of Socks when I couldn't, entertain at the party, play baby shower games, help clean up, load double the amount of things we got for gifts back to our house, rubbed my achy body after the shower, still give Savannah a lotion tummy rub, give Socks a bath after the shower and still get up with me during the middle of the night to help me go potty. He is truly amazing and has made me so happy with everything he has done. It is an understatement to say that I am one very lucky woman!

Can't wait til Savannah gets here and we become a family of 4!!!

31 Weeks

Gender: Comedic Girl!

Movement: Her movements are so much fun to feel...it's like a circus in my belly! She actually woke me up one time during the night cause of all her movement...it was like an earthquake in my stomach!

Sleep: It's been a hit or miss every night...I'll either knock out the second I hit my pillow or I'll lay in bed and stay up for 2 more hours! Changing positions has become interesting...she really doesn't like me being on my right side and I have to be in the perfect angle so I don't feel like my lungs are sufficating.

What I miss: Putting on stockings this morning was quite an adventure! I really miss special cheeses like blue cheese, feta and all those fancy ones at the stores!!!

Cravings: I'm all about watermelon! I even try not to share with Neal cuz they're so good! I was on a mission to get those strawberry frozen lemonades that McDonald's keep flashing in my face. The awesome hubby finally came home with one and it was amazing! In fact I treated myself with one the other day again!

Symptoms: Feeling great this week with a few symptoms that are carrying over from last week.

Current Mood:  I'm feeling great and feeling special! I'm LOVING this gloomy weather...and I'm super excited about all our upcoming events.

Random Updates:  Socks has been EXTRA sweet this week. Especially this morning...she wanted to be everywhere we were just looking on. She knows there's something going on since our house is bombarded with Baby Shower decorations and she's been REALLY good not chewing on any of Mommy's creations...she actually tip toes around the crafts but is always so interested in what we're making :)

Last night we made these Lady Bug Food Labels...

And we Finally finished making all of our signs!

Neal is soaring through work right now and advancing like crazy in his career. I mentioned last week that he was accepted into a program and this week I found out a little more. It's called NEXUS and only a handful of people are invited to the program every year. The goal of the program is to further their career. He's doing an AMAZING job...he landed a great project with Disney and is excelling like crazy in the Irvine and LA office for AECOM. What's crazier is that he is juggling all of this plus the baby on the way and a pregnant lady at home! We have a VERY busy summer coming up...and on top of all that he's going to turn 30!!!

What an amazing year we're having so far and it's not even halfway done! We can't wait til Savannah gets here to kick off the rest of our year :)

Pack N Play and Reorganization!

We set up the Pack N Play in the downstairs bedroom tonight but we still need to do some major cleaning and reorganizing!

Here's Neal taking everything out of the box and Socks in the corner LITERALLY glaring at the new device!

She really wasn't too sure about it...but of course is always interested and got a better view...

It didn't take too long to set it up and was very "build" friendly...

Of course everything that we bring out of boxes she has to sniff!

She really loved it!

Socks eyeing the toys!

And we ended the night by showing Socks the 4D ultrasound video of her little sister. Amazing how a dog can watch a 24 minute video! :)

3D/4D Ultrasound-30 Weeks

We went back for our final 3D/4D ultrasound...and we got to spend so much time seeing her at this appointment!

Here she is squished in my tummy.

She finally has meat on her face :)

Savannah saying "YAH!"

She made this face when Neal kept poking my belly...she didn't like it very much!

Her eyes open...I wonder what color they are!

Kissing her biceps...showing off that she's grown some meat on her!

Lady tech said she has lots of hair!

She gave us the best picture at the end by holding her hands together and rested her head on them :)

Here is a comparison of her 23 and 30 week 3D/4D ultrasound

30 Weeks - 10 Week Countdown

Gender: Very Squirmish Girl!

Movement: Her movements across my belly is really funny to feel and see...sometimes it feels like she kneading a knuckle across my stomach...it's not uncomfortable but it sure does feel weird.

Sleep: There are good and bad days...there are nights I can totally knock out and then there are others where it takes me almost 2 hours to go to sleep. We have a habit now of having to wake up in the middle of the night to take a potty break. I don't know if she's just getting bigger and sitting on my bladder or its all the watermelon I am eating!

What I miss: Being able to hook my own sandals on. It's awesome when Neal is there to help but there are days of gymnastic moves in my car trying to hook them on!

Cravings: We're still on the smoothie train and fruits.

Symptoms: Back has been doing great. Still have a lot of pelvic discomfort and left side ache.

Current Mood:  We were both surprised to realize that we now only have 10 weeks left! This whole time we've been counting up to weeks and trying to hit major milestones...but now she's just gaining weight and counting down to the day she gets here!

And here's Neal doing a special edition 10 week countdown Photoshoot! :)

And Socks sniffin' in the 10 week countdown :)

Random Updates:

Savannah brought breakfast to work earlier in the week to say Thank You for all the gifts and babyshower they gave to us!

We had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything looks great. She's measuring perfectly and her heartbeat was in the 140-150s. Her head is currently down...she's actually head down on my lower left side and her legs are near my right rib cage. We are currently on the 2-week check up schedule...which made us realize more how close it's getting!

Neal got accepted into a program with his company to further his career. It's a real great opportunity to him to make associate. The only problem is is that it is in Lake Tahoe and I will be 34 weeks. The doctor reassured us that if things keep going well in our pregnancy that it will be no problem for him to go. Now the question is...do I go? It's still up in the air as to what we are going to do....but I am just so proud of him into being selected in this very hard program!

Mother's Day Weekend

We started the weekend off by going to the filipino Tanza Town fiesta.

Here's Socks rockin' her filipina pride!

We sat near a tree and set up a camp with blankets and chairs to observe the sea of filipinos...

Neal is always amazed at how many filipinos can get together...The kids LOVED Socks! She had a blast playing with them (well some of them)

We then had Socks Puppysat while Neal and I went on a mini date. We had a delicious Cherry Lemonade as we walked around the mall and Neal took me Mother's Day shopping :)

We continued the filipino festivities by watching the Pacquiao fight at Lola's house. Unfortunately Lola wasn't there cause she was at the hospital for having trouble breathing and low-blood sugar.

But she's back at home now...hopefully she starts feeling better!

Socks also enjoyed the fight...she was actually watching and not afraid of everyone screaming around her.

Pacquiao won by a longshot! It was kind of a boring fight but fun to hang out with family and friends!

We slept over for the first time in the Cypress house...and boy did Socks get up early! She was so excited to play with Siopao!

  

We went for a Mother's Day lunch at Sam Woo...we waited for over an hour!

I also got my very first official Mother's Day card from my wonderful sissy!

And here's our family picture with Maggie being comedic...

We then headed over to Mission Viejo to have a Mother's Day Dinner. Socks and I actually knocked out...there are just days when I need to take a nap! It was wonderful cause we woke up to this wonderful dinner!

It was then followed by this amazing dessert! DELICIOUS!

Socks has learned how to jump up onto the dining chair and join us during the meals...Here she is imagining what this dessert would taste like!

She lays her head on the table like this and shows us her big puppy eyes...she's so cute we couldn't tell her to get off!

It was exactly 2 years ago when we picked up this little girl from the airport...

Picking her up from the airport (May 8, 2009)

She made us into a family and I can't believe it's been only 2 years with her...she has given us so much memories and love already that we can't wait to see what she has in store for us.

Grandma Emery had a surprise for us! She brought over this crystal bowl that has been in the family for over 100 years! It has been used to baptized multiple people in the family and she offered it to us for Savannah!

I love all the history behind it...and it's in amazing condition!

Here's a little bit of history on it. We know as far back as 1870...

Anna Nelson Fredrickson (1870)

 - Grandma Emery's Grandma

Alice Fredrickson Sewnson (1896)

 - Grandma Emery's Mom

Leon Swenson (1918)

- Grandma Emery's Brother

Kenneth Fredrickson (1918)

 - Grandma Emery's Uncle

2 Polson Cousins
-Grandma Emery's Cousins

Emery Family Photo :)

Mother and Son love :)