24 weeks, 6 days

Weekends!

We wake up, J cooks breakfast (I usually cook breakfast on the weekdays), we eat, I lounge around in bed for about four hours doing homework or catching up on lame tv shows, I get up to eat lunch, then sleep for three to four hours, and now I'm lounging around in bed again just waiting for dinner time.

Weekends are my favorite. Obviously.

24 weeks, 5 days

Me and my sister-in-law

I hope one day our kids will be able to appreciate this photo as much as I do.
I mean, come on. We're touching bellies! It's practically their first contact with one another!

23 weeks, 6 days

In San Francisco, the summers are hot for about two weeks in October and then it's winter. I swear, the weather was in the 70's this week, but this morning, I awoke to that crazy foghorn.

A part of me is a bit upset because I love hot, hot weather. Palm Springs, Taipei, LA. But the fog this morning made me a bit excited. Well, excited enough to take a picture and then blog about it.

Usually, the fog just reminds me that it's my favorite time of the year. Pumpkin time. Halloween. Thanksgiving. The holidays (I joke with J all the time about how all the other times of the year suck). But this year, on top of all those wonderful things, I'm thinking about a possible Thanksgiving at the new house, and the birth of our baby at the end of all the great things! 

23 weeks, 4 days

Tomorrow, we will officially be homeowners!

Everything is signed and squared away, and we're hoping to move in before Thanksgiving. 

Two weekends ago, we went to see the house again. It's hard to believe that we had only seen the place once, and now we're going to own it. Luckily, it was everything we remembered it to be and like J says, we fell in love with it all over again.

The house needs a small bit of work, but thankfully, not too much. Currently, the owner is packing things up and getting ready to move. This is how everything looks right now:

Kitchen

Dining room

Living room

Foyer

Baby's room

Bathroom

Master bedroom

Garage

We've already started furniture shopping and planning out the different rooms. We're really excited for how everything will look in the end! 

22 weeks, 2 days

We're making room for baby!

I've been busy ebaying my old cameras in an attempt to make room for the baby. I don't think it'll free up that much more space, but having a baby is a good excuse to get rid of clutter.

In other news...

Today is the first day I felt the discomfort of a growing baby in my belly. After dinner, I just found it so challenging to sit comfortably. It was kind of my first, "uh oh" moment, realizing how I'm only half-way through this pregnancy, and how much more uncomfortable it will be getting.

This Thursday will be our last hypnobirthing class! I can't believe five weeks have already gone by! We've really enjoyed the experience so far, and because of this class, I'm feeling more confident about labor and birthing. I'm actually really excited for the day I go into labor and can't wait!

Through our hypnobirthing class, we met our doulas! They're actually the teachers of our class, and not only do they co-teach hypnobirthing, but they also co-doula for pregnant couples. They're both really nice and knowledgable about everything related to birthing in San Francisco, and we're so excited to be working with them! Having this extra support is just another reason why I'm super excited to give birth!

We are slowly building our collection of baby stuff! The laundry room that we just cleared out is now filling up with baby supplies, and best of all, they're all hand-me-downs! I can't wait to move into our new house so I can start setting up the nursery.

After I spoke my first words this morning, the baby started kicking really hard. I wonder if I woke him up, or if he was just excited to hear that I was awake. 

20 weeks, 3 days

More first grade conversations.

Conversation 1:

My Former Student:
I know that Ms. C is pregnant!

Another Teacher:
Yeah! She is! How do you know?

My Former Student:
Because she is wearing special pants.


Conversation 2:

Student:

Your baby is growing.

Me:

Yes, he is growing bigger everyday!

Student:

But it's getting so big! It didn't used to be that big, and now it's so big.

Me:

You're right, and he's only going to get bigger and bigger!

Student:

When are you gonna take it out? 

Me:

...(thinking)...ummm... he'll be born around February....

(then I walked away)

19 weeks, 6 days

So not only did we find out that baby is a boy on Wednesday, but right afterwards, we went to Lakeside to meet with our real estate agent, and wrote an offer on this super-cute house that we fell in love with in Daly City.

Afterwards, we treated ourselves to In N Out, and did a sneaky drive-by to check out the house one more time. The neighborhood was so calm and quiet. It was dark out, but people were walking their dogs, going on jogs, etc. It felt so nostalgic, like The Adventures of Pete and Pete mixed with my own childhood memories of growing up in a suburban tract house neighborhood. It reminded me of Autumn, Halloween, and the holidays.

The offer was due Friday morning, and by the afternoon, we found out that they had accepted! J met me in Union Square and told me the good news. We were jumping up and down and super excited! People on the street were yelling at us, but we had no idea what they were saying. We didn't care!

We had been house hunting all summer long and felt pretty discouraged by the end. Everything in the city was outrageously over-priced and buyers were over-bidding on their offers. We took a break for a while, but then came across this house on Redfin and decided to check it out. When we went to the open house, it felt completely different from the other 50+ houses and condos we had seen. We fell IN LOVE with this one and it felt so perfect! We feel so lucky that it'll be ours very soon!