Gift from Lani

Check out the cute outfit Lani picked up when she was shopping the other day! It's just precious!

Aunt Joni also got him a nightgown pajama outfit with firetrucks, dalmations and hydrants on it - with a matching little cap.

He is so spoiled already!

18 weeks, almost halfway there!

Here he is waving or giving a high five, not sure which :)

Precious little angel

Well our appointment with The Inside Story went great! I will post pics when I upload them. We were so happy to have Ginger and Jamie go with us.

We decided on Collin Joseph Garza for our little bundle of joy. We think his name fits him perfectly already!

We had another appointment early this morning for our halfway mark/ultrasound. The sonographer checked the 4 chambers of his heart, brain, measurements, heartbeat (150 beats per minute), kidneys, stomach and bladder which were full because he is swallowing the amniotic fluid properly, all of his little fingers and toes, his spine, etc. She spent an hour doing the ultrasound and made sure I had a full bladder to see everything clearly - talk about painful! All in all, everything looks great and here are 3 pictures from this morning. He is just precious!

16 weeks/4 months!

Our beautiful niece, Ella Garza -->

Playing "mommy" with Kash Gonzalez last Christmas!

Kash is SUCH a sweet, loving baby. He turns one this month!

Jeff - THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE!

I'm am SOOOOOOOO excited for tomorrow. We have an appointment at "The Inside Story" to have the baby's gender determined and also get a 10 minute ultrasound (on DVD with background music) and 4 pictures. We absolutely can't wait to find out what we're having!

I think it's a boy, Jeff thinks it's a girl. We have a bet!

Ginger will be coming in town to visit for the weekend and is going to our appointment with us which we are VERY excited about too!

Here is a link to the website of the place we will be going. http://www.theinsidestoryultrasound.com/ Check it out, it's really neat.

15 weeks check- up

Well everything went great! We heard the heartbeat for the first time which was amazing! It was 156. (They say boys heartrates are 140 and below, so ya never know!)

My belly measured 15 centimeters from top to bottom which was on track. Supposively it should measure how many weeks you are and since I'm 15 it was where it should be. Yay!

Here are a couple pictures Jeff took while we were in the room with the nurse waiting on Dr. Rao. :)

Update!

Well, I will be 15 weeks this weekend. We see Dr. Rao this coming Thursday to hear the heartbeat and have my monthly check-up.

We have another appointment Saturday, August 8th at an imaging center for a 10 minute ultrasound, pictures, and DVD video set to music as a keepsake. They have imaging centers in Houston that do 3D/4D ultrasounds. We will be getting one of those when I'm further along, but for now we will be getting just the 2D. It seems like the Dr. is always so quick to check on the baby that we only get to see it on the monitor for what seems like a second! We are really excited to watch it on the big screen and enjoy every moment captured on Video of our little peach.

Here is a picture of Hank lovin' on Mama. Also, my belly at 14 1/2 weeks. It's growing by the day :)

13 wks, My Little Peach

I get these weekly emails from 2 pregnancy websites - they had a picture of a baby at 13 weeks on a 3-D ultrasound. I just had to paste it here - it was amazing!

The email update I received said the baby is now the size of a peach! This week, it's forming teeth and vocal chords. Fingerprints have also formed.

Here is a picture of the size of baby Garza in mama's womb.

Feeling great with tons of energy. I love this baby so much already!

2nd Trimester Heaven

Well I have been feeling so much better these days! I am sooooo glad. Yesterday after work I picked up lunch at La Madeline's for my aunt Joni and I and took it to her house. After that, I went shopping for my brother's 30th birthday and walked around a couple stores for 3 hours (in heels!) and got some great exercise just browsing around in the cool A/C!

After I got home I cleaned up the apartment, did laundry, painted a flower pot we had laying around to put bills/mail in since Jeff wanted something to organize our mail - ha! Then I cooked a delicious spaghetti dinner with garlic toast and when Jeff walked in the door from work his plate was warm and ready waiting for him.

I'm enjoying the spurts of energy this little baby is giving me. I finally feel awake, alert and excited all the time! (for almost 2 months I was confined to the couch or bed, miserably sick and hardly eating so this has been huge for me).

We go see the Dr. in 2 weeks from today and are looking forward to every appointment as always.