All our rooms will soon be full!

We're having a BABY!
(P.S. It's that tiny spot in the cloud of dark)

Vanessa's Views...

We are very excited! The baby is due December 16, 2009 - that puts us at just a little over 10 weeks. What a great Christmas present! We are excited to share the news and excitement with everyone!

We just had our first OB appointment Friday. Everything seems to be going well! Besides the fact we had to go THREE times. First of course for the visit; then in the craziness of it all we forgot to do the bloodwork. So we had to go two more times to get the bloodwork done - the first time the lady was on break!! The last time we got my blood drawn - 7 viles! I was so tired afterwards I ended up taking a three hour nap that afternoon. Needless to say, Hai and I need to bone up on what exactly we need to do at the OB visits. We were clearly out of our areas of expertise!! Next time I've decided we will write down any questions we have or things we need to get done so we don't forget.

We won't get another ultrasound until 20 weeks - which is somewhat disappointing. I had an ultrasound about five weeks ago (above picture). And according to my new friend, What to Expect When Expecting, the baby is changing and growing so rapidly everyday. Obviously, it's growing (or something is...) because most of my pants are growing increasingly hard to put on.

Hai and I have always known we wanted to be parents. We always talked about what we would name our baby and what we would do as parents. As the days go by and I spend more time carrying around this bundle of joy I feel more adequate and much more like an impeding mom. I know Hai will be a great dad - hands down probably the best.

Hai has announced to the world we are having a baby. I haven't announced to everyone at work quite yet. I'm waiting to get out of the first trimester and make sure upcoming testing is ok. This Thursday I will be having a colopscopy as the doctor wants to check my cervix for abnormal cells (previous testing revealed cells "one and half steps above normal" on my cervix) so please be praying everything goes just as well as the doctor assured us it would! So, if you have received this great news early Hai and I ask you keep things on the "shhhh" until our testing is over.

Hai and I look forward to keeping everyone updated via this blog - especially those people we don't get to see everyday.

FROM HAI....

From the day I found out was I excited and scared at the same time. I am still feeling those feelings to this day. I am excited that I am going to be a father and scared if I am going to be a good one. A lot of mixed emotions are running through my head but nothing negative. When Vanessa told me she was pregnant all I could do at the time is laugh. Vanessa wasn't too happy after that especially after the fourth pregnancy test she took that day. We went to Baby's r us to buy a picture frame for our ultrasound. I took advantage of parking in the mom's to be parking spot. Going to Baby's r us was something new to me and I started to panic. By the time we left there, I was sweating. Every day I get more comfortable with the fact of having a baby. I become more excited while the fear goes away. Going through this whole process makes me grow up faster than I expected. I was content with my life at the time, with my girlfriend and three dogs in our apartment. Then we bought a house, which came at the perfect time. Because we needed the extra space for our baby. I just never knew that I would be reading baby books or watching Jon and Kate plus 8 or even enjoy seeing a baby strolling past me at the grocery store. Having a baby is huge change but a change for the better. I just want to be the best father for my kid. I want him/her to be proud of me. Everyone that I have told has told me that I will be a good father and I ask why and their response was that I am caring. Never really knew that I had that quality in me.