Baby Shower

Here are some pictures from Saturday's shower here at our home, hosted by Tifanie and Mary.  More pictures can be found here.  If anyone has pics from that day, you can upload them to that gallery as well.

Yummy foods

 There was a box to write wishes/prayers for the baby that he can read when he is older.

This is the hilarious cake that Aaron made.  It had jawas and trucks and baby parts and the back said "It's A Roze."

It was a wonderful affair and we are so grateful to our friends for their support and love for our little one.

Sadly, I have managed to get a cold, so I am trying very hard to be extremely restful and still and recover as quickly as possible.  I have asked the baby to please wait to come until I'm better and rested.  As much as we'd like to meet him, I hope he can wait a little bit!

All Is Full Of Love

Still no word on who sent us that gift but I shore do hope they re-send it!

So, in the last week we have:

• Finished our awesome birthing classes
• Took an infant care class at the same awesome place
• Took a breastfeeding class at the same awesome place
• Met with pediatricians and found a group that seems really fantastic
• Toured the Cedars Sinai labor and delivery department and got a sense of how they operate
• Took another infant care class, this time at Cedars (a VERY DIFFERENT perspective, very mainstream but still informative/helpful)
• Had a great checkup today with the doc.
• I went on disability, and boy are my arms tired.  And my back, and my front, and everything in between.

No seriously, I've been EXHAUSTED.  Like can't raise an arm tired.  But it's getting better as I am finally able to rest and I'm still getting to yoga and stuff, which helps.  I am aware that I owe SO MANY PEOPLE phone calls, and I will slowly be able to start doing something about them in the next week or so.  Please be patient and know that everything is going at molasses pace and I'm unwinding after 9 months of going practically nonstop.

We will so miss our classes at Bini Birth but I'm hoping I'll go back for the Mom's group there.  Doctor says baby is doing great, next week we will have an ultrasound to make sure he isn't 25 lbs by this point.  On to baby shower on Saturday, can't wait!

The joy and the sweetness of all this is settling in and David and I both just wake up every day amazed and grateful and full of love.  How wonderful.

I totally forgot to post some pics from the office baby shower last month.  Here are a few:

 

Guitar pick cupcakes!

 

David and his work family

 The cool bag!

FRUSTRATING!!

So, someone out there ordered us a Baby Bjorn Babysitter Balance from our Babies R Us registry, and apparently UPS tried to deliver it this week and failed because WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL TODAY when someone put the notes on our door.  A day after they sent it back. 

If you are the wonderful patron who bought us this awesomely awesome gift (I called Babies R Us and they can't tell us who ordered it), we THANK YOU TREMENDOUSLY and ask you to re-order it, because apparently they are going to cancel the order and refund you for it.  We are sorry that it got returned!  Please let us know if you were the one who sent it to us.  GARUMPH!

Pregnancy Pics!

I'm just so happy with these beautiful pictures, taken by the wonderful Marisa Guzman-Aloia.  Go check out her website and see how talented she is.

She did a great job capturing us and we had such a nice day together taking these pictures (this was last Sunday so I was 33.5 weeks).

We shot in the carousel area at Griffith Park and then around our neighborhood in Los Feliz.  The entire album of pictures can be seen here (and downloaded if you'd like). We are getting some prints made, and it was really hard to choose which ones we like best, so we got a bunch.

I'm glad our little one will get to see these some day and know how excited we were to have him.