Week 19 Visit

I had my visit with my OB on Monday. Below is the latest picture of Baby Boy Garcia at 19 1/2 weeks. While my OB was doing the ultrasound, we caught him moving his hands around his face and then he yawned! He actually opened his mouth and yawned inside my belly and we caught it on camera! It was so cool. :) I actually didn't know they could open their mouths in the womb! Unfortunately, I don't have a video of it, but my MD gave me pictures, but it's hard to see so I didn't post them.

The last week I've had horrible sinus problems, which has lead to sleepless nights and miserable days since I can't breathe through my nose! It's hard to even eat or drink anything since I can only breathe through my mouth. Today and yesterday it's gotten better and I was actually able to sleep through the night last night (finally!). woo hoo!!!! :) You don't realize how difficult everything else becomes when you can't breathe!

Everything else is same as usual. It's been pretty quiet since Mira's bday and Halloween. Here are some pictures of Mira and her bday presents:

Princess scooter from her friend Natalie

Princess shoes from Tita InchikDisney castle from Ninang Carla

Notice the theme here? She's obviously into princesses and castles like almost every 3 year old girl!

Of course, not to mention all the other wonderful presents she's received from everyone else (sorry, I just didn't take pictures of all of them with my phone).

This weekend is Tita Med's one year death anniversary, so we will be joining all the Bello relatives at Carla's house for another gluttonous day of food, food and more food. Can't wait!

It's a (drum roll please)....................

Any more guesses??

We had our second trimester detailed ultrasound today. It went very well! Baby is doing great... growth, bloodflow, heartbeat, measurements, etc. Woohoo! :) Mira came with us to this appt and afterwards kept talking about going to the doctor and seeing the "baby in mommy's tummy." We drop her off at daycare and let her announce the news to her friends and teachers.

The past few days have been very eventful. Friday was Mira's birthday. We celebrated at her school with her classmates with Coldstone ice cream cupcakes (YUM) and party favors that she helped me put together. Her classmates made her birthday cards (so cute). Everyone was dressed up in their Halloween costumes and they went to the elementary school across the street for the Halloween parade.

Here's a pic of Mira and a few of her classmates, (left to right: Becca (Snow White), Mira (Belle), Scarlett (Sleeping Beauty), Sienna (Katara) and Preston (Fire Fighter)).

Saturday was Elle's (Mira's step cousin) birthday party. Her and Mira are only 3 days apart! Mira and I drove out to Arcadia for the party while Mark helped prepare for Mira's party the next day.

Sunday was Mira's bday party with family at the house. We ate, ate and ate some more! Thank you so much to all the family that came especially the Basu's for driving out from SD, the Garcia's for cooking almost all the food (not to mention bringing the Belle cake that Mira fell in LOVE with!) and Brig and Maryan as the clean-up crew! :)

Here's a pic of Mira's cousin in her home-made Yo Gabba-Gabba Foofa costume. So, not only did Nicole (Marks' sister) make amazing pinakbit for the party, but also managed to make this incredible costume for her daughter, Helena!

Then, of course, trick-or-treating... we met up with some of Mira's classmates and friends (Becca, Ben, Sienna, Liam, Evan and Lucas) and went trick-or-treating at Sienna and Liam's awesome Halloween-friendly neighborhood. The kids had a blast!

Picture of the a few of the trick-or-treating crew (left to right: Ben (Monkey), Becca (Snow White), Mira (Belle with sunglassess) and Sienna (Katara))

So... as you can tell, I'm stalling to keep you all on the edge of your seats (hope it worked)! Here is a picture from today's visit. A perfect side profile of our beautiful baby boy. :) Mira will soon have a baby brother!

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