29 weeks!

Here we are at 29 weeks!! Nearly 7 1/2 months already!! I can't believe it, that's only 74 days!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!

I'm feeling pretty good pregnancy wise, but it seems that the wonderful effect of the hormones are now causing me crazy nightmares which is making it pretty difficult to get much sleep. Thankfully, we decided to get a new bed for our anniversary so that's definitely helping in the comfort arena! Speaking of our anniversary, it's this Sunday, Sept. 5th. That's 5 years for us! I cannot believe it's been that long, it's flown by so quickly!! I'm so grateful to have a husband like Steven through all this crazy pregnancy business. He's mr. patient when my moods go crazy and he's super understanding when I wake him up at 3 in the morning because I've tripped on something coming back from the bathroom or throw-up in the middle of a restaurant or wake him up all night long because of nightmares, etc. You can imagine what fun I've been to be around! He's going to be the best dad ever because he's such a trooper through all things crazy!

I am stressing about things a little bit more now than I was even last week. I keep getting asked by lots of people A) If I'm nervous about having the baby (uh, yeah, who wouldn't be??) B) what I'm going to do about my job (I don't know yet, government funding isn't something you can predict!) C) If I can actually believe I'll be a mother in just a couple of months (nope, can't believe it yet, but I'm sure I will believe it the minute she arrives!) and D) what we are going to do about living in a one-bedroom apartment (we'll stay here until we know our financial situation, she's not that big anyways, right?). I understand why people ask all these questions, but it really isn't helpful to new mothers to be questioned so much about things that are mostly beyond her control! I know everyone means well, but it doesn't keep the stress levels down at all. All my pregnant first time moms hear me out there?? :)

On to the less emotional side of things......
Baby is the size of a squash now and getting bigger and bigger by the second!



She's still moving and kicking although I think she's getting a little bit more cramped in there because her kicks don't pack quite the punch they used to. Sometimes she just jams her foot (or knee, elbow, hand, etc) straight up and it makes my stomach look very odd shaped until she relaxes again. It's quite the strange sensation!


Life is pretty much the same for us. We've been slowly preparing for her arrival by organizing every square inch of our apartment. I've gone a little off the deep end as far as cleaning goes, here's a picture of Steven helping me scrub the entire kitchen floor on our hands and knees:



I finish this quarter of school on Sept. 13th and am really excited to be done and start focusing on preparing more for her arrival!

26 weeks along

We've made it to 6 1/2 months now and are getting close to the third trimester! Baby is still an eggplant like last week but she's definitely kicking and wiggling like crazy! She spent almost 20 minutes today doing kung fu in my stomach!

We've had quite the weekend so far. We went to celebrate a friend's birthday at this vegetarian restaurant called Fatty's (love the irony, huh!). They had vegan chocolate fondue and cotton candy made from maple syrup. It was DELICIOUS! Since Farns didn't get any meat for that meal, we had to make up for it by going to the Korean BBQ Cook-Off in Koreatown!! We got to meet up with a friend of mine who was adopted from Korea. We had such a good time, the food was delicious and Sandra Oh was a judge for the cook-off! Gotta love LA!




We've spent today busy working. I have a 10 page paper due tomorrow (which I just finished) and Farns is working on a quick video for Mosaic. We took a little break to go to the North Hollywood Farmer's Market to see our friends at their booth for Cavewoman Bars! Click here to check out their website.

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post, if anyone else wants to add a story, I would absolutely love to read it! I'll try to post another question later this week! :)

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer, I know it's been nice and cool here in LA while it's like a million degrees back in Oklahoma, sorry guys, guess you should just come visit me here! :)

Question for all.....

As most of you know, I am currently in grad school to get my MA in Psych. In one of my classes today our professor handed out a piece of blank paper and crayons and asked us all to draw the first time in our lives we felt we were different from others. After we drew them, we hung them on the wall and took turns describing each experience. It was incredible to learn all the different experiences others had at very young ages that have played a major part in forging who they are today. I'm telling you all of this because I wonder what people will describe online, especially because you have the opportunity to be anonymous in your comments. I would love it if you would comment on this blog with the first time in your life that you felt you were different from others (this can mean different in any sense you might interpret, it doesn't have to be limited to race, gender, ethnicity, abilities, etc).

To give you an idea, here's mine:

I drew 7 little kids holding hands all with the same t-shirts on with the Korean flag printed on the shirts. 6 of these kids were Korean adoptees and the 7th was me - white as can be with brown curly hair and big green eyes. This drawing was the first time I went to Korean Heritage camp after Macy and Jordie were adopted. I remember complaining to my mom one day after camp how uncomfortable I felt to be the only white kid there at the camp. She wisely responded "Now you know what the adoptees feel like every day when they go to school, church or even at home in a primarily white environment." That was one of the best lessons I've ever learned and I am grateful for it.

That was mine, what's yours??

25 weeks along!

Wow! I can't believe we are so far along already! We've been SUPER behind on the blog as you can see it took nearly two months to update you on our trip to Brazil, so sorry!

Now for baby news. We are 25 weeks along, officially 6 months pregnant and rapidly approaching the third trimester. And since we haven't stated this in the blog yet, it's a GIRL! Well, that's what the doc said. I'm not totally sure about that since the ultrasound tech spent an hour trying to figure that out and baby wouldn't spread her legs (which makes Steven a proud dad!), when the doc came in for a quick consultation and within 5 minutes knew it was a girl....so.....we're just keeping everything gender neutral just in case.

I was having some serious fears and reservations about the logistics of taking care of a baby, working full time and going to grad school. I thought I might have been losing my mind, but when I went to read about the 6th month of pregnancy in my "What to Expect...." book, it stated that now is the time when almost all women start to "freak out" (as Steven would say). It does make me feel better to know that other women go through this as well and to know that I have a husband like Steven who is not an emotional basket case like me and reminds me that God has always taken care of us and while we can't predict the future we have the big guy to trust. Whew!

So, the baby is now supposed to be about the size of an eggplant weighs about 1.5-2.2 lbs and is about 13.6-14.8 inches long.



She is a feisty little thing. When I'm studying for class and have a book on my stomach, she gets a little frustrated and kicks like crazy on the book. She kicks so hard now that you can actually see my stomach move, that's a little unnerving! It is much more exciting though to know you are pregnant by getting kicked a little than by throwing up all day, so that's been quite the nice change! I have my glucose test next Monday, so pray that all is well and I don't have to go on to the 3 hour test, that could be quite brutal!

We don't have a name yet, I think that's going to be a game-time decision for us once she's born. So many things are starting to happen, we scheduled our Maternity Tour at the hospital, my friends are throwing me a baby shower and we've been talking with our parents about who is coming to visit when. It's so weird to be scheduling all of this around a baby who may or may not show up on her due date. The fact that I have absolutely no control over that is way weird! Welcome to parenthood, huh??!??

That's about it for us. Steven is still working at the same production house, he's supposed to be gone for a week in the beginning of October so pray baby Farns doesn't make an early appearance! :) My classes end September 13th and then I get a 3 month leave of absence so that will definitely be a welcome break until baby arrives. Life is good and we are blessed!!