Journey with You http://journeywithyou.org a mommy's babysteps Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:57:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 WW and happy new year! http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/ww-and-happy-new-year/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/ww-and-happy-new-year/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:07:48 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=161 IMGP7711
Cyrus is watching Daddy shoveling the snow during our last snow storm.

Happy New Year everyone. Looking forward to more WW in 2009.

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/ww-and-happy-new-year/feed/ We’re expecting a little girl! http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/were-expecting-a-little-girl/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/were-expecting-a-little-girl/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:39:24 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=160 I should have posted this when we first found out at the BIG ulstrasound but things have been crazy. My work office moved and we didn’t have Internet for a week. I didn’t have time to go online after work. I am not as tired and sick as before but still not really up for any late night thing, except for once a while movie watching with DH.

The baby was healthy and we’re so grateful. I’ve been feeling her movement for the past few months. I think I had the first fetal movement at around the same time with Cyrus. It feels a little bit different this time though. With Cyrus, it felt like worms moving in my belly and this time it feels like bubbles! Either way, I LOVE it. :)

I have to admit that I was a little bit disappointed to know it’s not a boy. I am somehow obsessed with the idea of “my boys”. But I don’t feel that way any longer. It would be very nice to have a little girl in our family. There will be some changes and I’ll need to learn how to be a girl’s mother but I think everything is going to come into place on its own. DH and I are simply so excited about this new member of our family!

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/were-expecting-a-little-girl/feed/ My second hat for Cy http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/my-second-hat-for-cy/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/my-second-hat-for-cy/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:26:31 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=159 IMG_0396

I made a hat for him for his first winter and this is my second try. I am very pleased with the result. I got the pattern from Ravelry and revised it to a striped hat for a toddler. It was so much faster when you knit with a circular needle! I bought the yarn at Elmwood Yarn Shop and the owner (?) there was very helpful. She pretty much told me how many stitches to cast on and that’s all I needed to know to get started.

I am now working on the similar hat for DH so they can have father-son matching hat. :)

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/12/my-second-hat-for-cy/feed/ My first scarf for Cyrus http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/my-first-scarf-for-cyrus/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/my-first-scarf-for-cyrus/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:49:32 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=158 IMG_0380

It took longer than I would like but anyhow, I love seeing him wearing that scarf! I am making him a hat next.

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/my-first-scarf-for-cyrus/feed/ wordless 11.05.08 http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/wordless-110508/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/wordless-110508/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:26:30 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=157 IMG_0051

Glad to be back.

More WＷ．

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/11/wordless-110508/feed/ heart to heart http://journeywithyou.org/2008/10/heart-to-heart/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/10/heart-to-heart/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:12:36 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=156 heart to heart

8/22/08 BBT was still high. Tried the first urine in the morning. Saw two pink lines in a minute. I was in tears, happy tears.

9/12/08 first prenatal appointment. I wigged 112 lbs. Blood pressure were good. The nurse asked me some routine questions and doctor did the pap smear. Found bacteria in my urine. Took antibiotics for three days.

9/15/08 Dating ultrasound. Saw the little bean with heart rate of 170BPM. Baby measured 8w and my due date is 4/27/09.

Went to have the lead blood test done at another lab. The results was normal.

10/9/08 2nd prenatal appointment. Met a pregnant female doctor who was going on maternity leave the next day. Couldn’t find the heartbeat with a doppler so we went to u/s room again. Found the baby and beautiful heartbeat of 170 BPM. I gained 5 lbs. BP normal, so was the urine. Gave them the urine culture just to be sure. Got blood drawn for Toxoplasmosis. All came back normal.

10/13/08 Officially entered the 2nd trimester.

10/14/08 Had the NT screening. The number came back normal. The baby wasn’t in the good position at first but he flipped around after I emptied my bladder. He/she was getting big! Heart rate 156 BPM.

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/10/heart-to-heart/feed/ seven years later http://journeywithyou.org/2008/09/seven-years-later/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/09/seven-years-later/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:29:00 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=155 Seven years later, is America safer? I do not think so.

The only way to help America be a safer place is that America can be a good member of the global community, not the boss.

I just want a safe place for my child. That’s all a mother wants.

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More wordless Wednesday here.

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Not the super healthy snack but it was so hot on that day so I thought I would give him a little treat.

More wordless Wednesday can be found here.

]]> http://journeywithyou.org/2008/08/wordless-08272008/feed/ Cyrus’ daddy in the Sunday paper http://journeywithyou.org/2008/08/cyrus-daddy-in-the-sunday-paper/ http://journeywithyou.org/2008/08/cyrus-daddy-in-the-sunday-paper/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:40:46 +0000 Esther http://journeywithyou.org/?p=152 You can read the article here.

If you are interested in the book, please go to My First Year in Purgatory . Org. You can preview the first 10 pages from there.

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