he's 6-months old

He's eating (drinking) rice cereal. If he needs to get somewhere, he rolls there! He reaches out for Mommy. He hates being left alone. He's working on sitting up. He puts everything in his mouth. He's drooling a lot (from teething). He is still not sleeping through the night. :/ Everyone keeps saying he looks like a little person...He was always a little person to me. He's halfway to his 1st birthday. Love this lil man! ♥ ♥ !!

My parents bought Lil Man that Nalgene botttle! Mommy has the adult version! We're looking forward to when he can sip out this bottle. But until then, we're so very happy with the milestones he's hit so far.

5 months

Well...lil man is 5-months old. He still wakes up every 2 hours in the middle of the night, but we still love him. He's sleeping in Mommy and Daddy's bed. He smiles all the time. He laughs only at Mommy. He learned how to roll over; he can only roll to his right though. He grabs his feet. He loves sitting in his Bumbo chair.

We're both so unbelievably in love with him.

We still can't believe how much he's grown in the short time.

stressin'

My lil man has eczema. We'll have like 2 days of nice skin, and then he'll break out into a rash, and his skin will weep. :( Felix always seems to be taking it in good stride though.

Luckily, the eczema is only really bad on his arm folds. I've been applying moist compresses to stop the weeping, but ugh, it always comes back. :( 

On another note, I've been obsessed with the Hunger Games book series. It took me about a week to finish all the books. They're so addicting! I stayed up every night to finish the books...Felix was waking up 2-3 times in the middle of the night anyway. I highly recommend reading the books! They helped keep my mind off Felix's eczema.

My lil booger...

is 4 months old!

He smiles for Mommy all the time. He's baby talking. He's laughed 3 whole times. He's figured out how to suck his thumb. He can grab objects. He loves YoGabbaGabba. He loves to kick and stand on his feet. And he's grown out of his newborn clothes...*sigh* I can't believe how fast he's growing!

where did the time go?

While I was shooting some pictures of Felix in his Bumbo chair, he let out his first laugh! It was amazing!!

Then 2 days later, he was 3 months old!

Felix trying to figure out buttons...


He's just too cool for 3 months!

Welcome to the World, Felix

Felix was born on April 20, 2011 at 10:50AM. I was in labor for about 15 hours, and I pushed for 50 minutes. My husband and I were both in tears when we finally got to meet our little guy. We chose to name him Felix because it means "happy; lucky." He's the best thing that's ever happened to us.

2 months old

Back to the present really quickly...my lil man, Felix, turned 2 months old yesterday!!

Backing it up again...

To September 2010: hubby turned 30. We announced we were going to be parents.

It's a ...

So hubby and I had our fetal survey appointment on Monday where we found out the sex of our baby! We were supposed to find out last week on Tuesday, so my excited self found it hard to sleep and then slept through the appointment; I was super bummed...I mean SUPER bummed. I ugly cried (snorting, choking, inability to speak clearly) to my sister...who, by the way, laughed at me because she couldn't understand what I was saying. I see, now, how it was funny, but I felt terrible at the time! Luckily, I did not advertise on Facebook or Twitter or Blogger about when we were going to find out. I did mention it to some people via word of mouth, but that's all. And every time someone asked me what the baby was, it just dampened my spirits. I felt like I was already a bad mother for not being able to wake up for an appointment with the doctor...well, I finally got over it.

Anyways...want to know what we're having? Check out our baby website!

Oops!

It's been a while! Sorry. After coming home from all the traveling, all I wanted to do was NOTHING.

Also, we got a happy surprise nearing the end of summer...

 
A short menstrual period and week-long sore boobs lead us to, SURPRISE!, 2 positive home pregnancy tests and a doctor's appointment.

On August 26, 2010, an appointment with a physician (who happened to be my dad's doctor) confirmed it! The doctor asked me to congratulate my dad for him. And I started the necessary blood work.

We chose Dr. Mendelsohn with the Orange Coast Women's Medical Group as our OB/GYN, whose office is adjacent to the hospital we will deliver at, Saddleback Memorial.

On September 15, 2010, (Hubby's 30th birthday), we had our first appointment with Dr. Mendelsohn and got our first ultrasound!

We found out we were at 9wks, and baby is due April 20, 2011 (yea, that's 4/20). And so we begin our journey to parenthood...