It's a BOY!

We had our ultrasound appointment this morning with Dr. Lyons in Kahuku. I was really excited about it. All went well and he printed out 6 pictures for us (2 of the gender-identifying limb, lol). Baby was really active during the ultrasound and kept moving all over the place. One second we would be looking at his side, like he was in a crawling position on his hands and knees, and the next second he was showing us the bottoms of his feet, and then the next second we were looking straight on at his bum with his legs spread out like he was mooning us, lol. Maybe he was just trying to show us that we was a boy. And an acrobatic one at that. Future rugby player maybe??

We saw that it was a boy quite early in the ultrasound, and a big smile came over Taiyo's face. He has been cute about it today too. Right after the ultrasound I called my mom to tell her, and before I was done Taiyo had already posted that it was a boy on his facebook account. And when we were studying together later in the day he started singing, "I have a son~ I have a son~" with a big grin. :D

After taking all the measurements too and seeing how much he had grown already, the due date was changed to June 20 (from the 29th). He must be anxious to come out and meet us!

2 more days!

48 hours from now we'll be sitting at the doctor's office waiting for our ultrasound! :D

Rugby Star

Taiyo plays rugby with some local boys (some BYUH, some just community) and their season started a couple weeks ago. They play a game every Saturday at different locations around the island. This is the star of the team (hehe). The bandage on his face is because at last week's game he got tackled and someone stepped on his face with their cleats. It's mostly healed now but the bandage still looks cool, haha.

They have won both of their games so far. Here are a few pictures of the team.






This one is Taiyo scoring the last try (rugby term for "touchdown") of the game!

Survey says:

Well,
I decided to try out a few of the old wives tales and ways to determine the gender of the baby. Here is what they say for me.

Chinese Gender Chart- GIRL
Old Wives Tales Quiz (www.babygenderpredictor.com)- GIRL
Wedding Ring on a String- circles, so GIRL (right?)
I seem to be carrying more round than watermelon shaped- BOY
Heart Rate (136)- BOY
I prefer to lay on my right side (according to Taiyo's sis that means...)-BOY
Ultrasound- ?? SCHEDULED FOR FEB 12!

What do you think?! I'll put up a poll right over there -->
on the right hand side of the page and I'll leave it open until Feb 12 when we find out for sure (assuming baby cooperates)!

Ahh! What was that??

Yesterday I had a couple of "firsts."

1) Someone told me for the first time yesterday that I have a little "pooch" now. I'm taking it as a compliment, haha...

2) I think I felt the baby moving!!!!!
I'm not 100% sure because I don't really know what a baby feels like moving inside of you, but yesterday after church Taiyo and I laid down to take a nap and before I fell asleep I suddenly felt a weird pressure moving around in my belly, a bit on the left side, just below my belly button level. As soon as I felt it my eyes popped wide open and I laid completely still to try to focus on it and see if I could tell if it was really the baby or not. I've heard people say it's kind of like gas bubbles, so that's what I've been kind of expecting, but this was a little different than I expected. It wasn't "bubbly" or "gurgley" at all, just the same feeling of pressure as when gas moves around... but I've never felt it without the somewhat gurgley feeling though, so this felt different. It lasted a good 5 seconds or more.
I put my hands down on my belly and in fact the hard part (whatever it's called) was exactly in that spot, popping out the left side of my belly, while the right side was softer... ok maybe that sounds weird but i just mean that the baby was in fact in the spot where I felt the "moving." If it really was the baby, it was like he/she was stretching or moving around, rather than any little kick or anything. I guess when I get further along and learn to recognize it, I'll be able to look back and know if this was really my first time feeling baby or not. I hope it was! I got so excited about it!!! :D

17 weeks! (almost)

Actually I won't be 17 weeks until Monday but I went ahead and took my first "mama belly" picture today. :)

It doesn't look like an obvious baby belly yet but it's definitely popping out now as of this week! A week or two ago I started feeling the hard bump inside, and then it finally started pushing out. Every day this week I woke up feeling like it was bigger! I guess it will start growing faster and faster from here on out.

Pregnancy updates:
* I'm done with the first trimester and done with the nausea! yay!
* I did get a kidney infection a few weeks ago. That wasn't fun but I got on some antibiotics and things are all good now.
* I have an ultrasound scheduled for February 12! We can't wait to see how baby is growing and if it's a boy or a girl!
* A couple days ago for the first time I put on a pair of shorts and couldn't button them! Here comes the belly!

Other updates:
* School has started again so that means new classes for both me and Taiyo.
* I'll be graduating at the beginning of June! whew!
* Taiyo just got hired as a tutor in the BYUH math department, and he's very excited to be doing that instead of PCC security.
* The Laie Temple closed at the end of the year for renovations... for 1.5 years. :( The next closest temple is in Kona on the big island.
* Life is hectic but good :)

Newlywed Christmas Eve

Well it's our first Christmas together as a married couple! Due to lack of spare finances we didn't buy a tree, but instead I made a makeshift "tree" out of lights on the living room wall. And our "fireplace" is a youtube video of a fireplace playing. (Not that we need the heat from it anyway, it doesn't even get below 71 degrees at night! In fact, it's midnight and we have the fan on right now!) :)


And here's my handsome nutcracker. We walked through the Aloha Center to see all the lights and decorations and Taiyo liked the giant nutcracker, hehe...



MELE KALIKIMAKA from the Palefau Family!