Happy Father's Day!

Dave is going to be a GREAT dad! This little girl will have him wrapped around her finger in no time!

Cord Blood & Tissue Banking

Dave and I have registered our baby girl for cord blood banking and cord tissue banking rather than asking for typical baby things. This is a very important procedure to us. Over 80 diseases are able to be currently treated with the stem cells from the cord blood and the cord tissue stem cells are able to regenerate cartilage, repair tissue damage to organs, treat brain injuries and treat degenerative arthritis (which Dave has) indefinitely as they can keep growing new cells from the tissue.
If any of you would like to donate to our baby's registry here is the link. Type in my name and Nevada and I'm the only one that comes up.

https://www.cbrclients.com/GiftRegistry/FindRegistry.aspx

It is an expensive venture for the collection but the storage is pretty reasonable and we will pay that yearly. Your help would be greatly appreciated to help reduce the collection cost. Donations can be accepted until the due date, October 17th, and then the registry closes and we pay the remaining balance.

http://cordblood.com/pdf/regenpanel.pdf

Thank you so much for your help!

http://cordblood.com/lab/index.asp?fbid=40zfLdI5LnQ

Getting Bigger!

We had our check-up for baby girl's kidneys today. At our appointment in May they said her kidneys were dilated and there were several things that could be causing that. The ultrasound doctor totally freaked me out and told us to come back in a month so he could keep an eye on them. Well, thankfully whatever the issue was it has resolved itself! They said everything looks normal and she weighs in at 1 pound, 1 ounce right now. They didn't state how long she is this time around. They also verified that she a girl for us, twice! I guess they thought we were skeptics! This will be the last ultrasound picture of her if all goes well. No more ultrasounds are scheduled!

Splish, Splash!

With temperatures over 100 degrees here we need some relief. Thankfully, the M Hotel and Casino is just a few blocks away and they only charge locals $10 to swim. The pool is nice. It has lots of ledges to rest against and it's only 3.5 feet deep all around so it's more of a lounging kind of pool than really for swimming. There are very few shaded areas and if you want a cabana with fans and misters you have to shell out the big bucks! The pool is really two pools split down the middle by a walk-way. I heard a rumor that locals can get in free to the over 21 pool from 10am-6pm but you have to be able to tolerate the "club" type atmosphere and DJ blaring.





Ninja was quite freaked out the day we went swimming. At first I thought it was my straw hat so I took it off to try and settle him. Nope, that wasn't it. Then I thought maybe it was my flip flops. Nope. The little dude was upset about my swimsuit. It's got a kaleidescope pattern going on up top and it was wigging him out!! Next time I'll make sure I have my cover-up on before encountering the Ninja!

Baby Girl

We found out we are having a baby girl! I've had my money on girl since the get go so I wasn't too surprised. The doctor's office wouldn't cooperate with our plan because of HIPPA so we gave the ultrasound results to my secretary at school and swore her to secrecy. Her job was to email the bakery with the results. Then I had to avoid her all week for fear of me caving and twisting it out of her!

On our anniversary we had our baby/anniversary cake delivered and it was so cute. Way better than I had envisioned in my head. It matches her room.









PINK!






Here she is finally looking somewhat human. She has been very uncooperative in the other ultrasounds.



And the classy caption by the ultrasound tech..."no pee pee." Nice.


I bought balloons to take to school and Hershey's kisses that said "it's a girl" to give to the kids. They were all very excited (for the most part) and have actually been pretty easy on me these last few months. I have not been the most lovable of pregnant women. It's been rough...really rough!





Neko and Ninja have been settling in quite nicely with her things. They think that all of these new toys and beds have been purchased for them.



I'll upload the video of us cutting into her cake as soon as I figure how to get it off the video camera.

Sneak Peak

Here are some of the pictures of the nursery. It's a project that is "in progress." We really need something on the walls! I am going to need some photography lessons about working in this room. Everything is coming out yellowish and it's annoying!

The nap nanny will not be in the crib (it's just a good holding place for now) and I know the bumper has to go once the baby comes. I just wanted it to look pretty!



The hutch/changing table. Ninja had to get into the action. Like I said, the boy rarely leaves my side. He's taking care of me and the baby.



And the life size kangaroo. I know, me and my baby really don't need a life size kangaroo but this is one of those splurges I just had to make. It did scare me when I walked in on it for the first time!

Nesting

We finally got our carpet installed in the nursery! Room by room the rest of the house will get done...someday.

You can clearly see the difference in quality with the old crappy stuff and our new fluffy carpet!


I mean biz-nass about the "no shoes" rule!


After we let it settle for a day we started working on getting the nursery furniture back in the room and setting up the crib.


Neko is very concerned about whoever is planning on "moving in."


Finished crib. It's big!


Dave is practicing his "baby hold."