2nd Pope baby!

So the main reason for the blog name change is that we've moved past "the first Pope baby". Number two is on the way! So already baby #2 is getting the short end of the stick, it doesn't even get it's own blog. Hopefully he or she will forgive me some day. Unfortunately I think that's the fate of the second (and subsequent) children.

Two lines!

And now for the back story. On September 29 I woke up feeling not so great. As soon as I stood up out of bed I knew that was a bad idea and wanted to immediately lay back down again. All of the sudden that feeling felt very familiar. My first trimester I was pregnant with Lily, I needed to eat something in the morning in bed before I got out of bed. That feeling was immediately familiar to me. I had other signs that had made be wonder before that too so I told Scott I thought it was time to buy a pregnancy test. So he ran to the store to get a test. And of course it came back positive immediately! I wasn't exactly sure what my due date was I thought I was either one month along or two, so I was pretty sure I'd have to get an ultrasound to date the pregnancy.

This time around I was a little wiser and knew I didn't need to see my regular doctor and just called up the midwifery group that delivered Lily. Unfortunately they didn't have an available appointment for over a month, but I took it.

In the mean time I had some complications. I started bleeding, which was quite scary. When it didn't go away, I called the midwife emergency number. She suggested I go in to see a regular OB/GYN immediately. I got an appointment right away to see an OB in the same suite as my midwives. Thankfully, he was able to do an ultrasound and immediately saw the little flicker of a heartbeat. Due to the development we could see on the ultrasound it was clear that I was very early in my pregnancy--only about 5 weeks. Dr. Johnson said that seeing the heartbeat was a very good sign and pretty much meant we were out of the woods but he still wanted to see us back again in a week to make sure the baby continued to grow normally. Again, everything was fine in a week. And seeing the baby twice so early on was nice. We never saw Lily that early. Bleeding is actually pretty normal, but it's still very disconcerting.

We were also given a due date of May 28, 2010--about a month after Lily's 2nd birthday.

18 months

Lily is one and a half years old! The second year is definitely going by faster than the first.


This was an incredibly busy month for us. Daddy got his doctorate on the 27th, Mommy left her job of 6 years and became a stay at home mom on the 30th and Lily had her last day of daycare (also on the 30th). So this past month has been extremely busy for the whole family. Not to mention, we're preparing to move across the country in another week. We have a few things going on.

Lily is a crack up lately. She has such a personality. She's a lot like me which is both heartwarming and a little scary. She's already very opinionated and stubborn--which makes me worry about her teenage years. She's also talking all the time. We can understand a lot of what she says but there's still a lot of jibber-jabber that doesn't make sense to us. She's really trying to talk though. It makes me even more happy about teaching her sign language. She knows so many signs for words she just can't physically say yet. It's so nice to be able to communicate with her. Some of my favorite things she's saying right now are "mon" (come on) while pulling on your hand to get you to come with her (usually because she wants you to get something to her) and "no way" to pretty much everything.

She also loves animals like her mom. She can spot a dog before anyone else. She can hear a bird tweeting before anyone else. She just loves all animals. And her bunny makes her so happy and she loves him so much.

While Scott was finishing writing his thesis, Lily and I went on a lot of day trips just the two of us. We spent a lot of time at the children's museum that we're members of. We also took trips to the zoo and to a pumpkin patch to get pumpkins for Halloween.

Feeding a cow some hay at the pumpkin patch.

Mommy's a real slave-driver, she even makes the little girls help.

Lily wanted to go around and kiss all the pumpkins.

Lily wanted to put her head in the scarecrow cutout all by herself.

Lily looking in the tide pool with her grandma.

We had to go to the LA Zoo one last time to see the baby snow leopards that just got put out on display with their mom.

Lily and I at the flamingos at the LA Zoo.

Daddy getting his PhD.

Lily and her daycare provider, Noushi (or No-No).

Lily and her good friend, Marcus, on her last day at daycare.

Someone ended up swiping baby #2 pumpkin. :(

Our little cheerleader!