Also, I got my cool new phone! (I switched to Verizon from Nextel) It's super sweet, with a color screen, and camera and downloadable ringtones. When Jeff calls me, it shows his picture and plays the Knight Rider theme!

Today we went to Borders and read, and basically didn't do a lot of anything.

Actually, Travis scared me a bit today. Not by doing anything. Actually, it was by NOT doing anything. Or not much of anything, anyway. (I guess he was feeling lazy too!)

I even tried the whole drinking something sweet and caffinated, and lying on my left side for a bit thing. Nada.

When I finally broke out the doppler, I was so happy to hear his heart clippity clopping, that tears started streaming down my cheeks. Silly boy, hiding from me!

I was going to send it (the doppler) back tomorrow. But, I suppose I'll keep it awhile longer, instead.

It's a small price to pay for keeping my sanity intact over the next 12 weeks or so.

Sigh. I guess I'll only be able to relax once he's here in my arms.

We both were awake, and cuddlly, and then we made love. For the first time in months, actually. I've been very uncomfortable because the baby is so low in my pelvis. and we've been super careful not wanting to hurt the baby. I say this because in the last pregnancy we made love all the time, and I had a miscarriage. Not saying that those things are related, but we want to make sure everything is ok. Also, I had spotting at 4 months, and it scared us to death. Just being very gentle and careful, that's all.

Afterwards, I rolled over on my left side and was thinking about going back to sleep. Travis had other ideas. He started kicking up a storm. HARD! It was enough to make me change positions, and roll over on my back. I put Jeff's hand on my side where Travis had been kicking. He finally felt it! It was so cool! We lay in bed awhile and Jeff closed his eyes and just felt his baby kicking away.

Jef felt Travis for the first time Wednesday night. Not a kick, but a push. He had his hands on either side of my belly, and could feel a small bump. We call them "baby parts..." anyway, he pushed gently on the "part", and Travis pushed back! It was so cute!

It feels so neat to know that Jeff can finally feel his baby boy. :)

Anyway, a few minutes later we decided to get dressed and go to Denny's for breakfast. We left the house before 7am! It was nice, having breakfast, and going to Starbucks for coffe afterward. And then to work. We should do this every Friday! :)

Lunch with my mom was nice. She's seemed to have dropped that negativity thing. Weird. She's treating me like an adult (it's about time! I AM 27, and pregnant with her grandson!) It's like she just realized I'm living my life for real, and I'm not just some little girl playing house... I've been married for almost 7 years, and in the same relationship for 10. I have my shit more together than she's ever had. I live in a nicer place, and have my cute little car, and it's paid off, and everything.

She lives in the same crappy apartment in a bad part of her town that she's lived in for like 5 years, and doesn't even own a vehicle. (She swears she prefers it that way... but I hate depending on other people or the bus to take me where I need to go.) She doesn't have cable or a computer, or a dvd player, or anything nice at all. I feel like she's settled for having her lifestyle be just mediocre instead of striving to make it better. That's what Jeff and I have been trying to do the entire time we've been together. Little by little, upgrading our living space, and our belongings, to make our lives better.

Maybe we're a little materialistic, but having nice things make us happy. We grew up poor, and without. We've worked really hard for years, and slowly aquired nicer and nicer things. We have a nice 35 inch TV in the living room, and a surround sound system, and a Sat. Dish and TiVo, and a dvd recorder/player, with lots and lots of dvds and cds. We have a 27 inch tv in our bedroom, and another dvd player. We have a nice couch, and a recliner, and dining set, and a nice bedroom set, and nice clothes, and I have every kitchen gadget I could want, from an ice cream maker, a deep fryer, a Kitchenaid Mixer with pasta making attachments, nice pots and pans, you name it.

When we started out we lived in a loft in my dad's house with no furniture or much of anything, and slept on a matress on the floor. We were happy then too!

All of these things obviously wouldn't matter if something terrible like a fire were to happen. They can be easily replaced by our renter's insurance.

Family is the only irreplacable thing. We would only grab my Mr. Kitty and our photo albums on the way out the door. But still, these things contribute to our happiness in life. Is that so bad?

But, to each their own, I guess.

Sigh. I can only hope I live until I'm 91.

My two favorite quotes from her:

"Life itself is the proper binge" ~Julia Child

"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook" ~Julia Child

I worked (but only from 8am-1pm) no biggie, that's my regular Monday & Wednesday schedule. I drove myself into work because Jeff had a later meeting and it didn't necessitate him going in at 8:00am. I stopped at Starbucks and got a celebratory (Half-Caf) Caramel Macchiato.

One of my delightful patients (she's in her 50s and from Sweden and she's hysterical, really I just love her! ) gave me $10.00 to buy a Quick Pick... alas, not I nor anyone else in CA won that 30 MILLLION DOLLAR JACKPOT. (That's an insane amount of money, really.... but if I won, of course I would NOT complain!)

After work and my birthday Chiro adjustment Jeff picked me up. He gave me his b-day card, and a new charm for my Italian Charm Watch (a blue baby carriage!) and I read the cards from my Gramma, and my mom (which was very sweet and heartfelt, and I teared up a bit.) We decided I should call my mom before dinner and let her know she is going to be a Grandmother.

Then we went to our favorite taqueria for my birthday lunch. http://www.fishwife.com/turtlebay.htm

We had the usual (off menu) Chicken Quesadilla (shared) and a Chicken Belize Wrap each. MMM!!!! SO good! It's spicy and tropical with this insanely good seasoned chicken, pineapple, and there are bell peppers, cabbage, pureed black beans and wild rice, along with this DELICIOUS sauce! Also, they have no less than 4 fresh salsas at a time. I had Tomatillo Avacado and the house salsa fresca and housemade chips. Yum! Jeff had the same with fire roasted Habanaro salsa. (I call it orange death!)

Afterwards we went shopping at Macy's here in Monterey. I was originally looking for a reversable grill-pan and skillet combination. They didn't have one. So we left empty-handed. We went home for a few, changed clothes and went to Salinas to Costco, Macys, TCP, and Bed Bath and Beyond.

We bought three adorable Carters outfits for Travis at Costco, and a Carters Sleepsack.

We went to Macys and said grill-pan and skillet was in stock, althogh GIANT, and more like a griddle than a skillet(yes there IS a difference!) so we passed.

We went to Bed Bath and Beyond, and they only had a tiny skillet, and nothing like what I was looking for. So, I left with a new black Kitchenaid Blender instead. It's SO purdyful! It is enjoying its new home next to my Kitchenaid Mixer. I had a 20% off coupon so it was $85.00 (after tax) instead of $100.00 before tax. AND they have a $20.00 rebate thing I can mail in too!

After all that we went home, and I called my mom. After talking about general things for about 20 minutes, I waited for a pause in the conversation. I took a deep breath and said "I have some good news" she said "What kind of good news" By now I was tearing up, and glanced over at Jeff who was on the couch observing the situation. "You're going to be a grandmother!" I said, my voice breaking and tears flowing down my cheeks. "Really??" she asked, obvious that she started crying too. "When?"

"November" I told her. She kind of laughed and asked "When were you going to call me?" I said "We were waiting to make sure this one stuck" She asked me if I had had problems, and I told her about the miscarriage in December. She said something like "That's really a heavy thing." and I agreed that it was very hard, but we'd gotten through it.

Then I head her tell my brother he's going to be an uncle(he's 23 and I haven't seen him in at least 4 years)

I heard him go "Holy..." and taper off, completely shocked. I said, "I'm sorry mom, I didn't hear the second part of that", and we laughed. I found out my OB GYN delivered my brother. My mom was shocked to find out he was still practicing. It was a good phone call. We're going to have lunch next week. That should be pretty crazy. :)

Jeff and I went out to dinner at Monterey's Fish House and it was YUMMY! In fact, I am going to have leftover Prawn Scampi Pasta for lunch right now

See ya!:)

I decided if my mother called I would tell her about being pregnant. You see, we've had a lot of time in the last 10 years where we weren't talking. Make that the better part of 8 of the last 10 years... and it's because I decide I'm not talking to her.

It's a long, long, LONG involved story... the last time we saw each other or talked was almost 2 years ago at my dad's wedding. The anulled one to the beotch Brazilian. That's ANOTHER story completely... Let's just say she's negative to the Nth degree, and I have no place for that in my life.

But... I'll have to put it all aside for Travis' sake. Sigh.

Anyway... that's that with that.

Happy Birthday to me!

He started SO low. So now he'll get higher only to drop again later! Funny huh?

He started to somersault today! It feels SO weird!

Tomorrow morning I go for the GD screening. Yucky!

Yawn... so tired... and I have heartburn from eating Mexican food for dinner. Actually, it feels like I gargled with hydrochloric acid. Smooth Dissolve TUMS are my friend!!!

We have bought SO much stuff for Travis already! Must. stay. away. from. eBay! We registered @ Target this weekend... but there's not a whole lot left that we need... just stuff we (I) want.

Still, it was fun scanning stuff with the scan gun. :)