Our Holiday Photos

our first Christmas as husband & wife.




a Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
L-R: Adrian, Me, Kuya Dave, Mom and Dad.




Can't eat too much fat, kaya apple na lang




Madaling araw na, time to go to sleep!




Roasted Castañas.. Yummy!




Pasko lang may puto bungbong, kaya...kain na tayo!




Busog na ba ang lahat?

Miracle Called "Life"

Be Lated Merry Christmas to All!

I know.. I know.. you missed me :) I apologize for being so lazy. My first trimester was not such a bed of roses after all. Morning sickness, laziness, sleepiness, heartburn (and many more) are no laughing matter. I hope you'll all understand (even though you can really never understand until you've been here and done this).

Anyway, I'm in the latter part of my first trimester. 2 weeks ago, I had my ultrasound and I saw the most beautiful baby in the world. I saw my baby gave me a high five or was it a wave? Adrian saw the baby stretch his arms. I had tears in my eyes the first time I saw him or her. The gender cannot be identified yet. They said that it will be visible in my 7th month. I also heard my baby's heartbeat (160 beats/minute). Its such a great feeling... witnessing the very beginning of a miracle called "life".

ultrasound photo at 13 weeks.

Me during my 3rd month of pregnancy.

movie time

I'm glad that our movie date has not been diminished after our wedding. Some couples says that after marriage, movie dates are no longer done as frequent as it used to be. Good thing that my Adrian is a moviegoer as much as I am. Thus, we make it a point to watch all the good movies for this week. And if there aren't any, we'll wait for the next attraction and schedule it. This week we watched Flight Plan (Jodie Foster) at Glorietta. I heard reviews from friends that the movie is a so-so, but since there wasn't any other movie that seems interesting to watch we decided to go for this movie.

Midway in the story (this is when Jodie realized that her kid was nowhere to be found and that the Captain stopped the search), I can feel my heart beating vigorously. It was the first movie (as far as my brain can remember) that I felt so into the movie I'm watching (like I’m in Jodie's shoes). Was it a motherly instinct when she lost her child or been kidnapped? I'd be a hysterical mom, I think. Anyway, over-all it was a good movie, though they could have ended the movie with a bang :)Jodie's acting is very impressive (as usual).

I'm already looking forward for next weeks Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. And the week after is the movie Prime (Meryl Streep/ Uma Thurman).

Have a break watch a movie!

Retrospect and Fast forward

Haven’t blogged for a while due to my morning (till evening) sickness. I can’t wait for this to be over. I was just not in the mood of writing anything. But now since its been a slow day at the office... all our big boss are in Singapore and Malaysia, I can squeeze in some time for blogging before leaving the office.

In retrospec...

Well anyway, last weekend we were in Fairview to visit my parents and brother. Our original plans was to visit an OBGyne in the hospital near our place but opted not to and just wait until we get hold of the OBGyne that Adrian’s cousin referred (who we heard is very good and does public seminars on Osteoporosis). My mom cooked a lot of food... Thought we were in a fiesta due to the amount of food that she served when we arrived. She said she does not want to starve her grand child (hehehe!).. I terribly miss my mom’s cooking. How I wish I could be as good as her in the kitchen department. I ate like there’s no tomorrow… you will too if you were served sumptuous foods like Ginataang Alimango, inihaw na isda, inihaw na liempo, Sinigang na Hipon. Sigh, it was like heaven afterwards. My baby and I are so happy with the meal we slept the whole afternoon.

Fast forward to ...

Today ... I was able to contact the OBGyne’s clinic and I was informed that her clinic hours during Saturdays is from 10am-12nn only. So this weekend will be my first visit to my soon to be OBGyne. I’m excite and anxious, I hope everything is fine and that I don’t have any problems in my pregnancy. I have been reading articles from babycenter.com and they said that the first visit to the doctor will be the longest due to the tests that they make, pelvic exam, blood test, pap smear, Will keep you posted on my test results.

BTW, what do you think about the name, Ashley Sabrina? Just a thought :D

due date

So it has been settled: if its a girl, it will be Ashley. If boy, it will be Andre. But I'm still thinking if I should give him or her a second name. I have 2 names while Adrian is simply "Adrian". Anyway, I'll deal with it when the time comes. So when will baby Ashley or baby Andre arrive? As per the due date calculator from the site that I discoverd, the baby center, which is very informative to new mummies like me, my baby will be born on June 20,2006.