Book Club Lovin'

Thank you, oh thank you to my book club buddies! At our March meeting they surprised me with a book baby shower...so awesome!!!
The peanut's collection now includes:
The Paper Bag Princess
Cowboy & Octopus
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Little Engine that Could
Curious George Feeds the Animals
Curious George Takes a Job
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Corduroy
The Snowy Day
Make Way for Ducklings
One Morning in Maine
Blueberries for Sal
Madeline
The Little Engine that Could

How generous these friends of mine...I am a lucky, lucky lady.

Thank you!!

San Francisco Treats

I just got back from spending 5 lovely days in the bay area visiting my college darlings. It was so nice to get away and just kick back and relax. The peanut traveled just fine (as far as I can tell). During the trip I got to hear my Aunt Barbara sing with the San Francisco Bach choir which was lovely. I think peanut liked it too because she spent the entire concert dancing around. It was so cool, she wasn't kicking she was just moving around, "dancing" we joked...as if she was doing an interpretive dance. It was great!

I got some cute baby clothes from the girls as well...I can't wait to see them on a chubby little baby.

Thank you to Urmi, Christine, Vivi, and Maggie for a wonderful time! Aunt Lea and Ealish too :)

Calling all Book Lovers

So, I've been getting excited thinking about all of the great kids books out there and I was hoping to ellicit help from my friends.
What are some of your favorite kids books that you think we should have in the peanut's library?

Thanks in advance from the peanut and me!

Oh my goodness, I'm a really, really bad blogger...

So, I'm now 21 weeks pregnant and we found out yesterday that our little peanut is most likely a girl!! Now comes the hard part...names.
I've still been feeling good and I bought some new bras that should expand enough so that I don't have to buy any more until it's nursing time.
I think the coolest and strangest thing by far has been feeling her move around. Sometimes it tickles, which was the most surprising part to me. Daniel hasn't been able to feel the kicks from the outside but I think it's only a matter of time.

What else? Let's see, yesterday during the ultrasound the peanut was moving around a lot and the technician measured her heart rate at 156 beats per minute, then later at the doctor's office we listened to her heart rate and it was about 136bpm. Apparently babies like to work out too :)

I still need to scan the latest ultrasound photos but here are a couple of pictures of the bump:

From week 17:


From Today:


And a bonus photo of the strange lump I can make with my stomach muscles:


I hope I can be better about updates in the future... but no guarantees until finals are over on the 17th of March.

Happy March everyone!