Pregnancy Updates...

Transitioning back to school was interesting this time. As you might have heard, I officially earned my Masters degree back in June... but I am back in school for my FINAL degree of all. I started with my Doctorate program - and the most interesting part is, I am doing this with a big pregnant belly.

It's not like I am the first one to ever do this - considering BYU, you'll see plenty of women attending school and being pregnant (and having more than one kid) at the same time. Its not unusual. In fact, in my program alone, there's three of us. Katie, a 2nd year Masters student is 2 weeks ahead of me; and Sarah, a 2nd year PhD student is going to have her baby maybe a month after I do. So being in school and pregnant is totally normal - making me feel a lot better about my ability to balance everything from this point onward.

Going back to my pregnancy - I am almost through with the second trimester. My baby bump has started to show, and I finally started gaining some weight. I lost quite a lot of weight my first trimester because I cannot keep quite anything down, but now my appetite has slowly returned and now I am able to eat some more. Although I still gag at the smell of certain things, I have now learned to steer away from them and Carl has learned to eat around my aversions so he could still enjoy the stuff he likes to eat like KFC's fried chicken, spam, and bacon.

16 weeks and counting

We learned the gender last month, a week after my birthday and we are having a BOY!!! Carl was in cloud nine when the ultrasound technician confirmed the baby's gender... I was beyond belief. When we saw parts of our baby's body in the monitor, it felt so real. We got print outs of his hands and feet and face. Although the baby's profile was a little bit hard to make out of because his position was weird, we couldn't care less. He's not just a sound [of his heartbeat] anymore, he's becoming more and more real as we get closer to my due date. We decided to name him LORENZ - it's Carl's middle name, inspired by the prophet Lorenzo Snow.

Baby Boy Canlas in utero

We started getting things ready for the baby. A good friend gifted us with a new crib and mattress. We also benefited from some clothing exchanges. Baby clothes are as expensive as grown-up clothes - and they grow out of them really quick. So we figured its a practical move to get some used baby clothing to start things off - with some tender love and care, they'll look perfectly fine :) We also bought him his first pair of Vans (he's Carl's son I afterall). 

Will be OFF THE WALL in no time ;)