halfway point!

uh-huh, 20 weeks and 3 days old today! 20 (or less?) more weeks to go and i'll soon be meeting the parents! (wait, isn't it that 40 weeks = 10months?!... whatever! we don't want to deal with pregnancy math anyway, do we? :D).

mom's been feeling my movements more frequently this week. she feels me at least once everyday now! hooray! it was different from the first few times that she felt me according to her. she's describing it to my dad as something that's brushing through inside her tummy (yap, that's me). too bad dad couldn't feel them yet. soon dad, soon.

oh, by the way, my parents finally made the big announcement! you can look at mom's blog, mom's friendster and mom's multiply page. i loved the collage that dad made for me (mom posted this on her blog). i specially liked the picture of my pair of tiny feet. everyone who visited mom's site left really exciting and happy comments and had nothing but well wishes for my family. awww. thanks so much!

both sides of the families now know what my gender is. and they're as excited as my parents. but it's been pretty obvious that they both have a preference for "blue". for one, they just recently found out that my cousin jo-c (joanne cara) is going to be an "ate" for me. so there'd be two grand daughters for lolo dadi and lola mami this year. on my daddy's side, my lolo tatay was probably still in denial and kept on telling them that it's too early to tell and that sonographers can be wrong sometimes. teehee. can't blame him though since all my 3 cousins on dad's side are girls (almost ladies now). so he's probably secretly hoping for a boy with his unico ijo (uh-huh, my dad's his only boy). haha, ain't that cute?!

on the "names" end, my parents told ate ishang their list of names. and she suggested some more. hahaha. but at least, with her help, they were able to trim the names down to 4 (or 5?). but i'm pretty sure they'e falling for just 1 or a couple. i just hope they'd finalize that before i come out. i still go by "kiko", by the way.

oh and don't you know that dads-to-be also experience weird dreams about their babies-to-be?! in my dad's dream, he's showing some friends my ultrasound pics and those experts told him that i had 8 fingers and 8 toes on my right, and 6 fingers and 6 toes on my left. then he was already holding me and confirmed that i do! in his dream, though a tad worried, he still assured himself that those can be fixed by surgery anyway. haha. what is it with finger and toe count on parents-to-be?!

as for my last update, my parents finally have enlisted themselves on the childbirth preparation lamaze class by st. alphonsus. breastfeeding class comes free with enrollment too. they'll have the childbirth class on july 26. i hope they learn tons from it so that they won't get too stressed out just thinking about how i will come out. harhar.

alrighty, that's all folks! but before i forget, we'd like to thank tita ge for giving my parents some baby items list to start with. so now, they had been seriously window shopping for baby items, scouting for the best prices and finding good bargains for my stuff. mom said that they won't buy any baby items on garage/yard sales until they got me something new first :)