Hello all! Well, here is a photo of me, pregnant with Baby Baker #3 at 13 weeks. The baby is sure making itself known in my profile now! I am feeling pretty good (energy level is rising) and I have my next checkup on Monday. About 4-6 weeks later we'll have our gender-scan! Exciting times for the Baker family!
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| 13 weeks |
Hi everyone! Well, we are a week shy of being out of the first trimester! (Thank Goodness). Although I have had hardly any nausea I have been dealing with freqent, intense migraines. These usually lessen in frequency as I enter the "teen" weeks of pregnancy. My energy level has picked up a bit and I am sleeping better at night. Lorelei is quite excited about being a BIG big sister to a new little baby- although she has put in her request for a boy. Don't know if I'll be able to deliver on that one. We still have eight of so weeks until we can find out the gender of the baby but until then I am having fun imagining life with EITHER a boy or another little girl. Matt and I have started to browse baby name books again and the "girl name" sections of our books are well-worn. Perhaps we'll be able to flip through the crisp and brand-new looking "boy name" section with this baby?? I have found that baby #3 makes its presence known a bit earlier than baby #1 or #2 as my pants are already tight and a little belly is starting to show. Oh well. We are focused on enjoying this pregnancy and savoring each moment in case it is our last. I have another checkup in a couple of weeks...it seems strange to go so long between visits since I was going every week for the first 8 weeks! We will keep you updated on all things pregnancy. Keep your prayers and positive energy flowing as we continue this journey with Baby Baker #3!
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| week 11 of pregnancy #3 |
Here are a few photos from the past week or so. The girls had a blast on Easter (those photos to come) but here are some photos of their Easter Egg Hunt at the Lange Twins Winery from the day before. What a blast! And here are a few more photos of the girls posing together outside. Such hams.
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| Charlotte Lola April 2010 |
Hey all! As most of you probably already know, we are pregnant with Baby Baker #3! What a blessing to be pregnant again after losing the twin pregnancy in December (one regular miscarriage and one ruptured ectopic pregnancy). My Doc is doing weekly scans to monitor the baby and for the past two weeks now we've been able to see a hearbeat- what a relief. Wanted to share this week's ultrasound with you. It is not much to look at but it is proof to us that there is hope after loss.
Our due date is November 17th- strangely enough it is the exact same due date as the baby we lost between Lorelei and Charlotte. But, knowing my pattern with my last pregnancies, the baby will probably come during the first week in November. I am usually 1-2.5 weeks early and my water breaks at home. We will have to see if this one follows suit! We will keep you informed!
Check out the little bean:
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| 7 week ultrasound |
Well, now that Lorelei's birthmark is hardly noticeable (in comparison to what it was), we thought we'd post photos of Lorelei's "hemangioma journey". When we first learned about it and saw the rapid and dramatic changes that occured over the first weeks and then months of her life, it felt like we would never reach a time when it wasn't a daily concern. But now we have. She calls it her "butterfly" and thinks that it is pretty special. And we think that she is pretty special as well.
Check out the dramatic change:
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| Lorelei's Hemangioma journey |
February has been a pretty wet month so we have spent LOTS of time indoors playing. Here are a few photos of the girls from this month. I can't believe that I have a three and a half year old and a twenty-one month old! Where does time go?
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| February 2010 photos of the girls |
For everyone that has been following my recent endeavor with Punkiboo Designs, I am pleased to announce that my webiste, www.punkiboo.com, is now up and running. It is set up using a blog-style format similar to what you see here on The Bakers of Lodi and you can easily subscribe to updates over there to stay up to date on all things Punkiboo. Also, I now have a shop up and running on Etsy.com, a website dedicated to the retail of all things hand-made. Please check out my Etsy.com shop at www.etsy.com/shop/punkiboo.
This past weekend a group of 9 of us ol' Humboldt gal-pals converged upon McCloud, CA (near Mt. Shasta) for a snowy, estrogen-filled weekend of catching up with one another. Two of us came from the central valley (April and I), one from the Bay Area (Julie), one from Colorado (Petra) and five from Humboldt. I had not seen most of these gals in over two and a half years. I really miss them and found our weekend to be good for my soul and not nearly long enough. What is funny is that this weekend had been planned months and months ago but as it got closer, we realized that we were all leaving our men with the kids on Super Bowl weekend! Oops! They were all really good sports about our timing though.
Here are some photos from our weekend!
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| Girls Trip |
I know that you all receive my Punkiboo e-mails about recent shirts that I have completed, but I wanted to post a collection of "collages" of the shirts for you to view on the blog as well. Here they are! I have been quite busy with orders and have had a lot of fun creating custom shirts recently. Thank you all so very much for your business and your support! With your help our Haiti relief fund is growing!
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| Punkiboo |
