Making progress...

I'm getting bigger....or maybe I should say that my baby's getting bigger...and stronger! I can actually see my tummy jump when she throws a good punch or kick. I've been able to see it for about a week now, but it still gets me everytime. Rey catches me staring at my stomach way too often! She's even kicking me as write this!

Although my belly is growing, I am still carrying pretty low. Apparently our little girl is quite comfy hanging out at or below my belly button. I am curious to see if this will continue or if things will change as I get into the third trimester.

I finally ordered the wall border for the nursery so once Rey gets that put up, we'll get the crib set up and it will actually start coming together! He'll probably get the wall border up sometime next week...I can't wait to see it. :-)

Savannah trip

And....we're back! After 3 nights in Savannah, Rey and I are back home and we are tired! Funny how going on vacation can sometimes wear you out more than being home. Since our hotel was in a great location, right by River Street and steps away from City Market and downtown Savannah, we pretty much walked everywhere we went. After a couple days of that, though, your body starts hurtin'! We had such a great time, though. Savannah is a beautiful city and we really enjoyed spending time there.

One of the favorite stops we made was to The Wilkes House. It's only open Mon.-Fri. from 11-2 and they serve up southern food, family-style. We got there at about 11 and the line was all the way down the block already! We ended up waiting for a little over an hour, but it was so worth it. I couldn't believe how much food they served us! Definitely enough for even the pickiest eater to find plenty of things they liked. Check out these pics:
This first picture is of the line going down the block...and the next picture is of our table with all the yummy food! You may start drooling now.

So being pregnant, I had to have one near-meltdown moment on our trip. Later that night after we had eaten at Mrs. Wilkes', we didn't want to do much for dinner so we decided to stop at this little pizza place in City Market. Instead of ordering a whole pizza, Rey and I each ordered 2 slices of pizza....not realizing that each slice was going to be bigger than our heads! The problem was, we were sitting at a teeny, tiny table for two (seriously no bigger than about 18" in diameter) and they brought us each of our slices on it's own plate. So we were trying to balance 4 plates on this super small table and it just wasn't happening. You would think that the guy who brought out our pizza would have seen that this was going to be a problem and that he would do something to fix it, but no...he left us to manage on our own. I took one cut into my first slice, the balancing plate tipped, and down it went onto the floor. I was SO mad. I was mad at the waitress for not warning us about how big the slices were (since anyone in their right mind would not try to fit 4 of them on this itty bitty table) and I was mad at the guy who delivered our food and I was just mad at the situation. And then after the anger passed, I nearly busted out crying right at our table! Crisis narrowly avoided!

Most of what we did during our days in Savannah was to walk around and just look at all the scenery and architecture. We also stopped in Forsyth Park during an Arts Festival they were having. Students of the College of Arts & Design had made chalk drawings all over the sidewalks in the park. Here are a couple of my favorites:

After the park, we headed over to St. John's Cathedral. One of the most beautiful churches I've ever been in!

The last night we were there we ate dinner at a really nice italian restaurant called Il Pasticcio. I had the lobster and truffle ravioli...mmmm! While we were there, literally about 50 couples on their way to prom came in and went to the private dining room upstairs. It was pretty crazy watching all the tuxes and dresses parade in.

After doing so much in a short amount of time, it feels pretty good to be back home just relaxing!

Savannah bound!

Rey and I (and Hadley) are getting ready to head to Savannah for a little mini-vacation/babymoon and I am so ready! We could really use a few days to get away and relax a bit. Neither of us have been to Savannah in a REALLY long time so I can't wait to get out there and explore. We have been researching things to do and restaurants to try and looking at all the places we want to go to is making me even more antsy to get out there. I'll post a few pics when we get back!

Growing belly

In the last month I have really seen my belly start to expand! As you can see in these photos, 4 weeks has certainly made a difference...

The first one was taken at 17.5 weeks........and the next one was taken at 21.5 weeks.


I am 22 weeks along now and this little girl sure is active! I feel her moving all the time! My mom jokes that she's worried she won't be able to keep up with her! Another new development is that (presumably because of the hormones), I have a very short temper and very little patience right now. Honestly, little things that I might have found mildly annoying before really get me mad now! Most of the time I notice it and try to just keep my mouth shut, but it's hard!

Hadley found the golden egg!

Every Easter it is a tradition in my family to have a big Easter egg hunt. This is an egg hunt for all ages - we don't just do it for the little kids. In fact, it's really more for the adults because it can get vicious. You have to be prepared to get knocked out of the way for an egg and if you're too slow, you'll most definitely have people run in front of you and grab the eggs in your path. Where it REALLY gets crazy is when everyone starts hunting the golden egg. It is always hidden in a really good hiding place and it typically comes down to the hider having to give clues as to its whereabouts. There have been years where we've had family members wrestling in the dirt for the egg if that gives you any clue about this egg hunt.

So naturally, I figured that the pregnant lady would be out of the running for the golden egg this year. I certainly was not going to risk being knocked down or getting an elbow in the belly. But as luck would have it, I found it!! And I didn't even end up in the middle of a wild fray. I think maybe Hadley helped. :-)

So this year, my name goes on the trophy - and yes, we actually have a trophy for the golden egg finder. It looks like an Oscar and it has the past winners names engraved on the bottom of it. The trophy goes back to 1991 although we've been doing the egg hunt for a lot longer than that. This is my first Easter as a Del Valle so we'll be adding a new last name to the trophy. Pretty cool.