Happy 10 Year Anniversary!!!

Even though our first date was October 14, 1995, today is the ten year anniversary of when Mark officially asked me to be his girlfriend. Who knew back then that those next 10 years would bring about a high school degree, college degree, doctorate degree, marriage, and a beautiful baby girl... and the best part of it all is that we did all of this together. So how'd we celebrate? We were supposed to eat at Tuscany's tonight, but Bella has a cold. We decided to stay home and order delivery from D'Agostinos... yummy. Mark gave me tickets to see Wicked in July... yeah!!!

Bella Baby turns one month old!

So lots of things happened this week. The most important is that our baby girl has turned one month old! Wow, time has just flown by.
So this weekend started out with all of us going with Mark's parents to look at a condo. Check out this view...


Next we went to the Chicago Auto Show. Oh, the penguin is our guest from Pennsylvania for Max's school project (instead of the penguin spending a month with us, why can't we have Max for a month? What do you think, Max?)


Valentine's day was this week. Grandpa Tom and Daddy were Bella's first Valentine's day dates. Grandpa Tom brought over Bob Chinn's Crab... yummy.



The next day was Bella's one month birthday! Can't believe she's grown SO much!!! Daddy brought home a birthday card and portillo's chocolate cake. Grandma/pa Licudine came by to celebrate with us!

More pictures

Here are more pictures from Grandpa Marvin's camera from the time she was born until the shower.

Baby Shower

Thank you to both my grandpas, my grandma, uncle Tom, ninang Maito, ninong Bong, and tita Joy for throwing me my baby shower meet and greet party.
Love, Bella



Here are some pictures from the shower. Unfortunately, we forgot to take more pictures. It was a fun party and nice to see everyone and nice for everyone to see the baby. The little zonker slept the whole time.

Pictures of Isabella's first week

Bella's first outfit given by Ninang Maito

AFTER 31 HOURS OF LABOR...

She's finally HERE!!!
Isabella Rose
Born on January 15, 2006 at 3:11PM
19 inches and 7 pounds & 6.7 ounces



Welcome to the world, BABY!!!

WE'RE SCHEDULED!!!

So, the doctors don't want to go any further and we're all ready to see the baby! We are now officially scheduled for an induction. YEAH!!!
We'll be parents in less than 4 days!!!

Bella's Family

Here are Bella's sisters. hehehe
I don't think Sami looks too happy to be a middle child.



Here are all of Bella's cousins. Aren't they so cute!?!

Tummy Pictures

Pictures of my tummy at 37 weeks. It's almost time!

Yesterday we saw the doctor again. He said that she is already....
6 lbs and 10 ounces!!!
(I hope her clothes fit since Mark shrunk some of them... hehehe... shrinker)

She hiccups!

Not as soon as we thought

So we went to the specialist today and he said the baby is doing fine. She is now 5lbs and 4 ounces. She's too cute, and today she was really trying to suck her thumb. Looks like we'll just wait it out and deliver when Bella wants to be delivered, as long as it doesn't go past the 40 weeks.
Mark's parents were over to put the crib together yesterday :) Nusery is looking good!!!

Sooner than we thought!

So the doctor said that she may be arriving in about 5 1/2 weeks!!!

Meet our soon to be baby girl