Mele Kalikimaka!!!

For those of you that don't know any Hawaiian...that means Merry Christmas! I realize it is a few days late, but never the less! We went to Michael's parent's house for Christmas. We had a wonderful time! We went to Ken's house of pancakes for brunch and had a feast that Pat cooked for dinner! There were plenty of gifts opened and we all wore silly holiday hats compliments of Mom! A good time was had by all!
As of January 1st i am ALLOWED to take down the Christmas decor and sadly Mr. Christmas will go into hibernation until next year around Thanksgiving. Mr. Christmas is Michael's nickname during the holidays due to his enthusiasm. Sometimes i have been called "the humbug" because i forget to turn on the tree lights!
The baby has been doing well! She continues to have active and inactive moments. Our friends and family have been able to feel and see her kick now. I'll be six months prego on tuesday! i'll post another tummy picture at that time.
Hope you all had very wonderful and safe holiday seasons! God bless and we love you!

Christmas Party

Aloha!!! Just a quick note to check in! This is a pic from Michael's work Christmas Party at the Four Seasons on Friday. We had a great time. They had a huge buffet with every food you can imagine. I was particularly fond of the ice cream stand:). We danced some...but a prego woman dancing just seems funny to me.... One of Michael's friends told me it was entertaining, no one likes him much. haha j/k

We started our child birthing classes a few weeks ago. We love our teacher and have learned so much already. I'm not sure if i wrote this already or not, but we are planning on having a natural child birth. I won't say never when it comes to the drugs...but if at all possible i'd rather do it without. The class we are taking caters to natural child birth. We have two other couples that we are friends with in our class.

Isla has developed a trend of being extremely active for several days, then being very mellow for the next few. My favorites are the active days. My kids at school get really intrigued when they can see my shirt pop up when she kicks. They ask "How'd you get her in there?" and "Can you take her out so we can see her?". We decided to get her Christmas gifts. We had to buy her her first pair of shoes:) Shoes are a very important part of a woman's life so it was only fitting that Mommy buys the first pair. They are very sassy with flowers and a chiffon bow that ties around the ankle. That's it for now! Love and miss you all!

5 Months

Aloha! So almost...on Tuesday it will be five months. This is the big half way marker!!! 20 weeks down....20 to go! So this week she has been active as anything. I felt her kicking earlier this week and looked down at my stomach. To my surprise i could see my belly pop out when she kicked! She doesn't even weigh a pound yet! I'm wondering what kind of damage she will do when she's 5 or 6 pounds. I love feeling her move. Michael calls it my new favorite thing. No one tells you how amazing it is every single time she squirms, kicks, punches, etc. I drop everything I'm doing and just take it in. I have another appointment on tuesday and i'm sure it will be uneventful. We start our prenatal/birthing classes tomorrow. Also, it seems the hormones are flowing freely!!! For starters, I'm now allergic to my wedding ring. Evertime I try to wear it, my finger gets a blister on it. Then yesterday I started crying uncontrollably because i was frightened by Michael's driving. I knew it was stupid so i was laughing and crying at the same time! I've also had three laughing fits at completely inappropriate times where i can barely breath, i'm crying, and my stomach hurts! Of course Michael fuels the fire to elongate the laughing fits:). It's very bizarre (and entertaining at times) to have these emotions that you have little to no control over! So that's it for baby stuff.
In other news Jaggar Cerf received his purple belt in karate this week! YEAH JAGGY!!!! He accidentally saw his Christmas present today! It's a new mongoose bike. OOPs on our part for forgetting and letting him in our room! Regardless he is stoked.
Mama shall hit the big 3-0!!! A little painful i must admit. The good news is I had an amazing party, recieved much support from friends and family, and was very spoiled by my hubby. Those things made the passing of my 20s not hurt as much.
Much Love!