Pregnancy Brain

It's a true affliction and it reminds me of those commercials with the egg in a frying pan and the announcer saying, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." I've never done drugs (I'm a true nerd, I hate to admit) but pregnancy brain just has to be worse. Here are a few of John's favorite moments:

My hands were really dry and my knuckles were starting to crack. I apply hand lotion in the car and John starts to complain about how strong and awful my lotion smells. (For those that don't know he's all about soap and unscented deodorant and nothing else. He hates perfumes and scented anything) I start to defend my lotion while commenting that the lotion is burning my cracked hands. I pick up the bottle to read him the name of the lovely scent when I realize I had just applied SHAMPOO to my hands! Worse yet, I had been doing it for several days! It was one of those hotel samples that I had laying around the house. They're the perfect size for a purse and I was sure it was lotion. No wonder my hands were dry, I had been letting shampoo air dry on them. John almost wet his pants when I realized what I was doing.

We've had the same alarm code since we got married almost 10 years ago. One day as we walk back into the house I go to turn off the alarm and can't remember the code to save my life. I have all the right numbers but they are in the wrong order. After 3 failed attempts John calmly states, "Please, just step aside."

Our microwave has one of those radio buttons to adjust the timer. Spin it to the right to increase the time. I wanted to cook something for 90 minutes but the microwave seems broken. I yell out to John across the house that our microwave is 'skipping' from 59 to 100 and I can't cook my meal for 90 seconds. John replies, "You sure it's skipping and not just going from 59 seconds to 1 minute." Duh!!!!! Sad thing is, we've had this microwave for 6 years and I've never had this problem before.

Gasparilla

(From 2/7/09)

Here are some pictures from Gasparilla 2/7/2009. My mom and I were supposed to go just to be in the Krewe of Mambi 10 year anniversary picture. As it turned out we were too late for the picture and decided to just jump on the float and do the whole parade. It was so much fun! Although since I was completely sober the parade seemed to last FOREVER. I never realized how much a few adult beverages really help the parade atmosphere. :)

Hope

(From 1/7/09)

I know this post is 5 months late but I just can't seem to move on without honoring Hope's memory. My awesome sister-in-law passed away on January 7th. For 5 months I've been thinking about what I could write as a tribute to her in my blog. I'm a horrible writer and I'm afraid to not do her justice.

So I will keep it simple and just say, "I love you and I miss you Hope." I'm sorry I'm not so great at the speeches and emotional sharing so I'll post a link to a few really awesome tributes. Please click on the person's name below for a link to their blogs. Check out Jake's heartfelt post, Jen's beautiful photo tribute, and Ann Marie's touching celebration recap.

Truth is, when it comes to subjects that really matter I'm usually speechless. I can BS w/anyone, anywhere but don't ask me to talk about something really important to me because I just clam up...even with John.

The book Twilight Zone

OK, I'm officially getting weirded out (if that's a correct phrase) on how books are finding their way into my life.

On Oct. 29th I blogged about how my sister-in-law Grimmy wanted me to get the book Your Pregnancy Week by Week. Then a few days later we visit my other sister-in-law Hope and that's the very book she pulls out for us to borrow.

It sort of happened again.

This time I was at Borders on New Years Eve with Gayle, my stepmother-in-law. I saw this book titled 50,001 Baby Names and it caught my eye. I literally walked through the entire store carrying this book. When I get to the register I tell the cashier I changed my mind and am not going to get that book, just the other item I had picked up.

Last night we go to our friend Blanca and Ernesto's house to borrow some baby items and what does Ernesto pull out? You guessed it, 50,001 Baby Names! It was surreal. He said they had several baby name books but this one was the only one that had names in it they actually liked.

Has anyone ever had anything like this happen to them?

Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone!

We hope you all had a great time ringing in another year. We ended going to be before midnight and slept right through it. That was the most relaxing way we could think of to ring in 2009. 8-)

Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas Eve started at home with John's little brother Zachary joining us for his first Noche Buena (Christmas Eve Dinner w/Cuban food). Then we headed to Melbourne that night to catch-up with the family and back to Tampa Christmas afternoon to drop off Zach at the airport as he headed back to Iraq. We wrapped up the night by stopping by Jesus' house for dinner and presents and were completely exhausted by the end of the night!

Noche Buena: Christmas Day:Zachary being attacked by Nathan and Reese with their lightsabers:

Merry Christmas Eve

Here's our 20 week 3D sonogram we had done yesterday. It's official, it's a GIRL!!! She's on the left facing towards the right with her hand under her chin.

And here are some pictures from Thanksgiving...I know, I'm late. Better late than never.

The Reyes part of the family sitting on the left, the Todds on the right. Our neice, Josie.Grandpa with all his grandkids...even the one in my belly! ;-)My sister-in-law Caitlin with our nephew Mason.The Todds hanging at Hope's house.