32 weeks!

Here we are at 32 weeks. We just got back from a Dr's appointment. We had an ultrasound, and everything looked great, except she is huge! We are 32 weeks, and she is the size of a 35 week baby. 2.4 kilos or about 4.8 lbs. Our doc is a little concerned with her size so we will be having the doppler ultrasound every 2 weeks until she is born, just to make sure she is doing ok. The ultrasound doc saw some hair. Ceci was born with hair, but then it all fell out and she was the chubbiest, whitest, baldest baby you have ever seen, so we will what this one looks like! While she is growing like crazy, I lost 1 kilo (2.2lbs) in 2 weeks! Gotta love the gestational diabetes diet! Hopefully I can lose a few more lbs before the baby is born. She is now head down, in position. We have tentative plan to have her via c-section on Halloween, if she doesnt come sooner. If she decides to come sooner we will try naturally and see what happens, but I dont want another November baby, and I think it would be very fun to have a Halloween baby!
We had our maternity photos done by Leto's sister Sol 2 Sundays ago. Ceci did great, and we got some awesome pictures. We also went to the beach last Sunday. Ceci absolutely loves the beach, and im sure all the beach-goers had a nice laugh watching the giant preggo chase after the 2 year old! I sure got my exercise for the month! haha
Here is a sneak peak of the maternity photos, and a couple from the beach!

 

31 weeks!

We are 31 weeks into this pregnancy! Things have been going pretty well. We went to California in July ans saw friends and family. Leto had fun playing in his first softball game and going to the Temecula vineyards. Ceci had fun in the pool and running around with her cousins!
We got back to Sao Paulo and back to work. This semester I am only working Tuesday and Thursday nights, and Saturday morning, just enough to pay for the awesome health insurance my school provides!
I had my gestational diabetes test a couple of weeks ago and the results showed that I do have it again. So its back to my boring diet, but at least i will be keeping the baby safe, and my weight under control. I gained a lot of weight while in California, but for the month i have been home i havent gained any weight, and with my diet i think i will be losing a little more weight before the baby is born. I am a lot bigger than I was with Ceci. I am 31 weeks, but i look how i looked at 35/36 weeks with Ceci.... Big!
With another baby on the way we will be needing more space. Our super tiny apartment doesnt even fit us 3! So we have been looking and Leto signed a rental agreement for an awesome house, a lot closer to his work! It has 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. It is right next to the horse club in Sao Paulo, in fact one of the rooms looks on to a horse trail! The house needs some work before we can move in, which is perfect because we have until November when our rental agreement on the apartment runs out. We are all ready to move, and it will be so nice to have a ton of space for the kids, and enough space to actually have people over! Not to mention how much closer it will be for Leto to get to work and back!

We will be taking our pregnancy photos this weekend so look for another post soon!

Here are some recent pics!

30 weeks

 3d 28 weeks

cute little foot! 28 weeks

Brazilian Father's Day 

Fun at a friend's 2nd birthday!

Fun in the pool in California 

21 weeks!

Yesterday we had our 21 week morphological ultrasound! Everything is normal and baby Depintor # 2 is doing great! We got confirmation of the sex, so i feel more at ease with our "gender reveal" party ;-) The last thing i want is this big party to reveal the sex and it turns out to be the opposite! That would be funny!
I am doing great. The belly is growing. It seems to be high, just like Ceci was. Blood work showed that i am a little anemic so iron pills are being added to the prenatal vitamins. Other than that we have been cleared for travel! We leave Sao Paulo the night of July 2nd and arrive in LA the morning of July 3rd. Just in time for the 4th of July! This year we have planed to go to Mariner's Park for their festival thing, then to an Angel's game. What better way to celebrate the 4th than with a baseball game!
Needless to say we are both extreamly excited and READY for our vacation! We hope we can see everyone and do all that we want to do!

Here are some ultrasound pics from yesterday!

And we are having a ....

Haha not so fast! We did have an ultrasound yesterday morning and we did find out the sex of Baby Depintor #2, but we will not be telling anyone until our "gender reveal" party in California, July 7th!! So, sorry you will just have to wait, while Leto, Ceci and I keep this amazing secret to ourselves ;-)
Everyone is doing great. I am feeling a lot better now that my first trimester is behind me. i am sure a lot bigger than I was with Ceci at this time, but that is to be expected with your second child, or so I hear. Leto is doing great as well. He is being a great daddy, and wonderful husband. He is very into running right now which keeps him busy some mornings! Ceci is more amazing everyday. She is HUGE to say the very least. She is almost 19 month, and some 2t clothes dont fit her anymore! She has quite a selective palate, which can be frustrating at times, but she is growing, so its all good! She loves to run, when she has the space (ie at Grandma and Grandpa's house) and while we are stuck in our small apartment she loves to watch movies, look through books and organize blocks. She has discovered stickers and loves to stick them everywhere, but we need to keep an eye on her because while she wont eat ANYTHING she will eat stickers... It is so funny to try and get them away from her when she has decided she is done playing with them would rather eat them. We love this girl! 

So, I havent been feeling the baby move as much as i thought i would and i told Leto. He said "dont worry, it will start moving today." And you know what... its spinning around in my belly right now! How did he do that? He/she is already daddy's boy/girl!!

Here are some pics!

 A different type of belly pic!

 19 weeks

 19 weeks

 Our American girl snackin on some goldfish!

 Festa Junina!

The Depintor Family is growing!

We are PREGNANT!

If you have been following my blog, or trying to follow it you will have noticed that i havent updated it in a looong time. The reason being, we havent done anything due to my horrible morning sickness. With Ceci I threw up 2 times, during the entire pregnancy, and this was before i knew i was pregnant. With this pregnancy I have thrown up nearly everyday, sometimes twice a day, and i have been feeling like absolute poop. 

Anywho, we found out we were pregnant on March 11th after taking a home pregnancy test. We had been trying for a few months and finally succeeded. I think that Feb is my fertile month, as Ceci was conceived in Feb as well. A couple days after the positive pregnancy test I started to bleed a little. Thinking it was a false positive we called my doctor to make an appointment, just to make sure i was ok. The light bleeding never turned into my period, and our doctor ordered a blood test that came back very positive. We had our first ultrasound the next week (March 20th), and we saw the little bean that will become our baby! It was about 5-6 weeks along when we had our first ultrasound. My doctor said she wanted to see us in 5 weeks, so we made an appointment for May 8th (more like 7 weeks). That was such a long wait. The morning sickness shrunk everything except for my growing belly. We didnt want to tell anyone until after our next ultrasound, and Mother's Day happened to be the next Sunday, so we decided to wait until then.

Last Wed we had our appointment and everything was fine, thank goodness! I had  these great ideas of how to tell our families, but nothing worked out the way i planed. I wanted to make a puzzle of the ultrasound for my mom, but there just wasnt enough time to print it before Mother's Day so my sister had the ultrasound and a few other pictures printed on a cake. She was supposed to drop the cake off at my parents house while they were visiting my grandma but the timing was off and my parents had just gotten home when she arrived to drop off the cake. They opened it and called me immediately. Im sure my mom kind of knew I was pregnant, but now she knew for sure! They are excite to have their 4th grandkid! For Leto's family I made a shirt that said 'irma mais velha' and had Ceci wear it to our Mother's Day lunch. The plan was to wait until someone noticed the shirt, but no one ever did! Leto finally had to ask "did you notice what Ceci's shirt says??" And finally the read it. Everyone was so happy. And EVERYONE said "oh, its going to be a boy." When we got home i email and messaged all my friends, and Leto sent a text to his friends, then I made it 'facebook official'. So now the world knows! I cant believe that we kept the secret for 2 months! (Well I told my sister because she was bugging me, and i needed someone to complain to about my morning sickness!!!)

Our next ultrasound/appointment is June 11 (Bridgie's birthday!!!). We will most likely learn the sex of the baby then, but we will keep it secret until our "gender reveal" party in California in July! 

We are super excited to give Ceci a baby brother or sister and to have our family grow! I will be updating the blog a lot more now. I am out of the terrible first trimester and on to the blissful second trimester :-)

Here are some pics from the last 2 months! 

Ceci reacting to the news she will be a big sister!!! Too cute!

Sorry only 1 pic, blogspot is being stupid... more pics later!

Due to the graphic nature of this post parental guidance is advised

I knew there was a reason why I shouldnt be washing the dishes....

Yesterday I was making Ceci's food for the week and when I was washing the dishes and a glass broke while i was scrubbing the inside. I instantly knew it was bad and covered it with a dish towel before i got a good look. I showed Leto and there was a nice flap of skin and loads of blood. Leto packed up Ceci and we headed to the urgent care. We got there and i was taken directly to a procedure room. Leto and Ceci followed after he filled out my paper work. The doctor came to say hi, and look at what i had done to myself. Ceci was upset in the beginning, probably because she thought she was there to get more shots. After a while i think she realized something was wrong with me. She was crying and screaming and when the doctor finally came in to stitch me up, she was inconsolable. I told Leto to take her outside and the second the door closed she screamed bloody murder. So the doc stitched me up, and 7 stitches later he was prescribing antibiotics. From the time we left the apartment to the time we were back in the car was just about 2 hours. Not too bad!


So 2 lessons learned.... dont wash dishes, and only plastic in our house from now on ;-)

Tchau!!!

It is safe to say that Ceci has said her first word!! "Tchau." For those of you who do know, this is "bye" in Portuguese. She has said a couple of words before like "mama, dada" but not directly meaning me or Leto. About a week ago she started say "dow" and waving good-bye. Of course it is adorable! I cant wait to hear what her second word will be. I hope it is something in English. I have heard about the language delays of bilingual children, so we will see how Ceci progresses.