What you waiting for?!

Well, here we are . . . waiting. Playing the waiting game. Our lil' guy is due to arrive in less than week and we've already had several "practice runs." Apparently my body is just warming up and getting itself prepped for the big day. I can't help but think of the Gwen Stefani song "What you waiting for?!" during this week, but looks like our baby has a plan of his own. D and I have tried to keep ourselves busy with random outings and have managed to hit up a couple touristy LA tourist spots. We went to the La Brea tar pits, had lunch at Phillippe's (famous for reportedly inventing the french dip sandwich), and a couple other random trips to some of our favorite movie theaters and restaurants. Might as well get out and about as much as we can before the baby comes.

Through these last couple weeks, I found it amusing to watch people's reactions to my belly. I'm quite pregnant at this point and I've narrowed down the different expressions in to three main categories: lip-curling fear, utter confusion, or extreme excitement. The lip-curling fear is primarily from men, with the expression of "Dear God!!  I've never seen a woman so pregnant AND she's out in public too?! Please say that she will NOT DELIVER at this very moment in front of me." The utter confusion is a reaction I get when I'm partially blocked from view or get out of a car. From the car window, I don't believe that I look obviously pregnant. After the 5 minutes it takes me to wiggle out of the car and finally stand up and BAM show the whole world that I'm 9-months pregnant, the utter confusion that turns up on the surrounding people's faces does make me giggle. The last one, is usually a reaction I get from women (however, more recently some guys have been joining this group too). No matter where I go, I get a least one comment from an excited Mom or a young woman who would like to be a Mom, that will excitedly ask me everything politely possible about my pregnancy and lil' dude to be. After asking me lots of questions, the Moms will proceed to tell me every delivery/pregnancy horror story that they can think. That or they try to guess what sex my baby is by how I'm carrying the baby. D asked me if I thought it was annoying to get so many comments, but I said that although the conversations can sometimes be a little tiresome, I always think it is sweet to hear how excited people are about a new life. He and I have both have been presently surprised by all the excitement and well-wishes that come from complete strangers on the street. We're both ecstatic about the new addition to our family as well, I just hope our little bundle of joy decides to make his first appearance sooner rather than later. Keeps your fingers crossed for us!

Birthday Fun

Things are getting real exciting around these parts. This week we had a "practice run" with our lil' dude. Thought he was going to make his first appearance into the world this week, but alas he's quite content in his little home and just letting Mama getting some good practice before the big day.

Also had my 29th birthday this week! Looks like the lil' dude and I won't be sharing the same birthday,  but perhaps he'll still be a March baby.  Not a milestone birthday for me by any means, but did make me think how close I am to leaving my 20s behind. Someone asked me how it felt to be 29 and I said that it feels neat and all, but I don't feel like I'm as much of an adult as I thought I would feel by this point. Then again, I may never truly feel like an adult . . . I'm a goofy gal at heart. Went to a lovely Italian restaurant called Fritto Misto in Hermosa Beach and had a yummy lasagna with a turkey bolognese sauce and D got me a fabulous red velvet cake from a local bakery in Torrance. So moist and the frosting was just sweet enough without being too heavy.

On a side note, D and I watched the movie Role Models with Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott (aka Stiffler) and we've been quoting the movie all week. To me, its one of those movies that isn't super great but I still get a huge kick out of it every time I watch it. Anyway, one of the characters in the movie is obsessed with KISS and the song "Love Gun" is played throughout the movie. This silly song has been stuck in my head for most of the week. Kind of a ridiculous song to have stuck in your head, while you're lying in bed having contractions to give birth for the first time. Like I said, I'm a goofy gal at heart. Here's the song, in case your curious:

Hope you have a rockin' Friday!!

Happy International Women's Day!

Yay for supporting the growth and development of ladies all over the world! I have sponsored a woman through Women for Women International and so far have gotten a couple of letters from her!  Her name is Adicsa and she lives in Bosnia and is part of a year-long training program through Women for Women. She's about my age and has a 4-year old son and is doing the program to learn a skill that she can turn into a home-business that she can use to help support her family. All it takes is just a little support here and there and we can change the world!  Well, at least I think so . . . perhaps Rush Limbaugh would disagree with me.

Had a lovely dinner with D at Lucques on our 2-year anniversary. D had the endive salad with dungeness crab, sugar snaps, apples and curry cream and the striped sea bass with beet purée, watercress salad and blood orange butter. My entrees included the ricotta dumplings with english peas, pecorino and meyer lemon salsa and the lobster pasta amoricaine with english peas, pea shoots, green garlic and tomato confit. Then we split a dessert of mini chocolate confections, our favorite of which was the home-made chocolate peanut butter cups! Fun little environment out on their porch and it got packed quickly, which I thought was odd for a Tuesday night . . . that's West Hollywood for you I guess! I think D's main entree was better than mine, but luckily we shared a lot so I was very content at the end of the meal. We'll see where we'll go for next year's anniversary!

"Be Cool Honey Bunny"

Happy anniversay to the coolest honey bunny I know! Anyone get the quote from above? If so, I give you a virtual high-five!

Going out to dinner to Lucques in West Hollywood and I can't wait!  Been dying to try this place for a couple months and hopefully it won't disappoint!  Will report back later . . .

PS - Officially nine months prego today!!