Rabbit Baby

"People born in the Year of the Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious. They are virtuous, reserved, and have excellent taste. Rabbit people are admired, trusted, and are often financially lucky. They are fond of gossip but are tactful and generally kind. Rabbit people seldom lose their temper. They are clever at business and being conscientious, never back out of a contract. They would make good gamblers for they have the uncanny gift of choosing the right thing. However, they seldom gamble, as they are conservative and wise."

Well Feb 3rd was the beginning of Chinese new year. It was also the first day i was able to feel the baby and know it was the baby and not gas :) David says it's perfect that this little rabbit baby made its presence known on Chinese new year. Hopefully the baby will have all those rabbit qualities they seem like pretty good ones.

Place your bets...

Boy or Girl? We find out in one week! Yay!!!

Cravings...

Big delicious breakfast! The past two weekends have been full of delicious big breakfasts. Crepes and Waffles with berries and Nutella. Yum Yum. If only i had time during the week for that :)

Sushi! Seriously i want it so bad. I don't like the raw stuff ever anyway so we totally went out for it Saturday. And it was so so so good! And that didn't even take care of the craving. If sushi weren't a bit expensive i would be having it 3-4 times a week for sure. So good.

So what were your pregnancy cravings?

Rite of Passage

Well folks i found the first stretch mark last night. LOL Guess that means i'm on my way to becoming a real live Mommy. I found it, showed david, and then said that this baby better be cute. Guess that's life.

Look what cute maternity clothes can do for your self esteem...

China

Our guide TK isn't she cute.

Our hotel, quite nice.

After i got sick of Chinese food all we ate was pizza.

Lowering the flag Tienanmen Square. They raise the flag at sunrise everyday and lower it at sunset. They stop traffic and everything so the soldiers can march from the forbidden city to the square to do the flag.



Oh yeah Walmart is everywhere!




Olympic stuff.

Rickshaw ride.

Watch tower.

Drum tower. They used to wake everyone up in the morning with drums, before alarm clocks.

They have these exercise parks where old people go during the day to work out. They definitely did better than me. There was a 70 year old man doing full on splits.

In the temple of heaven.

All the old people who were around during the revolution come to sing the revolutionary songs. Interesting.

Temple of heaven.

Altar at the temple of heaven. The emperor used to come there every spring to pray.

Entrance to the temple of heaven.

In this park there are a bunch of people who come and paint poetry. The older ones do this in the old unstandardized Chinese.

Great wall!

Check one thing off my bucket list.

It's pretty amazing. And very steep.

We saw real pandas but the pictures of them aren't very good.

In the summer palace.

The mote around the forbidden city.

This used to be the tallest building in Beijing. Well at least the highest point. It's on top of a mountain.

Forbidden City

Chairman Mao.

Tienanmen Square.

Now that we've been back for almost 2 months there's my china post. It was pretty awesome! I'm very happy that we were able to go. A once in a lifetime experience. I could say tons more but i don't have the time and if i did this would go on forever! If you have any questions ask :)

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8 Weeks

9 weeks

15 weeks

I stopped taking pictures for 6 weeks. something about being crazy busy with christmas preparations. But yes i'm definitley getting big. Can you tell that all my shirts are turning into belly shirts?