25 weeks

This week was great with the exception of some back pain. I have been organizing our house and getting it ready for the little one. The closets are getting emptied, and the house is feeling great.

Thursday night we headed up to SF for Kevin Martel's wedding. Needless to say a unbelievable experience that ended in the grooms men having to clean up the entire wedding. It was filled with a dead pig dinner, the tackiest wedding cake possible, crap hip hop music, 40 minute speeches, and "Aunite" rambling away. We stayed at Alan and Nancy's new house which was very comfortable. We got home smoothly Saturday night, and spent the night in recovering from the traumatic wedding experince.

Sunday we had Rosh Hashana dinner at Mom and Dad's and Marni stayed over the night. It has been great catching up with her and sharing our pregnancy war stories and complaints.

24 weeks

This week I definitely feel fully fledge pregnant. There has been a noticeable increase in my belly size as well as a new pain in my lower back. I have spent a lot of time this week organizing and packing up our house so that there will be room for a 3^rd Soren come January. I think all of the bending has caused the back ache, but it could just be the added weight on my front side. I have also been having a lot of dreams about the baby (it is always a boy). These new dreams have been more pleasant than the original ones I was having where the baby would fall off the changing table. I have been waking up excited to meet this new person and start our journey.

Our crazy **** neighbor moved her 30 year old son into her house with a giant moving truck knocking down a bunch of trees on our driveway. Consequently we have been unable to drive our cars up to the house and David has been parking on the street below… and Friday night someone broke into his car stealing our phones, ipod, and a bunch of other things. Needless to say, and aggravating weekend.

The little frog in the picture about is the first knit toy I made. I am working on a chipmunk and a turtle as well. Bubie, mom and I have been having a lot of fun with these little knit toys. More little guys to come.

23 weeks

This week has been very relaxing. I spent the majority of the week in Santa Barbara. This weekend David and I went hiking a couple times. I have been busy knitting (trying to finish a blanket I am working on.) Last night we went to the Archlight to see "Hollywoodland". Neither of us were very impressed. We went to dinner at Caioti Pizza Cafe on Tujunga http://www.caiotipizzacafe.com which was wonderful, and then got gelato at the newly opened gelataria.
In terms of our pregnancy, this week I have noticed a big change in my belly. Others are just starting to realize that I am pregnant. I am feeling very self conscious about my body in general, but trying to find a way to accept all the changes. My skin has started to clear up a little bit for whatever reason. In addition, I had an appointment with Dr. Rabin on Tuesday where he listened with a doppler to the hearbeat, and everything sounded perfect. He spoke with me about which classes he thought were worth while (baby cpr, and a tour of the hospital). He thought birthing classes were unnecessary if I did yoga.

Santa Barbara with Mom

Mom and I just got back from Santa Barbara. We stayed at the Bacara Resort. www.bacararesort.com. The spa experience wasn't the best because they refused to do the treatments I signed up for (apparently they induce labor). We did a lot of walking, knitting, and shopping. Overall a very relaxing week. We ate at a wondeful restaurant there called Olio e Limone. http://www.olioelimone.com/
The banana bread pudding was to die for.

22 weeks

This past week has been super busy, but filled with fun. As always I had cooking school Monday with mom where we had 8 hours of bread baking. I finally learned how to make bagels which were very tasty for breakfast the next morning. I had a great prenatal yoga class on Tuesday. Wednesday I spent my annual father daughter day with dad for his birthday. We went to lunch at Aroma Cafe, saw The Illusionsit (which I highly reccomend)http://www.theillusionist.com/, had dinner at Wolfgang Puck's newest steakhouse "Cut", and went to see George Benson at the Hollywood Bowl.
This labor day weeekend has been very relaxing as well. David and I went to MOCA to see the Rauchenberg show before it closed. We went for a romantic dinner at "French 75" where I found a worm in my food - yuck! We visited our friends the Gehle's and their new daughter Stella... and we even got to the beach. David has been painting a series of vignettes for the baby's room. They are great! I am almost finished knitting my baby blanket.
As for how I am feeling this week: i can feel the baby's movement much stronger. david is yet to feel it, but i bet he will in the next couple weeks. besides a little bit of a pain in my side, feeling awful about my body, and ongoing difficulty sleeping... i feel pretty darn great!

sorenspace is launched

we have decided to create this blog to share all of the exciting things that are happening in our lives with out loved ones who live so far away. we hope this helps our canadian compadres fee more involved in our day to day. more to come soon...