AZ here we are!

Bart and I finally came to Arizona, after spending about 24 hours on the road. It was a pretty rough flight from Copenhegaen to Atlanta. Right above Island there was a lot of turbulence and I thought I would never see the sun rise again. From nowhere the plane jerked and some of the sturdests fell flat in the aisle, while everybody onboard screamed out loud. It was really scarry and I seriously thought I was going to die. But ofcourse I didn't. It was a good feeling landing and walking on steady ground.
It is very nice over here, 25 degrees in the sun and clear blue skies. It feels good putting on the AC instead of the heat like we're used to do over in Sweden. I really need to purchase a new pair of sunglasses while I'm over here since the sun is really strong. I totally forgot how it feels seeing the sun all day, it feel good and it makes you happier. It nice to see the dry desert again and all the big cactuses.
On sunday the whole family came over to Jolene's house. It was really fun to see everybody, but somehow it feels like it was yesterday that we saw them all. We ate a lot of good food, played some games and had a good old time. It was nice seeing the boys wrestling like crazy and see the girls sing and dace around. I am definelty looking forward to a lot more fun over here, shopping and just spending some good time with the family.

Midwife appointment!

Yesterday me and Bart went to the midwife for a regular check-up. Everything is going accordingly to the plans and the little baby is doing perfectly fine. We got to listen to the little heartbeats which was 142 beats per minute. The nurse had to search for a while since he is already a little wild one in there. We heard the sound from the umbilical cord which sounded like a really swooshy sound. There was a lot of action going on in there, thats for sure. The nurse told me to get a belt for my acing hips that I will have to use on my workdays. We will have to se if it helps at all. But first of all I am going to have a well deserved vacation starting on saturday when Bart and I are going to the states. It's going to so fun to see the family over there. We miss them all so much. All the kids must have grown so much and it's going to be so fun play with them all again. We are going to give them lots of love and many hugs and kisses. America here we come!

He's doing a lot of kicking 2day!

The little boy in there have been doing a lot of movements the last couple of days. 2-day finally he gave me some real good kicks and jabs but of course Bart can never catch 'em. I hold my hand on my belly whenever I feel him moving and screams for Bart to hurry up and feel too. But it's like the baby knows abut it and thinks: I´m not gonna let daddy feel me that easy! A few days ago Bart felt some kicks, two strong ones! It was cool to share that together with him. He was all proud of his little boy.
Today I was free from work and was just chillin' with Bart in the apartment. We watch a couple of Seinfeld episodes, our new found favorite show. We just love watching Jerry and the gang. Our favorite episode is "The Contest" by far. We are studying so we can whoop some butt in AZ when we play the Cole's Seinfeld game. We cleaned the apartment really nice and clean for another showing, but for no good reason. They didn't want it of course. But we can't give up, it's gonna happen when we least expect it. We made some delicious lasagna for dinner, something that would make Bart's dad, Mike, drool. This fabulous dinner was accompanied by some crispy garlic bread and the Mendonca House salad. Doesn't it make your taste buds tingle?

My hips are killing me 2day!

I´ve been told I´m not good enough updating this thing, so here we go. I have been working today. It was ok. Since I havn´t been at work in 3 days I am always a little nervous going there. You will never know what to expect untill you get there, and not even then you can be sure to have everythong under control. It's crazy actually, I have been a RN for a year on the 18th oj january. Time has just been flying by and I can't understand where it's been going. I remember my first day of work, how nervous I was and how I felt like I didn't know if I could make it. But I made it, everyone of those days that I struggled and cried. Many nights I came home to Bart, crying that I never whanted to do this anymore. But he always supported me and made me never give up. Today I feel pretty proud of myself, I manged to keep my head high and keep all my patients alive. That was one of my main goals! I see myself as a diffrent person today, a stronger more confindet person that people can come to and ask for advice. It's a pretty good feeling.
I think everybody at work know about me beeing pregnent now and everybody have been treating me so nicely ever since. They tell me to take it easy and not carry more than I should. They buy me food and offer me goodies constantly. They probably think that a pregnent woman is constantly hungry, which i true! I feel like I could eat 24 seven. I wake up in the middle of the night, stomach growling, felling like I want to go to the frige and eat the first thing that I see. But I always manage to fall right back to sleep, cos' it's pretty dang good to sleep aswell. But today I'm struggeling with sore hips, and it's PAINFUL. I think now when the baby is growing and me running around at work all day take's it's toll on the little mommy. It's nice to know that I will have maternity-leave comming up, I need to slow it down a notch. The baby is doing a lot of kicking. Everyday, several times a day he's making his mommy known that he's fine and will be a wild little boy. It feels so good knowing his ok in there. It's good to fell life inside of you.

Baby Boy Mendonca!

Here he is, the most beautiful little baby you can ever think of. The next Mendonca is currently 200 gramms and is due on June 3 rd 2009. The luckiest day of our life. Bart finally realized thats there is a baby growing in there. He's been seeing the belly growing and hearing about all the kicking the baby's been doing, but he just couldn't belive it untill he saw him today. Bart was sitting next to me, bouncing around on his chair and he almost had a tear in his eye. He's gonna make the best dad, that I am sure of. I was laying on the bed, looking at the screen, stiff as a board with tears flowing down my face. I saw my little boy! I finally realised I am going to be a mom! Afterwards Bart and I went to the babystore and got a couple of cute boy outfits. It felt great. Now I am just going to relax and enjoy beeing pregnent, knowing our baby is fine!

Don't they look alike?

Cutie pies

Caroline and Josefine

The sisters

Bart and Jojo

Bart and the sisters