Turtle Bay

When I was in HI i never ONCE saw a sea turtle in the wild until i got pregnant. I didn't even know i was pregnant at the time. It was the week of our 2nd year anniversary (April 22) and we decided to go snorkeling in Hanauma bay. I didn't know it but i was close to 6 weeks pregnant at the time. We were in the water snorkeling when we saw 2 big sea turtles! I even got to touch one (though i wasn't supposed to). Ever since then EVERY time we went to the beach we saw sea turtles. Not just one though, we would see 5 turtles or more almost every time. So as we went shopping to decorate for our Baby Boy's room we decided on the "Turtle Bay" theme. (We also thought it was cool that we lived near Turtle Bay... the location ...on north shore HI). 

I see a PEE PEE!!

I was 23 weeks pregnant and was going in for that very special ultrasound! The one that will answer that very big question- PINK OR BLUE?!! Tiu had been betting on pink i had been betting on Blue. Well as we all know I am ALWAYS right!!! We were both thrilled when we found out we were having a boy!! The ultrasound Tech was soo nice. She kept taking pics and printing them for us (allot more than she is allowed to). She took her time and pointed everything out to us. Little baby jaden was squirming around like crazy!! The tech even asked me if i had been drinking coke or something because she was so surprised at how active the little guy was. He was punching so fast it looked like he was boxing! He would do these quick kicks and then twirl and then kick again! The funniest thing is even when it looked like he was kicking and punching really hard, i didn't feel it very much. Which led me to wonder what does it look like when i do feel it? After that appt. we knew we were having a strong active baby boy! Now off to paint the room... 

The PINK room...

Right around the time we had found out i was pregnant, BEFORE we had decided to move back to FL My mom decided to redecorate my old room. She picked out the colors she liked and got to work. She spent weeks priming and painting (she did it by herself so it took a bit longer than usual). Bought new dressers, a new bed spread, beautiful decorations. Worked night and day  to get the room exactly how she had imagined it. Alas, it was finished, just in time for our arrival. As we stepped into the room there was only one thing to be said.... "well....I sure hope we're having a girl!" The entire room had been painted light and bright pink along with bright green accents. It looked great...buuut what if we we're having a boy??!!! I couldn't have my baby boy's first room be PINK!!! It was still weeks away before we would know what we were having. However I was 90% sure it was a boy! I had, had dreams of my little boy since i was 16. It was ALWAYS a boy. Then in Jan. of 08 i had a very vivid dream that i would have a little boy around Christmas (the Christmas tree was up in my dream). I dismissed it imagining that that would never happen. But sure enough the"ultrasound - due date" they gave me was Jan 6, 2009 and i had a strong feeling that it was off by 2 weeks. I was SURE that the baby would come in 2008. So there we were standing in a lovely Pink room and praying that all my dreams were wrong and that we would have a girl!