Blue Benjamin

Our sweet little boy

Dinner at Montgomery Inn

On November 17th, we found out that our little baby is a boy!  We are so excited to know the gender of the baby.  It really makes everything we talk about more real.  Not that we didn't think it was real to begin with, it's just really real now.  When the nurse said, "It's a boy!" I started to cry uncontrollably.  I felt so full of happiness.  All of my speculations and predictions have come true.  I had dreams about Benny before we found out.  The first dream had to do with bacon and a diaper (details will be spared), the second was of a doctor telling me that the baby is a boy, and the third was of me feeding my lil boy rice soup.  He loved Cambodian food!        

We had a dinner with all of our closest friends that evening.  We decided it would be fun to reveal the gender of the baby by dressing in blue.  Most of them guessed it right away while the Richards and Hoovers took a lot longer to figure it out.  :)  There are three of us in our group of friends that are pregnant right now (Me, Kiley & Joy).  Kiley is due 18 days after me and Joy is due in February.  Along with all of the preggos around are lot of kids!  Jill has a one year old,  Carrie has her 2 lil guys and Joy has Haddie.  I just love that I have a group of friends to "grow up" with and share this wonderful time in our lives.  Life is just so great.  I couldn't be any happier.  A friend of our is moving to Boulder.  My wish is for them to come back sooner than planned.  

In my family there are so many new babies too!  Our neice Amber just had a baby boy - Lorenzo.  Dara & Gerson just had a baby boy - Aramis.  My uncle Ley and aunt Michelle just had a little boy - Dylan.  Finally, Chanrun & Breanna just had a baby boy - Sorin.  When Ben is born, he will have so many friends to play with!    

15 weeks

Although it might just be all of the food I've eaten during the Thanksgiving break, we've definitely started to notice a little bump!  My tummy is really hard.  There is definitely something going on in there!  Our baby is the size of a navel orange.  I'm so proud of the little guy for doing such a great job!  Next checkup is on November 28th.  It will be the 16 weeks checkup!  Yay!  Time flies.