Happy Birthday Baba!

Esme was excited to show us her birthday singing skills tonight to help celebrate Allen's birthday.  We were surprised at how well she knows the song in both Mandarin and English but we figure they sing it at least once a month at daycare with all the birthdays there.  She even helped blow out the candles and was requesting her cake right afterwards.  Again we were surprised because it's not like she has cake all the time with us.  

 

For the past month or so Esme has been obsessed with her socks.  She always asks for them and at night she even requests a pair of socks under her footed sleeper and then another pair over the feet on her sleeper.  So basically she has three layers on her feet at night.  She's recently found some new obsessions to take over for the socks though - pockets and hoods.  Can you tell we live in the mainland?  Ha ha!  She always looks for pockets whenever you put her clothes on and then puts her hands in them like it's a secret compartment.  The love of hoods just came about in the last 2 days and she wants to wear them in the house too.  Silly girl!  

 

The owls on her jacket are actually pockets

 

Today I had my 16 week pre-natal visit with the midwives that delivered Esme.  Allen had to work so Esme accompanied me to the visit and did really well.  She even got up on the exam table and laid down next to me when they listened to my belly for the baby's heartbeat.  Everything checked out fine and I also had some blood work done today.  Again Esme just sat in my lap and watched intently as the phlebotomist drew my blood.  So far this pregnancy has been pretty similar to the symptoms that I had with Esme.  Extreme nausea, loss of appetite, fatigue and weight loss in the first trimester and then insomnia and horrible dizziness when I stand up so far this trimester.  I take Benadryl to help me sleep on the nights I have to work and then try to just get by on the nights that I'm off.  My belly really popped out this week so it seems more apparent that I'm pregnant.  We keep talking about it all to Esme but we have no idea what she's thinking :)