December

December was quite a busy month! Two days after our ultrasound, I flew to Orlando for the conference my work was hosting. The conference went well! It was much less stressful than the conference last December, but this one only had about 900 people in attendance (compared to the 7,000 in attendance in Anaheim). We still had to pull 10-16 hour days every day, but it wasn't quite as overwhelming.

Chen flew up to Orlando after he submitted the final papers for his classes. The first few days were boring for him since I was busy with work, but we still had a lot of fun. We ended up spending half a day in Downtown Disney and bought a lot of cute things for baby girl. The weather much colder than we expected and Disney World's park schedule did not work to our advantage. Unfortunately, the schedule meant we had to lump Magic Kingdom and Epcot into one day. We had so much fun! Thankfully, my energy came back around the time we left for the conference...otherwise, 13 hours of Disney would have done me in.

Here are a few Disney pics:

On the ferry boat to Magic Kingdom.

The castle.

Us at Magic Kingdom.


Entrance to Magic Kingdom.

Me at Epcot.

Chen at Epcot.

When we got back from Florida, we only had 8 days to get ready for Christmas. The conference and time at Disney really drained all of my energy. Despite being tired exhausted, it was a wonderful holiday. We were able to spend a lot of time with family.

Because of the conference, I had the week after Christmas off. We took the time to start in on baby's nursery, since it was my last vacation time off before maternity leave. Chen and I assembled the furniture, then Chen painted the room. There is still a lot to do, but here is the nursery so far:






Once we set up the bedding and finish painting the walls, we hope the nursery will look something like this:

Everything else with my pregnancy is going well. It's hard to believe that my due date is a little less than four months away. Baby girl is getting much stronger and much, much more active! We have our anatomy scan in the morning, so we will get to see her again. Pictures to come in sometime in the next few days.