The LaGreca Family

My two favorite pictures from today.

I love my boys. All of them. I am lucky girl.

Seeing Joe snuggle our newest baby is a such a treat. Pure joy.

NCL has been so good to his brother. We had prepared for the worst — and we have been pleasantly surprised (and very proud of the boy).

Last picture is NCL in our motorhome — the day we picked it up from storage. He is very excited to leave on our trip. Looks like we MIGHT take off tomorrow

Instead of the Biggest Loser (which I have never seen, but only heard about), I figured I would do a quick post on the “Biggest Belly” — we all know who the winner will be, right?

At our monthly “Mom’s Night Out” – I had one of the girls snap a picture of the 3 of us that are due with #2 next.  I am due on April 29th, Cindy (in the middle) is due on May 19th (sex unknown), and Katie is due May 30th (with her 2nd girl).

And just to keep you laughing at the size of my belly – here is one more shot. My mom is in town for the week (I have loads of pictures from her visit, but haven’t had the chance to post them yet), and she babysat Nicholas last night so we could have a date night.  I had to take a picture with her since she is here.

Joe and I went out to dinner (sushi— yum!) – then we saw Alice in Wonderland. (Thanks Chuck and Angie for the movie!)

We went ALL out and got popcorn, too! We had a nice evening out together – probably our last date night for a very long time.

But…you know you are old and have young kid(s) when you are driving home from dinner /the movies at 9:20pm and you are BOTH yawning in the car.  We were exhausted – I guess “date night” wore us out!

Joe’s Dad took this picture at Joe’s birthday dessert celebration this past weekend (Deb – this is for you..proving that we most definitely had CAKE for Joe’s birthday..he he).

I thought this picture was so awesome!  NCL LOVED the Happy Birthday song and he LOVED helping Daddy blow out the candles.

On Friday night, I surprised Joe with tickets to one of the traveling Cirque du Soliel shows, Kooza!  I made dinner reservations at a recommended restaurant in Solana Beach called Pacific Coast Grill & Jen was lucky enough to spend the evening with the little dude.  (Of course, he was excited and as soon as she arrived – they were off to the park to play before dinner. Many thanks, JP!).

(Above: We had just finished dinner and thought it would be nice to have a picture before heading to the show)

I was thinking about it, and I think this Cirque show is my 7th and Joe’s 8th!  We LOVE going to these shows.  When I found out there was a show coming to San Diego, I just had to get tickets for Joe’s birthday.  It’s such a fun experience to see a “circus” — if you have seen a Cirque show before, you know that this is a circus like no other!

The next picture is quite painful to post…but I am going to do it anyway.  I can NOT even believe I am still walking around with that belly!  I will say that I doesn’t feel THAT big when I am looking down at my belly, but when I see a picture – WOW! And to think….the due date is a month away….dang.

Below – I snapped this picture in the tent, but I guess I wasn’t supposed to (I didn’t even use the flash!)  It was right before the show started. Our seats were really good!!

On Saturday night, we had a few friends and family over for dessert to celebrate Joe’s 34th birthday (his actual birthday is this coming Tuesday, March 30th).  I got him a strawberry cheesecake and some ice cream — and one of his friend’s brought this homemade cake!  So nice — and it’s delicious!  Thanks to everyone for celebrating with us – it was fun to have you over for a complete sugar overload!

And, since I just passed the marker point for Pregnancy Week 35, the picture of us above will have to serve at the last picture you will see in order to make your FINAL guess on the gender & details of Baby LaGreca #2. Easter is one week away and also marks the beginning of April.  The very first guess on the arrival date is April 10th – so it’s only fair that we shut things down in a week.

Here are two final “clues/stories” that might help you with your final calculations:

(1) I went to have a pedicure on Friday and all the ladies in the shop were trying to guess the baby’s sex. They asked all kinds of questions – including “how did you carry your first baby?” – A few of the girls were sure that I would have a girl this time.  Most of the ladies said that it looked like I had a ball in my belly and since I looked similar with Nicholas, that it was FOR SURE going to be another boy.

(2) At Kooza on Friday night, right before the show started – we were sitting in our seats.  For the 10-15 minutes before the show, they usually send out “clowns” to entertain the audience. One of the “clowns” stopped when he saw me and said “a girl?”  I told him that we didn’t know, we wanted to be surprised.  He said “Oh, a surprise!” — then he leaned down and listened to my belly for a second and said “It’s a girl!”  Do you think he heard something?

And here are my notes after reviewing the current 52 guesses.

• Girls have the majority with 28 out of the 52 guesses
• Anyone that says we will celebrate the baby’s birthday before the 21st of April is on my GOOD list…except Mary!  I will NOT have a 10+lb baby on April 20th – all I can think of is…ouch!
• Joe still hasn’t guessed….and I don’t know about you, but I want to see what he would say.
• I think I am going to guess one more time – whatever my final gut-feeling says….boy or girl…?? I just don’t know!