Baby Silva - 11 Weeks

We had our first OB appointment last night. It was so amazing to see our little baby's heart beat and watch him/her jump around. Seriously, he/she was bouncing all over the place - already rockin' out! Here is the best of several pictures we got. You can see his/her little arms and legs. I can't believe it! So we have decided to definately go the midwife route. We meet with her in another 4 weeks to go over everything. Today I have to go take several blood tests and tomorrow we are off to SF for New Year's weekend with my family. I'll keep you all posted with more details as they arise. For now, just keep thinking - girl, girl, girl :)

More Puppy & Pregnancy updates...

These little puppies are so cute! They look like little dairy cows. We've now named them: Spots & Cowboy. Frida is such a good mamma although I think she's getting a little annoyed with being sucked on all the time. Gizmo is being a good daddy too. He lays watch over Frida and the puppies and gives the cows kisses whenever possible. He's a very proud pappa...

As for the update on me...I have been extremely fatigued but have not really experienced any "morning sickness" at all. I kind of thought that life already gave me more than my share of nauseau this year. We have our first OB appointment next Wednesday. We'll be going over all our birthing options and doing a check up on me (I'm assuming). I feel like its taken forever to just get this appointment. I'll fill you all in after that appointment.

We have Fridos!!!

Little Frida had puppies last night!!! Sadly, one of them didn't make it. But Frida and Gizmo are proud parents of two little frido boys!! Of course Frida won't let Gizmo anywhere near them or her. I don't think she wants to go through childbirth again.
We fix that tomorrow with Gizmo - no pun intended.

We're Pregnant!!

So...beating cancer wasn't enough for one year, we had to go and get pregnant too. We've officially been "trying" for two months. Does it really happen that fast? A friend of mine told us which days to "try" and after following said advice - we created life.

I took the test while visiting San Francisco this past weekend. It was horrible to have to give Rene this wonderful news over the phone (as he has been in Dallas on business for a couple of weeks). My friend Sabrina was there to witness the pee stick. The rest of the weekend was spent telling all my friends and family from back home the great news.

This year has been such an insane rollercoaster. It was exactly yesterday 11/15 last year that I first noticed my lump. I joked earlier this year that I found and beat cancer in less time than a pregnancy. Well, I guess its my chance to prove that.

For any of you that may be worried about my health. I am feeling FANTASTIC! I've actually never felt better. Rene had wanted to make sure that we had approval from the doctor prior to starting this journey. I had a PETscan in September that proved clear of any signs of cancer (yippee!) and we asked if we could get pregnant. The doctor said that normally he would like his younger patients to wait 2 years but since I was right at that age (after 35 poses a lot more health risks to me and the baby) so he said he couldn't see why there would be any reason to not get pregnant. I have another scan scheduled for January but we will have to do an MRI instead since we don't want to create any mutant X-men with the radioactive injection with the PETscan.