Raptors First Win!

I had a craving for Bar Italia's chicken sandwich today, so I met Quel there after work for dinner. We shared the mushroom salad, chicken sandwich, roasted chicken pasta, a couple of martini's (ok, mine was virgin), and then to end the meal... we had the chocolate truffle cake with lattés!

After dinner, we met up with Ron and my brother at the ACC for the Raptors 2nd game of the season! Quel had never been to a Raptor game before and whaddaya know it.... they won! We even got free pizza out of it with the score being 101 Raptors - 81 Cavaliers. Thanks for the tickets Ron! :)

Baby's got more clothes than ME!

Ron and I had another baby shower today... this time, it was Ron's side of the family (photos can be seen on our baby blog). With our families being so big, we had to split them up! Otherwise, it would be like our wedding all over again.

The one gift we had to mention was from his cousin Dexter and family. They now have a 4-month old son, who's so big and has completely outgrown all his clothes. He had emailed us prior to the shower and asked us if we wanted his 'not worn & gently used clothes'... and being a 3rd daughter ... I totally grew up on hand-me-downs... of course we'll take it!!

What we didn't expect, was that we would receive a full baby tub of it!! It was packed so nicely in a baby bath tub, and when we took out each item, here's the inventory of stuff that was in there:

• 4 pairs of shoes
• 13 pairs of pants
  
• 2 sweaters
• 30 onesies
• 3 T-shirts
• 3 full outfits
• 1 pair of overalls
• 1 vest
• a package and a half of newborn diapers that Max outgrew!
  

This wasn't even their gift! I couldn't believe it! Thanks so much to Dex and family for supplying our baby's entire wardrobe!

Bonus gift!

Apparently, my sister's student lied to me yesterday. There was ONE more bonus gift today from sista Sarah: a Watch Me Grow Height Chart... which I never even would have thought to get! Thanks sis!

It will go in baby room nicely! :)

Family's back home and all had a great time. I spoke to my dad earlier who loved Vegas and L.A. My parents have only ever travelled to the Philippines, so this was their first trip to the West Coast!

Final and last gift from sista Sarah!

Ok, last gift was today, as the student that delivered it reassured me it was! There were 2 packages this time though.. yay!

The first package was a scrapbook for baby. The second package was a set of three Winnie-the-Pooh onesies for the baby, along with more chocolate covered pretzels!! I was actually with her when she bought the onesies months ago... I thought they were so cute! She had said she was buying them for a shower she was going to - I guess not!

My whole family comes back from their trip tomorrow - I made it through the week without them.

Thanks for making it easier on me this week sis!

Today's gift from sister Sarah!

A onesie from Carter's that reads: Mommy's New Man! How cute... it came with some chocolate covered pretzels! :)

I could totally get used to this. Had I known.. I would have told them to stay longer!! hehe

And then there was ONE!

Susie gave birth to a little baby boy today! His name is Sullivan and he weighed in at 7lbs, 2oz. He's a 10-10-10 baby!! Congrats Sue & Josh!

As long as Sue hadn't given birth yet, I knew I still had time. But now that she has.... you know what THAT means!! I'm up at bat next!! YIKES!!!!

I find myself getting nervous each day. We still have lots to do, and I still need to mentally prepare and read up on labour and delivery (I've been avoiding it).

Prenatal classes start next weekend for us, so I'm hoping it will help ease us into this new life we're about to embark on.... (deep breaths).

Another great day!

My Saturday morning started off with meeting Quel for breakfast at Sunset Grill. We got all caught up, and then we both headed over to our clinic appointments for massages and adjustments. After that, I headed over to visit with Di, G and Marley! Marley's definitely gotten bigger in the last week since I saw her last - and is looking more and more like G's mom!! (but with your Korean eyes Di).

Di and I headed out to Queen street for a bit to enjoy the warm weather and had brunch/lunch at Toast Restaurant. I'd never been here before, and I would definitely go back. It's a cute place (reminded me of a resto in Montreal I used to go to).... Di ordered the French toast filled with cranberry cream cheese, and I had the Club Toast sandwich (turkey with lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, avocado on challah toast)... both were sooooo GOOOOOD!! YUM!
We also stopped off at a bakery nearby where Di raved about their chocolate croissants. I ended up buying 2 and brought it home for me and the hubby. BTW - I ended up eating both of them... yes, they were THAT good! And baby went crazy in my tummy after too... he must have enjoyed the yummy goodness as well! :)

A great Friday!

Besides the beautiful weather we received today (after all that depressing rain all week), I went out for lunch to meet up with Mylene! She's my dental hygienist/squash buddy and I actually hadn't seen her in a while. She wanted to meet up with me to see me preggo, as the last time I saw her I had just announced it and wasn't showing yet.

We went to Ginza Sushi, and got all caught up! She said I looked great by the way and NOT at all THAT big! :P

She also had a gift for the baby that she gave me - baby clothes, cloths, bottle, toy, towel...oh, and of course, a toothbrush for me to use... it was awesome! We finished lunch and then I had to get back to work.

At work, to my surprise... Joy came to my office and gave me another package from my sister Sarah! How sweet... I can get used to this!! Today's surprise gift was for the baby - a onesie outfit that says "100% Guapo" (which means handsome in Tagalog).

What a good day! AND, because it's a Friday before a long weekend, everyone at work gets off work early! Whoohoo!

Feeling guilty...

So today at work, one of my sister's students came to my area and had a package to give me. It was wrapped up with "To: Sally October 7, 2010" on it. It was a gift from my sister Sarah!! I guess she feels bad that I got left behind from the family trip! I thought that was SO NICE of her! What a thoughtful gesture!!

My next thought: do I get a gift EVERY day?? :)
I opened it up and it was a box of my favourite chocolates (which I haven't had since I had my braces!!): Toffifee!!! mmmmmm... thanks sis!

Leaving for Las Vegas... without ME!

My entire family is leaving me today. We had bought my parents a trip to Las Vegas for their 40th anniversary months ago, and since then... it has become a full family trip! My sisters, my brother, their husbands, all the kids and my cousin Lorna are now going with them! They're even going to do a side trip to L.A. to visit my cousins there.

It's the first family trip that we've planned, and unfortunately, the minute I found out I was pregnant, I knew I couldn't join them. :(

Let's just hope I don't give birth this week!!! :P