24 weeks

Here's the pics that everyone has been asking me about. I wore the same shirt as last month so you could see the difference a little better. To prove that I am pregnant I took a picture of me sticking my stomach out as far as I could and then I look pregnant! Sometimes I go into a store and try to push it out the whole time to see if anyone will notice. It's been annoying cause at the gym I know people recognize me and I see them looking at my stomach they are probably wondering what's going on because I just keep getting thicker and thicker. I had to add a pic of the cutest little girl that I get to spend most of my days with...her name is Ella. She's the best!

sticking it all out

5 MONTHS!!

I can't believe that I'm already 5 months!!!This has really gone by fast. I'm pretty much half way done. I kept thinking that I would totally be showing by 5 months and now I'm thinking that by 5 1/2 everyone will be able to tell. I'm at that stage where my middle is just getting thick but I don't look pregnant. It's really exciting and I'm looking forward for everyone to be able to tell.

I had my big ultrasound the other day where they measured everything on the baby. Dan was able to go because it was right across the street from his office. It was so cool to see everything being measured. Half way through I had to get up and walk around because she was so low and they needed her to move to measure my cervix. Everything is looking normal and the blood tests are all normal too. We feel so blessed that our baby is healthy so far.





I'm slowly starting to feel her kick. All the books that I have say to start counting how many times I feel her move each day!!! I'm lucky to feel something and know for sure that it was really even her. I'm sure soon enough that will happen. Dan sings to her all the time and has to have daddy daughter time already. He goes under the covers and talks to my stomach all quiet because I'm not allowed to her what they're talking about.

We are so excited and can't wait to meet her!!!

So if you haven't already heard I had my 16 week ultrasound on Tuesday and the doc said it's 80% chance a GIRL  of course I'm super excited.  It's kinda annoying that it's only 80%. Her little legs were in the way a lot of the time and that's why she wasn't 100% sure. I have to go in for a big 3D one in the next couple of weeks and then they will verify.  I'm still not really showing yet but I know it will be soon.  Dan was really excited too! He recently was getting his hopes up for a boy because his brother just had a boy and his sister just found out that she is going to have a boy so he wanted it to be the three stooges.  But he got over that fast. He did the cutest thing ever! When he came home the night we found out he had a huge bouquet of pink flowers!! He told me that he was sorry that they weren't for me but they were for baby Jade.  I already know she's going to be a daddy's girl!

Changes: New job, new apartment, new baby!

In the last couple of months lots has changed in the Peterson home. Dan accepted and has started his new job at UCLA hospital. (The 3rd highest ranked hospital in the US!) He loves it so far. It's so much different from the VA. He says now he feels like he is running an actual business. He manages a couple of different departments within the hospital. The clinical Neurophysiology and Pulmonary departments. In the first week he was already training a seminar on customer service.
To go along with the new job we decided to upgrade our apartment. We have an extra room and more importantly a dishwasher!! It still makes me sick to think that in Utah or pretty much anywhere else we could own a brand new nice spacious house with what we pay in rent. Oh well, but we are like 4 blocks closer to the beach than our old place. The new place has worked out great except for the cockroach and the apartment down the hall got robbed the other day. It was important for us to find a place that is in our current ward. We love our ward. Dan just got called to be the Young Mens President. He will be great the boys all already love him.
The biggest news of all....THE NEW BABY!!!! Everyone pretty much knows but it's exciting to be able to announce it officially. (which Dan did in his talk today. I didn't even know that he was going to do it!) We are so excited and we already have been lucky enough to have 4 ultrasounds to see our cute large lime. (that's what size fruit it is this week) I'm a little over 3 months and decided to take my first tummy pictures. Even though you probably can't see anything I am noticing little by little it is getting larger. I'm so excited to be going through this at the same time at Nichole and Dan's sister Nen. My friend at church is only a week behind me too.
Things have been going soo well and we are very grateful! We can't wait to see everyone in Utah next week!

You can see in the lower pic that our apartment is a mess!! I will post pictures later of the new place when we get everything all settled in.

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IT'S FALL

Dan had a day off for Columbus Day so we went up to Sac for the 3 day weekend. It was soo cold and windy!! Living in LA made us forget that it was October. We went to this huge pumpkin patch and had lots of fun. Sometime on the drive our camera got smashed so we now cant tell what the picture is going to look like..we just have to guess. (just like yours Nichole) oh well the pictures turned out fine and we'll just have to get a new one during the after Thanksgiving sales. It was fun to be able to hang out with Stevie, Sherd, and Chandler. (we missed you Jordan!) Even though it was such a short time we always find a way to have so much fun. I'm so excited to see the whole fam for Thanksgiving!!

Well I'm at work and Ella is asleep and I should be studying but I decided that I need to post something even though I have no pictures because I'm not on my computer. Dan has finally received a job offer at the VA. And he had 3 job interviews at the UCLA hospital last week. All of the jobs look really good. I want him to get out of the VA while he can I'm scared he will get sucked in forever. It's weird cause I would think that I would be sad that we haven't found good jobs in Utah or Sacramento but I'm actually really liking it here in LA. It would be nice to be able to buy a nice house and be close to family and friends but we really growing to love all of the traffic. j/k that's the one thing I could stand to live without. We are planning to go to Utah soon and I'm excited to see all the new babies that have been born! Well for now we are waiting for other job offers to come. The one that Dan is most interested in is the Chief Administrative officer for the radiology and oncology department. He said that he dominated the interview and they are looking for someone just like him. He is such a different person when it comes to his work. He is such a hard worker and I'm excited for him to be getting all these offers. He deserves it!!!