Last weekend, my lil sis from sorority who was also one of my bridesmaids came to visit us from Socal!  Miss Courtney is the young, vivacious, cute and not to mention one of the sweetest gals in my life; One of the best things that came out of joining a sorority is to gain such a great friend for life.

We took Court on the normal Norcal San Jose itineary of visiting Santana Row..hahah..sorry, our life isn't too eventful here. I think I have taken ALL of my Socal friends to Santana Row when they come to visit. Anyway, it was a great time spending some quality time catching up. On top of that, her thoughtful boyfriend treated us to a pedicure session in Santana Row.  Yippee!!! He scored some major brownie pts with me. hehee

Here are some pictures of our weekend..by the way, Enzo just LOVED spending time with aunti Court. In fact, they became BFFs...hahah

Then my little monster wanted to give me a kiss......instead he tried to eat my lips. hahaha...Enzo sure doesn't know how to pucker his lips for kisses yet.

Like my title said, Old friends are the greatest friends....on the same topic, two of my favorite people and closest friends are Mr. & Mrs. Ting. We are tied from our parents days and i am so fortunate to have them in our lives. We love our Ting family. Thankfully, they also took the time out to do a photo session of our growing family. Unfortunately, Enzo didn't get to take his afternoon nap before the shoot, so he was fuzzing mid way through. But regardless, I am just glad we got some pictures of Bucket in my belly...since I have been not so good at taking pictures with this pregnancy.

Here are some sneak peak from the photog's assistant's (mrs. Ting) pt of view....

Enzo is already 14 months.....eeks! 4 more months and little sister will be here....it's exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time. Many people warn us that once the 2nd one comes, there's no more "tag team" or "rotate" duties anymore...  It's ok....it will be a GOOD crazy time for us..... we welcome it!

Enzo is very active and is definitely developing his "boyish" skills with climbing over furnitures, crawling between gaps, and walking pretty swiftly lately. He hasn't developed more vocabularies however I feel he understands what we are saying to him most of the time...even though he may not always "obey" whenver we say.."NO!".

Here are some pictures of Enzo from last few weeks on a sunday morning while feeding him breakfast and daddy taking some shots of him.

Here's a video of Enzo playing and climbing around the house....

Enzo and his Enzo Buddy at 14 months. Enzo knows to cuddle Enzo Buddy whenever he sees it.  so cute.

I would have to say, his REAL first word (besides mama and dada) is BALL. I believe that's the first word that he ACTUALLY really knows what it means and pronounces it perfectly (I know, BALLis not a difficult word to say anyway). He LOVES LOVES playing with balls, all sizes and all colors. He loves picking it up and throwing it away, and repeat.  Here's just a quick snapshot of some of the ball toys he has...

Enzo also finds it "funny" that I have a big belly. Whenever he is laying on me, he likes to see my belly by pushing up my shirt to show the belly. He will look at it and smile...pat it or even sometimes if we say, "kiss kiss"..he will lean over and give my belly a kiss. I think its cute...until he shouts.."BALL!" at my belly.

Enzo kissing mommy's belly at bedtime.

Enzo also LOVES ballons. I mean LOVE LOVE ballons. Whereever we go, whether its in the mall, on the street or even when he sits in the car and we drive by places (car dealership) and ballons are out..he gets so exited and just shouts..."BALL, BALL" and any other gibberish to show how excited and how much he wants the ballons. One of the cutest things is within one of his many books that we "read" to him, his favorite is a page from "Oh My! Oh My! Oh Dinosaurs!". Within this page, it's a picture of cartoon drawings of a group of dinosaurs holding ballons. As you can imagine, he will flip to the page every time and just giggles and coos with all smiles looking at the page with ballons.  Here's a video...

Enzo got a ballon from his cousin, Stephannie's birthday party.....he LOVES ballons.

Enzo also experienced his FIRST park experience playing with the swing and going down the slide. I think he was more busy checking out other people than enjoying his swing...

My dear friend, Amanda was in town for the Britney concert in San Jose. We had a chance to meet up with her, christina, rei and irene, olivia and kevin for dinner at Cheesecake. It was a good time just chatting about baby and motherhood with them..I hope they join the club soon! Here's some pictures from the evening.

Aunti Amanda and Enzo

Aunti Irene and Enzo

 GIRL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YIPPEEE!!! I am gonna have my Lil Girl!!!  I can't wait to buy girlie dresses for the little china doll.

Ok, to be honest, I really didn't think Baby Bucket is a Girl., this whole time, I just kept thinking that its a Boy. I was actually perfectly fine with that idea because it just means, we will have #3 at some point! hehehe. Yes, I told Wing that even if #2 was a boy, we have to try for #3 for that girl.  Either way, I would've been very happy for a healthy baby, because I would've liked many kids anyway. Now, #3 is only optional, not a requirement. hehee

Well, I haven't been as diligent as I was while pregnant with nugget by taking weekly pictures. However, for the announcement of our baby girl, I thought I'd take a picture of myself and compare the difference of my belly with baby #1 and baby #2 at exactly 17 weeks.

Status today: 17 weeks and 2 days

Weight: 139 (only gained 1 or 2 lbs since pregnant)...yup, I have no shame in sharing my weight with y'all.

Cravings: None really..

Sickness: None!!! My baby girl has been treating me good. No sickness since gotten pregnant!

Mood: Feeling great, looking great!  just lazy somtimes....but that's with or without pregnancy.

Week 17 with Enzo:                                   Week 17 with Bucket:

hmmm from the comparison...my tummy is definitely a little more poutier with baby #2.

Here's a short video of when we found out Bucket is a GIRL....