well here i am, blogging, in the first few hours of christmas eve, trying to pass the time. my officemates are outside, drinking the night away and i couldn't even watch them do it because i'm in danger of secondhand smoking. but even from here i can smell the cigarette fumes through the open door. oh well. we had just come from our christmas party, undoubtedly the most sedate celebration we've had (since i joined the company five years ago anyway).
since ours is a very small company, each of us had the opportunity to take home a prize from the raffle. joks and i both won a stand fan. so we have two stand fans, one of which we are going to give to my mother, the other we'll keep and bring to negros when we finally settle there.
oh wait. *big* news! we're going to have a boy! little joks is on the way and he'll probably see the world for the first time in april or may. joks and i have decided to name him jaden (read: jay-den) which means "god has heard." i wanted something that has a beautiful meaning that he will be proud of when he's old enough to understand. we also considered julian lee but we finally settled on jaden. it's unique, simple and meaningful to us so this is what we picked.
here's a picture of his lovely little face:
already you can see jaden's eyes, nose and mouth, even his hair is recognizable. doctor says everything seems to be normal, doctor and joks even counted his fingers and toes, saw his heart, and watched him move energetically across the screen. actually, even before we had the scan, as joks and i were waiting in the clinic, jaden kept moving. it was like having a small ball bouncing up and down my tummy. it's as if he's as excited as both his parents are with the ultrasound scan.
joks and i couldn't be happier right at that moment. it's as if seeing jaden made us love each other more, if that were possible (because i swear i love my husband more than life itself and my love for him keeps growing every single day). we both marveled at how we could have helped bring a human being into this world and made us anticipate his birth even more.
jaden weighs 587.5 grams, a little over a pound, which is normal for his age. right now i can feel him moving, as if telling me, "oh come on, mommy. lie down, will ya? i'm tired."
oh happy christmas. i can't wait for the new year and what it will bring.