Baby Emmelhainz

Right now the baby is 12 weeks along, due date is mid-June.  We have been asked a variety of questions so I’ll go ahead and answer them here. 

Will the baby have dual citizenship?  Yep!  There shouldn’t be any difficulty in getting the baby’s dual citizenship. 

Will you have the baby in Mexico or the US?  The plan is that we’ll stay here in Mexico.  We have a wonderful doctor here that we trust.  I wouldn’t want to go to the US anyway, because it would be super impractical for Pancho right now, there’s no way he could take off that amount of time from work.

But will there be any problem getting the baby’s US citizenship?  Nope.  It’s easy to prove that I’m the mother.  We just have to go to the US Embassy in Mexico (all three of us) with the birth certificate and my proof of citizenship, and we’ll then get proof of the baby’s US citizenship and his/her passport.

Will you be finding out the baby’s sex?  Yes, we will.  Pancho and I are horrible at surprises.  Also, it’s a lot easier for planning purposes.  We have family around the world that will be giving us hand-me-downs, so finding out the sex would be super helpful for planning.  Unfortunately, we will not know until after we come back from the US for Christmas.

Will the baby be bilingual?  I hope so!  Pancho and I speak in English most of the time, but it’s Spanish with everyone else.  So, as long as we’re in Mexico we’re planning on English in the home and Spanish everywhere else.

Are you still horseback riding?  Unfortunately, no.   I miss it a lot, but I’ve been feeling horrible in the mornings (most of the day actually) as it is, and super tired, that I wouldn’t enjoy as much even if I could.  But even if I felt fine I just wouldn’t risk it.  There are some horses that are bomb proof and never freak out, but there’s still a chance of falling or getting kicked, and it’s just not worth the risk.

If you have any other questions, please ask! 

As far as the pregnancy so far, things have been going great.  I have been feeling horrible, but that’s a good sign, so I’ll take it.  And Pancho has been great.  Lots of foods have been making really sick, so he’s preparing lots of his food now.  And if I’m sleeping he’ll take care of things, like the laundry. 

One final thing I want to address in this blog is gifts.  Pancho and I will be back in Orlando from Dec. 24 to January 11.  We are most certainly not asking for gifts, but if you wanted to get the baby something, we have a baby registry at Target.  Almost all these things we will be buying anyway before we leave for Mexico, but this way people can know what we need. 

Also, we will be cloth diapering.  I was able to put some of the cloth diapers on the Target registry, but there are a few other things we need.  If you wish to make any of these purchases, please please let me know, so that we don’t have too many of one thing and not enough of something else.  Again, these are things we will be purchasing before we return to Mexico, especially the cloth diapers since they aren’t as common here.

And, one other gift we’d be interested in is books!  We don’t want to bring back too many, especially as books are pretty heavy, but each time we come to the US or someone comes from the US it would be nice to bring a few English childrens books to Mexico.  So if you have a favorite story you’d like to pass along, we’d be more than happy to accept it!  

Target registry: You can search for the registry with either name: Mary Emmelhainz or Francisco Emmelhainz

Cloth Diapers:

• ·         We would love some of these pocket, all in one diapers: Bee Changed Utlra Cool, One Size and some inserts from The Little Bee Co.  http://thelittlebeeco.com/

• ·         Swaddlebees Capri Diaper covers (we would like around 5), size two http://www.littlemonkeystore.com/Capri-Diaper-Covers--Snaps_p_255.html

• ·         Dappi Nylon Pants (we would like 3 packs of each: newborn, small, and medium)  http://www.cottonbabies.com/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=97

Looking forward to seeing our friends and family in Orlando!

The Past Four Months

I haven’t posted in that last couple months because there hasn’t really been anything too new to write about.  So I’ll give a quick update now on how Pancho and I are doing here in Mexico.  My friend Carly (now Sr. Carly) visited in July/August.  It was great having her here and I loved seeing my two worlds coming together.  After that things were pretty quiet.

In September my sister Joanna had a nice visit here.  It was great to have her here and pretty relaxing for me.  Later in the month I had my second jumping competition.  It went really well, I placed 2^nd out of 15 in the 80cm course.  I had a lot of fun too.  And in October I had another competition.  It didn’t go as well, but that’s ok because sometimes we have to make mistakes to get better.  My mistake was forgetting a jump.  The course had 13 jumps, and I couldn’t remember exactly which jump was jump number 10, so I lost a lot of time and points when I missed it.  But it’s ok and it was bound to happen eventually.

The end of October brought a wedding which Pancho and I enjoyed very much.  It also brought the family from Norway and we had a good time with them while they were here.  A week after the wedding we celebrated the Baptism of our new niece.  

Pancho is doing well at work and has learned a lot in the year that he’s been working.  He’s also learned to manage his time a lot better and we get to see a lot more of each other than in the first few months when he started working.  He’s playing tennis in his spare time and is almost at the point where he wants to be.

And perhaps our most exciting piece of news is is that I’m pregnant!  I’m just getting into the second trimester now.  We found out the day after my last competition, so of course we had fun saying that the baby is going to be a horseback rider because he/she has already had their first competition. 

Carly and me on the tour bus of Puebla.

Yay!  Second place!

Anyway, that’s it for this post.  I’ll be posting a second one about the pregnancy and some common questions that we’ve been asked.