So I started a list of baby girl and baby boy names that I like. I’ve heard stories where couples think they are having a girl and when the baby comes out it’s a boy so I just want to be prepared. Gabe has to come up with his list and then we’ll compare and probably finalize something soon. We decided to keep Apple’s name a secret until she is born. That way there will still be some anticipation and a sense of surprise when she gets here. The name will only be known to Gabe, Apple, and I. We’re not even telling our families. They can wait a couple more months. I hope we both can last until then.
Jenn and I went on a date night on Saturday to the Summit House in Fullerton. She got a gift certificate from her co-workers for her birthday present. I love those kinds of presents that benefits me. 
We had a great meal. I started off by having a martini. Then we had a couple of appetizers of Hawaiian Ahi sashimi, prawn cocktail and Dungeness crab cocktail. All were excellent. My favorite with the prawns. For the main course, I had the prime rib and Jenn had the John Dory fish. The prime rib was okay. I ordered it medium rare but it was still a little tough. It was good but I had better. Jenn said her dinner was great. I tried it the next day as leftovers and I agree.
Everyone told us enjoy it now because we won’t be able to do it when Apple comes. We had a great dinner. Here’s a picture of Jenn before dinner. I think that’s what I looked like after dinner. I ate so much.
My friend Jolene (Hi Jolene!) asked me the other day how we came up with Apple’s nickname. In case anyone else was curious I though i would blog about it. We found out what we are having on August 11th. I wanted to come up with a nickname to call our baby girl before we actually came up with a real name for her. I wanted to name her something cute that we wouldn’t really name her.
That following morning after we found out, I thought about it and was going through what the stars babies names were because it seems as if they have all these different names as their real names. So I was running all the baby girls names through my head such as Coco, Sunday Rose, Harlow, and then I came across the name Apple, Gwenneth Paltrow’s daughter. Maybe Apple would work because she’s the Apple of our eye. I know it’s kinda corny but I thought it was cute. Later that morning, Gabe and I were heading off to work and I asked him what he thought if we nicknamed our baby girl Apple until we came up with a real name and he quickly agreed and I thought that was weird but was I also thought it was cool that he liked it. So we both left the house and went our separate ways.
On the drive to work, I kept thinking about why Gabe agreed so quickly and how come he didn’t even object to my suggestion and come up with other suggestions like he usually does. On my way home from work that day, I was driving along and I figured it out. Gabe is an avid Apple computer fanatic. We have three Apple laptops, – well 2 now since I spilled milk on mine a couple weeks ago and it got fried 
, 2 iPods and Gabe has an iPhone. Gabe is a Big Apple advocate and with our last name it works out to be Apple Phan.
When Gabe got home that night I asked him if that’s why he agreed to the nickname so quickly. At first he denied it but had a big grin on his face. I think he must’ve sent me some vibes that morning and I picked up on it somehow and we were on the same wavelength. He finally admitted that it was the reason why he liked the nickname and continued to say that if we were having a boy his nickname would be Mac. What an enginerd! 
We have different reasons why we like the name but at least we agreed on it and fairly quickly too. So that’s how Apple got her nickname now hopefully it will be this easy to come up with a real name for her.
This morning Gabe and I started our Baby Registry at Babies r Us. It was fun but exhausting at the same time oh and it was kinda overwhelming too. There’s so many things to choose from and you want to make sure that you are choosing the best things for your child. It’s kinda nice to have lots of friends and family with kids so that they can give you advice and hand me downs. We have 3 nieces, 2 on Gabe’s side and one on my side so there’s lots of girl cousins for Apple to play with. It will be trouble once the girls start their teen years but that’s still a ways so for now they can all have playmates.
So back to the Babies r Us story. We were walking around registering for stuff and I lost Gabe. He walked ahead of me and I didn’t see where he went. I was in this aisle and I guess I looked confused or something because the nice salesman asked me if I needed help finding something. I replied, “Yeah, my husband” and we both laughed. I just kept walking around and I finally found Gabe and told him the story. I guess it was obvious that I needed help finding something.
So I think our registry is off to a good start. I’m going to check out the Target baby registry thing as well. although I heard their return policy kinda sucks so we’ll see. Our shower is going to be in November so I hope you all can make it.
Gabe and I are going on a little babymoon in 2 weeks. We’re going down to San Diego for the weekend. It will be a nice little getaway. I soooo need one right now. I’m really looking forward to it. San Diego is kinda special for us because that’s where Gabe asked me to be his girlfriend 6 1/2 years ago and that’s where we took our mini honeymoon after our wedding. Can’t wait to go back for our little babymoon. Until next time!
I’ve been feeling little flutters for the past couple weeks but really wasn’t sure if it was Apple moving around or not. I’m 20 weeks now and today I felt the kicks constantly so I think it’s her doing her martial arts in my belly. It’s so weird! It kinda feels like popcorn popping around. Gabe said it’s like an alien inside me and I guess it kinda is. It’s really weird but really cool at the same time.
I started a website for baby Apple today. We’ll be blogging about news and updates on baby Apple and show you some pictures and movies so you can see the progress. I’ll give you updates on Apple’s room.
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