Baby Shower

Bryan & Evelyn Brooks are preparing for the arrival of Tyler Frederick Brooks and we would like to invite you to their baby shower for an afternoon full of fun & joy.
Hosted by Cameron Shields, Etty Alva,
Patricia de los Rios & Nicolette Pizzitola
Saturday,. January 17th, 2009 (2pm – 530pm)
Cameron Station Club House – 200 Cameron Station
Alexandria VA. 22304
RSVP by Friday, January 15th to tylerbbshower@gmail.com
PS.- This is a guys & girls baby shower
Tyler is registered at babiesrus.com & target.com
(Bryan Brooks & Evelyn Brooks)
Visit Tyler’s blog at www.brooks-estela.blogspot.com

We are preparing for the arrival of Tyler is true! We are thanksful to our good friend Nicolette, Cameron, Patricia and Etty who are hosting our baby shower.

What we have so far is what Bryan's parent got us which is the travel system stroller and car seat which came in my favorite and fashionable colors red & black.
We haven't done any shopping, yet. December is a very hected month not only for us but I am sure for ALL of us, right?

Although we feel that time is flying and Tyler will come pretty soon. We have 10 more weeks and we will finally meet our little Tyler. We can't wait for that moment.
In the other hand one of my good friends who already has two kids, told me...you are anxious now to meet him, etc, etc...but sometimes you want your baby with a manual switch of ON/OFF...and I am sure that is at somepoint true.

We hope to see all of you at Tyler's bb shower:)

Getting ready for Tyler's Arrival

Tyler's baby shower was celebrated on Saturday January 17th. 2009. We like to thank all of those who helped us make it possible. Cameron for taking care of emails, invtations, decoration, Nicolette for bringing all the LWL crew together, Etty for making food and Patricia for making the wonderful cake. Also Leticia & Vilma who came really early to help in everyway possible.

Also Fred for filming our bb shower, Brigitte for making more food, Trish Thackston & Nancy Alert for taking care of the games. And to all of those who were there in that afternoon full of fun & joy. We missed seen some of you but we know you were there in spirit:)

We are very excited time is running fast and every week goes so fast. We can't believe we have 4 more weeks approx. everything will be over...and we will finally meet our little Tyler. Can you believe it!?

Will Tyler look like Bryan but with my personality? will he like numbers or arts? so many questions and a whole new experience that we are about to begin:)

Kicks at about 28-30 weeks

What can we say now.... If Bryan could feel Tyler as much as I do; he would understand all about how his Tyler is so active. Little Tyler is being active ever since he started kicking. He kicks everyday, almost every hour. One night he had me two hours looking at the ceiling fan for 2 hours without being able to sleep because his kicks wouldn't let me sleep....RRRRR

Another day he started to kick like there was earthquake inside my womb, it was very weird. So I decided to talk to him and tell him...calm down, what is going on...and he did it. So at least he is listening now... I hope he does it when he turns 15 or 20 years old ...you know...



One night Bryan & I went to a concert at the Kennedy Center. My friend Juan Cayrampoma who was performing with his group Raymy invited us to his concert and also Juan mentioned to us, there were going to be Peruvian dances and more...so I thought ok let's start introducing Tyler to Peruvian rhythm, dances and more...so there was a time when a Peruvian typical instrument called "cajon" which is a wooden box was played. The cajon is played with both hands like if it was a drumb. I personally loved to hear "cajon" rhythm. The minute the guy started to play the cajon Tyler started kicking almost at the rhythm of the cajon... funny and crazy as it sounds that is how I felt it. Of course I looked at Bryan and said your kid is crazy!!!

My youngest brother Ellyot is a singer, a writer and a dancer (among other things...). I have being listening to all kinds of music for ever, dancing salsa in the kitchen cause' Bryan wouldn't go to Rumba Cafe or any other salsa place...so you can imagine Tyler must have some arts in his veins and the science side from Bryan, right? We will have to see:)

Tyler 1st kicks

His kicks started at week 16 approx. I could feel some bubbles in my stomach, sometimes it was like somebody was tickling me and that was funny, because it made me laugh.
The weeks passed and his kicks started to get stronger and it was not as funny as in the beginning. Sometimes he surprised me in the middle of a meeting with a kick and I was jumped out of my seat.
I had been asking Bryan to try and see if he could feel Tyler kick. But he always said NO. Until yesterday Saturday November 8th. We had a jewelry show to go and that morning we had to wake up early but my back was bothering me and I didn’t sleep well. The day before we had a show from 9am-9pm so my back had a reason to be sore. I decided to lie on my belly. BIG MISTAKE & just as demanding as his mom; Tyler kicked stronger than ever, so I told Bryan put your hand on my belly now that I am lying on my stomach and Tyler kicked Bryan for the 1st time. I had to turn back and lay on my back because Tyler would not allow me to be on my stomach and it was very clear he didn’t like it. Again in a very demanding way and without even talking he told me TURN AROUND MOM, NOW!!!

B & E break before Tyler comes

Every year we travel for my birthday. We don't know if next year will be different so I definetely wanted to go somewhere even though if it wasn't far away. But enjoy our time as a couple, enjoy every ride possible in DisneyWorld and act like a little kid:)

So we decided to go to Florida. We did a couple stops in Ft Lauderdale and Naples before we head to Orlando, where we stayed for 6 days.

The days went fast but we took advantage of everyday and even though I knew some rides weren't for pregnant women; we went to about 24 rides in one day! When we ride starwars I talked to Tyler and said HERE WE GO! I always wanted to do starwars with Bryan and we did it:) We even did a rocket that spins like crazy and then goes up & down. When I was on the air I was thinking what am I doing here!? I felt Tyler moving like crazy and my back was killing me at the end of the day but it was worth it. We came back home exhausted and the next day Tyler didn't move much, so I thought he must be exhausted, too.

It's a boy!

We finally had to do the sonogram where we could find out the sex. We went for this sonogram on Monday October 13th, and guest what? we arrived to the doctor's office without the doctor's referal. And we wanted to do it that day because Tuesday we were leaving to Orlando.
So Bryan drove like a madness back home to pick up the referal and came back just on time to the sonogram:)
It was kind of a tiring sonogram. They checked EVERYTHING, the right arm, left arm, right foot, left foot, femur, back, head, etc...it took about and one hour and a half and the technician wasn't sure about the sex so she called the doctor and the doctor said: Yes you are having a boy! Bryan was thrilled!!! He was dancing and singing when he came back home (shhhhh....)
I 1st wanted a girl but then I was thinking I will have my little boyfriend and I have always had more guy friends than girlfriends.
Anyways I have already told Bryan he owes me the girl....ha-ha.
We had already the name for a baby boy and we have decided to name him
TYLER FREDERICK BROOKS.
The name had to be something that was easy to pronounce in Spanish & English and that the sound of it wouldn't change in any language. BTW we don't like nicknames.

Bryan meets Tyler

On September 5th we had another doctor's check up and Bryan came with me to the doctor's appointment. Since then he has always being very involve with the pregnancy and wanted to know all about it.

The doctor decided to perform another sonogram and asked Bryan to look at the monitor, to our surprise the baby was making some acrobatic jumping and it seemed like he was flying on the air. The doctor told us you see how he is moving? and of course Bryan looked at me and said I can't believe he is moving like that already! so I said to him: well...you know how the mother is, right? so don't expect the baby to be a quiet one:)

At fourteen weeks still no signs of any pregnancy sickness. Sometimes I was sleepy and sometimes I was going to bed at 8pm but really all my pregnancy symptoms have been nothing compared to what other women have gone through and again we just give thanks to God for that blessing.

We found out about Tyler

It was the weekend of August 8th, 2008. Evelyn's high school friend Claudia Z. told Evelyn it isn't funny your are missing your period! maybe you are already pregnant. And I thought it was another stressful month where I usually missed my period, so it was something normal.
Friday August 8th after Bryan came home from work. I asked him to go out for drinks and then to CVS to get a pregnancy test.
We came back home and I really didn't want to do the test. So I waited until before going to bed. Finally I did the test and within 3 seconds it was positive so I call Bryan! COME HERE! He saw the results and said: I feel light headed...so I said to him: YOU FEEL LIGHT HEADED. I answered I will give you a real one...hahaha.
That 1st night I wasn't able to sleep thinking about the 1st pregnancy results. Next morning we went to our family doctor and he sent us for lab tests but it was Saturday so we couldn't do the lab tests until MOnday.
He suggested to do another home pregnancy test and if it was positive it was 99% that I was pregnant. Of course I didn't buy one but two pregnancy tests and both came positive. Then I was crying for sometime thinking about my body changes and the new chapter that we were going to face in the coming months and years. Of course I called my friend Claudia Z. and told her you are the biggest witch ever!....haha the funny thing is we are both due in February and probably pushing at the same time...ha-ha.
On Monday I went to my obstetrician where he inmediately perform a sonogram and within minutes the doctor said ok now let's see the baby and he said: Yes, your baby is growing and here is your 1st picture. I hold the picture and was still in shock to see the little one there. The best thing about all this it that I was 9 W 5 days when I went to the doctor so I already almost passed the 12 weeks. And never felt any sickness. We thank God for that everyday!