It's Down To 30 days...

First of all, hope everyone had a great Christmas Holiday. After today, Anh will be working for another two weeks until January 9. That's when she'll go on her long 4.5 months of maternity leave. After having been off for a week, I know she's really looking forward to working again tomorrow... NOT ! :-)

30 Days ... 720 hours ... 43,200 minutes to go until the big moment. At this point, I'm feeling like a little child counting down the days until his birthday. I can't wait anymore. At this point in time also, I'm trying to think what else Anh and myself need to prepare for before little Baby Huynh comes out. We've picked out her name officially today, but we're going to keep it a secret until she's there. As far as preparation goes, I think we're pretty set for now. We've packed our Labor stuff for when the big day comes, filled out the paperwork for when we have to go to the hospital etc. Last week I contacted the Dutch Consulate General in Los Angeles to go through some questions regarding adding our baby daughter to my passport, as well as going through the process of how to apply for a Dutch passport for her. This girl will have the privilege to have a dual citizenship. And to keep options open (you never know what might happen in the future regarding her residence), I want to make sure that she'll be able to call herself Dutch-American (or vice versa). Which brings us to another question... what language will we teach her?

After having searched the internet, I found a Dutch school in Hollywood where we can send her to at the age of 4. Meanwhile, I'll be the Dutch teacher while Anh will teach English to her. We will also add some Vietnamese (with the help of the family) in the mix. And if Anh's Chinese is still up to date, we'll try that too. One thing's for sure ... she'll be well-rounded in her language. Today I ordered a High Definition video camera to capture all those beautiful moments to come. Sometimes I wish our parents had that technology back in the day. How fun would it be to watch my 3D/4D pictures when I was still in the womb and see my toddler experience in HD!

This coming week we have to stack up on some extra coconut butter. As Anh's belly is growing, we're covering a huge surface of coconut butter to keep those stretch marks as minimal as possible. Our baby's movements are becoming stronger and stronger. Especially, at night she tends to be very active. I realized during Christmas dinner how fast kids grow. Anh's sister's baby (Yenna) is only three months. But in those three months she's grown so rapidly. I can still remember seeing her all wrinkled and so tiny after her birth. By now you can already see her laughing and responding to us playing around with her.

With all this said, time for me to hit the sheets so that another day can go by faster. Until the next post.