The whole story...

Our little Brianna is growing and doing so well!! Here are some pictures we took of her today at 16 days old. I will also tell you the story of the birth...

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She is such a happy baby... especially right after feeding. She is giving us the gift of these great smiles after she's nice and full.



Oh, life is good... and comfy...

Here's the story of Brianna's birth:

At 4:00 am on Friday, Feb. 3, 2006, Bibi woke up with strong contractions. They were not regular so we decided to hang out a little so the hospital wouldn't just send us back home.

Bibi was able to rest in bed inbetween the contractions, but by 3:00 pm she was ready to go to the hospital. The contractions were anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes apart, so thought this might be it. We had planned to meet our good friend Jeannie Mai for dinner in LA and as we were driving to the hospital she called to confirm. So Jeannie was the first person to find out we were on our way to have a baby...

When we got to the hospital Bibi was already 4 cm dialated and the doctor ordered an epidural right away. By 4:00 pm Bibi wasn't feeling any more pain, although the contractions just carried on going... Thank God for epidurals! Here is a picture of Bibi and I waiting for the dialation process to happen. Yes, she is having contractions and smiling... epidurals are a miracle... :-)

Bibi was able to sleep from about 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm, by which time she was dialtated to 10 cm. At 11:30 pm, she started pushing. We are so greatful Ileana Burgos, a good friend of ours from Argentina, who was there to help us and support Bibi in the whole process. The pushing lasted for almost an hour.

And at 12:24 am on Saturday, Febuary 4, 2oo6,
Brianna Cherisse Pierson was born.

I had the privilage of cutting the Umbilical cord and freeing our little girl into the world.

One of the reasons we chose to have the baby at Redlands Community Hospital is that they are very family and breast feeding friendly. As soon as the cord was cut, they put her on Bibi's chest where they cleaned her off a little. Then it was off to get measured and weighed in. Daddy needed to calm her down a little with so many new things happening all at the same time!

She weighed in at 7 lbs and 1.4 oz and measured 18 inches long.

After she was cleaned up, weighed and measured, she was bundled up nice and tight. I know she wanted to tell us what a crazy experience she had just been through... "You would never believe what just happened to me...!!!"

Then it was a quick photo op with the greatest OB/Gyn doctor in the world, James Rudolf.

And finally back to Mommy and Daddy... and time to eat!!!

She latched on to feed really well and surprisingly, took in almost an hour and a half feeding the first time!

She was very alert and seemed to be trying to look around, lifting her head and checking out this new and crazy place.

After the feeding and family time we were moved into our Postpardom room. Daddy and Brianna went to get her first bath.

By this time, Brianna was just wiped out. She looked at Daddy with eyes that said, "Just let me sleep now."

So we dressed her up and all three of us got some well deserved sleep.

Later on Saturday afternoon, Grampy & Grammy Pierson came to meet their first grandchild.

And Brianna also met her Great Grandpa & Grandma Bieber.

Of course there was much more time with Mommy & Daddy too...

We spent Saturday night at the hospital and by Sunday afternoon we were ready to go home. So we took Mommy and little Bri out to the car and she got her first car ride.

Finally, after an exhausting, amazing, miraculous and blessed 2 days at the hospital, we got home to start our new life as a new family...

Our Precious Little Angel

Brianna is 6 days old today and getting more beautiful every day. Today she actually turned over all by herself for the first time. We've got a strong little one! She's so cute. Parenthood is just the best thing!

Announcing....

Brianna Cherisse
has arrived...

February 4, 2006, at 12:24 am

7 lbs 1.4 oz
3.218 Kg

18 in
46 cm





More pictures and the whole story to come...
Daddy needs to get some sleep first... :-)

9 Months...

Well, we are pretty much full term now... Bibi's official due date is in one week, Feb. 6, and the date the in-depth ultrasound gave was Feb. 4. Either way, we could be seeing a baby any day now.

So with that in mind, we decided to take some pictures of the georgeous lady's belly.

We have Brianna's name on one wall of the nursery.

Never a more beautiful Mommy-to-be...

Already in love with the little one...

Gorgeous...!!!

English Baby Shower

This weekend it was the Baby Shower for all our English-speaking friends. Thanks to Rachelle Bennie who organized the shower and Auntie Jean Mataya who hosted it.

Auntie Jean made the best Chinese food for brunch... Everyone left stuffed. I showed up for the food, but left the rest to the ladies...

And the cake was out-of-this-world!!

Of course, there were tons of gifts for Bibi to open.



And a good time was had by all...

Thank you so much to everyone for all the gifts and your friendship. We can't wait for Brianna to meet all of you.

Spanish Baby Shower

Bibi's Aunt, Elba Fayard, threw the Baby Shower for all of Bibi's Spanish-speaking friends.

They had a great time playing games, eating and, of course, watching Bibi open all the gifts...

There were tons of gifts and Elba gave Bibi a hand-made photo album with pictures from the shower... precious!!

There is always GREAT food when friends are around, and the highlight was the cake.

Bibi was touched by the love and generocity shown by all our friends.

Gracias a todos por una fiesta tan espectacular! Estamos muy agradecidos a Dios por cada uno de ustedes y contentos que forman parte de nuestra gran "familia".

4 weeks away and her room is almost ready ....

Here's Brianna's Room! We can hardly wait to meet her! Our doctor said that our small bundle of joy is in the 27th percentile, which means she'll weigh between 6 and 7 pounds. And her head is already perfectly positioned for birth! What a miracle!

Grandma Pierson has generously contributed some very cute stuffed animals to Bri's little collection!


Here's her crib ... ready for the most precious baby girl! Thanks again for all your wonderful and encouraging messages and prayers. They'll come ever more handy during labor and delivery!

New Year's Eve Party with Argentine friends and family ... what a blast!

We had a great time with the Fayards, Ludis, Tabuencas, Cairuses, "La Flaca"...

and the yummiest food ever!



We sang Argentine folk songs til midnight then celebrated the new year toasting with Martinellis.

Turn up your volume, cause here is a video of Carlos singing... I think they were Martinellis we were drinking...

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Little Victoria (2 1/2 yrs old), pictured here with "La Flaca",

got a hold of Jeremy's camera and took this picture of her Daddy & Jeremy. Isn't it great?

Happy New Year everybody!! We love you!

Gone Fishin'

I got a spur-of-the-moment phone call today from my good friend Abel Gaitan asking me to go fishing in northern San Bernardino County.

We had a great time talking and being out in the crisp air. We also caught 2 trout each.

We came back and cleaned the fish at our house, then went to their house to eat. We threw the fish on the grill with tomatoes and onions. Then cooked some rice and veggies. The food was sooooooo good and we had a GREAT evening eating, talking and just hanging out...

Good times!!

We are also learning a lot from Abel and Crystal cause they have 2 adorable kids, little Abel (2 1/2 yrs old) and Laya (1 1/2 yrs old).

A 5 semanas del nacimiento ...

Espero que este mensaje los encuentre muy bien ... quiza con unos kilitos de mas gracias a varios suculentos pedazos de pan dulce con sidra y helado ... que nostalgia!

Yo por aca como ven, sumando los ultimos kilitos de este embarazo ya que faltan solamente 5 semanas para mi fecha de parto y este es el momento cuando el bebe crece mas aceleradamente, supuestamente en este ultimo tiempo triplica su peso preparandose para sobrevivir fuera del utero. Gracias a Dios todo va viento en popa (aunque todavia sigo con medicacion para las nauseas) y Brianna continua creciendo y desarrollandose con normalidad.

Junto a las bendiciones de una hermosa Navidad disfrutada con amigos hemos sumado la bendicion de poder tener un auto nuevo (para nosotros), un Honda Accord 2003 (pueden ver las fotos abajo) y una nueva camara digital (con la cual tomamos estas fotos) para mantenerlos al tanto de las ultimas aventuras de nuestra familia.

Deseamos que este cierre del 2005 les brinde un corazon agradecido por todas las bendiciones recibidas asimismo como la esperanza de un prospero 2006 ... Un abrazo enorme