Doctor Appointment, Moving and Stretch Marks

I had a doctors appointment on Friday. The doctor said I'm a good 1 1/2 cm dilated and the baby is really low. She said she was surprised I wasn't waddling more when I walked and whenever the baby decides to press the button he will be ready to come. I told her my husband didn't want the baby to come for about another week (so he can get more done at work before paternity leave). She said that he better not have me doing any lifting or hard work then.

Well, guess what Derrick and I did on Tuesday night? We picked up a desk and tv we found on craigslist. I didn't help with moving them into the car because the people we bought them from helped Derrick with that. But what to do when you get to the apartment? You guessed it, I helped Derrick lug a desk up the stairs and then a 92 pound tv.

Another thing, I have really bad stretch marks. They keep getting worse and I can feel when I'm getting more of them. Cocoa butter did not work for me! I told Derrick that hopefully my stomach losing it's cuteness will just go into the baby being more cute. That's how it works right?

Almost Home Sweet Home

I thought I put up pictures of our new apartment since some people have been asking. Nothing is in there yet except for baby stuff, a metal bed frame (you'll see it in a picture) and the cable line for tv and internet.

So here we have the front door. We are on the second floor in apartment #16.

Here's what you see when you walk in the front door to the living room.



Here's the front window in the living room...nice tree right there :)




Our lovely kitchen. I still don't know how we're going to fit a dining table but I guess we'll work something out.

Here's the bedroom. We are a corner unit and have a huge tree right outside our window there on the left and the managers told us it keeps our apartment a little cooler in the summer...something we'll definitely need with a little baby.

We didn't take a picture of the baby room yet because it's pretty cluttered. As soon as we get all settled in I'll take a picture of the nursery!

Me now

I've got to keep taking these right? I just think I look bigger in the last picture than I do in this one. Oh, well. One month to go!

Mom's Visit

My mom came up last weekend for my baby shower. We were really busy doing a lot of fun things. Thursday night when she got here I showed her the apartment we're moving into in 2 weeks. On Friday Derrick, my mom and I biked around Stanford campus. First we stopped at the Hoover tower followed by lunch at a yummy frozen yogurt place called Fraiche. My mom said the last time she had yogurt that tasted like that it was in high school. I was glad we could bring back a memory from her past. Then we biked over to the Stanford Church where we walked around the inside. Every time I see it I can't believe how beautiful those windows and tile pictures are. We all loved it.


After the art museum Derrick stayed home to do homework and my mom and I went to the Winchester mansion. It was a crazy place and definitely interesting to walk around. They said at the end we had walked over a mile and through 110 rooms. After that we went to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes.

You're probably thinking this is the last of the Friday activities but there's more...after dinner we picked up Derrick and went to the Stanford theater to watch an old sci-fi movie. We got in free because our housing complex was putting on the activity...not only a free ticket but free snacks too! Can't get any better than that.