Two nights ago, Justin had a dream that I gave birth to the teeniest little baby.  She was only the size of his hand from head to toe.  In the dream, Justin dropped her and when he picked her up, she was a koala bear.  Interesting, huh?  What makes us have these dreams?  Is it being nervous we aren’t going to be able to take care of our child?  I had a dream last night that I had the baby and had NOTHING for the baby yet, not even my hospital bag was packed.  Well, this is true.  I do have the gifts that I have been given, but no diapers, no bathing things, not even a bed for the baby yet.  My hospital bag isn’t packed, and I haven’t even bought the things needed to go into the bag!  I know this dream was probably for good reason.  Justin…

So today was pretty much a wonderful day!  Justin and I woke up early to sign all our papers on our new apartment, wrote huge checks, and then in return, we got our keys!  It is now officially ours!  Well, it is officially rented by us anyways!   We are so excited!  Here are a couple pictures.  I picked these two pictures to show because they show two of my favorite things in the apartment!  The arched windows and then the HUGE bathroom.  Ok, maybe this isn’t huge for you Americans, but this is quiet monstrous for a Parisian apartment.  I LOVE that it has a bathtub!!!  This picture is looking into the living room from the entry way. Our bathtub!!! After we got our keys, Justin and I went to lunch together and during lunch, we received a phone call from the hospital (right next door to our new apartment)…

We had our final ultrasound this last Thursday.  It was so exciting to see our little girl!  She is still a girl!!!  We had the tech make sure and he said with his strong French accent, “Steel a gurrl.”  Phew!  We have so many girl clothes that I was worried she would turn out a he!  Everything looked great and the tech said she was healthy!   She is in her head down position, which explains the hard bump I feel above my belly button (her booty) and the legs that like to rub against my ribs and give me difficulty breathing. She is averaging normal (50th percentile) in everything except two things.  Her legs are in the 90th percentile!  And her abdomen is a bit small, but the doctor said that was fine.   She is going to be a tall one we think!  The doctor measured her weight at 2.1…

Sleeping is interesting these days.  All I really want when it is time to go to sleep is to get cozy and fall asleep.  I don’t remember the last time I was cozy.  This information would horrify my brother in law Jason because he loves being cozy.  He is the one who has inspired my love for coziness.    Not only is my sleep interrupted every couple hours by needing to use the bathroom, but then it is a chore in itself to get up and out of bed.  I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I literally have to roll out of bed.  Oh and those wonderful leg cramps.  Charlie horses, if you will.  Yes, they wake me up when my need to urinate doesn’t.  It is lovely, isn’t it?  Then we have the apartment search that has been on my mind.  All day long we search for…

These days, I am just plain tired.  I want to write about something so that my readers know what is happening in my life, but there is nothing new. No apartment yet.  I cried again today.  You know when you were a kid and something bad happened at school?  Well, all of a sudden you see your mom, who is picking you up from school and you burst into tears.  You held those tears in all day long, but the sight of your mom, brings comfort and safety to just cry them all out.  Ok, that was how it was for me anyways.  That is how it was today.  I thought I was doing fine, till I talked to my mom on the phone.  "How are you Jen?,"  she asks so innocently.  And that is where I lost it.  Thanks, mom.  After the tears I did feel a bit better. …