Hi all! First off, I miss you all!!!
As most of you know. I moved to Memphis, TN to live with Colin. We are living in a cute little one bedroom apartment on Mud Island. Mud Island is right outside downtown Memphis and practically in the Mississippi River. It is a very nice apartment complex and is in probably the safest part of Memphis. I moved here two Thursdays ago, on the 12th of January, with a lot of my stuff and Tartuff! (My cat, for you who haven't had the great experience of meeting her.)
Before moving, I had kept an eye out for restaurants that were hiring. I was super excited when I found one a couple weeks prior to moving on Craigslist that was right down the road from Colin and my apartment. I emailed them my resume but wasn't expecting much because I applied so early before I would get here. But, alas, they told me to come in and apply in person when I got here. My first day in Memphis and I got a serving position at Tugs: A Casual Grill. I started training on the Monday after I got to Memphis.
Tugs is this cute little pub type restaurant that serves a lot the people that live on Mud Island; we call these people Islanders! Although I'm making a lot less hourly, miss you Washington, I have made fairly decent tips so far and have been very happy to get to know my coworkers and the regulars that come in practically every day!
--The beautiful Mississippi River somewhere between our apartment complex and Tugs!--
Most of you are aware of the fact that I moved down here so that Colin and I can be together for our first baby! We are both very nervous and scared, yet excited to start this part of our lives together.
I had my first ultrasound at 10 weeks because I was moving to Memphis and my doctor, who is in Washington state, would not be able to ultrasound me again at 20 weeks. Well, turns out he could, so I also got an ultrasound the day before I moved. Turns out our baby is not a very cooperative one (I kind of saw this one coming) and was in the exact wrong position to get a good view of some very important parts, mainly it's heart and the area in which you find out if it's a boy or a girl! Although it was a little hard to see, the doctor was fairly sure that our baby's a girl!!! We are super excited since we both were secretly hoping for a girl. I will have another ultrasound at 28 weeks to make sure of the gender and get some better readings on the heart but we are calling the baby "she" for now.
-- I personally think 3D ultrasound pictures are weird looking, so I posted both so you could choose for yourself. Also, these are both from my 20 week ultrasound. I think the pictures from my 10 week ultrasound were better so I may post them later.--
I am 21 weeks along and my due date is June 1st. But we've already decided not to have the baby on June 1st because it's my mom's birthday and she'd be WAY too happy about that. So far the pregnancy has been pretty awful but not as bad as some have had it. I think that I've been going through just about the usual pregnancy issues: fatigue, morning (mid-day and night) sickness, headaches, and now I'm in the heartburn and overly emotional stage (Colin LOVES this one.. haha). And no, I haven't craved any weird foods or disliked any awesome ones.
Also, I know you'll all be excited to hear that I am JUST starting to show and will be posting pictures of myself with a pregnant belly in the next post, if I remember. I have also been able to feel our little baby move inside of me for the past three weeks or so. It is seriously the strangest feeling ever. Colin and I are trying our hardest to have him be able to feel it but our stubborn little child will not kick hard enough yet... I know there has to be legs on that baby because I saw them in the ultrasound! And they have to work because, let's face it, Colin's her dad.
In the first weekend that I was here Colin and I went searching (via Criagslist) for furniture for ourselves. Prior to me getting here, Colin was a complete bachelor and only had a dining room table, a bed, and two nightstands. I guess we had done a little bit of shopping before I got here but pretty much everything was in boxes. We now have a beautiful coffee table and end table (thanks to Ashley Furniture and Groupon for 50% off!!!), a dresser to put some of my clothes (the rest of which got put into the portion of our walk-in closet that I annexed), a super comfy couch, the perfect sized desk, a dresser for the baby and a crib (in pieces) to match! All I'm waiting on is my dad to drive through and drop off a bookcase, kitchen stuff, my instruments, and my books. After that, I think we are pretty much done moving me in, at least for the time being.
Well, thank you for reading this. I hope that it wasn't too long and I'm sure that the next one won't be NEARLY as long. Of course, I love you all very much and if you have any specific questions about the pregnancy and the baby, don't hesitate to ask!
