Finally saw our apartment

Rob and I went at lunch to check out our future new apartment.  Its current residents will be moving out on Monday or Tuesday and then it just needs a few days of paint and stuff and it will be ours.  Its actually a lot nicer than either of us expected.  It has this nice big front patio and then you walk into a living room area that is open with the kitchen towards the back.  To the left is the master bedroom which is HUGE! It is at least as big as the living room area and absolutely big enough for a king size bed (which is exciting because we haven't slept on anything bigger than double beds in over a year and I hear I'm not the easiest person to share a bed with as it is), a crib and bedroom furniture. On the other side of the living room is the other bedroom which is also pretty good sized.  We will have no problem keeping a bed for guests in there and wheeling the crib into our room in the event that anyone comes to visit.  The 2nd bedroom will need a complete redecorating because after housing 2 little girls for the last 4 years, that room needs to be seriously un-pinked.  I'm pretty excited to buy curtains and maybe even a cute border or something when I am in Dallas next month to turn that room into a little boy's nursery.  They have a crib in the master bedroom and I'm not quite sure if they said it belonged to the mine or not but it is pretty easy to see what our place will look like in another few months...minus the pink and barbies.  Even the bathroom is really nice and not nearly as ugly as the bathrooms in the houses here that were all built in the 60s and are either pepto pink or lime yellow.

I also want to comment on the kids here at the mine.  You can tell that they are all so comfortable here and it seems like the other residents here are all just extended family.  I went on a little field trip the other day with the kindergarten - 3rd graders (5 kinders, 5 1st graders and 1 lone 3rd grader....3 boys and the rest girls) to the orchid place here and a coffee farm that is also here on the property.  Then last night, at dinner up at the club, one of the little girls recognized me and ran up and gave me a huge hug.  Sure the kids here can be rowdy while the adults roll their eyes and discuss how if they were our kids they would get a spanking and be told to sit still and stop bothering people, but I appreciate that the kids feel like this is their home, too and all seem comfortable and happy and known by the grown-ups.

Tomorrow will be my day off from working out but when I go this weekend, I will bring my camera so that I can take another belly picture in the big mirrors.  My belly is getting bigger, although I feel really good today after talking to the wife who is living in our future apartment and she couldnt believe how far along I am and how good I look.  I really needed to hear that!