Living Room set into place

Yesterday we were working all day in the house getting organized and placing furniture in their final place. Here a taste of our living room:

Of course we'll get decoration in here sometime soon... it's a working project our house *lol*

Taking the first walk

Ok, I'm BACK... ok ok... we'll see how long I'll last, but today I took my first walk outside again after quite a while. I haven't been to a gym since the first trimester, I was just too tired and then with all the other stuff going on in our life, there wasn't really any room and energy for workout. Since I didn't wanna clean again tonight I had to do something else with all my energy today and decided for a nice walk outside. It was great... here some pics.I was all wrapped up :)...
The trees were so red, next time I need to bring my camera with me for some better pics :)

An afternoon in the office

Today I had to work from home for the rest of the day because we had a water leak again in the basement and we had to let the plumber in to get it fixed. Now it's all good again :). While I was working in our new office I was able to catch some interesting stuff that was going on outside, I'm telling you it's awesome up there... I can survive working from home in this great office :). Here is our landscaper on the roll... I was very impressed when he unloaded his trailer, he had so many 'machines'... incredible:What a view from the office, can you imagine working like this every day? Uuuhhh, I can :). Do you see the lake? Now with the leaves all gone, we actually have a lake view :)
This was a cool machine he had, his loan mower with his trailer trash can... AWESOME... It looked like a Go-Cart, I bet it's fun driving it.

28 weeks

Oki doki, here we are again... Thurdays are our 'turning' days when we enter the next week. I figured I'm gonna show her off again :). My Harley T-Shirts are getting tight :(... I have the feeling that she's laying around differently every day... my belly just has a different look every day... too funny!Zoe is moving around a lot, the last couple of days she was very quiet though, today she was very active again... pretty uncomfortable is her water walk she's doing... makes me go to the restroom way too often.

All in one home

On Wednesday the big day arrived... finally all our 'stuff' under one roof. Frank's furniture came and again we (or more him) are swimming in an ocean of cartons. All my cartons are almost gone *hihi*... I just got rid of A LOT of stuff before I came into the USA and basically started from zero again. So now we have Frank's and my life under one roof. Was a pretty exciting day! It looks a little bit like a mix match in a few rooms but that has to work now for a while. We have already ideas for the future, but they're just ideas for now. Here we the new dining set... I'm not that big of a fan of it but I have to admit it's so incredible comfortable!!! It's totally worth it to get used to the look ;)
Our fancy office... oh, by the way, we needed to switch around rooms because of the sizes of the furniture. Our guest room with lake view needed to go and the office has it's new home in there. The official dining room that we originally planned for the office will now be transferred into Zoe's play area. We can store all her stuff in there like toys and it'll be out of the way and easy accessible if needed.

Then we added dresser into our master bedroom. I just LOVE that set but Frank on the other hand would prefer something different for the master bedroom.
By the way, we've ordered our king bed :). We have three bedroom sets and all of them are Queen beds *lol*... we're going to just leave the king mattress on the frame for now. That should work until we're going to buy a new bedroom set for our master.

And here in the living room we still have a little chaos. We just have too much couch for that room right now. On the weekend we're probably going to tackle this room and put everything in place and clean it.

Yeah... today my mission was to soap off the office furniture and the master bedroom set... I've already put in my stuff :). No worries, I've left room for Frank in there *hihi*... it's so exciting to have an office now. Finally I can get good organized with all our stuff... gosh, during the last few month we've collected a bunch of paper work.

Zoe just loves it when I'm cleaning... she's so quiet as if she wouldn't be in my belly. And once I stop cleaning she's up and moving again.

3rd Midwife visit

Yes, we are already on the 'every other week' schedule for visits. That went quick!!! Today we met Jenny, another midwife who normally isn't scheduled to be in the office we visit either. So now we've already met two midwifes and both normally are not scheduled to work in the Dearborn, MI office. But it's kind of good because when it comes to the delivery we will end up with one of the 18 Midwifes. 2 we met already, 16 more to go *lol*... we probably won't meet them all though. So my blood pressure was... tadaaaa: 130/80 :)... i'm getting better every time. Gained one pound in weight and 3cm on my belly :). Cool, isn't it? I'm always very curious about the scale *lol*... it's probably a 'girl thing' but i'm very surprised and happy that i'm not gaining weight like crazy.

Zoe is doing great, heart beat is very good. I was a little shocked because they list the baby's heart beat on a chart and today I found out what the number is standing for... it was a difference of 20 since we went there the first time... but she said it's normal... it's very fast in the beginning of the pregnancy and towards the end it's slowing down... needs to get ready to beat like a normal heart in the outside world :). So cute... oh, can't wait, I mean I don't wanna have her out of me yet... we're totally not ready *lol*. We haven't bought a thing for her yet!!! Can you believe that? The baby room is still empty (just the two dresser of my bedroom set and the bassionette are sitting in it waiting to be filled).

And another cool thing... my CHI doc sent over my file but hasn't provided any ultrasound information so they'll do another ultrasound ;). On Dec, 4th we'll have to go to the hospital and they'll do the ultrasound there. So awesome! We'll be able to watch her one more time before she comes. Then she'll be pretty good developed already and we probably can tell already pretty much whom she'll look alike! Oh man!!! That's so amazing!!! And we're going to double check of course if she's still a girl :).

I'll tell you one more exciting thing... her whole name will mean: stream of life (in German: Lebensstrom). Isn't that something? I didn't wanna have a middle name for her because neither Frank nor I have one. However Frank is totally for it ;)... and yesterday I was looking up her middle name Frank has chosen for her a while ago and we were both very positive surprised what it means. We think that's a perfect name + meaning for her. She'll be our little stream of life :)... YEAH :)... she'll be a power girl anyways :)... what else do you expect? :)

First cooking event in our new kitchen

Yeah, I did it. Today I quickly ran to Walmart after work (they just remodeled our Walmart with a great fresh groceries area) and then I cooked for the first time in our new kitchen :). Oh, that's not true, yesterday I did pasta with red sauce and tuna (but that was just a warming up thing, that doesn't count). So today I was really preparing a meal... potato soup with shrimp. That was very delicious. Doesn't look that exciting but I HAD to post it :). Finally a 'dinner picture' on my blog!!! YEAH :). I'm so proud of my soup :). And it was quite fun cooking... now I still have a lot of servings left *lol*... but that can be eaten throughout the week at lunch or dinner or I can put portions in our cool new freezer ;).