Apartment Hunt and Thesis Defense

We have an apartment! We even passed the credit check (whew!) so it's official. We just don't know which apartment specifically yet. It's called Beau Jardin, it's 5 minutes from campus, 1/2 a block from some nice bike trails. It has a baby pool! It (the apartment) is about 960 sq. ft., so about the size of our old one, and will cost $509 if we get one upstairs like we want ($489 if we get one half-underground). That's about $100 cheaper than our old one. The only negative about this place that we could find is that we cannot bring our washer and dryer. But there is one on the first floor of every building - coin operated. We can survive that, if we can find a diaper service. So that's a hidden positive right there! Did you know it's still cheaper to have cloth diapers with a diaper service than to use disposables? Don't know how much cheaper as we haven't found a service yet. Anyways, do you know anyone who wants to buy a 3 year old washer and a dryer that, well, we don't know how old it is...?

Josh passed! He's officially got some kind of abbreviation after his name. I just don't know what it would be. Masters of Science? M.S.? Joshua J. Zapf, M.S. Looks good to me. And in three years he'll be Dr. Joshua J. Zapf. Craziness. Anyway, there was a bit of excitement there, too. (No, he didn't forget his thesis at home, for those of you who were there at his graduation... hehe). One of the professors at his defense was extremely optomistic. He told Josh he wanted three copies of his thesis. One for himself, one for a guy who works at APL (a prestigious laboratory on the east coast), and one for the director of the Pluto mission! I about asked for a signed copy myself after hearing that! Then he told Josh that he had once before given a student's resume to the guy at APL and the student was hired immediatelty! So we may not be living in W. Lafayette after all! Hehe. Well, I'll keep you updated if we move out to the east coast.

That's enough for now.

A Year Ago Today

My feet were so swollen I couldn't wear shoes.
I had grown out of most of my maternity clothes.
I was frequently kicked from the inside by little feet.
I went to the bathroom a lot.
I loved my baby.
I didn't sleep well this night a year ago.
I had doubts about my parenting abilities.
I thought babies slept through the night in their cribs.
I had never changed a diaper.
Yet I was so very excited about the future.
I coudn't wait to meet my baby.

Today -
My feet are bony again.
I can wear the pants I wore in high school!
I am frequently kicked from the outside by little feet.
I can last the whole night without a trip to the bathroom.
I love my baby.
I still don't sleep well.
I still doubt my parenting abilities.
Babies don't sleep through the night or in cribs.
I have changed over 2,000 diapers.
I am still so very excited about the future.
I can't wait to see what my baby will do.