On the Move

Sugar Weenie is on the move. I can feel it. Throughout the past few days, I have been experiencing fleeting moments of fetal movement, like the soft flutter of a butterfly. One of the strangest things about the early months of pregnancy is knowing that you're pregnant, seeing the baby move on the sonogram screen, yet not being able to feel a darn thing. It's so bizarre. But now that I can finally feel him or her move, I have a whole new sense of reality. There is actually a human being growing inside of me, and I can feel it! So cool.

Sugar Weenie isn't the only one on the move. After countless hours of enviously watching House Hunters, Property Virgins, and My First Place, we finally get to go house hunting! We love our apartment, but there are too many things that make it impractical for a family with two dogs and a newborn. We will be looking for a one-level rental house with a big backyard for the dogs and hopefully much closer to my office in Scottsdale. But before we can move in, we must be able to move out...

As some of you already know (due to my incessant whining and complaining about it) our apartment lease is not up until the end of June. Talk about bad timing. Can you imagine moving out of a second-story apartment in the middle of the Arizona summer with a newborn and medical school board exams right around the corner? It's not exactly the most ideal situation. Actually, it sounds like a mental breakdown waiting to happen. We had to do something. Jonathan's first attempt to get out of our lease didn't go so well - "a lease is a lease and there's nothing we can do." But there's always something they can do. So Jonathan and I put our heads together and came up with a plan. Using all his charms as well as his sad puppy face, Jonathan went back and said, "Put yourself in our shoes." It worked like a charm! After a little more sweet-talking, he convinced the apartment manager to adjust our lease so that we can move out mid-March rather than the end of June. Hooray!!!

If you should find yourself in need of a little spring break trip to AZ, we'll provide a free place to stay in exchange for a few hours of packing and lifting!