The 38th Week

This week was actually pretty busy, especially considering I'm officially on 'Short Term Disability' (STD) leave until I return in November. My company allows us two weeks prior to your due date--it's a take it or leave it benefit, thus one cannot add it to the end of your leave. If all goes as planned I officially return to work on November 1st, which gives me exactly eight weeks with Cobra, that is, if he decides to debut on time. (I'm definitely hoping for an early delivery, mainly for Sean's sanity because I'm probably going to drive him up the wall until then.)

Anyhow, I survived the 38th week. It was a great week, starting out with a few close Cephalon colleagues coming over to see the nursery, followed by dinner at a trendy Asian Fusion restaurant nearby. It was awesome for everyone to make the effort to come over and to see them outside of the daily Cephalon environment--we had such a fun/relaxing/enjoyable time. We received some wonderful gifts from them--

Our AWESOME stroller-- notice how it matches the car seat. (See an older post for car seat pics) Sean did a great job of assembly!

Our new bouncy seat! Yay! Of course Sean has to put Rudy in everything! Our current baby needs attention too :)

Our awesome, and so cute sports mobile that will go above our crib. It's already there. Stay tuned for the whole nursery debut on this blog...

These were just a few gifts we received this week. Sean and I feel so blessed to have such wonderful and generous friends up here. It makes getting ready for a baby so much easier with the type of people we know and have met here in the last year and a half.

Another big event for us (or really, me) was our first outing to Del Frisco's in Philly. We frequented this restaurant back in Cowtown, and we certainly enjoyed stuffing ourselves full of Del Frisco's comfort food. Ahh, the lemon cake rocked! Here's the before pics--I might have gained five pounds in one sitting after this dinner :)

Finally, today, Sean and I went for a three mile walk (trying to work off the huge dinner). Just to give our TX fans some perspective, the high was 82 degrees today with very low humidity. Paradise in comparison to the crazy, sweltering TX heat.

We thought we would take a couple more pics, just for comparison purposes...

Stay tuned on Cobra's debut...hopefully he'll make his way here sooner rather than later!