24 weeks pics

First day of grocery shopping in the new place. Found a closer store (than I'd thought from looking at Google Maps before) and went. Was a little disappointed when they didn't ask if I needed help out to my car. I guess that's why Pavilions costs more than Ralph's, huh? But driving around, I was pleasantly surprised that the neighborhood has more to offer than I'd thought. I'd been west, east and to the glorious south of us, but never due north. North generally takes us to Panorama City aka Mexico, but apparently there's some nice stuff on the border. And Mark and I drove around this weekend and found that in Panorama City, there's actually a lot of fun 'crut shopping' as my mom and dad used to call it. You know, cheap stores with bargains. Yes they look cheap, and smell cheap, but they sell okay stuff.

The tide has finally turned and now it's an adventure getting to learn a new neighborhood and finding shortcuts and highway exits I didn't know existed.

I don't know if the pictures above accurately show how big I'm getting. I think I look smaller front to back in the photo than I do in real life. The baby seems to be just going longer from the front to the back. I'm not getting any wide or higher, just longer. His weight is excellent and I have to take the standard gestational diabetes test in a week or so. So many tests, right? I think this might be the last standard one left...