In Miami with Dominica Friends

It was so reassuring to get to Miami and already have old friends from Dominica to hang out with. Ross has unintentionally provided us with a vast network of awesome people to make the transitions of relocating in med school easier.  It is incredibly fun to do American things that we could have never done on the island!

Margot! We only crossed paths for three days :(

Kyle, Kreg, Emmet

Sydney, Neil, Olivia, Kyle, Emmet, Me, John, Kyle at Olivia's Birthday outside Hard Rock Cafe

Stephanie, Sam, Lauren (all a semester ahead of us) at Valencia at our pool

 Sam with her son, Parker James :)

Golf Day with Taylor and Kyle

 Up on the green

 Can they be happier?

Taylor and I (driver/caddies) with our boys

Halfway Through the Pregnancy!

Today I am 20 weeks pregnant- halfway through! People have asked me whether it has gone fast or slow, and I suppose it is a combination of both, depending on the month and in what point we were in our gallivanting around the Caribbean or up and down the east coast of the US. Either way, it has been the best five months of my life, topped off by the most special day of our relationship last Tuesday when we found out that we are having a baby girl!

It was so important for me to meet the doctor here in Miami and to feel comfortable with the medical area. I loved everything about it and I know now that we are meant to be here and deliver here. Seeing our little girl up on the ultrasound screen made everything so real. She (whose name we will reveal on her birthday) is about 6 inches long and weighs about 1/2 a pound! Mom and baby are doing "beautifully" according to our doctor and our due date was pushed back one week to October 4th (Seems our doc in Dominica had a broken maternity wheel). I feel so lucky that I have felt so energetic and healthy throughout the pregnancy, minus a few weeks of upset tummy back in January and February, and I am excited for the next half of the journey. Here are some pictures of the baby bump of late. Miami is treating us well- more updates on that to come.

 17 weeks (last night in Dom)

20 weeks ( on our new balcony overlooking the pool area where I spend lots of time!)

Mother's Day at Aunt Diane and Uncle Mike's

 Brendan and Amy were able to come down for Mom's Day weekend!

 Mom-to-be, my Mama, my Godmother

Five of us, back together again before I moved to Miami the next day. Perfect weekend to say good-bye to everyone before I left the Northeast one last time.