Making your presence known!

Wow Baby! You are HERE! I mean... not literally here but you are definitely starting to make your presence known! We went in at 17 weeks and had a great doctors visit with no concerns at all. I was still just showing a little (see 16 week pictures) and mostly just looking "fat." Well the doctor said my uterus (your current housing arrangement) was an inch or so below my belly button and that you would be moving up behind my belly button around 20 weeks. Guess you're not the type to wait around! I left town on Monday, the start of week 18 and I had gained the same 17 lbs but BOY were you showing up! All week I was with my work friends and I had quite the belly bump! I called home and told daddy "you're not gonna recognize this belly when you see it!" I was so excited to come home and take 18 week pictures! You look so much bigger! i think that means you have just moved up in my belly because you are only the size of a sweet potato! How CUTE!!! It does seem CRAZY that i have something of a sweet potato inside me! Well i have a new baby symptom and it is called SWOLLEN FEET! Oh my OUCH! My feet hurt so badly when I stay on them for hours... that is certainly a new thing! They have never bothered me in my life until week 18. Now when I stand or walk for several hours (with my job and life i do this often) they swell right up and hurt really badly. Your sweet daddy has been giving me so many foot massages and they are very, very appreciated!

Well lately we have been praying for you that God would protect you from generational curses. I felt a strong urgency to pray this over you so daddy and I have made a strong effort on this topic. We are praying that God would protect you from any known OR unknown generational curses even those our generations have not seen. And of course we are thanking Him in advance for his protection and for you growing up a child of His kingdom.

We love you baby and cannot wait to meet you in person. I cannot wait to feel you move in the near future and daddy and I are so excited about how much you are growing in my body. Daddy says he gets excited about my belly and hips growing and even my feet hurting cuz he knows it means I'm pregnant! I told him I am so glad he is loving it!

Blogging Confessions

Well... you probably thought i just threw in the towel didn't you. OR however that saying goes... I have not been writing for two whole months because of two reasons. 1 is that I have been writing letters to OUR NEW BABY!!!! YAY!!!!! That's right, if you didn't know, we're pregnant and soo excited! We're 16 weeks along now! And reason # 2 is that all during this time I have been focused on that and I have been praying and praying for God to give me word's for the blog and they just have not come. I have been back and forth, ok with that, and then discouraged a little. This morning i sat down just hoping He would give me words when He told me..."I have been giving you words all along" and I realized just what he meant... so GET READY! No pressure to read all of this at once but I am going to back track and post the letters I have been writing to our sweet miracle baby as they came. I could not post them at the time because we we're still keeping our secret but now the beans have all been spilled... .... Much Love and so so so many BLESSINGS! - jaime

A Family of 3!

Well... we're at 15 weeks now! Crazy! I am writing a tad less because everything (except you!) seem to slow down and steady out in the 2nd trimester. My doctor doesn't want to see me constantly and I have accepted my pleasantly expanding figure! I am still in awe of how well you have been treating me... maybe this is God's way of blessing me for waiting on you for so long? I have not been nauseous or crazy or cranky or any of those things everyone keeps asking me about. I have struggled some with the realization that my husband, your dad, who has become above and beyond my best friend in the entire world for the past 5 years.... that our family of 2 has come to an end. Of course he is still my best friend and you are our greatest gift!!! But I am, in a tiny bit, mourning the end of our adventures as 2 lovebirds in a lonely world!!! We are making a list of the things that we want to do together as a couple before you get here. I say that, because when you get here, we want to do EVERYTHING WITH YOU!!!! We have been talking about making date night a priority once you're here because we are so convinced we are never going to want to do anything without our entire "family" present ever again. Like my mom always told me; "we rarely needed a baby sitter; we loved to have you kids along, always." That always stuck in my mind and that statement growing up made me feel so loved... And my parents are still in love today so they must have been doing something right! Well we are certainly praying for you; we continue to pray daily for your salvation and good health and a life of obedience to Christ. We love you!

One Trimester Down!

12 weeks! And there's a weeee baby bump! (these pants USED to be comfy!) Well baby - I am sure proud of you! We made it through the first trimester!!! I am breathing a huge breath of fresh air and a huge prayer of thanks to God that we have come so far! I am very proud of you! There have been a lot of changes for you lately. We moved into a new house and have been getting this situated but you have handled it like a champ! I am still enjoying my swim lessons and my belly is still rounding out. Tonight I came to the very harsh realization that my hips are getting wider. I called my sister Jennifer in tears but she reassured me that they would go back and they were supposed to be doing "that" this early. I assume she was telling the truth but even if she was just trying to make me feel better it worked! Thank God for sisters (in-law) and guess what! She will be your aunt! So I realized my hips were getting wider in Old Navy. I caught glimpse of a pair of maternity jeans on clearance for $8 bucks! I thought it's too early but why not try them on. Well in my mind i thought they would be a little big but instead they fit great... this is what led me to my near nervous breakdown! I couldn't believe how "WELL" i filled them out!!! The good news is I got them home and daddy was very, very happy with them. He thought we looked great in them and got on to me for not buying more! (When pants are $8 there is usually only one pair, daddy....) The past couple of weeks daddy and I have been praying often and specifically for your salvation. That you would come to know Jesus at an early age and live a life of obedience and peace in knowing Him. In the coming week I am going to be praying for your good health! Isn't it great to know that we have a Savior who hears our prayers even before you are here. We are so blessed, Baby! Congrats on completing the first trimester and being the size of a lime! We love you!

A Surprise 9 Wk Ultrasound!

08.16.09

Well baby, here comes 9 weeks! I cannot even believe we are in our 3rd month!!! It feels like we just found out about you! But I am so excited! Soon we are gonna be able to tell the whole world about you!!! Not a lot has changed in how I feel. You still don't like coffee apparently which still catches me off guard when I think I want some and then realize I don't. I have gained about four pounds which according to my research is to be expected for a mommy that isn't nauseous. Phew! My belly has a slight "bloat" appearance to it most days so I am thinking it must be true that you are getting bigger! I read that your heart is dividing into 4 chambers this week which I have to say keeps me on my toes! That's serious stuff! I am very proud of you because you are starting to resemble a person now and you are going to be doing more and more on your own and gaining a lot of weight. This is a hard job but you are doing great at it! We Love you baby!

08.26.09

10 weeks! Wow! Seems surreal still! Now don't get me wrong I can tell you're in there... i'm sleepy and every two hours i am overcome with ravenous hunger!!! But other than that I am still feeling great! I went in last week for our 9 week check-up and had a surprise ultrasound! Another one! We did not know they were going to do one so daddy didn't come but he was excited to see the picture! You looked so much more like a baby this time! Well kinda like a funny shaped grape actually but certainly more like a baby... i remember when you were just a wee yolk sack :-)