outtakes

The children have really enjoyed the fruit size comparison for Baby each week.  

It has been a great visual of how Baby is growing and throughout the week they will talk about and pray for "Baby Apple" (or whichever we are on!).

when I got Hadassah one morning, she had a lump in her shirt that she patted and told me was "Baby" and then she showed me her baby!

Fruit of the Womb: 2nd Trimester (part 1)

 week 14:  lemon

week 15:  apple

week 16:  Haas avocado

week 17:  pear

week 18:  bell pepper 

week 19:  mango

week 20:  grapefruit

wildlife

this baby iguana was on our porch

two peacocks walking down our street one afternoon

at a park where we like to walk/ride bikes they have protected owl holes, this week we started seeing owls with chicks coming up out of their burrows

It's a...

BOY!!!!

photo idea from here

I had an ultrasound yesterday and everything went well.  

It is so amazing to get to see Baby healthy and growing and moving!  We could see his profile, belly, spine, hands and feet, 4 chambers of his heart with blood moving through, and a very clear between the leg view that Baby is a boy!  He was moving around, covered his face with his arms, put his hands in his mouth, and kicked his legs.  

We are all so excited to find out we are having a baby BOY!!!!  

Night Night

asleep under Abigail's bed

asleep with a good book

 Chris converted the crib to a toddler bed for Hadassah

and I put on the Holly Hobby quilts my Grandma made 
(Abigail's baby quilt on Hadassah's bed and a quilt she made for me, years ago, on Abigail's).