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week 33 pregnancy update, less than 7 wks to go!

We are now at week 33!
The countdown is getting more and more fun!

week 33 pregnancy photo:

What is baby H up to these days?
She is coming close to being the full length that she'll be when she arrives, around 19 or so inches and still steadily gaining weight, any where from 4.5-5lbs this week.
This week her brain is also developing at an amazing speed, increasing her head size by as much as 3/8th of an inch!!

Mommy Update:
I'm still doing well, feeling a little more tired and inflexible than before, but trying to keep up with my yoga and stretching. My amniotic fluid is at the utmost max it will get, from now on out she will get more and more cramped, which will hopefully make her want to come out :) jk


I will have my next appointment this Wednesday and will hopefully preregister at the hospital I'll be delivering at too.

Just in case you are wondering.....

Jason and I tried this Passion Fruit ice cream, it was very creamy, rich and sweet with a good passion fruit flavor, I think the only thing I would change is to have it be a bit more tangy(more of the real fruity flavor) but I would still give it an 4.5 out of 5!

Wednesday's Weekly Wonders

Wonders and Patience...

I want to start with praising God for letting one of Jason's papers get accepted to a top tier conference!! This is a HUGE answer to prayer and we are both super excited!
The conference will be in Beijing in September 2009, but Jason will probably not be going since we will just be settling back into life with baby H and school in IL. Jason will also be getting ready to take his prelim exam around that time too.

J and I at Mustang Island State Park, Corpus Christi, TX
This week I am also very grateful for God's patience with me!

I feel like God has been using this time in TX to teach me more about trusting Him.
This week has been a hard one in the trust department...it's amazing to me that I can KNOW with my heart that God is faithful, that He has(will) provide for us, while me mind can be so quick to wonder and doubt.

However, I have been amazed at how God has been encouraging me with examples of His provisions; here are just a few:

This past week I have been reading in 2 Kings:

3:1-20 , because king Joram, Jehoshaphat and Edom humbled themselves and inquired of the Lord, God provided the desert valley to be filled with water and He gave Moab over to them.

I love the imagery of a dry and parched valley filled with water, this reminds me again that God can do SO much more than we can hope or imagine...Eph 3: 20

4:1-7 The story of the widowed woman and her two sons with only a little oil left to live on and God provides, by filling every last container with oil for them, so that they could pay their debts and even have extra to live on.

4: 8-, The Shunammite woman who is given a son, even when she is old and when her son dies, God uses Elisha to bring him back from the dead.

awesome, isn't it!

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week 32 pregnancy

This past weekend J and I went to Corpus Christi and Mustang Island State Park and spent some time at the beach. It was glorious and relaxing, but more photos to follow soon :0

-yes, I have been saying that a lot! been waiting to use the other computer, which is currently occupied by J and simulations, but that will be over in 9 more days-yay!

anyways, here is the latest pregnancy photo, week 32...

For those who are curious what I look like from the front, here is a frontal week 32 pregnancy shot.BABY H UPDATE:
My doctor's appointment last week went wonderfully! praise God :)
We are now in MONTH 8! and hopefully we have less than 8 weeks to go before we meet our precious lil girl!
(I am praying that she makes her debut a week or two early, since it will make moving back to IL a whole lot easier, but God's in control)

This week the excitement is that her skin is slowly turning from see-through, to opaque(like ours) as she accumulates more fat. She should be weighing in at around 4- 4.5 lbs now and about 19 inches long(give or take).

MOM UPDATE:
I am pleased to say that I am still doing great, I have had the occasional heartburn, especially when I eat spicy foods, but very minor. I have been feeling her more under my ribs and diaphragm, but that's all good, since she is getting bigger and bigger!

Wednesday's Weekly Wonders

Today I am very thankful for another good check-up at the doctor.
Everything looked normal and our lil girl is doing great, I got my tummy measured, all right on schedule.

The funny(well kinda) thing was that there was a lady in the room next to me that was screaming and crying in agony, every once in a while I could hear things like: "I know it hurts, but it's going to be ok...hang in there....etc" I hope she is doing better now :)

After my next appointment I will be preregistering at the hospital that I'll be delivering at, getting one more thing ready for the big day!

The second thing that I'm really thankful for and excited about is that J and I will be taking some time this weekend to relax by the beach at Corpus Christi and probably Mustang Island too!
Can't wait!
will post pictures as soon as I can.

Week 31, 9 WEEKS TO GO

This is a close-up of week 31 pregnancy pic.

Full length week 31 pic

We all enjoyed a very fun and hot weekend! Jason and I went hiking Sat morning, but it ended up being a little hot for me, so we didn't hike for too long.
I will add some photos that we took shortly(I need J to help me). We had a great grill-out with the other inters and have also really been making the most of the pool, located steps away from us :)

Baby H is doing well, she is still active, but certainly smaller movements than before and more definite sleep patterns. Since, I wasn't able to see my doctor after my ultrasound last week, I will be going in for my check-up on Wednesday instead.

This week our lil girl continues to gain fat, which helps her regulate her body temperature. She has been able to suck her thumb for some time now and her lungs continue to develop. Her hiccuping(she does a couple times a day) has also been useful for practicing breathing and lung development. From this next week on, she should be gaining about half a pound per week! Her estimated weight from last week Tuesday was 3 lbs 8 oz at week 30!

Will keep you posted on our appointment on Wednesday, but praise God again for the healthy ultrasound and good weight estimate from last week!

COUNTDOWN: 9 weeks to go!

Wednesday's Weekly Wonders

So, I've been wanting to do this for a while...what you might ask?
have a day where I blog about God's goodness, things I'm thankful for and a general pondering of what's happening that week.

So, that's how I came up with Wednesday's Weekly Wonders! WWW for short :)
(PS I KNOW it's not Wednesday today, I'll be better next week)
the idea came from a couple of friends of mine, who have similar praise days on their blogs!
so THANKS

This post will also have the weekly pregnancy pic and some updated artwork in it, since I'm a little behind on blogging!

This week I am VERY thankful, and praising God for:

1.)God blessing us with having a second GOOD ultrasound of our little girl. She is looking very well and impressively weighing in at 3lbs 8oz according to our ultrasound tech(though I posted about this in more detail below)
The highlight was to see her FACE! how amazing!!

2).Jason had his final presentation in Detroit for his contract work and it went really well! He still has a bunch of loose ends to tie up, but it should be ALL DONE by the end of June!
We are so grateful that God provided the contract work for Jason to do and bless us with.
I take my hat off to Jason for all the hard work and extra hours he has put into it, besides all his other school and internship work he is doing!

3.)A good, healthy pregnancy! As some of you know, for a couple months I was having back pain from baby H lying on my sciatic nerve, but I have felt completely well since we've been in Texas!

What a wonderful, wonderful God we serve

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.

Psalm 32:1,2 KJV

A week 30 pregnancy picture!

Mostly finished art that I've been working on:

ULTRASOUND update!

Praise God for another good ultrasound!
The above pic is of her face, she is lying sideways and has one hand under her chin and the other over the top of her forehead. According to our ultrasound tech, she already has some hair growing on her head too! I saw white 'fuzz' as she pointed it out to me.

A pic of her heart and ribs and below that a profile pic of her face, her hand is under her chin again and over her forehead.
According to her measurements she is doing really well and is weighing in at around 3lbs 8 oz at week 30!

Week 29, baby H and new art

I've had some requests for a more accurate belly pic :)

so here is one with a more fitted tank!

This is week 29, and baby H should be measuring around 16 and a bit inches and just under
3 lbs!

I've been noticing more distinct cycles of sleep and awake times, she also seems to love being active at night or when Daddy talks to her :)
We tried to flashlight trick, where you put the light near your belly and see what they do.
She kicked it a couple times and then decided she had enough and moved away to the opposite side of my belly!

I've been trying to experiment and learn how to do abstract acrylic paintings, so here are some that I've been working on in various stages of completion.