Our boys' growth!!

You asked for it! Here ya go:

14 weeks

18 weeks

20 weeks

22 weeks

25 weeks

27 weeks

31 weeks

33 weeks
35 weeks

37 weeks

(I will add the last few weeks later on and change the date on the post... or re-post this.)

This is so crazy to me b/c as I was looking at older posts I read a couple from right around the time we must have conceived little Ezra. I can still remember those feelings. And I just can't believe that the Lord saw fit to open my womb and intrust CT and I to actually raise another human being. SUCH.A.MIRACLE!

We have friends here (3 couples), right now that are going through nearly the same thing. Of course, there are different circumstances... but I just pray that God will do a miracle for them as well. I also pray they have friends as wonderful as ours back home (as well as here). We promise to approach the throne and petition our Father daily on their behalf, just as you have done for us. I know that it will take many intercessors just as we had many.

I have an Ultrasound Tuesday and MD apt Thursday. The only one CT can go to is Thursday so my friend Sandra is taking me Tuesday.

Several of you are asking how I'm feeling. I'm doing pretty well, a bit... okay very emotional at times. Last night I just laid in bed and sobbed. My sweet man just got me tissue and rubbed my back. I really can't give you a straight answer as to exactly WHY I was crying. We watched "Like Dandelion Dust" which got me started. Then I kept it up because I had eaten this huge yummy (good for ya) dinner at some friends house and felt like I was literally starving last night in bed. I'm trying not to gain another nearly 7 lbs in 2 weeks when I go back to the MD Thursday. But it is SO SO SO HARD. I am so hungry especially at night when I get in bed no matter what I've eaten. Then I wake up so many times during the night and feel like I could eat and eat and eat. It HAS to have something to do with laying down and my stomach being squished or something. So any way, I just cried because I was so hungry, but I didn't want to eat and gain bunches of weight. Oh mercy. Can I please have this little boy now?

I think it's really good for me having this team here though. It has really helped this past week go back quick and it will make this next one the same way. I'm enjoying them being here, but yes I am SO ready to go to bed when it's time. But I will say that I just can't sleep. Laugh if you want, but I'll lay on one side then my hip hurts and then I get a butt cramp so I flip over and then it happens again and again through the night. It's a chore to flip over and I can't help but grunt every time. Then I can't go back to sleep because I'm so hungry. The cycle continues. So by 4,5, or 6 every morning I'm so ready to get up because I can't get comfy. Otherwise, I feel great considering I'm carrying around nearly 50 more pounds than normal. Seriously, my feet aren't swollen- only a tad above my ankles. So I honestly have zero complaints. I feel better than I thought I'd feel. Thanks for asking you guys! I will post again (hopefully) after the U/S to check his growth and then after the MD's apt.

This was the perfect weekend for our team to go on Safari. And Ali went too. So we had the whole weekend to ourselves. We really just hung out- went and had dinner out Friday night then Saturday we worked on Ez's room then sat at a cafe with beautiful weather, drinking sweet tea listening to Goo Goo Dolls and Pearl Jam. See, today is our 7 year Anniversary! 7 years. Wow. I sure love being married to that guy. He makes life so fun. I CANNOT WAIT to see him holding our little boy, kissing him, changing him or just sitting and staring at him.

This is going to be SO much fun.