11 WEEKS and COUNTING...

Our baby, only about 11 weeks pregnant and her little tummy is starting to show the secret that lay inside it.  As I sit here typing this, I am filled with so much excitement.  This morning I went along for a doctors appointment with Shamara and Ken, we had an ultrasound done. I didn't cry but I sure could have as I watched my baby lying there watching her baby move around inside her womb and to feel Ken's excitement, WOW!  Memories came rushing back of the joy and uncertainty I felt when first learning that I was going to be a mommy. It was a beautiful time and I can't express enough how deeply touched  I am to have been welcomed to share such a special time with them.

This is day # 78 and you're 11 weeks pregnant! You have 202 days or 29 weeks left before you get to hold this precious child growing inside of you. Your are 27.0% of the way there. Our little Kenny (Yes, you heard me correctly!) although only 64 days/9 weeks old is already proudly showing his stuff, so much so that the doctors are pretty certain (not 100%) that you are having a boy, destined to make his debut around August 15, 2011.  He weighs about 7 grams and is 4.2 cm (just short of 2 inches) from head to toe. The ultrasound today showed all of his measurements to be prefect - and to God we say THANK YOU. He has eyes, toes, fingers, ears, lips... and his heart was beating at 170 beats per minute.

These moments make you look back on your own life... how I met Mark, our dating experience, our own engagement and marriage and then the birth of our own six beautiful and wonderful children. Where has all the time gone, how could we now be expecting our third grandchild...

Guess Who's EXPECTING?

Shamara told me a couple of weeks ago that she might be pregnant. WOW! Do I even dare to get excited? YES! Of course I did and I am! Since then she's been to the doctor twice, had an ultrasound and two sets of blood work and YES THERE REALLY IS A BABY GROWING IN HER TUMMY and we have a due date of early August 2011.

This is day number 53 and you're 7 weeks pregnant!You have 227 days or 32 weeks left, and are 18.9% of the way there. Baby's age since conception is 39 days or 5 weeks. Your baby is tiny but growing fast! He or she is the size of a small bean - about half an inch long - and if you could see inside yourself, you'd find your baby has an oversized head in proportion to its body. His or her facial features are still forming, its eyes are just black spots, there are little openings where the nostrils will be, and pits to mark the ears. Protruding buds that will become arms and legs are more noticeable now, and the hands and feet look like tiny paddles. You can't hear it yet, but its little heart is beating about 150 beats per minute (or roughly twice the rate of yours.)