What a chunk!

We had our 28 week doctors visit this past Wednesday...and we found out that our little boy has been doing a lot of growing here recently! I measured about a week ahead at 29 weeks 4 days, and Asher has packed on the poundage! He weighs in now at around 3lbs 2 oz!! We are sooo excited! We could all tell by my appearance that he had grown, we were just hoping that he was close to 3lbs by now...and he is!! On the ultrasound, he was doing his usual tricks and kicks. He also was drinking fluid and we got to see his little lips moving and sucking. It was adorable! All of his organs are working wonderfully and his heartbeat sounds beautiful! Now, we are down to the last trimester and still praying for our little guy to keep growing (within reason) and for my health to continue to be great.

Welcome to Holland

I had a parent of a child with disabilities tell me about this poem a few months ago. It is an amazing poem that reminds me and others of how blessed we are. It also helps me to remember that I am not in control and can not plan every detail of my life...even if I would like too. God has a better plan and he choose me and Kenny to be the parents of a very beautiful and precious angel. We consider ourselves lucky and among the elite chosen ones to be blessed with our little angel. Even though we did not have the opportunity to raise our little girl, we can still very much so relate to this poem.

"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.""Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.It’s just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland."

So as you have read, Holland is just as wonderful as Italy. Just because our trip was different, it doesn't make it wrong. We were blessed to have had the opportunity to take a trip to Holland. And now as the arrival date approaches quickly for Asher, we do still dream of taking the trip to Italy...but we will NEVER forget the amazing journey we took to Holland and cannot wait to see our little Rembrandt when we get to Heaven.

27 weeks! Our little Ash-man is growing!!

Here is a recent picture of me and Asher. He has really grown in the past couple of weeks...and it is showing in my belly!!

Deck the Halls....

We decided we better get started on decorating for Christmas a little early this year! We are glad we did too, we are enjoying having the tree up and playing the christmas music to welcome the holidays!

The first 3 reasons why we will not be co-sleeping with Asher!

ZAK...BOB...Cessa! Need I say any more??

Twenty Five Weeks and Counting!

We are so excited about our precious little boy that will be entering the world sometime before February 18th! He has already brought much joy to our lives as we are preparing for him, praying, and playing with him. He is a ball of energy and we are gearing ourselves up for quite the little rascal! We started working on his nursery and it is already looking like a little boys room. Here are a few pictures...

Kenny's 30th Suprise Party!!!!

Kenny turned the big 3-0 today! Saturday, I threw a suprise party for him...and it was a huge success! I was so proud of myself for not blowing the whole thing!

Here are a couple pics from the party!