full of life

full of life/n/`1: life has never been better 2: a state of joy, pride and creativity. 3: a strong feeling of being keenly alive, more aware, more in tune with oneself 4: pregnancy and beauty at its best

6 wks
i will not die; instead i will live and tell what the lord has done. ps 118:17

7 wks

and god remembered me; and he listened/heard me and rendered me fruitful. gen 30:22 (ok, ok, he was talking about rachel but what ever. he remembered me too)

week 8!

the joy of the lord is my strength. neh 8:10

and a christmas day pic of my jammies that i wore to church ! hah!

week 11!

then young women will rejoice and dance. i will turn their mourning into joy. i will comfort them. i will give them joy in place of their sorrow. jer 31:13

we are 12 weeks! i am due july 24! i am thrilled, excited and incredibly happy!

the long deets (for the eig clan!)

in sept, chris and i had talked and decided that we did not want more than 5 yrs age gap, so we decided that this spring we would have a garage sale and sell all the baby things. we were both at peace with this

so off we went on vacay and somewhere in orlando/tampa/caribbean we got our selves knocked up. ha!

i came home and was so redic and utterly tired! the first sat i slept till 10:30! then got something to eat and went back to bed! that mon chris and i realized that i was late. so we decided to test on wed (which is a recid long time to wait then you have 3 pee sticks in your closet!) wed am came, i did the deed and gave the test to chris as i jumped back into bed. chris said "oh mel, i am sorry. it's neg. nothing is there" and off he went to work

about 5 mins later after i dealt with my sadness, i got up to take a shower, grabbing the test to toss in the trash. in the dark of the room i saw 2 lines. i freaked out, called chris on his cell, chris was just at the end of the street so he came back to the house to look. he saw it and smiled

we had hope

i decided to wait until sun to test again. again, a redic LONG time but for some reason i was cool with this

sun am, did my thing and saw the second line before i left the bathroom. i tossed it at chris and said "we're having a baby! can you believe this?????"

i sat on the bed. shocked

i then quickly got ready to go to church

a week later i called the dr and went into have it confirmed. it was nov 28. the 2 yr anni of the loss of out last son. i was torn that day, i sat in the office to confirm my pregnancy on the day we lost our son!

we had an ultrasound at 8 wk. the heartbeat was nice and strong 169, the baby is growing right on schedule. everything is perfect!

i have my next prenatal next week and can't wait to hear the heart beat!

our children will be 4 yrs, 11 months a part. god's timing was perfect!

i will be honest, i have been very scared and anxious over losing the baby. i went as far as to detach myself for a long time, not talking about it, not believing, holding on to the "what if's" then a good friend smacked me with some good stuff and in place of that fear i now have peace. i now dream and pray for our child. our baby. our miracle. our 3rd child. i have my moments but i have a great network of support

and i have the reality of the pregnancy to know this is real! ha! NOT complaining but i've been SO sick! ick! i feel pregnant and so far this pregnancy is very similar to the one i had with nate! so i know it's real! ha!

so there ya's go! a baby is on the way!

it's been 2 yrs and i this song is still the same. good or bad. god is faithful!

Posted by mel at 11:47 AM