A sneak peak.

Little baby is still holding out for a later birth date, so this morning I went to an OB appointment that I had been hoping to cancel. Both Jeff and Benjamin were able to come along which was nice. Usually it's just me and Ben at these appointments and trying to keep a toddler happy in a stroller at the clinic after a 25 minute drive is not easy. There are often toys, crackers and fruit snacks involved. I was so thankful to have the extra set of hands along....and it was just nice to be able to share the experience with my baby daddy :)

The clinic where I'm being seen gives patients a non-stress test and a bio-physical profile (ultrasound to check on baby and fluids) when they enter their 41st week of pregnancy. Since the baby hasn't arrived yet we had the full workup. Everything looked good, but this baby is perfectly content to stay right where he or she is. Nothing is happening in the dilation department. Absolutely nothing.  Looks like this baby is about a punctual as I am.

If baby decides to hang out a while longer I'll be induced next week. Until then, we were given a sneak peak of our little darling. The anticipation is getting to be overwhelming and I wonder if this is the face of a baby boy or a baby girl. In either case, I cannot wait to see this sweet little one in person and I am so thankful for the miracle I see in these pictures.

"For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

^{How precious to me are your thoughts, God!}

^{How vast the sum of them!}

^{Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand-}

^{When I awake I am still with you."}

^{Psalm 139:13-18}