Happy 2014, everyone!
This year, as the clock struck midnight, my first words (besides, "Happy
New Year," of course) were, "WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BABY THIS
YEAR!!!"
Baby Graef continues to
grow and make his/her mommy’s belly stick out a little further week by week. Although
to me it seems as if I’m enormous, I
know that most people wouldn’t even be able to tell that I’m expecting yet. Last
week I finally had to cave and get some maternity pants, and the saleslady
asked, “Did you say you were 2 months along?” “No, I’m almost 5…” haha That
just proves my point about being small.
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| 18 weeks along! Nearly halfway there... |
According to various
apps and websites that give me updates on how big the baby is getting, Baby
Graef is now the size of a sweet potato. So it really isn’t any wonder, then, that I’ve
begun to feel tiny flutterings in my lower belly in the last few weeks! It
started out as feeling like a butterfly flapping its wings against the walls of
my lower abdomen, to now feeling more like a rolling sensation. Sorry if that
is really vague, I sat here for a several moments trying to figure out what
exactly it feels like and that is the best I can come up with haha I just
imagine a tiny baby about the size of a sweet potato twisting and turning and trying to
get comfortable inside my belly…
In a couple of weeks we
are scheduled for an anatomy ultrasound where we will hopefully find out what
this little sweet potato's sex is. David is still hoping for a boy, and I am still
pretty undecided. I would like for the baby to be healthy, human, and alive.
That is all I really care about!
So, besides baby
updates, life is going on quite normally! David has begun his senior year of college as of last week,
and has already been bombarded with endless reading assignments and homework
(whatever happened to the first week of college being the easiest?)! Still, he
pulls through like a champ – he is already an entire week ahead of schedule. I
don’t know how he does it! He has a slightly lighter credit hour load this
semester, but it looks like he will have quite a bit of reading assignments due
throughout the semester that will be keeping him very busy. Next semester, Fall
2014, is his last one (YAY!), and he only has 3 classes to take that semester!
Then he will be a smarty pants Moody graduate! Needless to say, this is going
to be one big year for the future daddy/college graduate!
Over
the holidays David and I spent some time in Kentucky with the Graefs! It was a
blessing being with family, and some of the things we particularly enjoyed
were…
·
RM having some awesome one-on-one cooking lessons from Gela!
·
Christmas Eve morning spent with the family and both sets of grandparents!
·
RM learning to give David a hair cut (a lesson taught by Gela,
once again!)
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Games with the family (mostly Catan and Dominoes)
·
And David was ecstatic to be given a TON of tools (household and
car-related) for Christmas!
We
had a really wonderful time!
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| Christmas dinner with the Graefs & Millers |
Before
leaving Chicago for Kentucky, I received an email from a woman who had seen my
resume and profile listed on a nanny/babysitter website. She was inquiring
whether or not I would be interested in setting up an interview with her for a
part-time babysitting position only 5 minutes from our house! The interview
went great, and on Christmas Eve she notified me once again asking me to accept
the position! So, I am happy to say that I am now a babysitter for 8 hours a day on Mondays and
Wednesdays for an adorable 3-year-old named Amelia! The hours are perfect as
they coincide with David’s school schedule beautifully, and I love spending
time with this adorable little girl! She brings a lot of sunshine into my life
even on the coldest, dreariest days, and makes me laugh often! She is very
curious about the pregnancy and the idea of a baby inside my belly, and points
out all too often at how my stomach is growing “bigger and bigger!” This week she insisted on having me shove a ginormous baby doll up her dress so that she
could have a baby in her belly too. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud
as she walked around the house with the baby doll’s legs hanging out from
underneath her dress!
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| Amelia :) |
We
are so thankful for this opportunity for me and know that it truly is a
blessing from God!
I
am going to try to make an effort at blogging more often, which means that some
blogs might seem mundane (in which case I totally invite you to skip on over
them if they bore you!) because it may be a lot of baby updates and normal life
updates (like this one). But I think it’s important to find joy and meaning in
the everyday things in life too, and so I really hope to bring those things to
light in these blog entries as well, instead of only focusing on the
extraordinary or remarkable in order for it to qualify for a blog update.
Here
are some prayer requests if you’d like to keep us in your prayers this week!
·
Baby Graef’s continued growth, health, and development! (And that
it would be a BOY if you’d like to join David in his daily prayer! Haha)
·
Strength, diligence, and endurance for David in this new school
semester as he heads into his senior year with a heavy load of classes
·
Praise! For RM’s job/relationship with this new little girl,
Amelia, and her mother
·
Health for David as he has been sick for the past few days
Thank
you for the prayers, love, and support!
With
love,
The
Graefs
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| Baby Graef 18 weeks Size of a Sweet Potato (Side note: when Googling sweet potato pictures I was bombarded with images of sweet potato fries. ..I think I need some now.) |
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