Moving on along...

So, after threatening their early arrival for the last 4 weeks... Little Boy Warf and Little Girl Warf are showing a little stage fright!  (or just being stubborn)  We went for our mid-35-week checkup yesterday and my doctor said she was "shocked..." that NOTHING had changed from last week! ha. Who knows. We may not meet these babies until next week anyway!  I, personally, would not be upset if it were tomorrow... but I know they're in the best place for them right now.

Little Boy Warf is an estimated 5lb8oz and Little Girl Warf is an estimated 5lb7oz - yay!  And mom is ... ok, not telling. ha!!  They looked great on the ultrasound...crammed in there. I know how i feel... can't imagine how packed they feel:-)  We can't see Baby A's (boy) face since he's looking straight at my backbone... Baby B (girl) has always loved the camera more (taking after Aunt Grace and Moppy:-).  Her little face is getting chubbier and is squeezed so tightly between the boy's stomach and her placenta that it looks like she's saying the Chubby Bunny thing smushing her cheeks in!  ha!

Now Millie and I are just passing time at home:-) I wish I had videos of my mom and sister texting each other and me... so excited! Of course, we all are.  It's so sweet to see Mom so excited - she literally lived for these times 6 years ago - to see grandchildren. I am humbled and so grateful... and undeservingly BLESSED to see this. I have always prayed my children would know her. Praise HIM! To see where He has taken us over the last 6 years is... well, I just have to sit back and take it in...there are no words. Our only response can be to truly give HIM all the praise and live to make Him known...

I was watching one of those "having babies" shows (I know, I know... I tried to stop) on TV and couldn't help but cringing when the new mother - experiencer of a miracle - said, "It's just so amazing...that we can do this.. that we can create life... women are truly amazing".  Of course the last phrase is true... (hee, hee, just kidding) but I thought about that for a minute - SO MANY people in this world think that...feeling of their accomplishment... at the first instant of seeing their baby for the first time. What a shame. We, women, do NOTHING during these 9 months to cause that little heart to start beating at 4 WEEKS. Yes, a three and a half to four week old hearts beat in utero. We do nothing to spur the little one to grow arms and legs, blink their eyes, suck their thumbs. We can certainly harm them by what we do, eat, choose to experience ... but sure can't help them develop at all. We can just provide the best environment possible for a miracle to take place.  Such a humbling experience.

I pray these children will come to know and truly treasure their Creator...the only Giver of life and breath. The One who writes all the days in our books before we are even one day old. The One who entrusts us mere sinners with perfect miracles of newborn babies and allows us to "train them up" hopefully "in the way they should go". What an investment... and such a tall order.

Ok kids, let's get this show on the road. People are waiting to meet you!!  (and Mom's having trouble breathing cause you're taking up all the space:-)