Thursday

Grade-school Lime Babies

We just got back from an awesome weekend with our church, Liberti (check it out: www.liberti.org) and are feeling excited about taking the jump to get involved and commitment. One of those steps is moving closer to the city, the community, the brokeness. We were planning on moving in the fall when our lease is up, but Baby Smith decided to come along right at the same time, now forcing us to decide whether we head out before our lease is up or wait another year until s/he is sleeping enough to help us make a sane move. The only issue now is trying to get out of our lease and get our security deposit back so we can use it for the next place we might rent. Our landlord is awesome, but the owner of our home lives in Flordia and seems to be a stickler for rules. Subleasing is out of the question, so the only other possibility is if a former tentant would take over our lease, and this Friday there will be one coming to look at our place! So please pray that God will orchestrate this...and not our worrying, fretting, and "solving" in our own heads. We're looking to move into an area closer to our home group with the church and a group of friends we've gotten to know. One of the couples just found out they too were pregnant, which would be fun when we're both bored at home to be just a few blocks from each other! So also pray as we go look at rentals this weekend, that God will open the doors to a perfect place. As for baby update, we had our 12 week appointment yesterday, but unfortunately couldn't hear the heartbeat because my uterus is tilted back and still hasn't fully risen above the pelvic bone (sorry, if there are guys reading this who'd prefer not to hear ALL the details!). We did hear it moving around, per the widwife...although it just sounded like random blast of wind to me over the doppler. We're going to go in again next week when I'm another week along to try again. The little kiddo is about 2.5 inches...the size of a "large lime" my widwife said. I thought that was humorous since we had "Lime Babies" when we were in grade school. Some of you all might have done it with eggs...I guess our teacher didn't trust us and we did it with limes. But you have to carry it with you and take it everywhere as if it's your "baby", to show you what a big responsibility it is. I let mine rot in my locker. Hope that's not foreshadowing of the type of mom I'll be!

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