10 Weeks

Our first BUMPdate in real time!  YIPPEE!  :)


Here is the 10 week belly pic - September 25, 2013

We are 1/4 of the way done!  By "we", I mean Julie of course!  :)

Julie went to the doctor today and she sent me the sweetest video - if you listen closely, you can hear our miracle's heartbeat.  160 today.

Here is the side-by-side from last week:

The baby is the size of a kumquat this week {I can hardly keep a straight face while talking about this fruit, by the way...}:

It's a little over an inch long and weights less than a quarter of an ounce. It has now completed the most critical portion of it's development - but we are continuing to pray anyway!  Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function.  It's limbs are continuing to develop, but can now bend and are moving all over the place.  Although it's grown rapidly until now, in the coming couple of weeks it will again double in size!

Sorry if that bored you - but it fascinates me.  :)

Julie went to the doctor today and the official measurement shows 10 weeks 3 days (no, we are not changing our weekly BUMPdates to show this new development), but here's the most insane part of all of this.  If today is 10 weeks 3 days, that makes her due date April 20th, 2014...also known this year as:

Easter Sunday

Does that make anyone else get a little choked up?  Or just me?  All along I have given God the glory for the miracle of this journey and the fact that the most important day in the Christian calendar is this baby's due date is just more than I can take.

Lots of Love -