38 Weeks - our last BUMPdate

Here is the 38 week BUMPdate: 4/9/14

Kamdyn next to her crib!!  :)

and the side-by-side from last week:

I really missed Dan this week.  The lighting in Kamdyn's room is terrible.  The angle of this picture isn't right.  And my phone camera is blurry because it's not bright enough in that room.  Dan - you're amazing.

Kamdyn has really plumped up this week - she weighs almost 7 lbs and is more than 19" long.  She has a firm grasp and her organs are mature and ready for life outside of her kangaroo.

She is the size of a leek this week:

As I'm sitting here blogging this, Julie & Kamdyn are sitting right here.  Kamdyn is wiggling all over the place and I have felt her move more in the last 4 days than I have the past 9 months.  Julie has been staying with us and I have SO enjoyed the ability to have uninterrupted time with her - not to mention being in the same place as my daughter for more than a few hours at a time.  Item #34,849 that most mothers take for granted when they carry their own children.

This is the last BUMPdate I'll be doing.  Next week at this time, I'll be able to blog pictures of my sweet baby girl.  Even as I type that, it's so surreal to me.  This entire process has felt like an eternity and a blink of an eye all at the same time.  I will be taking one more bump picture before she goes into the hospital and I'll be sure to share that next week sometime.

I promise I will blog pictures as soon as I can, but those of you who aren't following me on Instagram or Facebook might want to consider one of those two things because those images will be uploaded before I get a chance to sit down and blog.

Lastly, I'm getting a little teary-eyed as I'm typing this last part because I am so overwhelmed with thankfulness for each and every single one of you.  When we embarked on this journey and I decided to blog my way through it, I never in my wildest dreams imagined that so many people would take interest and fall in love with our story.  I am so honored that so many of you make our little blog a place you curl up on your couches and visit, or check on your phone each morning, or check quick between chores.  There are many of you that I see each and every day, and more of you that I have never met in my life.  Both are equally amazing to me.  Thank you for caring about our little family.  Thank you for praying with and for us.  Thank you for joining us on this crazy, wild, and incredible ride.  You each mean the world to us.

Love -