Well, I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the Anderson Household will be expanding by two feet in March :-)
We’re very excited to say the least. It took us a little longer to get here than we though it would. Just one of the things that has made this last year challenging; but God’s timing is perfect! This resolves the job vs. school vs. moving to Grand Junction dilemma for me/us and makes decisions about the immediate future much simpler. Our plans at this point are to 1: Have a baby in March, and 2: Potentially move to Grand Junction in June-ish. Grad School will go back on the back-burner for me, which was the original plan anyway. I probably won’t go back to work for a while after the baby either; and Praise God! He has provided us with the financial means through Jess’ Air Force scholarship so I won’t have to go back to work at all if I don’t want to!
At this point we’re just taking life one day at a time, and enjoying this incredible blessing that God has given us. I have been VERY fortunate so far to have had minimal sickness and fatigue. Wednesday (Sept 21st) is 14 weeks, and officially the beginning of my second trimester. We have had 2 ultrasounds so far, and are blessed to have what appears so far to be a perfectly healthy peach-sized baby who already has legs longer than the average adult… okay maybe a small exaggeration (but the kid already has seriously long legs! Wonder where he/she gets it!?!). Jess, my mom, and several other family members are convinced it’s a girl. I don’t have any premonitions at all, I’m just reveling in the fact that it’s going to be a baby of my very own; and hoping that, boy or girl, it has blue eyes and dimples like it’s daddy!
I haven’t felt it, and don’t have much of a bump yet (Jess and I can tell, but everyone else says they can’t), but I’m becoming increasingly aware of his/her existence. I’m looking forward to actually “looking pregnant,” starting to feel it move in a month or so, and of course finding out if it’s a boy or a girl in early Nov. What a fun Birthday gift!
Life is certainly busy, and I have as much as I can handle being a pregnant med student’s wife and a full-time nurse. It feels like two full-time jobs sometimes, but it is so worth it! I just can’t wait until I can focus on just being a wife and a mom for a while. I’ll try to update more often now, didn’t feel like blogging while Junior was still a secret; but now that I can share freely again, I plan to!
