Well, I'm 30 1/2 weeks along now...and very glad I'm in the (long) last stretch of this! I love having a new baby, but the waiting period is very patience-trying. I'm sure it's good for me. Through this Advent season we've been reminded through Scripture readings, devotions, sermons, etc. that the expectation, the hope, the waiting, is as it should be. God meets us in the wilderness. No need for us to conjure up some kind of "goodness" for Him to reach out to us. And though we need to prepare for Him, we don't need to rush into the climax of things. So, I'm learning, pregnancy is such a great picture of us waiting on the Lord, and definitely builds character. :-)
Anyway, I'm starting to feel like I'm running out of room for my lungs and digestive system...hehe...and trying to remember to sit up straight. Feeling Noelle move a lot more...her feet are up towards my rib cage and I often feel her move them. David loves to blow on my big tummy and talk to Noelle and "tickle" her.
Advent seems like it's been flying by...I can hardly believe we're already in the third week! The Capezzas have been here for almost a week now, and it's been fun but has also flown by so far. We're hoping to go Christmas shopping together later this week (minus our boys), and out to eat, so that should be fun.
Kyrie is a sweet little chub--so pretty and happy and cuddly. Timothy and David love her...I have to remind them not to get in her face so much and not to overdo the kisses. I said to David, "That's enough kissing; talk to her." So he, in a voice suggesting she was hard of hearing, said, "Hi Ka-wa-yay! Ka-wa-yay Alay-sa-song!" And she replied with a squeaky "Aah!"
It's been wintry here for a couple weeks now, and I'm so glad we're finally having a bit of real winter, for the first December in years, it seems. We've had a good bit of snow that stuck around ever since the first snowfall, and a couple times we've gotten this thick frost that clings to the branches of the trees and makes them completely white and sparkly. It's so pretty.
