Only two and a half more weeks and our little girl will be joining us! We don't have a name yet, but we have a few possibilities at least!
I don't LOVE showing my "fat" picture, but here I am this week at 37 weeks pregnant:
We took this picture while visiting the "Big Buddha" at Ngong Ping Village. It was such a beautiful day! We had a typhoon level 10 last week which has cleared out the air and pollution somewhat and made for some beautiful days! This picture is of Lantau Peak. You can see the moon off to the side of the peak.
I think we have everything ready for our daughter now! I have folded and re-folded her (many) clothes three times, her bed is all set up, and we just bought a stroller!
John Paul has been so sweet! I have a hard time reaching my toes these days, so JP kindly gave me a pedicure! He did a great job, too!
Since I haven't put a blog update for a while, I missed updating about the best fireworks I have ever seen. This was on July 1st in celebration of the return of HK to China as a Special Administrative Region. The fireworks display lasted for 25 minutes and fireworks were shot from 5 barges in the bay as well as some from on top of buildings with lasers and music. It was amazing!
Our next update should be soon....with pictures of a little baby girl! :)
Last Sunday, John Paul and I were given a baby shower here in Hong Kong! We had a wonderful shower while we were in the States in March, so most all of our needs were already met! (A HUGE thank you to all of you who gave us that shower and came to it!). I will say, though, it was fun to actually be showing at this shower! In March, I was hardly showing at all!
Our Hong Kong shower was from our home group from church. We meet just about every two weeks for bible study, dinner and fellowship and have grown quite close to these other families.
The shower was held at one of the family's apartments where we usually meet. Everything was decorated with pink! Everyone in the group brought food and we had a huge meal, followed by LOTS of desserts!
After we ate, we played some baby games! The first one was called "Baby Babble" and we split into teams and tried to un-scramble words. "flouram" = formula, "setyfa inp" =Safety pin, and so on. Guess what? John Paul and I won! Hey - I've been reading many of these words over and over for many months now! I can spot them easily!
The next game was "Animal Babies." Do you know what a baby frog is called? Tadpole! Easy, right? What about a baby hawk? Eyas! How about a baby eagle? Fledgling! Many of them were pretty tricky!
We played a couple rounds of "Charades" with baby words. Lastly, they had all the dads (and the dad-to-be) compete in a contest of who could drink milk the fastest - out of a baby bottle! Just to make it a little worse, they heated the milk first!
Ater this game, most of the guys broke away to drink some coffee to wash away the taste!
After the games, everyone in our home group gathered around us and prayed for us and our baby. They prayed that we would be godly parents and that our daughter would come to know Him at an early age.
They gave us some wonderful gifts as well. They all went together and gave us a baby bathtub filled with gifts and a musical mobile (baby not included)!
In other news, John Paul has been flying a lot more recently. He just left this morning to fly to Seychelles! The weather has been very hot and humid here. We have enjoyed staying cool with smoothies!
Everything looks good with the baby, too! I just had a doctor's appointment this morning and she (and I) look good. So, now that we're 31 weeks, we have to start going to the doctor's office every two weeks.
Thanks for reading and keeping in touch! We love hearing from you.
