My belly button..

It's official. My belly button is sticking out, like really out there.

Week 30 is here! I can't believe I have ten.. ten?! more to go! It's so crazy that in ten short weeks, a little more than 2 months, this little kicking and squirming baby will be here. The guessing game over whether it's a boy or girl will be over and we will get to meet this little thing! (I apologize if those that are reading are thinking... ten more weeks? When is it just going to get here?)

I love that our little baby is going to come into this world already thought and prayed for by many people for over 9 months! My parents said they prayed for us.. prayed for all of us kids before we were born. For our lives, our hearts, our relationship with God.. our spouses, our futures. They even prayed for our teeth! (that one payed off, that I one thing I get to brag about). They did forget to pray for our eyes though, oops.

Luke and I have been praying every night for our growing baby, and we want to ask if you will pray too. For those who do read this.. will you pray? Here's our prayer requests :)

1. For a healthy baby! For no medical complications with the baby and strong development of.. everything!

2. For the delivery. Fast and fairly easy! (hey, I can pray what I want right?) We want to pray for God's perfect timing and for every step of the way during the delivery.

3. For our nurses and doctors in the hospital. Please pray for hand-picked nurses that are a wonderful, encouraging support and can make the delivery as painless as possible. One specific request.. we LOVE our baby doctor, Dr. Schoel. Please pray that she can be the one to deliver! There are quite a few doctors that could deliver, but pray that it would work out to be her!

4. For the after-party.. which means, pray for the first couple weeks after this baby is born. Pray for Luke and I to be able to figure this thing out! Pray for feeding and sleeping, and for an all around happy baby.

5. Oh, and for the first couple days still in the hospital. I really hate hospitals and they kinda make me.. anxious. Pray that it is smooth sailing during that recovery time.

6. While you're praying, it wouldn't hurt to pray for Luke and I financially as this baby arrives. For anyone who has had one (a baby that is), I'm sure you get this.. I don't think we quite understand it all, but just pray that the Lord provides, as he always does!

Thank you a million times!

Luke & Kristen

Merry Christmas dear baby!

Dear baby,

Today is Christmas! As your uncle Ryan said, "a baby was born, our lives were changed." So true. Today we celebrated with the Kirkpatrick family in the morning and afternoon, then with the Prosser side in the evening. Tonight we laid in bed while Luke played worship songs on his guitar and you kicked and kicked! I think you really like hearing him play. :) We cannot WAIT for next years Christmas. Can't wait to open presents with you in the morning and see family. mmm, can't wait for you to be a part of our family!

What a miracle our baby Jesus was years ago, and what a miracle you are to us! We love you little one!

- mom and dad...

Week 29

We're getting up there! This is what's happening in the world of the baby.. It now weighs 2.5 lbs, amount the weight of a butternut squash (mmm) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel! The muscles and lungs are continuing to mature and the head is growing bigger to make room for the developing brain.

The kicking, stretching and pushing is just getting bigger, it is so wonderful! The other night we went to the Prossers house and of course, it was kicking away. I wish I could have taken a picture of the 4 girls gathered around my belly waiting for the kicks. Britt felt a good one.. It was special. :) It doesn't really follow a pattern, just whenever it feels like being awake!

I'm reading a book called Baby Wise, recommended by a few people about sleep habits and all that. It's good stuff! I feel like I'm getting to crunch time here, this baby is coming!

I had a regular check up last week, everything is going great! The heartbeat was at an adorable 150.

Here I go, off to write Christmas cards and address them. Oh boy.

family Christmas

Here's some photos from our wonderful photo shoot we had with Johnna! Thanks so much Johnna! Our love our cute little family (is that ok to say?) and I love that we're expanding. Can't wait for next year's photos!

enjoy. Merry Christmas!

third trimester begins!

Less than 3 months left?! I just started the third trimester in week 28, and feeling bigger every day. I had a regular baby doctor check up yesterday, got to hear the little heartbeat again! It's at 150 ish.. so, pretty normal, can't tell boy or girl from that really.

I'm sick today.. flu? headache? just achy all over. That means I'm planted in front of the couch.. already watched You've Got Mail, License to Wed, and I'm on to a lot of Friends episodes.

Here's a picture of a date night Luke and I had last week.. well, kinda. We went to dinner and Triple Espresso with my school, tons of fun. This non-preggo dress definitely worked!

Until next time.

it's christmas time.

As Erin says, this is the girls hanging out. maybe Ernie?!?

Good morning! Welcome to week 27 in the life of Baby Prosser! It really does feel like it's going super fast. But then, there's other times when I remember being pregnant in the summer and here it is almost Christmas... and I still have three months of go?! That seems long.

3 months from today, we will (hopefully) be meeting our little son/daughter! Quite amazing.

This week, the baby weighs almost 2 pounds and is about 14.5 inches long with the legs extended. It's sleeping and waking at regular intervals (yes, our bed time is baby's party time), opening and closing its eyes and even sucking those little fingers! With more brain tissue developing, the baby's brain is very active now. While the lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning - with a lot of medical help - if the baby were to reveal itself now. I haven't felt them yet, but this is the time when I might be able to feel like baby hiccups! Cuuuute.

And for me? Here come the muscle cramps, achy back and restless nights. It hasn't been bad at all so far, but my legs are soo jumpy. I know I might not say this in a couple months, but I love every bit of it. I will gladly take some pain knowing that a little.. human is developing inside of me! wonderful.

Still keeping up with the doctors appointments at 4 week intervals (H1N1 shot? check.) and doing the prego fitness classes.

Here's our Christmas tree that we set up this year. It will be so fun to bring a little baby along next year to pick out a perfect tree.

birthing class....

one word to describe that entire experience....messy. pure messy. i saw 5 births happen before my own eyes. the one i was supposed to watch in 6th grade, i turned my head away and talked to my friends through that experience. so going from not seeing one thing about this process to seeing 5...lets just say my eyes were not the only thing opened wide. yucky! la;skjdf;lakjsdfl;ajksdf;jsdf (keyboard freak out) and to add to that, we were in a huge auditorium/movie theater type setting. and im not joking you, i watched these things on a 90 foot screen. i am forever changed.

and looking around seeing everybody else in the place are almost ready to pop and here we are, 4 months away from having our baby...i couldn't help but get a little upset and think "we are here wayyyyy too soon". now i have to live with myself and what i saw for 4 whole months.

As we were watching the gore happen, i looked over at kristen and wanted to comfort her a bit by touching her leg. i hadnt even gotten my hand ready and she looked at me and said "DONT TOUCH ME.." hahahaha. OH, and if that wasn't bad enough to be watching these 'shows' one after another, our teacher gave us blow pops to suck on during them as a kind, little gesture...blow pops!! unbelievable, i grabbed a strawberry one too...wellllll, blow pops will forever be tarnished in my head...thanks a lot.

...we went wayyyy to early...

all in all, i did learn a few tricks, some comfort measures and some breathing techniques im suppose to coach kristen through. shes gonna be totally awesome/amazing and im super pumped to meet our human.