10 and a halfish weeks

I'd love to drop these "halfish" week guesses. I have my first appointment this week at the military hospital where I plan to deliver. Military medicine abides by the "only one necessary ultrasound" rule at 20 weeks, so I'm not expecting to have one this week, despite the fact that I'd love to nail down a more specific estimate of when this little one will make his/her appearance. Plague of the planner, I suppose.

Anyway, I read this awesome passage in the book Nine Months and Counting by Alice Chapin that really has me reeling. "Sit by yourself today and imagine God at work forming the new life inside you, cell by cell: baby's head, eyes, inner parts, skin, legs, and feet. Surely, if we could watch it happening with our eyes, we would fall on our knees at our heavenly Father's feet!" How true this is for me! As I read week by week all of the miraculous progressions that baby is making, it really just leaves me awestruck with wonder about this whole process. How amazingly true is Psalm 139:13-14 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." I can't wait to see the fruit of these wonderful works!