27 Weeks and Holding Steady

Every mark of a new week in this pregnancy is such a blessing...

and gives us encouragement and hope for strong, healthy babies.

We've seen a doctor every week (and will continue to unless something changes).

One week it's my OB and the next it's the perinatologist.

So far we've had good reports!

Basically they tell us that things with me are staying about the same (which to us is good news) 

and both girls are growing and doing great.

As of this week:

Baby A= 2 pounds, 2 ounces

(She has slightly less amniotic fluid- something to watch but not worry about at this point.)

Baby B= 2 pounds, 3 ounces

(She is the one that I don't feel moving quite as much as her sister, but she must be fooling me because every other week she turns-- breech, then head down, then breech again.  

Sneaky thing!)

We have SO much to be thankful for, but I will be honest that there are moments that it's hard to keep that kind of perspective.  I start to think about what I wish I could do 

(take care of Brooklyn myself, help others instead of always asking for them to help me, pack us up and head out for a vacation, ... just walk around the neighborhood or go shopping, ...)

But those moments go as fast as they come when I start to rearrange my thoughts to see that we are good.  

We're more than good, we're incredibly blessed.

Even in what we consider to be so difficult, I know there are people who would much rather be in our shoes than their current ones.

I could list a million things that could be worse right now, but it's not even worth the time and effort of doing that.  

So, all in all, I am staying positive, grateful, thankful, humbled, 

and even happy to be right where we are :)

The Lord keeps laying these verses on my heart:

 Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

James 1:2-4

I have learned (am learning!) to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:11-13