Today is the halfway mark! Twenty weeks down and twenty to go!! Our little baby boy is growing more and more each day. I am feeling movement and kicking more regularly and strongly. Norm has felt the baby two times now. =)
Here are a few fun facts!!
-Today the baby should be 10 inches from head to heal. About the length of a banana. Haha!
- This week he should be 10 1/2 ounce. But when we went for our ultrasound a few weeks ago they said he was about a week ahead in weight. So he could be about 3/4 of a pound.
- His teeth are beginning to grow.
- His skin is clear and if we could see him we would be able to see his bones and organs.
- There are 140 days left until his due date. Kathleen’s 27th birthday (My sister)
I have been feeling ok! Especially with all we have been doing and the traveling. My mysterious back pain is slowly getting worse… I can’t tell yet if it is as bad as it was with Canaan at this point or not! We will see! Keep praying. Pray too for strength! I have been tiring out very quickly. Praise the Lord that I have a wonderful husband taking care of me and Canaan. Also it has been great with my family since they can’t get enough of Canaan… so that take a lot of the load as well!
After the family reunion in Illinois we all hopped on an airplane and headed down to California. We will be here for another week and a half before returning to Ontario. We have truly enjoyed the last couple weeks, they have been a welcome and much needed break after our French course in Québec. We had been feeling pretty burned out, it was time for a break. It is a joy to watch Canaan play with his grandparents and other family members, he just adores them and hardly notices us anymore!
On another note, I often listen to a podcast called ‘Nobody’s Listening‘, it’s hosted by a youth pastor in Missouri and is all about funny and embarrassing stories. He shares his stories and listeners call in with their own, I always get a good laugh out of it. For my birthday a couple of weeks ago Debra wrote a message to be read on the show. She also included a story about Canaan, his over active bowels, and my face, which was read on the show. I’ve embedded the podcast episode below, Deb’s message begins at 0:48 and is followed by the story.
One more thing! We are working on a newsletter that we would like to send out soon. If you have moved recently or have had any change of information you would like to tell us about, head on over to our change of address page. Thanks!
We are in Illinois attending a family reunion for Deb’s dad’s family. The Rutledge family has a lot of history in this area, in fact, Debra’s ancestor Ann Rutledge was engaged to Abraham Lincoln though she died of typhoid before they were married. We visited the Lincoln museum which for me was very interesting (I really enjoy history). Canaan though was a little concerned with the wax figures, I’m pretty sure he thought that they were real and by the look on his face Abe is a scary guy!
We’ve spent the last few days in Michigan catching up with some friends before heading down to Illinois for a family reunion. We have been staying with Matt and Jasmine Bennett, our good friends from college. Matt and Jasmine have a little boy the same age as Canaan and it has been fun to watch the two of them interact. Thanks so much Matt and Jasmine for your generosity!! We also had the opportunity to see the Dueck family, we will be working with them in Guinea, we were able to ask some questions about Guinea. Yesterday we had lunch with Kevin and Melissa Crowell. Kevin was my dorm in college and though they moved off to Wyoming and us to Canada we’ve kept in contact. We were excited to find out that they were visiting in Michigan for a few days and of course had to take the opportunity to hang out. Here’s a picture of Kevin, Melissa and Canaan:
We will be in Illinois for a couple of days and then on to California for two weeks. Looking forward to seeing all of our Californian friends and family!
Today we begin another voyage, this time through Michigan, Illinois and then California. And yes, when we finally get to California we will have traveled in a plane, a train and an automobile. Canaan will be super excited to experience all those modes of transportation! We will be in Michigan until Friday visiting friends before traveling on to Illinois for a family reunion and then onto Friday to spend a couple weeks with Debra’s family and church. Thanks for all the name suggestions on the previous post, we appreciate it! We will update as soon as we can.
Before we were even expecting Canaan, his name was chosen so we really never had to search and think about names. Until now! This time we have no idea what to name the baby. We had decided to wait until the ultrasound to even begin so that we would only have one gender to focus on. Since this past Monday we’ve been stumped! We keep thinking of interesting girl names but that doesn’t help us much!
A couple of years ago we asked you for ideas on naming our fish and we were surprised by nearly 30 submitted names! We’re hoping that you can help us out again! If you have any boy name ideas, let us know in the comments! We are looking for something unique, but not really strange. Granted, it is much easier to come up with silly names for a fish, but we would still appreciate any ideas!
The final results on our poll were 25 to 16 for the girls, but the question remains - who was right? This afternoon we received the exciting answer!
(drumroll please!)
Baby #2 is Boy #2!
We had a great appointment with our midwife and the baby seems to be progressing well. Debra is still having her mysterious pains in her side but we are nevertheless excited that the baby is healthy. The ultrasound was awesome, my mom was able to come and we watched our little boy squirm around. We watched as he did a huge yawn and the started sucking on his fingers. The pictures don’t even come close to capturing the moment but we have posted a few below anyways. Thanks everyone who took a guess on our poll!
In three hours we will be forever leaving our home in Québec! We will be going to get Canaan from the nursery, head over to our friends house for dinner and then head home to Ontario straight from there. We have found from past travels that Canaan sleep fine in the car and so night long trips are much easier. I’m not sure when we’ll next be able to update but of course we will as soon as possible! If you are for some reason curious about how our trip is doing you can follow our trip home on my twitter page at : http://www.twitter.com/normc (that is if I can find my missing cell phone before our departure).
Our time in Québec is down to the 11th hour, we have just a few more days before heading back to Ontario. Despite busy days full of cleaning and preparing, we have had a few opportunities to see friends. On Sunday our church had a potluck for us and the Martin family (another missionary family). We were very honoured and enjoyed our last meal with them, Canaan was able to spend some time with his friend Raymond (also called Monsieur Biscuit). Christy has been a huge blessing as well, having a third person has helped as we tag team watching Canaan. Almost every day this week we have dinner with someone and I know that Saturday will come way too quickly!
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