4D is way cool

So for months, Beck and I have been anticipating so much. We have wondered so many things, and continue to wonder those, and many more. It seems like the more we find out, the more we have opportunity to wonder.

We've discovered that Little E. is a boy, we've discovered that he's progressing along just fine. We've discovered that the fluid in his kidneys has gone down - as was expected. We've discovered that Little E. will be along just before Homecoming. We're anticipating that lots of people will want to hold him, and recently we've discovered what he looks like!

Now we know that he has my lower lip, Becky's cheeks and nose and my elbows.

We had our 32 week ultra-sound a few days ago, and got these great "4D" pictures - sort of by accident. We had paid the extra few dollars to get a DVD copy of the ultrasound session and somehow during the finalizing of the DVD, something messed up and the technician offered to redo the entire ultrasound. She said she'd do a few pictures in 4D, and put them on the new CD since the first one messed up - and this is one of the 4 on the CD.

Just after we got out from the ultrasound with the printed pictures, I couldn't stop looking at the pictures, looking at his face, knowing that that face was just a shadow of what I'd be looking into in the next few weeks.

We've got some names in mind, and now my mind turned to not just what name but what name would go with his face? His name could be this or that, but his face, his face will stay the same. Needless to say it's led to more discussions about him, about the future and about everything to come.

I wonder about what I'll teach him. I wonder about when he'll learn. I wonder if he'll sleep well through the night, or when - that is. I wonder if I'll sing him to sleep. I wonder if he'll turn his head at the sound of my voice. I wonder if he'll recognize his name. I wonder what color his eyes will be. I wonder what kind of hair he'll have. I wonder whose smile he'll have. I wonder so much, but not so much that I can't wait for those moments in the time that God has set them.