Maybe one of these days in the next month, I'll get someone to snap some pictures on my actual camera, but for now, these phone photos will have to do!  

I am 36 weeks pregnant with baby #4 this week.  That means only 5 more weeks to go, at the most!  Hooray!  I am getting more and more eager to meet this sweet baby girl.  To put a face to a name, to get to know her personality, to hold her little squishy newborn self, to see how big she is!

I am feeling good.  Starting to get more tired as the weeks progress, and feeling more and more torpedo-belly-like!  Some of my maternity shirts don't cover the belly anymore, which makes me laugh.  I am having a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions these days, and feeling like there is a large bowling ball pressing down on my pelvis.  If I didn't have a history of having babies that were born a week late, I might think she could make her appearance in the next several weeks.  Who knows! All babies are so different! 

Eliana and I toured the hospital yesterday, so I know where to go and what it is like.  Definitely made it a little more real - that super soon I'll be in labor with this baby, and getting ready to meet her!  I am soaking up these last few weeks of being pregnant and carrying this babe in my belly - feeling her wiggle and kick and dance in my belly is such a precious experience.  

Oh, and super happy news!  We found out last week that Max gets a break between the two courses he is taking in TX.  Guess when that break just so happens to be?!  The beginning of November!  He'll be flying back here for a week or so, and if she is late like the others, he'll be here for her birth!  Which was something we did not think was even a possibility!  Even if she does come earlier, we know he gets to come home for a time to meet her and spend some time here as a family.  Yay God!