20 Weeks

Today I am 20+1 weeks. (The photo was taken last Sunday). I am thrilled to be a smidgeon over halfway.

A revelation.

There is a little tiny girl growing inside of me, and I couldn't be happier about it. I still have not felt the baby babe move, so watching her on the screen was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. Her little heart beat! Her little legs! Her little toes! Her waving arms! And here, her little profile:

S and I had the technician mark a card for us, so we could open it up together alone, over crepes. It worked out perfectly.

My two favorite boys on Radio Flyers.

It was the loveliest walk. And night.

Once upon a time we had family photos taken.

(Little did we know on that January day that there was already a little babe inside of me, that would soon expand my belly and our family.)

Sometimes someone you admire asks you to co-edit a book with them.

And even though you are overwhelmed, and pregnant, and moving across the country, you say, "Yes."

(Sometimes that person also appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart in the last year.
And gave a beautiful address at the conference that you spoke on Heavenly Mother.)

If you are wondering if this is the hardest semester of my life,

the answer is, "Yes. Yes it is."

In October.

(Card via Sycamore Street Press.)