Eli's coming in just four weeks... here's the info!

Well, I had my first weekly check up today and Eli is getting ready to make his entrance! His head is down and I am dialated 1 cm and 40% effaced. I know that is sort of weird info to post on a blog, but just trying to keep the family updated! No info on how big he might be, though. Please pray for a small baby. Seriously. "You don't have because you don't ask..." comes to mind, so we are praying that he would start off small. We are also praying for a smooth and short labor and delivery. We believe that God could also allow him to be a good sleeper, so we are asking that too! Please pray for this with us! Each day we pray the same thing for Eli: that he would be big, strong, fast, athletic, and fun, joyful, happy, sleep throught the night and feed well, easy delivery, smart, bilingual (even though neither of us know any other language. What? God can do it!), saved at a young age but at the right time, protected from sexual sin and anger, that his wife would love Jesus, that God would give us wisdom on how to raise him; that he would be violent in his spirit to love God, full of the Holy Spirit, bring many people to Christ, he would have the faith to see Jesus heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and cleans the leapers. Hmm... can your hear his father's influence on the last part of the prayer? :) Please pray this with us... We have heard so many stories lately of people praying specific things for their children and then watch as the Lord molds them into the things their parents prayed when their kids weren't even in the world yet.

This is such an exciting time for us. It is weird thinking that at any time, there will be another little Perry in our house. Weird doesn't even explain it. Thank you to everyone who has given us some really great advice and insights on the whole baby process and raising kids. So much to learn! Ahhhhhhhh!

New Pictures added to slide show!

I just added pictures from month 7 and two showers to the slideshow. Take a look!

Beach trip 2008

We got to go to Gulf Shores, Alabama for vacation this year. Each time we go, we get family beach pictures taken and they are always a lot of fun!

All of a sudden, I have vienna sausages instead of toes

It has happened... Caleb and I went to a friend's house for dinner tonight and as soon as I got out of the car I noticed my legs and feet were sort of hurting. When I looked down I noticed that I no longer have toes. They now look like the little vienna sausages I loved to eat as a kid, now cannot even imagine looking at them in the canned meat aisle at the grocery store. Yeah, I know this is supposed to happen, but when you look down expecting to see regular looking toes and you see something that looks like a sausage that is made with the left over meats from all sorts of animals, it's a little shocking. Any "amen"s out there?

I finally understood today what every other woman who has had a late summer baby meant by, "Oh, I am so sorry! You will be so hot!" I thought to myself that maybe it really wouldn't be that bad... WRONG. I don't think I have ever sweated so bad in my life. Really, who would have thought that you could really feel like you were sitting right in an oven like that!

It's funny sometimes to think about the way God does things. Really, I thought my plan was so much better on the timing of this pregnancy. Get pregnant in the summer, have the baby in early spring, take the rest of the year off from teaching and have the entire summer to spend at home before I went back to school. I thought that plan was perfect. What teacher wouldn't? Well, this has been exactly opposite. Got pregnant in the winter, have the baby in the late summer, start school (hopefully) and then take only a few weeks off. Tell me, which one sounds better to you? Not saying that being pregnant during the summer is a terrible thing... I am talking more about when I try to make plans for my life and the Lord in his wisdom does otherwise. Oh, how my vision is so limited and cloudy compared to His. Once this pregnancy happened, it didn't matter to me about MY timing anymore. If all I have to complain about it being hot, then I feel pretty blessed. What's a few weeks out of my life to be hot. A few weeks, that's all. But while I am at it, man, I am burning up! :)

New Photography Blog

One of the things I really love doing is taking pictures. I am just starting to learn things with photography so I just do it for fun, but it is something I would like to do full-time one day. I decided the best way to get some more practice was to create a blog of just the pictures I have taken and maybe get some brave people to let me take their picture! So, if you are looking for some pictures to be taken, I'm your girl! Hey, what have you got to lose? If you don't like them we just take them again until you do! Couldn't ask for a better deal! :) Hope you will check it out! bperryphotography.blogspot.com

Here are some pictures of our life with Eli so far... it's so neat to see how both of us have grown. I will have more pictures of MY growth (month 7 and 8 pictures), and I hope I will get one more look at him before he comes! Enjoy!

Eli's journey so far...