Week 35

Today will be the beginning of your 35th week from gestation. Feels like you're just as impatient as I am. :) I can't wait...neither can you? Saw your face clearer on last Friday's ultrasound scan. You have daddy's high cheek bones and your eyes look like daddy's when he's asleep; thick, pouty lips that look like mine.

The way you've been playing with the umbilical cord worries me...it's hanging across on your chin now. Each time you move now, is a precious reassurance to me -- until we see Dr Yvonne Soong again next Friday.

When we saw you on the 32nd week, you were holding the umbilical cord to you mouth -- as if you're singing karaoke! The rest of the cord was twisted and piled up behind your head like pillow. You like pillows huh? At 4 months, you slept on the placenta; now the umbilical cord. Ok...Popo is making a husk pillow for you, Be a good girl and you will have that when you're out.

This week is a sad week...Gong gong's youngest brother passed away on Thursday. It's too sudden, the whole family is trying to get over the shock and grief. It's regretful that he did not get to see you...he would have been really delighted to see you. But you know what? The knowledge that you're coming out soon brought hope and anticipation to your granduncles and aunts as they pine for their lost little brother. You are the little rainbow that brings them hope in this unexpected storm...

Daddy and I were reminded again that you are God's gift of the rainbows of promises...

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