double digits!!

we have reached into the double digits of our pregnancy! week 10 baby. still a long winter ahead of us but its one week closer to celebrating a new birthday in our growing family. some fun facts we have learned this week is that the baby is starting to take more of a human shape now! bones and cartilage are forming and small indentations on the legs are developing into knees and ankles. baby's arms are complete with elbows and can already flex.  the human body is something i have always been marveled with but with the progression of this new life in me, i can't help but be more interested in all the amazing things the human body can be capable of.  i have yet to be visited by the "morning sickness monster". i have been pretty lucky.  i can't wait for the burst of energy when we enter our 2nd trimester. trust me, i am counting down...2 more weeks! 

there's so much to look forward to this month; birthdays, bridal showers, vegas, friends from florida, the list goes on and on!!! i love september!!! 

i am going to leave you with a story i read that was shared on facebook. it really left an imprint on my heart. i hope it gives you courage.

 This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!