Electrocuted

Today the lady that cleans my floors decided to clean the bathroom. This is a rare event that happens when she wants to be nice to me. Today she did it while the washing machine was running. She cleans by dumping water everywhere (very strange and don't worry I always come behind her and clean again). Today she came downstairs and told me that she kept getting electrocuted! I had to explain to her that pouring water all over the place while the washing machine was running in a house that is not grounded is a bad idea. Oh my.

Feeling my sister's pain

My little sister, Emily, found out she was pregnant a couple of months after we did. We were so excited to go through this together. Then she found out she was having twins and we realized our situations would be a little different. She is having girls and we are having a boy. But now Emily is going to the doctor at least twice a week two hours away and there is always a fear that she is going to lose the girls. It has taken an unspoken toll on our family. I am 2 years older than Emily and so much of me feels this strange need to protect her from pain. When she went through a tough breakup, I was ready to kill the guy. It took me forever to forgive him and move on. Now I am on the other side of the world and there is NOTHING I can do to fix this. There is nothing we can do to take away the fear and the pain that she feels every day. She is 20 weeks and has to make it to 30. So ten or 11 more weeks of drudging through the trenches and learning more about the depth of the Lord's grace and mercy. I know I have no choice but to watch and pray as she struggles, so that I will do. It is hard. I find myself torn between excitement of Wyatt coming and this melancholy lull as I constantly think of the twins situation. If the twins make it to 30 weeks they will be born around the same time as Wyatt. If they don't make it then Wyatt will be a constant reminder of their loss. Uggh! Very hard times right now. Please continue to pray for us, for our family, and especially for Emily and Mike.

Arranged marraige

This is one of my favorite parts of an Indian newspaper. Never gets old! Kinda like this magazine my dad always picked up to see what things were for sale. At the end of the magazine was the meet-a-mates!  But in these articles, the parents are the likely ones who are sending out the ad for their children!

Baby gifts!

One fun thing about being overseas is the excitement of getting packages with little outfits for Wyatt. Our first little outfit was from Levi's mom. We loved it! These overalls are too cute!

We just got a package from our old neighbor/ great friend Abby who has been way too sweet and excited about Wyatt coming into the world. Here is what she sent us! Our favorite is the first onesie! We LOVE that she thought of us! The rest are way too cute too! She even thought of me and Levi!

Thank you so much Abby for these precious clothes and for all the snacks you sent us! We will share with the team and have a big cookout for Diwali.

Pregnancy 28 weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 28 weeks

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 8 lb.

Maternity Clothes: Always on pants, occasionally on shirts.

Best Moment this week: Finding out we are having a boy and feeding him lots of beef!

Gender: It's a boy! Wyatt Taylor Lance.

Movement: He moves all the time, but especially on the train! weird, huh?

Food Craving: none really, i crave water a lot though. so thirsty all the time

What I miss: sleeping on my belly

Sleep: struggle to make it through the night without getting up a few times for the bathroom

What I am looking forward to: fixing up his room. We have it painted, now we are having curtains made and putting shelves up

 Belly Button: Levi says it is out but I still claim it is in!

Week 27 (Third Trimester)

Well, here we are! We have hit a new phase in pregnancy! The doctors here don't know what to think about this baby that they claim is 2 weeks ahead of where it should be! My landlords are determined to come to Delhi to see this baby, the lady who does my floors is determined to carry this baby around with her wherever she goes, the neighbors are talking and the main subject is what the sex of the baby will be and who is going to keep it! This little one is definitely going to have people who love it!

These days the baby moves like crazy, but when we try to videotape it he gets camera shy and stops moving! Yesterday you could see a knee or an elbow jabbing! It kinda grossed Levi out a little. haha.

I am searching for lullabies and things to sing to the baby. You know, it is important to find that "perfect song" "perfect verse", ect. This little one won't have much materially compared to Americans, but we live among people who have nothing so a little for us will seem like so much! What is important is how he begins this new world spiritually...

Here are a few pics of the 27th week. I think these pants make me look fat but oh well! I guess this is the only time I can enjoy fat pictures.

Landslides

Rainy season was really bad this year. For different parts of India, this means different things. In the plains there was lots of flooding, and the mosquitoes where horrible bringing Dengue fever into the country with a vengeance. In the mountains, this means landslides. Levi and I went to the doctor about 4 hours down the mountain last week and saw 15 landslides! I took some pictures on the ride over to our friends house yesterday. I hope it gives you an idea.

This is not a good picture but maybe you can tell where all the rocks, trees and dirt fell. It has been cleaned now.

A total mess!

Everywhere we go we get stuck behind a machine that is dumping dirt into a dump truck. We all have to wait until the truck is full before we can go again!

These days there is always at least one or two places where we have to wait for at least 30 minutes. This is a good exercise in our patience!

The roads are not easy to travel on right now...that is for sure!

The red house on top of the hill is where our friends Abby, Allison, D and Coop used to live. We are glad they don't live there right now because they would be stuck!

The landslide happened right beside their house! Crazy!

It ran into this shop and really made a mess. You can see the small walking path that people are using to get to their homes.

There are piles and piles of dirt and rocks that line the sides of the roads now!