“I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:14)
Fearfully and wonderfully made.
Impossible not to think of that verse when you’re watching a tiny little person squirm around on a screen.
So perfectly formed, every single part. A tiny, beating heart with four chambers. Minuscule fingers and toes. A perfectly aligned row of the tiniest little bones, curving and flexing in the spine as the baby moves around. A sweet little mouth opening and closing. That little bump nose that has appeared on every single one of our ultrasounds.
Just so perfect and so precious.
Incredible, really, that I can just exist here, while God quietly knits together someone new so intricately inside me.
What a miraculous gift.
Our fourth little Baer boy. We couldn’t be more thrilled. He looks to be healthy and growing properly, and we are just so grateful for another little boy.
On the way to school a few days ago, I was thinking about our baby and imagining what it'd be like if we had a little girl, and that was such a sweet thought, but then when I thought of having another little boy, my heart just melted into a puddle. I already have three, but I wanted another little boy so much. I can't quite believe he's on the way!
Alec was hoping for a sister (all the boys were at one point), but he took the news of another brother like a little man. He just can’t wait to have another baby in the house!
Sebastian somehow didn’t put two and two together when I asked him if he wanted to see a picture of his baby brother, and when he realized about ten minutes later that we were having a boy, he jumped up and down and shrieked and hollered. He had just told my sister he was hoping it was a boy.
Emmett would say he wanted a sister, but when asked if he wanted a baby boy or a baby girl, he would say baby boy, so I think he just had the normal two-year-old confusedness when it comes to such things. He’s excited for a new baby! He now says he’s a boy, and the baby is a baby, so I guess he realizes he’s not the baby anymore.
We can’t wait for June. 🙂
Thank You, Lord, for another wonderful gift, for already knowing our new baby inside and out, for forming him so perfectly. We can’t say thank You enough.
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand.” (Psalm 139:13-18)
