A Message to my Darling Maggie.

Dear Maggie,

I have sat around thinking long and hard about what to write to you. So many thoughts are running through my head trying to find the right words to say. All of my life I have thought about finding the right woman, getting married and having children. Now this has become a reality. Your arrival is just weeks away and I am so excited to meet you. I am curious to know how you will be. What do you look like? How will you act? The one thing that I don’t question is how I feel about you. You have not even come into this world yet, but I love you so much. I am already so proud of you. I want so much to hold you and kiss you and tell you all of this. I want to hold you by the hand and take you to your first day of school. I want to give you a hug and tell you to have a good day, and that everything will be alright. There are so many more things that I want to do that will have to wait. I need to just enjoy you as you are and try not to rush this life. I need to enjoy it all as it comes. I will love you everyday and a little more the next.
Can't wait to see you.
Love,
Papa

The only thing I have to give you.

I promise to hold you as much as possible
I promise to cover you in kisses every day
I promise to tell you how pretty you are all the time
I promise to bury my face in your neck and memorize your smell
I promise to say I love you
I promise to have special mama time with you regularly
I promise to be there for the beginning and the end of every first day of school
I promise to teach you to ride a two-wheeled bike
I promise to encourage you in any sport or hobby you choose
I promise to come to all of your games
I promise to love your Papa until the end of time
I promise to always remind you that you were made from love
I promise to buy you your first car, but only one
I promise I will always keep you safe, until you are 16 and you drive away for the first time on your own, then I promise I will cry.
I promise to take you dress shopping
I promise to teach you how to wear makeup
I promise to never make you have a haircut you don't like
I promise that if you have my butt, I will help you find jeans to fit it, at any cost
I promise to glow with pride at your every accomplishment
I promise you can go anywhere you want for college
I promise to pay for your education, as long as you do your part
I promise to glow on your graduation days, your wedding day and on the day of the birth of your children
I promise to always surround you with people who love you
I promise to protect you from the ugly stuff, but never let you pretend it doesn't exist
I promise that I will make mistakes
I promise there will be days that you hate me
I promise that even on those days, I will love you more than anyone else in the whole world
I promise to be your mama until I take my last breath
Then I promise to look over you from heaven and keep your children safe, so that you can make all these promises to them too.

I love you Magdalena.

You go to the head of the class...over acheiver!

Last week we had our 30 week check up. On avaerage, Maggie should be measuring about 1 cm for every week. At the 28 week check up she was right on par, as usual. At the 30 week check up she measured 32.5 cm! That means she grew 4.5 cm in 2 weeks. And it shows!

31 weeks