Seventeen weeks! Twenty-three weeks to go until we meet you! The app on your daddy’s phone says that you are currently the size of a large onion! I find it interesting that this app uses fruits and vegetables to visualize your growth from week to week. And I find it really strange that you’re being compared to an onion. Seriously? Your mommy told me that the measurement is actually from the top of your head to your tailbone – it doesn’t include your legs. You can still fit in the palm of my hand!
In spite of the questionable use of an onion comparison, I suspect that you are and will continue to be very much like an onion. An onion has layers that can be peeled off one at a time. Instead of peeling off layers, for the next twenty-three weeks, you are adding layers! Here’s the amazing thing about you. You already have all the things – you have arms and legs - you have skin – toes – eyes. God already knows the length of your legs and the color of your eyes. We have to wait with anticipation. You even have all your inside things too! As the weeks pass, you will add inches and weight to your body and layers of fat under your skin so that at the end of those twenty-three weeks, you will be born, plump and healthy and ready to take on the world. And that will be when the layers start to peel off! Not physically. You will continue to grow, but every week, a new layer will disappear, and every time a layer peels off, there will be cheering, laughing, and possibly happy tears just like peeling an onion! You will smile – layer gone. You will hold your head up – another layer gone. Rolling over – really big layer! Pulling up on the side of the crib – and so it goes. Layer after layer will peel away as you grow day by day.
Peeling also occurs in a different way – a much more subtle way. As you grow physically, the layers of your personality will peel away also. Amazingly, like your body, your personality is already developing while you are in mommy’s tummy. Even though you are no bigger than a large onion, experts say that you already react to your mommy’s feelings as she goes about her day, and that contributes to your personality growth. That’s really good because that means you are happy and sweet and full of love for other people already. I can hardly wait to watch those layers peels away to expose all the beauty of your mother’s personality in you! Somewhere in there, you also have personality traits from your daddy! Those traits will be sweet and loving as well, but (insert smile and wide eyes here) with a strong dose of determination. That’s a really good thing! It means that when you decide to do something, you’ll do it. There won’t be anything “wishy-washy” about you, plus people will always know where they stand with you; however, it is does mean that your parents will need to peel that layer with a lot of love, prayer, and patience! And, like peeling an onion, there will be tears – most will be happy tears – some will not.
I just realized – there is actually such a thing as a “pearl” onion! It’s tiny and sweet, and full of flavor – that describes you perfectly. You are already “flavoring” our lives with joy! Your entire family is patiently waiting for you to arrive – we don’t want to miss a layer!
Love,
BB
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