tomorrow??!!

i don't have anything profound to say. nothing fancy. no lifechanging revelations to share.

but we might be having our brooks tomorrow.

holy.
freaking.
heck.

i can't even form words beyond that. so excited. so nervous. so thankful. so excited (did i mention that?). if things look better than we expect tomorrow, we'll check again on monday and you can read this blog over again on sunday night. if we haven't had him by then, i'll try to come up with something a little more eloquent.

until then...please keep us in your prayers. our little guy is still really little (just over 5 lbs) and running out of amniotic fluid (thus the reason he may be making his entrance tomorrow). please pray for his lungs, that they will be strong (we got to see him practice breathing in utero yesterday...very cool). pray for his brain, that it will be developed appropriately. pray for his little body and his beautiful heart, that he will be perfectly equipped for what God has for him in his life with us. and pray for his unprepared, scared to death, about to lose it with excitement and hopefulness parents (that's us...). we have waited for what feels like so long (ok, now i'm getting emotional and wordy...). we have prayed and begged God for this exceptional miracle. the thought of finally holding him, seeing him, hearing him cry is beyond what our imagination can even manage to imagine. i haven't loved being pregnant, but i have loved every second of carrying this boy, this miraculous, beautiful child. the bond we feel and the amount of love both jeremy and i have for brooks is incredible, particularly given the fact that we've never even met him. that God works in a parent's heart like that is one of my favorite God things...that was a good idea He had...

many of you ask us regularly, "how's our boy doing?" or "when is our baby coming?" then you laugh and apologize and rephrase to say "your boy" or "your baby". it's ok. we get it. even those of you not related to us do it, and it always makes me smile. you have all prayed us up to and through these coming days; we couldn't have made it without you. you love us, you love our baby, and we hope that seeing God work in our lives has blessed you the way that you have blessed us. don't stop praying for us. we're going to need it now more than ever. brooks is going to need you in his life, helping shape the person he is meant to be.

we can hardly wait for you to meet him. and it just might be tomorrow!
we love you all.