Singing

Two days after we arrived back from the States we had a Liederabend at the church in Zwickau. Basically our group- we have named ourselves the "Chemnitz Acapella Singers"- sang for about 45 minutes to 1 hour with a couple of descriptions of the songs we were singing as well as two short talks by Steffen and Alex about what the songs mean to us. It was a good evening with fellow Christians and I believe a few visitors. Everyone said it was so encouraging! Here are some photos.





Then on September 22nd we did another Liederabend in Oelsnitz.



Here is a picture of me right before we went to Oelsnitz. I was 23 weeks then.

Tagged

Here are the rules: (1)Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. (2) People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. (3) At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names.

1. I've always loved music and thought I would love to be a music teacher but in the last few years I think my main goal in life has shifted to wanting to be a good wife and mother. Of course I will always love music and will always be involved in it in some way... who knows... maybe one day I will teach as well.

2. I'm not one to have perfect grammar, but it really bugs me when I read simple words that are misspelled. For example: the past tense of lead is led. It seems like I constantly read simple words like these misspelled by intelligent people. What is up with that?

3. Lately I have been addicted to eating bread with oil and balsamic vinegar like those nice Italian restaurants serve. Clint has always liked to eat that so we have eaten it with a meal from time to time, but lately I want it all the time.

4. I'm an introvert and somewhat shy especially when I just meet people, but after I get to know someone pretty well it may seem like I am an extrovert. :)

5. Clint and I have started watching Gilmore Girls on a regular basis and started on season 1 and are now on season 4.

6. I have never been a morning person. A lot of times I stay up way too late and then I don't want to wake up early. I am working really hard on that one and try to set my goal at getting in bed and reading at 10:00 p.m. but it doesn't always work out that way.

7. I like going about my daily activities in a specific order when I can. I have somewhat of a routine and try to follow it unless I have other appointments or things going on.

8. I try to remember to send a card or note to people on their birthday. Lately I haven't been as good about that, but it is something I try to do.

Baby Update- Week 22

On September 13th, we had an appointment with a specialist to check on the baby's development and see how everything was going. They were able to see all the organs and see if everything was working properly. They also measured different parts of the body to see if it was on schedule size-wise. My regular doctor, Dr. Ruppert, said that we should be able to find out the sex at this appointment since the equipment is very high tech and everything. We were so excited to go to this appointment since it had been about 5 weeks since we had seen a doctor at all and we hadn't been able to see any ultrasounds for awhile or find out the sex yet. When we arrived there, we were excited to find out that they also do the 3D pictures during the ultrasound and we had the choice of buying the 3D pictures alone, buying a full video of the entire ultrasound plus the 3D pictures, or just a CD with clips of the ultrasound plus the 3D pictures. We went for the full video and 3D pictures. We went in there and it was really fun to get to see how much Eby had grown and see "him" moving around. Then it was really amazing to get to see the 3D pictures. To actually see a little face was amazing! Before we had started she asked us if we wanted to know the sex and we told her "yes!" Well, the doctor went through the whole ultrasound and checked everything and it all was on schedule and looked good and healthy. We also were able to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time! That was really neat.
Then at the end she said something to the effect of, "Well, I guess we are not going to be able to tell what the sex is. You will have to see at your next appointment." Talk about being disappointed. I know we had told everyone that we would find out as soon as we got back from Germany and here our doctor is saying she doesn't know! But the main point is that the baby is healthy and we realize it isn't so important to know right now. We would love to know and it would be convenient for us so that we can do some planning, but we can do that all without knowing anyway. One bad thing about the video is that it is a German VHS tape which does not work on our American one. So we think we will ask a friend to put it on a DVD and then I can post it on here hopefully. Here are the 3D pictures that we got.




This is the profile.



This is the head and face. You can really see the face in the top picture. How cool! In the bottom picture, Eby had put his arms up over his face. That's our cutie!