Wanted: Your Prayers.

So as concerned as everyone is for my health and well-being, I'm not the one to be worrying about right now. Let's direct our attention to Baby Cute's great grandparents--Great Grandma Ebig (my Dad's Mom), Great Grandpa Casey (David's Mom's Dad) and Great Grandma Scott (David's Dad's Mom).

Grandma Ebig is tough. Not only did she raise four boys, one of them was my Dad. I do not envy her. Well, Grandma apparently didn't remember chemistry class from school and mixed bleach and ammonia while cleaning. Oops. So off to the hospital she went. To make this long story short, she ended up having a heart catheter and they cleared one totally blocked artery, one 85% blocked artery and put in nine stints. My parents report that she is doing well. Like I said, she is tough. But she needs your prayers.

Grandpa Casey is an accordion-playing, sports-loving, Wheel of Fortune-watching wonder. He is David's and my only living Grandpa, so he is pretty special to us. Grandpa's been weak lately, had a couple of falls and is struggling to balance out his medications. Grandma Irene deserves a medal, because reportedly Grandpa is not a good patient. Yesterday, he went back to the hospital. There are, of course, lots of tests to do, but please keep Grandpa Casey in your thoughts and prayers. David is heading to Kalamazoo as I type to be with his Grandma and help however he can, if only just by being there. We are so blessed that David's off right now and that Kzoo is only an hour or two away.

Grandma Scott lives in the Alpine-flavored town of Gaylord and still mows her own lawn and blows her own snow. We have a common love of cheesy romance novels and of course, David. Grandma took her first trip in many years to attend her other grandson Bradley's engagement party in Virginia. She had an unfortunate run-in with a curb and took a bad fall, shattering her kneecap and getting pretty bruised up. It's been a few weeks since her surgery and the news from Gaylord is that she is doing well and starting physical therapy soon. But Grandma Scott, too, needs your prayers.

Baby Cute and I are great. We appreciate having a desk job where we keep cool and get to sit down most of the day. I feel good overall. It's harder to move around and I keep knocking into things with my belly. It apparently protrudes farther than I think it does. David finds this funny. Baby Cute is throwing quite a party inside my uterus, barrel-rolling, kicking a ball (oh no, Baby Cute, that's my bladder!) and startling in response to loud noises. He's up at 6:30, 9, 3, 7 and 10 pretty consistently. We'll see how well this schedule coincides to life outside of the womb. I can tell he is running out of room as it feels more and more like he's trying to get out. Not yet, Baby Boy. We've got 10 weeks of gestation left.

30 week updates. 70 days to go. Holy Crapoly.

BabyCenter: Your baby's a bit more than 15 1/2 inches long now, and he weighs almost 3 pounds. A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds him, but that volume will decrease as he gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. His eyesight continues to develop, though it's not very keen; even after he's born, he'll keep his eyes closed for a good part of the day. When he does open them, he'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means he can only make out objects a few inches from his face. (Normal adult vision is 20/20.)

BabyGaga: The light is visible at the end of the tunnel! Your oversized self and amazing growing baby have finally reached the single digits (in terms of weeks till birth)! The fine lanugo hair that has been growing all over their little monkey-like body is going to start falling off this week in preparation for the big day. But don’t be shocked if they’re hairier than you’d anticipated, some babies keep their lanugo until after birth. Still, it’s not any cause to be concerned as it will fall off eventually. No surprises here: your little porker is getting even cuter with increasingly pudgy arms and legs this week thanks to the ever-growing layers of subcutaneous fat. In terms of numbers, your baby should be weighing in at around 3 pounds 12 ounces (or more!) and be nearly 16 inches long.