Preggers and Loving It!

Wow, a lot has happened since I wrote my last blog. We have settled in to living in Taiwan quite nicely. God answered our prayers for my visa and we got it while on a visa run to Thailand. We didn't have one document we needed, but God was on our side and they had mercy on me and granted me a resident visa. I then was able to get my spouse ARC in Taiwan and I will even qualify for insurance in early July, hopefully before Baby Hong arrives. (Due July 20th) I have been really bad about blogging ever since I joined Facebook, but I did want to post a quick update. I am now 7 months pregnant and still feeling great. Josh has a job working at a French restaurant owned by a church couple, and is studying to go to seminary in the fall. He wants to become a youth pastor at our new church, Bilingual Community Church. Recently I've just been subbing at different BuXiBans (cram schools). Some nicer than others. I'm also helping teach Sunday School at church some weeks. Still waiting for my nesting instincts to kick in, though I suspect I may not have any of those. I will have to force myself to get that baby's room ready. We found out that we are having a boy, and so far from the ultrasounds, everything looks good. It's so amazing to see his heart beating and look at his developing brain, spine, and other internal organs! God is amazing. We are considering the English name: Caleb Joshua Hong, and for the Chinese name I like Hong Kai-____. Need one more syllable to complete the name, but it's tricky to find something that doesn't sound like something else or sound girly or sound bad in Taiwanese...sigh. Anyways, here's a photo series of my growing belly. It really has popped out in the past few weeks. Someone even gave up their seat for me on the MRT for the first time! Baby currently weighs about 2 1/2 pounds or 1.2 kilograms. I'm hoping he'll be just the right size when it comes time for delivery :)