It is always a welcome thing to see my daughter and son-in-law during weekends. The few hours that we spend together more than make up for the days that we get in touch just through texts and phone calls. We had an early dinner or shall we call late “merienda”, I prepared spaghetti while Nissa made Panini bread with cheese. When we are on the dining table, the topic seems to veer on food. Kev says he hasn’t tasted nor seen a zucchini yet so he suggested to Nissa that it would be their first find on their next trip to the grocery store. I told them we could try to plant them outside just like what we do with squash or pumpkins. Zucchini belongs to the family of squash, right? I love zucchini and I always buy some when I chance upon them fresh from the market.
Nissa showed me the much-awaited sonogram of our baby. At 28 weeks and a few days, it is so exciting to see him inside Nissa’s womb and our conversation goes this way:
“He has your nose”, I told Obet (my son-in-law) and he smiled.
“Thank God for that”, Nissa said adding “he has my lips”.
There is this standing joke in the family that is always retold with family members and close friends. Nissa was a premature baby because I got complications when I was pregnant with her. She was only eight months when my OB-Gynecologist induced her birth and at 3.9 pounds, she was left at the hospital for about a month before we were able to take her home. There was this oxygen attached to her and hubby said, “ang tangos ng ilong niya” meaning her nose was not “pango” or flat as we say in Tagalog. It turned out that it was just the taped nasal cannula to make her breathe.
And I said, “maybe that’s the reason why medyo flat ilong mo” and we all laughed.
Anyway, it is really so exciting to see baby Nathaniel Owen and by God’s grace, we will welcome him to the world in two months. Nissa wants to call him Nate. Nice name, I said but we all laughed when we realized that his initials would be N.O.A.I. So how do you pronounce that? Nissa forgot to bring the DVD, we could have seen Nate move inside her womb. It is something more to look forward to, I just hope on their next visit, I would be able to see it.
I am praying hard everything would be okay when she gives birth in two months. We are all excited to see Nathaniel Owen.
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