Happy Three Months Selah!!!!!

Wow! Where has the time gone. It seems like only yesterday we were driving back and forth to the hospital to visit this little baby we hardly even knew. And today Selah turns 3 months. You know, the more and more I get to know this little girl, and the more I think back to what she went through the more my heart begins to break for her. At the time of all this craziness, we hadn't even begun to bond with her and now I can't imagine going through it at this point. I still think of the mother who was at the hospital with her 3 month old when we were there... she had it way harder than us. Having that bond makes all the difference. Perhaps we wouldn't have been so calm and trusting...yet again, the Lord working things out.
After some hard first months and MANY days filled with ALOT of crying and NO sleep for Selah, we now have this amazing little baby who blesses me with soooooo many smiles. My heart leaps just thinking about it. Today, I couldn't even concentrate at a meeting because Selah was so smiley. I even kept distracting my friends into looking at her with me. What a Joy in my life!!!

Thank you Father, for the many ways you have blessed our family - for trusting us with your children - for allowing us to be apart of something bigger than ourselves and continuing to see us through. May we never forget...

What's in a bag?

One thing I love, is to find a bag or purse that Ocean has been playing with and see what she has packed inside it. What makes a child choose what they do to put in there?
Whenever Josh and I are preparing to go out of town, we make a list to make sure we don't forget anything. Ocean on the other hand has a separate "list" of her own in packing "her suitcase". Of course we all need a sippy cup without a lid, a pair of socks, a gaudy necklace, crayons, and stickers, and a pen for any trip we take.

Quick Flashback

I was looking through the picture folder on our computer the other day- looking for old pics of O and comparing them to Selah - and ran across the last picture before I delivered a few months ago. I couldn't stop looking at just how HUGE I was. I turned to Josh and said, "I know this sounds crazy since I was just there a few months ago, but that is INSANE!" I still can't take my eyes off it.