Happy birthday Eva!
We love you very much and are thrilled the God let us keep you!
You make us smile and laugh by your giggles and “talking!”
Josiah loves his baby Eva very much!
Mommy loves you and getting to know your character as it starts to show and cuddles.
Daddy loves his princess tomboy and how you now say “dada.”
Just as a reminder, Eva’s pre-op tests and x-ray are this coming Monday (16th) and Wednesday (18th), not this past Monday and today.
Today is the last day in Annalise’s 2nd trimester!!! It is exciting to be on the last 3 months! Time has gone by so quickly, we can hardly believe we are here already. It is just going to get faster too! We have Eva’s surgery and recovery, Thanksgiving, Christmas, 3 weddings and a new baby brother or sister for the kid’s cousin, Anne… all this in the next 3 months! Oh, and I can’t forget Eva’s birthday tomorrow! I guess if we are counting birthdays, then we should count mommy’s too, but nothing really happens for that. Busy, busy!
Happy birthday Josiah!
We love you very much!
You can be a kind big brother and a good mommy helper.
You can make us all smile with your “clever” ideas and epiphanies.
Eva loves you above no other!
Mommy loves you and how you are eager to learn and play. She loves how you try hard to be a big boy and loves talking to you.
Daddy loves spending time with you doing evangelism, yard work, gardening, shopping. He loves having his “little buddy” around!
We are blessed that God sent you to us!
The network of nerves in Annalise’s ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. She may now be able to hear both mommy’s voice and daddy’s as you chat with each other. She’s inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of her lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when she’s born and takes that first gulp of air. And she’s continuing to put on baby fat. She now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches from head to heel.
Well, to start, Eva gained roughly 1 lb since her hospitalization 2 weeks ago. That was very impressive. We arrived and they did an x-ray first. Then her vitals were taken, which were GREAT! Then the doctor came and looked at her and was pleased with her weight and her energy. She appeared to be in perfect condition for surgery, which he was planning on for Thursday (yes, this Thursday! Surprise us too!)! Then the x-ray came and showed something in her lungs, in the right upper lobe. She has no symptoms of anything wrong, so he was pretty baffled by what it could be. He listed a few possibilities. So, to make a long story short. He is thinking of playing it on the safe side and wait 2 weeks and repeat the x-ray on the 16th. If that comes back better than the 19th is the new date for surgery. The lung consolidation has been on all her x-rays since August, so they may end up having to work around it in the long run.
Moment 1. Josiah, mommy and Eva were playing in the living room and daddy stated he was going to check the meat on the grill. Mommy then said to Josiah “Daddy is the “grill master.” Josiah replied “Mommy too! Baby Lise too!”
Moment 2. Josiah, coming to sit on mommy’s lap. “Mommy, I need to talk to you.” Mommy replied, “What to you need to talk to me about?”
“I need to talk to you about Jesus.”
Surprised, “What about him?”
“He need to be my Jesus.”
Moment 3. Mommy and Josiah working on a letter to uncle Nate, who in at Basic Training for the National Guard. Mommy asked “What should we write Nate about?”
Without Hesitation, “Jesus!”
Moment 4. The whole family eating dinner, “Mommy, I drink my milk. I get BIG like daddy and Baby Eva!”
Moment 5. Eva and mommy waiting in the car as daddy buckles in Josiah. Josiah is singing at the top of his lungs in unintelligible words. Then the word “Jesus” becomes discernable and mommy and daddy listen closely for what follows.
“I love you!”
Today is Eva’s appointment with her surgeon. We are hoping to find out the surgery date today! The appointment is at 4 PM, so I will try and let you all know ASAP.
Head to heels, Annalise now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn’t much more than an average rutabaga, but she’s beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she’ll start to look more and more like a newborn. She’s also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you’d now be able to discern its color and texture.
If God be glorified, does it really matter where we are? What becomes of us is of small consequence compared with bringing glory to his great name. - Spurgeon
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