Life with Our Itty Bitty Baby Girl

This week marks one year from that awful day on which we received our baby girl’s awful prognosis.  Dr. Fines’ exact words were, “I think we need to be prepared to lose this baby.”  I was crushed.  After calling John (who was in Costa Rica at the time) and stopping at Mejier to buy some [...]

Mommy’s favorite bookworm:

Becca loves to read.  She’ll sit there forever it seems like, as long as she’s able to look at the pictures.  We try to read everyday.  Because she’s a genius and all.  (It doesn’t hurt that mom used to work in a kids’ library and was a bookworm herself, either.)
And a quick snuggle [...]

We just got back from Dr. Collins’ office for Becca’s nine month well baby visit. 
It was fabulous!
She’s 10 pounds, 5 ounces and 21.5 inches long.  She’s still not anywhere near the growth charts, but she is at least a bit more proportional now, and she’s still on a good growth curve.  Dr. Collins is very [...]

Oops.  I looked at the calendar.  Becca was at the doctor 2 weeks ago, so assuming that we don’t have to make a visit until Friday’s scheduled 9 month check-up (yes, I said nine month check-up), she’ll go 3 weeks without an appointment, not a month.  As of now, though, she doesn’t have any appointments [...]

This week, we took another roadtrip, back to Kentucky.  Our destination this time, though, was Louisville, for our Board of Ordained Ministry interviews.  (For those of you not familiar with the UMC system, these are the big interviews that we have to do every year for the first several years of our ministy.  Suffice it [...]