Ella's Birthday...and Mother's Day

Wow...it's really been 3 years. Ella was born at 3:43pm on May 10, 2006. She was perfectly healthy at birth, although the cord was wrapped just a little. We got to hold her for a short time before they took her to the nursery. By the time we got her back we were so exhausted. She fed great and was a perfect little newborn.

I feel like that day is such a special day, not only because it was the day she was born, but it was the only day we had her and she was perfectly healthy. None of the worries that we woke up to the next morning. I wish I could freeze the way that day felt. The innocence that we all had to the shortness of life and how fragile our children are, but also the fact that they are only ours on loan...they are permanently God's.

Thank you to everyone who has walked this journey with us. Stay tuned for our daily life in the NICU and how God has answered prayers every day since Ella was born.

Mother's Day and Ella's 3rd Birthday 2009: