New Photos

We are all well and greatly enjoying spending time with our new baby. She has been a wonderful blessing and addition to our family. Here are just a few more recent photos taken within the last couple of days.

Azariah has expressed a great desire to be around and touch Evalyn. We've been brave enough to let him hold her a few times now, although he is just learning the meaning of "gentle." He tries really hard, but doesn't always remember how fragile she is.

Here Evalyn is sunbathing in the living room. I would like to think that her golden skin is the result of my husbands genes, but it is jaundice.

We hope you enjoy the pictures. We will try to put new ones up frequently as babies change and grow so quickly.

Eyes wide open

Here's a look at Evalyn with her eyes wide open. Big brother, Azariah sneaks in the video at the end!

Baby Evalyn's arrival

Friday at about noon I began having some cramping and decided to put Azariah down for his nap and take a nap myself. When I woke up at about 2:00pm I noticed that I was having some contractions periodically and decided to soak in a bath. I wasn't sure that I was going into labor, but remembering the speed of our first labor and delivery, decided to call Joshua anyways (he was at Disney and about an hour from home). At 6 we went for a walk and called our midwife to check in, although I had Joshua tell her I wasn't ready for her to come out to our house yet. At this time contractions were coming pretty frequently but seemed to be varying in intensity...I think perhaps I was in denial that our new baby would soon be here. From then on, I was pretty focused and continually deeper into the process. Our midwife arrived at 8:00pm, since she had about an hour commute, and found us in the hardest but final stages of labor. We moved from the bathroom to the floor in our bedroom and soon after, with just a few GOOD pushes, Evalyn departed her home in my womb and entered into the world.

We praise God for how smoothly the process went, and are thankful for all you who were upholding us in prayer.

Recent visitors

Update on Azariah and asking for prayer

It has been quite the past couple of weeks. After getting either food poisoning or a flu bug, I (Rose) suffered pretty severe dehydration, which lead to about 24 hours of contractions and other pre-term labor symptoms. It was quite the scare, since the only other time I'd had contractions like that happened just hours before Azariah was born. Thank you for your prayers, which God was faithful to answer and has restored me to 100%. Joshua also had the same bug, although recovered more rapidly, without dehydration.

We are however in need of more prayer as this

past saturday Azariah was injured at the park (as you can see in the photos). While going down the slide with me, the tip of his left shoe, which is rubber, caught between the slide and my leg, bending it backwards extremely fast. He was in quite a lot of

pain and could not put any pressure on his left leg. We took him to a pediatric urgent care Sunday, where they took X-rays, which showed no obvious break, then put a temporary splint on his leg. He still can't put weight on his left foot however, and we plan to take him to a pediatric orthopedic specialist hopefully tomorrow, if we can get in. Please pray that God would heal him quickly, give us patients in this season (as I'm 8 months pregnant and hardly able to carry him around), and that He would give the doctors wisdom.

Our Orlando Staycation

If you click on the slideshow it will take you to the picasa photo album where you can see larger photos as well as a couple videos that are in the slideshow. Love you all, enjoy:)

Long overdue photos from Christmas

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I apologize for the delay in getting these photos up from Christmas. Mom, Nattie & Terry visited for a week in December and we had such a great time catching up. These are photos from a Christmas party Joshua and I had at our house, where he was able to invite some of the friends he's been getting to know through the ministry at Disney. We had a blast introducing them our tradition of decorating Christmas cookies. The other photos are taken at Fort Wilderness Lodge with Mom, Nattie & Terry. We didn't stay there, but brought a picnic and hung out during on of the days they were with us.