September 16, 2007

• Were having a baby, my baby and me
  You’ll read it in Winchell’s
  That we’re adding a limb to our family tree
  We’re pushing our carriage
  How proud I will be
  There’s nothing like marriage
  Ask your mother and father and they’ll agree…

  Our future gets brighter
  But definitely
  We’re having a baby
  We’re having a baby
  We’re having a baby
  My baby and me

  ~Desi Arnaz lyrics…

   

   

  Twenty years ago,
  on September 15th, we had a little bitty baby…and I mean little
  bitty.  She arrived 6 weeks early
  weighing 4 pounds and some ounces but lost the ounces at birth.  We had our names all picked out and were
  delighted when then said…”It’s a girl!“  I
  was in and out of it because of the emergency c-section, but enough with it to hear that and catch a glimpse of her.  My husband kept a little diary of the week in the hospital I was transfered to by ambulance
  preceding this grand event as I had been in the hospital since the Labor Day
  weekend.   Things were real touch and go
  as I had full-blown eclampsia and at one point David was told he might need to
  choose…baby or mom.  Ughhhh……David was
  22 and facing a real crisis but he was my hero and stood firm trusting the Lord.  He never left me….sleeping in the lounge or in the chair in my room. 
  Finally, after the meeting of the medical minds, it was decided I needed an
  emergency c-section.  David was given a
  tour of the neo-natal ICU where all the severe cases end up.  Thankfully….our little sweetie was just
  missing some weight and some fat cells…otherwise she was just fine.  She landed in the intermediate neo-natal
  nursery and stayed there one week until we could have her transferred to our
  hometown hospital where she spent 2 weeks trying to reach 5 pounds.

  We named her
  Elisabeth Zoe…..Promised by God…Spiritual life.  One of the nurses in the first hospital told us she was a little
  fighter, so full of life.  Uh-huh….names
  are so important aren’t they? 
  

  So 20 years later
  we celebrated once again our beautiful miracle from God.  

  We got together
  with our good friends the J family and their 9 children.  We made our own pizzas while Mr. J manned the bake oven and the kids played their infamous game of  baseball and they
  even jumped rope!!!  (A lot of them at once!) We  brought our
  pup, Melvin, who we adopted from a rescue organization. 
  

  
  The new bake oven
  

  
  If you look real closely you can see the rope on the far right at Jessica’s shoes..
  

  
  Batter up…
  

  
  He begged to be tied up…honestly!

  
  William Tell

  

  
  Mr. Melvin
  

  Grammy and Pop Pop
  were there as well and we spent a beautiful fall afternoon together eating and
  laughing and celebrating all God’s goodness.

  
  Grammy and Pop Pop

  
  All the kids
  

  The birthday girl
  happens to be the baker in the family so she ended up making her cake(s).  She made our favorite…from an Anne of Green
  Gables cookbook called Anne’s Liniment Cake and then she made a most delicious
  chocolate fudge cake…WOW!  I am limited
  to how much chocolate I can have but I did manage a little piece of this one.

  While it was not a
  huge gathering, it was her request to celebrate with the J family as a kind of
  thank you to them for all they have done for her and especially for making this
  year’s bake oven for her.  See her post
  on the recent festival for more explanation.
  

  A perfect day.
  
  

  Happy 20^th
  Birthday to our all grown up little girl!

   
  Elisabeth and her little shadow Ethan (who is a miracle baby himself…long story..)

   

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