Tuesday, August 28, 2012
3 MONTHS OLD she was not in it
bye bye newborn clothes
hello 3-6 month
these past 3 months have gone by so fast. in some ways it has just been a wild blur. in other ways i look back at the best 3 months of my life. at times it has defiantly been hard. when kiah is crying and we don't know why and stephen is trying to tell me something and we are yelling because we can't hear each other and stephen rushes to eat spaghetti so that my plate wont get cold and i can't eat until he is finished because kiah is crying and the next thing we know its 10:00 at night when we even get to eat and then my sweet Stephen's plate of spaghetti slides where...? into kiahs car seat. don't worry she was not in it.
kind of like when we were in LONDON and we had the stroller with all of our wallets and passports in it and we were trying to get off the tube quickly. well, i managed to push the stroller off onto the platform but then in a blink of an eye the doors slammed shut. i had to jump back and let go of the stroller or else i would have gotten my arms chopped off. there we were watching our stroller go away as the tube took us to the next station. again, don't worry she was not in it. luckily, THANK GOD, there was a nice older couple who watched the whole thing happen and stayed with our stroller until we could hop off the tube going one way and then across and over to the tube going back the other way where we had come.
Kiah has grown from here.....
to here!
hello 3-6 month
these past 3 months have gone by so fast. in some ways it has just been a wild blur. in other ways i look back at the best 3 months of my life. at times it has defiantly been hard. when kiah is crying and we don't know why and stephen is trying to tell me something and we are yelling because we can't hear each other and stephen rushes to eat spaghetti so that my plate wont get cold and i can't eat until he is finished because kiah is crying and the next thing we know its 10:00 at night when we even get to eat and then my sweet Stephen's plate of spaghetti slides where...? into kiahs car seat. don't worry she was not in it.
kind of like when we were in LONDON and we had the stroller with all of our wallets and passports in it and we were trying to get off the tube quickly. well, i managed to push the stroller off onto the platform but then in a blink of an eye the doors slammed shut. i had to jump back and let go of the stroller or else i would have gotten my arms chopped off. there we were watching our stroller go away as the tube took us to the next station. again, don't worry she was not in it. luckily, THANK GOD, there was a nice older couple who watched the whole thing happen and stayed with our stroller until we could hop off the tube going one way and then across and over to the tube going back the other way where we had come.
Kiah has grown from here.....
to here!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Love.
What I love about kiah rIght now...
I love her milk breath
Her little fingers that grab my shirt or her blanket
Her liPs
The noises she makes when she sleeps
Her eyes that look right into mine
How she is a gift to share with family
Her eye lashes
When she snOrts
When she breathes
When she jumPs at loud noises and throws her legs and arms in the air
How she travels so peacefully
Her wild hair
She glows with beauty
Her cough when she drinks too fast
1 MONTH
Kiah was 1 MONTH YESTERDAY and i can not even believe how much she is growing and changing. she and i had the best most peaceful day ever. stephen was out to soccer practice with some of the birchcroft boys early so i was able to have mommy time with her. she usually has a window of time in the mornings when she knows its time to get up and out of her bassinet but still wants to snooze around. so most of the time, if he has the time, she will get into bed with stephen for a good hour or two and lay belly to belly. SHE LOVES IT. WE LOVE IT. THERE IS NOTHING MORE WONDERFUL. yesterday, I GOT IT. it just so special to hear her breath, watch her sleep, feel her arms along your sides, watch her lips. ahhh. then it was time for a bath after all the traveling we had been doing. then i cuddled her up. fed her. and put her in the car to go on our FIRST GROCERY SHOPPING TRIP. we went to target worshipping JESUS in the car, i parked on the upper level so i wouldn't be self conscious if she resisted getting into my new ERGO CARRIER from the car seat. she did great. right in, and right into a peaceful sleep. i also wore my new traveling hat the i picked up at an urban outfitters in atlanta for $10. i was on an adventure with kiah. i walked around with my free hands picking up a few things so that we will survive until we leave on wednesday. so many people comment about how beautiful she is. i really want to hear from the Lord as to what i can say back to them to let them know its because her creator has beautiful hands....well, maybe i got it. that just came to me. i think i could say that. so she was just so so so great and peaceful. i did all the shopping. came home to kids who helped me bring in all the groceries. made stephen lunch. got a shower. took her to the hip doctor. he said he could already tell the harness is doing its job. and the net time we see him will be when we get back from england and it will already be 4 weeks. Jesus is making the time go by so fast. then we went to our friends house for dinner and kiah took a nap through dinner so we could eat with our friends. she is a great girl. a great daughter.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
grammy.papa.
stephen and i have been in stuart, va visiting kiahs grammy and papa. it has been a great get-a-way after such a long week of doctor stuff, the fire, the youth tour and all that comes with birchcroft life in general. we have had lots of hands holding and passing kiah lily which gave me a BIG BREAK. we got here saturday night and have been hanging out until today- tuesday. i swam in the pool and laid in the sun and made homemade ice-cream. life is so slow here. slow and quiet. kiah is almost a month old and every single day i am amazed at how amazing she really is. yesterday she slept on papa for 5 hours after our long hike at fairy stone park. it is such a gift to have a daughter to share with everyone. my brother eric and his son kailer had some quality time with kiah too. my grammy held her and kiah gave her lots of smiles! stephen and i have taken time together to plan out out big trip to ENGLAND next week and to finalize our tickets, get kiah a passport in atlanta, and to get all our last doctors appointment's rescheduled before we go. this was kiah's first road trip and next week will be a big step up from this 2 hour car ride.
TO DO:
TO DO:
- buy starbucks instant coffee packets to make it in the tea drinking culture
- paint my nails of course
- figure out how to pack for kaih to be ok overseas for 2 weeks
- wednesday 11:00 appointment in atlanta, ga for kiahs passport
- thursday 2:00 appointment with the hip doctors for kiahs 1 week check in charlotte, nc
- friday 8:45 pediatrician 1 month check up, 11:00 OBGYN appointment for me, afternoon haircuts for stephen and i with our friend elise
- sunday july 1st- jenna hood meets kiah!
- monday & tuesday- urban eagles summer camp for boy's
- wednesday- ENGLAND--- until july 18th
Friday, June 22, 2012
friday.whoot.
stephen's off playing in an eagles scrimmage. so what shall my evening with kiah look like?
let's replay the day.
where to start?
4:30 am walked down stairs to load the coffee maker. is it bad that i am usually ready for my morning coffee by the time i go to bed at night?
went back to sleep.
officially got up at 7:30 and turned the coffee on. kiah was still snoozing so i got a shower.
had a visitor who brought me FLOWERS! i love fresh flowers.
cleaned up the apartment while i had free hands and packed for virginia. we are going to visit my family tomorrow.
met the man who works for BEDS FOR KIDS who brought furniture for the families who lost everything in the fire.
ate cereal with blueberries.
laundry.
went with stephen and kiah to get her birth cirtificate. then drove to the airport to pick up a girl from delaware who is going to brazil on the youth tour and took her to the hotel where everyone is staying. i got to see some girls who went last year with us and played sock wars in the parking lot.
shared a luna bar with stephen. -so hungry- came home and fed kiah.
made a quick and regretful cheese sandwich and now i am typing wishing i hadn't resorted to that. still hungry. missing our delivered dinners!!!
i like time alone with my sweet kiah lily.
let's replay the day.
where to start?
4:30 am walked down stairs to load the coffee maker. is it bad that i am usually ready for my morning coffee by the time i go to bed at night?
went back to sleep.
officially got up at 7:30 and turned the coffee on. kiah was still snoozing so i got a shower.
had a visitor who brought me FLOWERS! i love fresh flowers.
cleaned up the apartment while i had free hands and packed for virginia. we are going to visit my family tomorrow.
met the man who works for BEDS FOR KIDS who brought furniture for the families who lost everything in the fire.
ate cereal with blueberries.
laundry.
went with stephen and kiah to get her birth cirtificate. then drove to the airport to pick up a girl from delaware who is going to brazil on the youth tour and took her to the hotel where everyone is staying. i got to see some girls who went last year with us and played sock wars in the parking lot.
shared a luna bar with stephen. -so hungry- came home and fed kiah.
made a quick and regretful cheese sandwich and now i am typing wishing i hadn't resorted to that. still hungry. missing our delivered dinners!!!
i like time alone with my sweet kiah lily.
hard. harness.
this morning we woke up to such a sunny day. happiness was in the air.
stephen and i just prayed in the yellow room with kiah and then took her dancing.
i have to video tape stephen and i dancing to this with her sometime. it was the best moment of my life!!!
today was also the day that we were gong to the doctors to find out if kiah would be in a harness for 6 weeks or not to fix her hips. faith filled our hearts and brought us the a place of such belief that Jesus would heal her and we would witness a great miracle to tell everyone about the powerful healing. we were singing and worshipping in the doctors office. i think we were honestly HUNGRY TO SEE GOD IN THIS WAY. we are hungry to see healing the way we KNOW God does heal. we know the goodness and kindness and greatness of Jesus. he is and always will be, even in the midst of our feelings that try to tell us he failed us or that we failed. his love never fails. the ultra sound showed us that there was still a dislocation after taking this past week to pray over her. this was hard news to hear. wow we cried. i cried. my mothers heart hurt so bad. i just wanted to tell kiah, i'm sorry i'm sorry. but the hardest thing was probably more just that we were so ready to praise Jesus for the miracle and to be able to tell all the doctors about Him and to tell everyone praying for kiah how Jesus is alive and heals miraculously. i have been thirsty for a refreshment in the holy spirit like this. i had thought to mself. we need this. urban eagles needs this. our families need this. our friends need this. something to spark us to push closer to him. but, in that moment, i thought to myself, well. i guess we have to tell everyone that He didn't do it.
i know that was not the right response. i knew we were still going to put our trust in Jesus and praise him like never before and continue honoring Him. in that moment i was upset. but then, we left the doctors office after taking time to collect myself and having learned how to put the harness on and everything. we were NOT ready to go back to birchcroft just yet. we went to one of our secret hide out houses- where the famly has given us a key to. we got there and just wanted to be alone but the house keeper was there. we figured we should still stay there and just tell her what was going on. THIS WAS AMAZING! the house keeper is a holy spirit filled hispanic woman of God who we love so much. she does our laundry quite often actually. she's wonderful. so we walk in and OOOHH MANNN!!! the rivers of heaven overflowed on us. she grabbed our hands and prayed in spanish with all her heart and soul. we were just weeping there in the door way and kiah slept in the car seat in peace below us. the housekeeper prayed for PEACE PEACE PEACE. then she reminded us of so much truth. God used her to destroy all the wandering thoughts i was having and totally fixed my eyes back into the eyes of our precious savior Jesus Christ. wow. peace like never before came over kiah.
seriously she was in a supernatural sleep. i had to wake her up at like 7:30 that night. she had slept from 1:30-7:30. wow. just wow. and she slept great all through the night too!
Jesus is faithful. and when we don't understand we will praise Him.
stephen and i just prayed in the yellow room with kiah and then took her dancing.
i have to video tape stephen and i dancing to this with her sometime. it was the best moment of my life!!!
today was also the day that we were gong to the doctors to find out if kiah would be in a harness for 6 weeks or not to fix her hips. faith filled our hearts and brought us the a place of such belief that Jesus would heal her and we would witness a great miracle to tell everyone about the powerful healing. we were singing and worshipping in the doctors office. i think we were honestly HUNGRY TO SEE GOD IN THIS WAY. we are hungry to see healing the way we KNOW God does heal. we know the goodness and kindness and greatness of Jesus. he is and always will be, even in the midst of our feelings that try to tell us he failed us or that we failed. his love never fails. the ultra sound showed us that there was still a dislocation after taking this past week to pray over her. this was hard news to hear. wow we cried. i cried. my mothers heart hurt so bad. i just wanted to tell kiah, i'm sorry i'm sorry. but the hardest thing was probably more just that we were so ready to praise Jesus for the miracle and to be able to tell all the doctors about Him and to tell everyone praying for kiah how Jesus is alive and heals miraculously. i have been thirsty for a refreshment in the holy spirit like this. i had thought to mself. we need this. urban eagles needs this. our families need this. our friends need this. something to spark us to push closer to him. but, in that moment, i thought to myself, well. i guess we have to tell everyone that He didn't do it.
i know that was not the right response. i knew we were still going to put our trust in Jesus and praise him like never before and continue honoring Him. in that moment i was upset. but then, we left the doctors office after taking time to collect myself and having learned how to put the harness on and everything. we were NOT ready to go back to birchcroft just yet. we went to one of our secret hide out houses- where the famly has given us a key to. we got there and just wanted to be alone but the house keeper was there. we figured we should still stay there and just tell her what was going on. THIS WAS AMAZING! the house keeper is a holy spirit filled hispanic woman of God who we love so much. she does our laundry quite often actually. she's wonderful. so we walk in and OOOHH MANNN!!! the rivers of heaven overflowed on us. she grabbed our hands and prayed in spanish with all her heart and soul. we were just weeping there in the door way and kiah slept in the car seat in peace below us. the housekeeper prayed for PEACE PEACE PEACE. then she reminded us of so much truth. God used her to destroy all the wandering thoughts i was having and totally fixed my eyes back into the eyes of our precious savior Jesus Christ. wow. peace like never before came over kiah.
seriously she was in a supernatural sleep. i had to wake her up at like 7:30 that night. she had slept from 1:30-7:30. wow. just wow. and she slept great all through the night too!
Jesus is faithful. and when we don't understand we will praise Him.
u are good God u are good to me
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