witnessing a miracle.....

There are no other words for it. For those who claim that miracles no longer happen, they need only be introduced to this family. I first found MckMama's blog through a prayer request on Angie Smith's blog in late July. At that time, MckMama was 23 weeks pregnant with her 4th child and had been hospitalized due to his severe tachycardia. Severe as in his heart was beating 300 times per minute. A couple of days prior to when I found her blog, she posted this about where their situation was:

"I am so sorry to have to tell you such awful news," the wonderful, kind perinatologist bent down, held my hand and put her other on my tummy. "I don't think your baby is going to make it. He is in heart failure and it's way too soon to take him out and give him a pacemaker. He would need to make it to 32 weeks and there is a 95% chance he will make it no where close to that point. I am so, so sorry to tell you this, but your sweet, sweet baby will probably be still born. I am so sorry."

Please pray for a miracle. Please pray for that 5% to belong to our baby. Be still and know that He is God.

Since that time, our entire family has followed Stellan's journey from what doctors deemed to be certain death, to what can only be described as divine healing from God. And today, after 14 weeks of ups and downs, we are among the many praising God for the following words:

Stellan
entered the world this sunny fall morning
at 10:19 am, CST
weighing 6 pounds, 10 ounces
and measuring 19 inches long

Details on exactly how Stellan is doing as well as photos of the sweet baby will be forthcoming. But, let's just say that Stellan got a 9 and a 9 on his APGARS and the NICU team has yet to find a single thing wrong with him...

Happy birthday, sweet Stellan. You are God's miracle to us and you are finally here!!!!

Please visit their family site to read more of this incredible story. For now, it's enough to just stop and give God all the honor and the glory for this great miracle He has done!!!

things that rock.....

Anytime your 2 year old references Kilamanjaro Mountain, it's a good day.


More to come on Charleigh's verbal stylings......