Emma is here!
I couldn't help thinking-what better way to start a blog about loving the little things, the tender mercies in life, than with the birth of my darling new niece?
Born 8 pounds exactly, this little munchkin entered into our family and into my heart on the morning of January 22nd, only four days after the day I had been rooting for, and three days after here actual due date.
Emma was put in the level two nursery, as she had swallowed some meconium, and had to have her breathing monitored. She was able to come home a few days later, and is doing fabulously!
Proud parents Ryan and Michelle
As I was unable to see the sweet babe through anything closer than a glass window that first day, I found it quite necessary to go see and hold her after she came home. The poor thing had just exhausted herself with her first at-home bath, and was out the whole time we were there.
A smile from even the smallest of us is wonderfully uplifting, no? It's amazing how much, how often, and how easily babies give love. I can't help but wonder if the reason they love so easily is because they have just left the presence of One who loves us unconditionally, at all times, in ways we cannot even begin to comprehend.
"Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."
~Luke 18:16
"Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved."
~3 Nephi 9:22
