I'm so thankful to all the friends & family who flew in a plane or drove a car to KCMO to meet our sweet baby girl Monika Marie. I appreciate you taking time off work, paying for an expensive flight, having people help watch your kids, etc, you are awesome. We seriously have had folks from California to North Carolina and many places in between. This here is one loved baby girl.
Big news last thursday, July 31, was her first intentional smile at me after I feed her (probably had something to do with it). This picture above is her smiling at Todd after he changed her. It's SO fun getting smiles from her, we are in competition for who can get more each day.
I wanted to share Todd's sermon about our long struggle with infertility with you all if you haven't already heard it, you can find it on the church's website on the bottom right corner, it says Listen to Downtown's Summer Sermons: When Suffering Gives Birth to Beauty
Now here are some more pictures of all of our out of town guests:
Monikas
Aunt Nicole from Indiana
Grandma Joy from Iowa
Dana Iglesias from NC
Julie Todd from CA
Jackie Furry from NC
my whole family-Dad, Mom, Todd, brother Steve (proudly wearing Monika), me, sister Becky and soon to be BIL Paul with KCMO in the background--all from Chicago, IL
Dad Martinson
Joanie Richards from NC
Richelle Hollingshead was our last guest & we miss her
Richelle from NC
proud Uncle Steve
Grandma Nita
Maggie Berg from IL
This is a video of Monika starting to have a conversation with Richelle & me. It's super fun, we talk and she coos back to us.
2 comments:
Great Pictures! There was no link for a video :(
it's working now, give it a try Becky.
love you
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