Chloe Rebekah

Chloe Rebekah

On October 15th, 2013, Miss Chloe Rebekah joined our family. She arrived at 6:26 pm weighing in at 8 lbs 2 oz and 20 in long. I'd like to call her my miracle baby, but really all babies are miracles. She is the result of an answered prayer. 

As an emotional pregnant woman at the age of 23, delivering my 2nd son (Sept 09), my heart ached because I knew I wasn't done having children but my husband was set on just the 2 boys for several reasons. I can't blame him really, the boys were only 15 months apart (surprise!) and rumor has it that hormonal pregnant women aren't easy to live with. (I'll have to research that one, I thought I was just glowing and radiant, right?) Oh yeah, and apparently kids cost money - who knew? I desired to have a daughter, for myself and for my husband. You always hear about daddy's little girl. I felt like if we never had a daughter we were both missing out on a huge blessing. 

I prayed a lot about the situation and gave it to God. If it wasn't meant to be for us to have a daughter then I would be okay with that, but my heart longed for this daughter to be. I wasn't the only one that went to God about this, my sweet firstborn began asking for a sister around the age of 3. I told him he needed to pray for a sister and left it at that. The next time he brought it up I informed him once again to keep praying. His response was, "But why? I already prayed." I said well just keep praying buddy. Months went by and he brought up having a sister once again, I  said buddy what if we had another boy though? His witty answer, "Mom, if we had 3 boys, that would be a joke!" - Well son, I see your point! This then turned into him asking about what to name this sister (who is yet to be conceived). So I began thinking of women in the bible, hence we all have biblical names. The first name I thought of was Rebekah. So he was set, we will name her Rebekah. (We told him we couldn't name her Rebekah because daddy has a cousin with that name). He didn't care, he would draw pictures of his sister Rebekah playing in the snow and speak of her often. 

Then came the unthinkable in August of 2012. My husband comes to me and says, once Z starts school, I'm done having kids. This was his way of saying lets have a baby without really saying it. (which meant we had 1 year to conceive a child) So in February of 2013 we found out we were expecting. Oddly enough I wasn't completely ecstatic upon learning this. I had a bit of fear for some reason, maybe it was the thought of my body changing again or the possibility that it could be twin boys! The joy eventually crept in and the fear subsided. Then the moment of truth came on June 3rd. I was hoping for a girl but deep down I just knew that I would hear the words, "you're baby is a boy," because I felt that I was just destined to have all boys making me crazy climbing every wall and jumping off of countertops for years to come. However, I was never so happy to be wrong! It was a girl! (still with some unbelief I had to double check at the following ultra sound and I was able to see her ovaries, something a boy wouldn't have and I was then completely convinced)

Through the faith of a child, my faith increased. Z told me, "it's a girl I know it is," even when I suggested the possibility that God would give us another boy. I am so grateful that God would bless our family with this precious little girl. All I could think of was Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart."

I know any mother could probably agree that there are times you will look at your newborn and just cry tears of joy and thankfulness that God would entrust you with this tiny bundle of joy. Even though you are so exhausted and covered in spit-up (among other things),  you wouldn't have your life any other way. 

Praise be to God, my cup is definitely running over.

**and by the way, daddy chose Chloe's first name and we didn't decide on a middle name until after she was born, thanks to Z, our Chloe Rebekah is here**