More pictures of the newest niece...

Isn't she a cutie? Thanks to Tracy for sending me some pictures of her. I know she's checking the blog again...so here's a picture of your little darlin'. Loooove that hairbow!

Soft Kimono Shoes for Baby...

Not that we are expecting one or anything. I am just pretty much enamored of all things baby at the moment. I have been wanting to make some baby shoes and when I found the pattern for these sweetie-pie shoes on Etsy, I couldn't resist. The seller, greenjelly, has several different pattern styles available. They're only supposed to take 15 minutes to make. I guess I'm a little slow. Okay, I'm really slow. I'm not going to tell you how long I took to make these...



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I forgot all about WW today. Oh, well. This made me laugh.

Check out this video: Baby Laughs And Falls Over



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Made from scratch!

I have been wanting to enter the made from scratch carnival for a while now, so here is my first submission:

Nursing pads! TA-DA! No, they're not for me but for my little sis. I have been threatening to make some for her and finally made five pair. 3 are solid flannel with quilt batting. 1 is flannel/print with quilt batting and one pair is suede/flannel with rice/lavender filling for soreness.

Without further ado, here they are...

"Jesus is going to make her better..."

Well, some of you may remember my earlier post about Marshall. Marshall is still doing well. She has been home since Christmas week (6 weeks in ICU!) and she and Micah and Drew and Laurel and all of us are settling into the routines of cardiologist visits, 6 doctor teams and oxygen level monitoring.

My little sister is still my hero...

Anyway, the other day they were driving home from Dallas, when Marshall choked. She became angry and held her breath. Micah's story is that Marshall's entire body stiffened and then went limp as the proverbial dishrag. She simply stopped breathing. Micah was in the back seat with Marshall and Laurel while my mother drove. One call to OnStar and three quick rescue breaths (calmly administered by my sister) and Marshall was breathing again.

Thankfully, lungs were clear with no aspiration.

After my mom called Onstar, she began to cry and pray in the front seat. Laurel (3) leaned forward and said, Don't worry MeeMama, Jesus is going to make her better."

Mark 10:15

Marshall and Kermit and New Orleans

I always find it amazing how quickly our plans can change. Remember Helen, GA? Well, we still haven't seen it. My little sister had her second daughter on Wednesday, November 15th. Marshall was taken by jet to New Orleans the next day. So, the last week and a half, I have lived between the Ronald McDonald House and the Children's Hospital. We have met so many brave people in such a short time span. I feel like I have met compassion and pain and love and faith and prayer. I have looked into their faces.

At first glance, I suppose the picture of Kermit throwing up (for that is what he is doing) seems out of place. My older niece came up with the idea for that photo. We were both sick while in NO and so had the experience fresh in our minds. Kermit was rescued from a thrift store in New Orleans. A little sponge-bathing and he'll be good as new!

The middle picture shows my husband looking out Marshall's NICU window. We put crystals in the window to encourage dancing rainbows...which leads me back to Kermit and the Rainbow Connection which leads me to little Marshall. Please pray for our sweet niece to be healed. She was diagnosed with a chromosome mutation. We believe she will be healed.

The tortoise and the hippo!

NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.

"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.

Have you all seen these photos? Wow!