Starfish Hands

Thursday I did a little Grammie-duties over at Suzi's house. Little Chloe is at that I-can-stand-by-myself-at the coffee table but don't let me fall down, Grammie stage! She was pat-a-patting on the table when I saw it!

A tiny starfish hand...

I haven't seen one of those for about 26 years or so... not since Miss Camille was that size and had those same baby-starfish-hands!

Chloe's New Trick

Kevin is such a good daddy! He was so pleased when he announced, "Chloe has graduated to a new trick!

Look at her precious little face! She is so thrilled! (Don't even THINK about this trick for baby-Camille... she hated heights!)

She has NO FEAR!

Now here is the rub! See little Ethan looking on? Yup... he's to big for this trick anymore! Now I have a very vivid recollection of doing a similar blog post about Ethan and Kevin demonstrating their prowess with this same trick! I wanted to reference it in this post.

I searched, nope, not there!

I went looking for the photos... nada! How could this be?

I hate it when I do that!

NOW CAN I JUST HAVE A LITTLE RANT HERE?

I had this whole post written on Monday evening... after looking, in vain, for the post or those photos of Ethan, when my phone rang at 10:59pm from *Unavailable Unknown Number*. It was from *Tom*, who had a very heavy Indian accent telling me that he works for Creative Solutions and my computer is sending mal-ware and he's going to help me fix that! (Right!)

My first question was WHY he was calling me at 11pm!

"I'm sorry I don't understand that question!"

I told him I knew he was scamming and did a quick Google search on *Creative Solutions* (Yeah, creative solutions for scamming you out of your person info!) I asked to speak to his supervisor; he clicked the line a few times and came back on posing as the supervisor... when I called him on it he told me, "Go to sleep and call me back in the morning.

R-I-G-H-T

And when I went back to publish my finished post... P-O-O-F! It was gone... maybe I really do have mal-ware... AND HIS NAME IS TOM!

OK... I'm official finished with the rant...

Precious Tiny *Pork-chop*

Yesterday at 8:50 AM little Chloe couldn't wait any longer to be born and came 4 weeks early. She weighs 6 lbs and is 17 inches long. She had a little trouble breathing on her own at first but after several hours in NICU she was able to join her Mommy, Suzi, in their room.

Not wanting to rush too much we waited until she was a whole 11 hours old before we went to meet our newest little darling! She is an angel straight from Heaven!



Momma and baby are doing fine...



Grammie and Grandpa are happy to have her here; and healthy, especially after the initial scare.



She sleep the whole time we were there and she squeaks! I told her she does baby-Darth-Vader breathing... just like Grandpa!



And speaking of Grandpa... whose chubby face it this? This is where the *pork-chop* part comes in! Look at those chubby little cheeks! And because she is proportioned she is a tiny pork-chop... and Grammie loves it!



I always marvel at the beauty of a tiny newborn; so perfect, so miniature, so delicate... what a miracle!



She has a beautiful head of hair and a nicely shaped head...




But this??? THIS... is one of the sweetest parts of a new baby...



These tiny feet will
Grow and learn,
Run and play,
And follow in the Savior's way.