Dear Babies

My dear babies,

For the record, you are so loved. I marvel at you everyday. I cannot believe we get to love you so much! 

I am humbled at the belief that you were planned, destined, built before the stars and heavens and little fish in the sea were fashioned. You have been Known since the beginning of Time and I get to be your mother. What a sacred, wonderful, beautiful honor! Thank you for letting me be your mother. You will never understand the wonder and hope you brought to Daddy and me. You cannot fathom the joy you have given us, by letting us touch your ears, feel your toes, nuzzle against your cheeks. We feel like we've been knighted! Such a fantastic, unbelievable gift you are to us. We believed in miracles before we knew you. Now, we live one everyday. 

Know you are a gift of God, you come from Heaven and you are loved with a depth and breadth that is indescribable. You are perfect, more than the sum of your parts, and because you were both created in His image and likeness, little windows into the Love of God. 

 Twins. Two. My arms are so full, but my heart is fuller.

Our Holy Day

The day I found out I was expecting another baby is a day I'll always remember. We had asked God and prayed so fervently to Him for this miracle, I cried and sobbed with unimaginable gratitude and joy. The day I was told we were having two is also fairly memorable. :) After that day, when the babies' hearts weren't even beating yet and were only a fragile and sensitive 6 weeks old, we prayed and prayed that God would let us keep both. And He did. Of course their birthday will always be one of my best and happiest and most remarkable days of my life. . . and following this incredible list of beautiful moments is the day Olivia and Tommy joined their cousin Jimmy in the Body of Christ as they were baptized, all three, together at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. I will always remember how white the event was, how brightly the sun shone through the enormous stained glass windows. It felt as if the Holy Spirit was truly in our midst. I think He was. 

See--look at all that white!

Jacob and his patron saint, St. Juan Diego

Sweet Susie wearing the Archbishop's cap.

Nick and Tommy. See--white.

Olivia and her godfather, Uncle David.

Baby Jimmy

Baby Tommy

Baby Olivia!

The O'Banions were all there, and Uncle James' family. You three babies are so loved!

Again. . . the white, right? Was a heavenly day, truly.