Colt & Annaleigh-July 26

Annaleigh 5 Days Old-July 25

Brother/Sister Bond Getting Even Stronger

Here's Colt reading a bedtime story to a tired Abigail one night this week.

Joel is Blessed

I haven't posted in a while. Kind of been busy with my patient Hollie and beautiful wife Hollie's pregnancy. She began having contractions around 31 weeks. We prayed at our mission station meeting for her to wait and deliver at full term. Hollie showed so much strength and faith in the Lord during her pregnancy and delivery. We are so thankful to the Lord for blessing us with a healthy and full term Annaleigh Faith. She has a sweet disposition. Her sister Abigail loves to hold her. Colt also adores her. We appreciate your prayers and messages of support so much, blessings, joel.

Well, Annaleigh must have read my post from yesterday. She decided to sleep all night last night! Daddy says she is too young to not get in a feeding or two, so I did wake her up for those and she went right back to sleep! Let's keep that up, right?

Welcome to the world and our family, little Annaleigh Faith! This photo was taken late morning the day after she was born. She was born at 6:45 p.m. on July 20, 2009. She was 6 lbs, 10 oz. We are thrilled to have her. She is a healthy little girl. According to Ghanian tradition, when babies stay awake at night (and sleep during the day) they are looking after their mothers. Annaleigh is doing great with that! :)

Colt and Abigail both adore her. Abigail loves holding her and gets upset when we take her away from her again. She even loved her little newborn cry. Abigail loves to go on walks with Daddy. Joel was about to take her on one this afternoon and Abigail started crying real tears because she didn't want to leave Annaleigh. "Baby, baby..." It was so sweet. Colt has helped so much, of course. He is a wonderful eight-year-old big brother. Thanks so much for your prayers.

4th of July Baseball Game