sam & libby's family: October 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

two babies: one in a pumpkin onesie and One who rescued us all

fall has arrived! yesterday i {libby} was freaking out because storms were looming over alamance county... meg was trying to watch a little tv and feed karis when all of a sudden she scooped karis up and grabbed her camera and went outside. of course, we were totally curious... what mom in her right mind hears that there is a tornado warning and takes her 4 week old daughter into the outdoors??? {no need to call dss, folks. it all turned out okay.} she said it was something about how the lighting was great...

{special thanks to our friend, jenny conklin, for the adorable onesie!}

so a new routine we've gotten into this week is that we all {me, sam, brett, karis & meg} all get up into the bed and read karis the Jesus storybook bible and then sing "i love to tell the story". meg is VERY excited about the Jesus story book bible and thinks it's the greatest thing in the entire world.

rejoicing today that He came to earth just in the same way karis did, as an infant... he relied on someone else to change his diapers, he got his nourishment from mary's breastmilk, he had to be carried around to get from one place to another. all because of his "never stopping, never giving up, unbreaking, always and forever love" as the storybook bible puts it...here's a section from it:

"and there, in the stable, amongst the chickens and the donkeys and the cows, in the quiet of the night, God gave the world His wonderful gift. the baby that would change the world was born. His baby Son.

mary and joseph wrapped Him up to keep Him warm. They made a soft bed of straw and used the animals' feeding trough as His cradle. and they gazed in wonder at God's Great Gift, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.

mary and joseph named Him Jesus, "Emmanuel"--which means "God has come to live with us."

because, of course, He had."

{swaddling clothes being modeled by karis}

Friday, October 15, 2010

i drank too much.

i just don't know when to stop. who knew breastmilk could knock you out so fast?

--sam

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Love.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

{1 John 3:16}

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Week One with Karis!

you just can't even believe how busy libby and i have been. last friday night, we all went to bed like normal. libby in her crate, me in my bed. when all of a sudden meg got up at 1:30 in the morning and said to brett: "brett, i think my water just broke..." well then things got crazy. brett jumped out of bed in some what of a panic and after throwing some things in bags (forgetting the camera...how does that happen?) they ran out the door to duke hospital.

well you can imagine how libby and i felt. karis wasn't supposed to be born until tuesday october 5th and we had planned for that day, not saturday october 2nd! and besides that, who would come take care of US? breakfast was supposed to be in 6 hours and we were pretty sure they weren't going to be back then! thankfully meghan, our favorite dog sitter, came to the rescue and stayed with us for the next few days.

meanwhile, at the hospital, karis ann lybrand was born at 5:36 a.m. by emergency c-section. when we heard the news we were thrilled! when would she get home? when would we get to meet her??? while we waited with baited (or stinky dog) breath, we hosted company with brett's parents and meg's mom as they came in and out of the house helping meg and brett get the things done that they had put off until the last minute.

here are some pictures of all the fun they had in the hospital without us:

...and then when they got home, look what happened:

...we got IGNORED and the baby got all the attention. i mean she's cute and all, but we don't think we deserve to be treated this way. but it seems nothing is going to change any time soon, so we figure we'll make friends with her and enjoy it--everyone else is!