Rejoice with me!
Today, at 1:40 PM, Abigael Sophia Durbin came into the world, the second daughter of our daughter Karen, and her husband Chuck, and sister of the other most beautiful granddaughter in the entire universe, MacKenna Jane Durbin - fourth in line to her cousins, the heartbreakingly handsome Maxx Alan (age 6) and the other most beautiful granddaughter in the entire universe, Melina Marie (age 16 months) Hadad.
She weighed 9 pounds 3 ounces and is 21 inches long.
She has blond hair and blue eyes, like her mother and sister.
MacKenna Jane (just turned 5 years old) said, "Oh, Nana (that would be me), she is the prettiest sister I could never have asked for. Please thank God for me, will you? I'm so, so happy."
And, so I have.
And, so we are, as well.
Abigael (Gaelic meaning, "Her father's heart.")
Sophia (for her maternal great grandmother on her grandfather's side.)
Durbin (her father's Irish heritage - her mother is Conroy-Hadad as in Irish and Lebanese - don't even go there).
Shield the joyous!
Pictures (enough to make you wish you never knew about this blog) to follow.
Oh, and WOO HOO!
"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
Thursday, August 03, 2006
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Congratulations to the happy parents and grandparents! I can't wait to read the Love Letter that you write for Abigael Sophia.
ReplyDeletewelcome to the world, Abigael Sophia. Oh the wonders you will see.....may peace and justice and compassion always be a part of your life.....
ReplyDeleteCongratulations...and may the new soul, Abigael Sophia, grow up in a world that we all help make more kind, more loving and more just. Nay God shower her with reminders of His grace.
ReplyDeletemazel tov!
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