Eleven Months Old / Giving Thanks Challenge ~ {Day #8}

Thanksgiving Challenge ~ Day #8

Topic: Noelle
Title: Eleven Months Old

{If you are new to this challenge~which is not your typical Thanksgiving challenge, you can catch up on the details here, and please feel free to join along at any time...}

~Really, Mom?~

I can hardly believe that I just wrote the title, "Eleven Months Old."  Where has the time gone?  There have been so many days through these months that I have not dared to think beyond the next hour or the next day, let alone dream about reaching her first birthday; and yet, here we are celebrating eleven precious months with our little girl and entering the home stretch to her one year birthday.  I am overwhelmingly amazed at God's goodness to us and thank Him for each precious moment we have been given with this little girl.  She weighed 10 lbs. / 10 oz. today and continues to fight and grow, tiny though she still may be.  Happy Eleven Month Birthday, Noelle!!  We love you!!!

{Although she is still on oxygen 24/7, she is doing well enough for us to remove the cannula for short moments of time, such as snapping pictures. }

If you are local and would like to help a relief project for New Jersey this week, please check out this page and do what you can to assist this effort.  

***Do not forget there is only one week left to submit your entry for the book project for Noelle's birthday.  You can read about the project and the deadline by clicking here .  We are enjoying the submissions we have already received but would love to hear from you, if you are willing to participate.  Thank you so much for helping us make Noelle's first birthday a special time of remembrance!!***