Baby H {8 months old}

This is my gorgeous niece, Baby H.  She is seriously one of the happiest babies I have ever met.  And in her short eight months of life so far, she has been through a LOT.  She is a little fighter, this one.  A lover of life and love and family.  She had a mountain to climb and she did it with her smile and joyful spirit totally intact.

And because I know what it’s like to be the mommy of a little one with seemingly insurmountable challenges in front of her, and I know what it’s like to worry and pray your heart out and beg to take her place… What I said about Baby H is also true for her mama.  She is a fighter.  She is a lover of life and love and family.  She had a mountain to climb, and she did it with her smile and joyful spirit intact.

Isn’t it amazing how much we learn about life and faith when we become parents?  We see our very hearts in the lives of these little children and watching them endure REALLY hard things seems impossible.  But with God’s grace and strength and comfort, we watch them do the hard things they must do.  And we become better.  We experience in tangible ways, that He is trustworthy, and He loves His children and we cannot help but love Him more.  Trust Him more.

Baby H…you are SO loved.  By your family, yes.  By your Heavenly Father, so immensely!