Sweet Smile
Canon 5D Mark ll, 100 2.8 macro, 2.8 aperture, 1/50 shutter, 1/640 ISO
I first wrote about Miss Phoenix a month ago. She was born on June 11, weighing in at 2 lbs 11 oz. She was three months early. She wasn’t due until August 28th. She is a picture of perfection and the faithfulness of God. Her mommy and daddy have asked for audacious prayers for her, and God is meeting them every step of the way. She has gained a full pound, her little cheeks and arms filling out with sweetness. And although she is making great progress, she still needs your prayers. Please pray that her lungs will continue to develop so she can go home without an oxygen tank, hopefully within a month. She is living up to her name. A little firebird that will rise from the ashes.
I wept when I watched her daddy interacting with her today, as he changed her diaper and took her temperature through the sides of the incubator. He held her sweet head in his hands as he moved her around. She clearly trusts him already, knowing daddy’s touch. This will be invaluable to her all her life, being the apple of his eye. It’s what every little girl longs for. I am so glad Phoenix has captured his heart already in her tiny hands. Both of her parents adore her, and it is easy to see why. She is perfect and beautiful. Her fragility is her greatest strength, for it is what draws them to protect her so deeply. She is theirs alone. A blessed little firebird. I cannot wait to see what she will become.
Please do pray. Her parents, Josh and Emily, would be so grateful. She is not out of the woods yet. Also, Emily has a beautiful blog on Nixie. You can read it and keep updated on her here.
And now, lots of photos from my day with this sweet family.
Daddy's Here
Daddy's Grasp
Baby Stretch
Enthralled
Going to Mommy
Mommy At Last
Sacred Moment
Love All Around
Family
Just Us
Sweetness Filling In
In This Together
Perfect
Psalm 139:13-15 ~ “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.”
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Such beautiful pictures of such a beautiful family
Mary Ann, your pictures are wonderous! So beautiful.
Ahhh. I looked at those of Emily holding her baby and just wept. I can remember it like it was yesterday, That moment- it’s so special… Thank you for sharing you guys. Such beauty.
The picture of Phoenix and her mother making skin contact…that is by far the most precious and spiritual feeling in the world. That is closeness to God, and I love how she was so entranced by her daughter’s beauty that she didn’t see the look of pure dedication and love through that dedication that her husband washed over the two most important women in his life.