Thursday, April 16, 2009

Lydia's Turn


I don't know if you get more emotional as you get older, but, today, as I watched my wife give birth to our sixth child, I could not hold back the tears of joy. I was overwhelmed with gratitude. My sweet wife had trudged through the valley of the shadow of death and emerged triumphant. Even the nurse noticed as she exclaimed, “Amber, you're a rock star!” Little Lydia was born into our family today at 10:41 AM. She weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and measured 20” long.

Lydia, welcome to our family. You should know that your textbook birth today was the answer to hundreds of prayers from little Micah to Mom and me to Grandma and Grandpa. Your arrival today has changed our lives forever-- and how grateful we are you made it here safely. We love you.

18 comments:

Heidi said...

Congratulations! I am so thrilled for you guys, and I am so glad everything went smoothly--you deserve that! I wish I could be there to meet her. I can't wait to see more pictures! Welcome Lydia!

Kandis said...

I was so excited reading your post... CONGRATS! We love you guys and are extremely happy it all went well. Lydia is the cutest name. What a special time for your fam!!!

Jennifer Lomenick said...

Congratulations! I am so happy for your family. Good luck on recovering and resting as much as possible.

Zach and Sarah said...

Yay! We are excited for you and your family. Congratulations on the birth of little Lydia.

Clark said...

Congratulations Amber and Jeff! How exciting for you guys! We can't to meet her.

K kid said...

Congratulations! I'm so glad to hear that everything went well!

Melissa said...

Congratulations! We're so happy for you guys!

Barlow Fam said...

YEAH!!!!! Congrats, she's so sweet. What a darling name, and yes she is a blessing to your family and ours! : ) Welcome to your home away from home Lydia.

Jeana said...

Congratulations Dahl Family! I am excited to get a full big brother report on sweet Lydia this week! I may have to check into you blog from time to time to see what Max is up to!

Jackie B. said...

Congrats! She is beautiful!!

Brett & Brenna said...

Lydia is beautiful! Nothing quite compares to the birth of a child. Congratulations!
Brenna Bastian

Amy said...

What a little sweetheart I love the name. Congrats!

ej said...

This news makes my whole week!!!! I am so glad that Lydia arrived safely and I hope Amber is resting and enjoying this beautiful baby girl! Thank you for the post Jeff! Congratulations Dahls!!!

Gabriela Hull said...

Congratulations! I'm glad everything went well.

Dahl Family said...

Congrats again! Newborns pictures are so sweet. We definitely need to see more pictures of Lydia. That is such a beautiful name. Good luck with the recovery Amber!

Rachel said...

Welcome, Lydia! We're so excited to meet this sweet little addition to the Dahl family! Amber, congratulations on a wonderful, successful delivery! You ARE a rockstar!

Waverly said...

OOOH!!! soooooo cute!!! i lv 2 just enjoy them, untill they learn 2 crawl=-)
Congrats!!! 6 of them kid-o-roos under 1 roof? WOW. you are REALLY daring...


CONGRATZ!!!
- Waverly Joy

c said...

Hurray! Congrats!Baby Lydia is beautiful!