Wesley's "A Day to Remember"

Wesley Hospital does a memorial service every year for the babies called "A Day to Remember".

 During the service they read the babies' names and the parents stand as their baby's name is read so they can bring them a bookmark and a rose.

There is a memorial outside in the courtyard with an evergreen tree in the center. 

Every year they put in a new brick for the babies who died that year, 

so we all went outside as they put the 2012 brick in.

 

A couple of the poems they read at the service:

Lifetime Wishes

"If we could have a lifetime wish

A dream that would come true,

We'd pray to God with all our hearts

For yesterday and you.

A thousand words can't bring you back,

We know because we've tried.

Neither will a thousand tears,

We know because we've cried.

You left behind our broken hearts

And happy memories too...

But we never wanted memories

We only wanted you."

The Broken Chain

"We little knew that morning

that God was going to call your name.

In life we loved  you dearly; in death we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you; you did not go alone;

for part of us went with you the day God called you home.

Our family chain is broken and nothing seems the same,

but as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again."

18 weeks

 

 

Still a girl!

Measured at 18 weeks, 6 days which puts her due date at Feb. 28 (her Uncle Kyle's b-day)
but our doctor is keeping the official due date at March 5th since we'll be inducing early. 

If everything goes well we might even induce on Chad's birthday (Feb. 11th).