Showing posts with label Beki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beki. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Due the end of August...

to my nephew, Paul,
his wife, Beki and

big-sister-to-be, Zoe!

Congratulations!!

My girls are so excited they bugged me every day last week to call and see when Paul and Beki were going to find out what they were having. I told them not to worry, we would be hearing from Aunt Gail as soon as the news was out. And we did. So, yep, I told the truth in every single post. We were waiting anxiously for the news, we will be buying baby girl clothes and Zoe (pictured with me in the previous post) is getting a li'l sister to love and spoil rotten. But when Beki sent me the ultrasound pictures that very night (isn't technology great?!), I felt mischievous...maybe I was lacking attention...whatever you want to call it, it was fun while it lasted. And yep, some of you were right, I was sitting here at the the computer laughing over nearly every comment. My only worry...I was holding my breath waiting for some of you to bring up the the little fact that I HAVE gained weight over the last few months.

Hope you all can sleep tonight - I actually had trouble sleeping last night if it makes you feel any better :) And just consider this a little belated April Fool's joke since I was on vacation without internet over the 1st.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

April Showers Bring May Flowers

That is what my sister said when Mom left us April 21, 2007. Her namesake, Zoe Violet, was due to arrive around May 28th. We had known for some time that Paul and Beki were having a girl and what the baby's name was to be. Mom was so excited to have a great-granddaughter named after her. Several of us girls (including Beki :) were hoping that Beki wouldn't go over her due date into June. In fact, we thought it would be especially neat if Zoe was born on May 21st, exactly a month after Mom's passing.

But we heard Mom say it before and we would have heard her say it this time, "this baby wanted her own date." Zoe Violet made her debut around 9:30 pm on Tuesday, May 22nd! She weighed 7 lbx 5 oz and was 19 inches long. Zoe means "life". So incredibly fitting, don't you think?