Pink and Purple

Day 5. 

I LOVE the colors pink and purple. Seriously, anyone who knows me would be able to tell you that pink is my all time favorite color. So much in fact, I almost peed my pants when I found out I was having TWO girls,  everything would be pink and purple. This is seen very clearly in their nursery. 

Our nursery in KC, it still looks almost identical

Gutter book shelf Austin made for the girls.

So, while pink and purple are on the top of my favorite color list, there is one place I don't want to see it, on my sweet girls arms and legs. When I first noticed this happen, I FREAKED out. It went away in about 15 minutes, but then about a week later it happened again. Luckily, we had our 4 month check up right after. I had snapped a few pictures of what happened and showed it to our pediatrician. She asked if she could show the pictures to a few other pediatricians in the practice, I thought shoot my girls are going to be famous for their pink and purple legs. When she came back she told us she had never seen anything like that ever before and none of the other pediatricians had either. Excellent. She then sent it to a few other specialists at Children's which eventually got us an appointment with the pediatric cardiologist. These are hard appointments to come by and we got in super fast, rock star status. All of this to say we had our appointment yesterday and we got the all clear. The doctor said what they had was rare, but it wasn't causing them any pain and that they should out grow it in the next year or so. Praise the Lord! He also said that they were incredibly pale children, they got that from their mother :) My sweet girls have had such a rough start at life that I couldn't stand it if they had to go through anything else. 

In other news, the girls are up to 13 pounds. Dang. I'm almost lifting 50 pounds if I carry them in their car seats at the same time. Don't be surprised if you see me in the Olympics in four years for weight lifting. 

Here are the pictures of their arms and legs, I promise they have been checked out and they are okay. 

     

Matthew 6:25-34 : We have needed this reminder :) 

²⁵  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?^[a] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹ yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹ Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³ Butseek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

³⁴  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.