Tonight at 8:51 we welcomed our little girl to the world here in San Jose, Costa Rica. She and her mother are doing great, they are both extremely beautiful, and at this moment very content. She has eaten (a great first eating) and now is sleeping on Lindsey, finally getting some rest.
She weighs 3.58 kilos (7.8) pounds. She is named after Lindsey's mom (Nancy) and Sean's sister (Nancy). Her middle name, Elliot, comes from the missionary family Jim and Elisabeth Elliot. Their story has been very influential on our lives, and we hope it will have the same influence on Ellie's. As you can tell already, we are not going to call her Nancy or Elliot, but rather Ellie. We love the short form of the name, and have enjoyed saying it so much already.
That's all for now, but we'll keep updating tomorrow, so keep checking back. Thank you all for your love, thoughts, and prayers.
Goodnight.
Love,
Sean, Lindsey, Lucy, and Ellie.
18 comments:
Praise God! I wasn't expecting it, but I started crying when I saw the photo of you three! I am so thankful everything went well and that Lindsey and Ellie are both safe and healthy. God is good. What a precious gift she is! I can't wait til we get to meet her one day.
We love you all and are praying for you in the days, weeks ahead.
Welcome to the world, sweet Ellie! We love you already and are praying for great blessing on your life!
SB (for all of us Nolls)
PS: even from that photo I think she looks like Lucy :) do you all?
Congratulations!!!! What a wonderful and special event. Here in the states, I celebrate with you over this marvelous experience - healthy and beautiful mom and baby.
The wonder of another little life given to you to point to the Lord is awesome.
Lovely picture.
I look forward to more details - especially as the sisters meet.
:) Janie
Congrats you guys! Ellie is adorable and Lindsey you look great! Praise God for a healthy little girl, oh and we love the name too -so cute!!
Love you guys,
Hagan & Dena
Congratulations, and praise the Lord. Everyone looks great. I love the name.
Lord bless!
Mark, Kelly, Mark jr., Faith, Mary, and Noah
We are very happy for you!! You are officially real missionaries, now that you had a baby on the field! You can always tell Ellie she was born in a costa rican hut on the beach! We are happy to have a another friend named Ellie...they are the prettiest little girls!
Try to get some rest, congrats!
love, The Baxters
Yeah Ellie...may God bless you and may his Grace and Love guide you like a beacon.
yay!!!! welcome ellie!!!! we hope to meet you soon!!!
We are so excited and happy for you! Welcome little Ellie. We look forward to meeting you soon!
Love,
Baby Ashley (and her parents too!)
Caleb was so excited to see a picture of Ellie this morning. She is going to get a lot of love from her sister and cousin. We love you. Please give Ellie a kiss and a squeeze from us!
KK
Oh Yeah! Ellie! You guys are heroic!
You guys ROCK! And so does little Ellie! Can't wait to share in the experience with you guys! Get here soon!!!
Praise God is right! We are so thankful that all went well - even if different than you all desired. WE pray much grace and patience and rest for you in the next hours and days and weeks! God is good - you can always rest in that!
Love to you all from VA!
precious....we love you guys...what does lu think so far?
I am so glad little Ellie is finally here. She's so tiny and just beautiful...praise the Lord! I'm already preparing Henry for there first meeting in December.
Welcome to the world, Ellie! You are precious and the Lord has blessed you abundantly with wonderful parents and an adorable big sister! Feliz cupleanos (that's some of the little Spanish I know and I realize that it's probably mispelled:)!)!
Congrats! We are glad all went well.
Love,
Sally, Scott, and Izzy
So glad to see that little Ellie is here and everyone is healthy. JEU's middle name is also Elliot after Jim Elliot -- how fun! Love you guys and love seeing you with two little girls! :)
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