our little family!

These first few days with Sofie have been a blast!  She continues to be a huge sleeper, with lots of Lily love, time with Aunt Lisa and Grandpa, and is as content of a baby that I've ever seen!  How do you love a sweet little thing this much!?!

 Dad got this pool for Lily, which calls itself a "Family Fun Center...today at 95 degrees, everybody tried it out...I was laughing so hard!

sofia lovely ayars

Just as Philosophy means "love of wisdom", Sofia means wisdom.  I took Lily from the Hebrew word for Susan, after my mother, and then Matt chose Sofia from the Greek.

She must already know that this is the meaning of her name, because thus far, Sof spends the large majority of her time sleeping and pondering the complicated things in life.  

We searched and searched for a good Haitian middle name for Sofie, always coming down to a word we really loved in Creole but that just didn't sound quite right in English.  

However, Lovely  is not only a rather common Haitian name (several little girls in Saccanville carry it), but more personally it is the name of a little girl in Port-au-Prince that really touched our hearts years ago.  As we were praying about and searching for what His call was on our lives, little Lovely and bringing Jesus to her people contributed to where we are today. 

Plus, you have to admit that she IS Lovely.   

This also means that we have a LSA and a SLA :)

The ONLY time Sofie seems to get upset is when she is cold, and for about 10 seconds max.  She will be very glad to learn that we live in a warm climate 365 days a year...What a gift! 

I love how wrinkly new babies are!

Once again, it's crazy to us how much you can love someone you just met, and that all that love we have for Lily can be had AGAIN for another.  Just wild. 

If nothing else, we are constantly reminded what a gift these girls are!  As with all of His gifts...GOOD, unmerited, undeserved, unimagined and still, thankfully, His!

 and just in case you were thinking like we were that Sofie looks TOTALLY different than Lily...here was Lily at 1 week...  Guess not :)

 

Sofie's going to join Lily's blog now!