5.21.2010

Heaven is bringing its angel baby home

Today Heaven is taking an angel home. Sweet Amelia Grace's path is unfolding differently than we had all been hoping and praying, but she will be in a better place.
Amelia's family has been close with our family for as long as I can remember, her mom and my brother grew up together and Amelia's grandma and my mom were friends for even longer. Tori announced her pregnancy shortly after Brandin & Courtney announced there's, and the anticipation of a third generation of friends bustled.

Heart-breakingly, it was announced that Amelia had a heart defect and liquid on her lungs and probably wouldn't even make it full term. Amelia proved her doctors wrong and made her grand debut into this world January 13th and has been a fighter ever since.

Unfortunately, diagnosed at birth with Down Syndrome and a life-threatening heart defect, it has been no easy feat. Her short life has had it's fair share of high's and low's, and as we learned last night, God has different plans for her than we all had hoped. I ask that today you keep Amelia and her family in your thoughts, and pray that she has a painless return back up to Heaven where she may watch over all of us.

Sweet Amelia Grace, you have taught us more about miracles in your short time than we may have ever learned without you!

(A side note I wanted to mention that struck me as interesting - Amelia was born 1/13 at 2:22, my niece Olivia was born 2/22 at 1:13. I take this as a sign that this precious baby will forever be watching over my niece and keeping her in good hands!)

11 comments:

Caroline said...

Prayers for Amelia's family and your's. Heaven definitely has another beautiful, angel. And I know she'll be looking over Olivia all the days of her life. This breaks my heart. What a brave little girl she was here on Earth. Prayers to everyone!!

Gwen said...

Praying for Amelia's family & you. Olivia definitely has an angel looking out for her as you all do. God Bless You Sweet Amelia.

Jagged Little Life said...

SO sorry for your' friend's lost. It is so sad to lose a child. I can't even imagine the pain! My thoughts are with you guys!

BlessedMama said...

Praying for you all...This is so sad BUT God does have a plan for her and she will be an Angel in Heaven watching over her families and sweet friend, Olivia....God Bless you all!

Blessings
Monica ^i^

Katie said...

ugh. heart breaking. we will pray for this sweet baby and her family.

Aly said...

That just breaks my heart. I will pray for her and your entire family and friends.

Domesticated-Bliss said...

poor sweet baby girl. i will keep her family in my prayers.

Brooke&Tyson said...

This post just broke my heart...IPraying hard for their family.

Emily said...

What a sweet little girl. I'm sure she has made a tremendous impact on everyone. I'll be praying for her and her family.

Tara said...

aww.. so heartbreaking! praying! <3

Brittany said...

I'm so behind on my google reader so I apologize for the late comment!

I'm so sorry for your loss. This is just heartbreaking :-( I will be praying for her family and yours!

That is really strange about the coincidences too!