Levi is eight months old and crawling.

Adam is 8 years old.

Sophie goes to preschool and turns 4.

Josie is three months old.

Eli is lookin’ cute… OK, that’s not really a milestone. Sorry. I just got distracted by all the cuteness. Carly knows how it feels.

And Helen is ready to grab the world by those hands.

this looks like a big year for blog babys:

Lori is due late April or May.

Kelsey Rawson is due June 4.

Spacefem is thinking June 11 would be a good time to introduce Spacedaughter to the world.

Erin looks to add a fifth chair to the dinner table sometime in mid-June.

I would mention Katie Grover giving birth to Lillian Ro but since it was a Twitter thing I wont.

The first appointment with the doctor, a sonogram and a due date.

* The headline is borrowed from the title of the book A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies. Ed. Anne McCracken & Mary Seme

Here is a description of how this event took shape.

So many people are asking how we are doing. Honestly, we often want to answer “horrible”. The ache we feel as we grieve the loss of our little girl and how much we miss her is something I can’t even describe.  Really, we are doing OK (which is what we usually tell people).  We are taking things day by day.  We couldn’t make it through this in our own strength.  It is the HOPE that we have in Jesus that is getting us through each day.  For that we are so thankful.

Thursday was Cora’s first birthday.