Eleanor Jane Schultz

A few facts about our newest little one:

Eleanor means light or honor.

Jane means gift of God.

She is our only child to be named for the meaning of her name.

Dan chose her middle name specifically for its meaning 

(I liked the name anyway so it worked out) :o)

I chose the wording on her announcement with great care.  

May 17th was not her first day of life.  It began 9 months earlier.

She is our only baby to be born early.  Even if it was only by one day.

She shares a birth month with her sister, Julia and her cousin, Olivia.

She was our second biggest baby at birth (Julia was bigger by a few ounces and half an inch)

We think she resembles Kayla the most...but it's hard for me to tell.

She loves to snuggle especially when she is laying on her tummy on someone.

She smiles in her sleep....a lot.

She gets frustrated with her hands and arms so we swaddle her tightly and suddenly all is right in her world again.

If you look very closely, the entirety of Psalm 139 is on her birth announcement.

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

    you discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down

    and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue,

    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

You hem me in, behind and before,

    and lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

    it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?

    Or where shall I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

If I take the wings of the morning

    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

    and the light about me be night,”

even the darkness is not dark to you;

    the night is bright as the day,

    for darkness is as light with you.

For you formed my inward parts;

    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

    my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

    the days that were formed for me,

    when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

    I awake, and I am still with you.

Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!

    O men of blood, depart from me!

They speak against you with malicious intent;

    your enemies take your name in vain.

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?

    And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

I hate them with complete hatred;

    I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart!

    Try me and know my thoughts!

And see if there be any grievous way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting!
{Psalm 139}