Emmanuel, our bonus baby
On Sunday, May 7, we celebrated Emmanuel's first birthday. I posted on Facebook : " Happy first birthday to our bonus baby Emma. I pray that he will truly live up to all his names to show the world that God is with us, He blesses us and He brings joy to us. I am grateful that God has given me a chance to see another healthy baby growing well this year because I don't take it for granted anymore... " O ne of my friends saw it and commented, "what's a bonus baby?" and here is the story... Before Joshua and I got married, we discussed about how many children we would want to have. At the time, he said 5. I said 2. As a way of compromise, we came to the number 3. So after our third baby died (a little bit of background on our daughter here ), Joshua still felt like we should have another child. I was rather hesitant. Obviously I was afraid that some birth defect might creep up again. I was also very traumatized with the whole experience ...