Here’s a Christmas present from us to you- pictures of the girls!! 
The girls are doing very well. Rebecca weighs 7 1/2 lbs and Anna a little over 6 lbs! I’ve been planning to post these pictures for awhile, it’s just that every time I went to post them, I had to leave to help with the girls! Now that Ruth’s family has arrived (Bruno and Beth from São Paulo and Paul from Fortaleza), there’s much more help available, which means Dad gets to mark some things off his to-do list, including this post!
OK- enough talk- look at these pictures!!! Click them to see them larger.
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New headbands, on display
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Anna getting fiesty in her new summer clothes.
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Dad imitating Rebecca!
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Mom and Rebecca numa rede (in a hammock).
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Mom with Anna.
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Anna in her favorite burping position. Oh yea.
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Rebecca, on the edge of the pillow, braces for the worst.
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Who’s imitating who? Anna, or mom? or both!?
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Sharing will have to become normal for the girls!
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She must be dreaming of Christmas presents.
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Rebecca lends a helping hand. How considerate of her.
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Our “White Elephant” cell group celebration was a great time of fun and growing our cell group
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My, what a shirt you’ve got, dad. It will look good with spit-up on it.
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Grandpa Hrubik and Rebecca
In the midst of adjusting to life as new parents, we’ve had a number of get-togethers and Christmas parties, all to grow our cell group and share Christ’s love. In short- they’ve been great and we’ve been growing our group. Also, I will soon be talking more about a new CD project that is coming together as result of the great MDA Conference we recently had. I’ve been asked to produce the CD for the church which will be launched at next years’ huge Congresso (where we pack the stadium with 30,000+ people for 3 nights)!!! I’m super excited to be a part of this brand new project.
Needless to say, we need your continued prayers for:
- Being new parents
- Health in the midst of not sleeping much
- Special blessing on winning others for Christ and growing them in our cell group
- Grace to get my work done with the mission (website, video, etc.)
- Blessing on the big CD project coming up
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For now, it’s time to enjoy the holidays and our family. Thank you for your continued love and support, and we wish you a wonderful Christmas full of God’s love and peace. If you have snow, enjoy it!
Sugar and spice and everything nice have taken over on this years’ Christmas Paperback Reutter! Seriously, Dad, get out of the way because this home now has 3 girls in it come Christmas time. Get ready for a house full of pink and purple, talks about clothing and shopping and when the next vacation will be. Life sure has changed as we celebrate both the birth of our girls and the coming of our loving savior Jesus Christ into this world. He is our hope and light and the reason of our great celebration! Click the picture below to download this years’ Paperback Reutter. This was just sent out last week, and if you didn’t receive one in the mail and would like to, contact us and let us know! God bless – now I’m sure there’s a dirty diaper somewhere that has my name on it. Maybe I can find a grandma willing to change it.
Click to download the 2009 Christmas Paperback Reutter
It’s with so much pride that I announce to you the birth of Rebecca Joy Reutter (5lb 12oz) at 10:40 PM (8:40 Eastern) and Anna Grace Reutter (3lb 8oz) at 10:42 PM! The babies are super healthy, and the mother too! Praise God for his faithfulness to us – and thank all of you praying on our behalf. The births could not have gone better.
Rebecca Joy and Anna Grace
Even though here platelets were low, Ruth was still able to have an epidural. Because I grow weak and faint at the sight of blood (it’s true), I was in an adjoining room when Rebecca was born. I heard a healthy cry and tears came to my eyes. I heard the next cry and I was just beaming. Ruth said that her joy would be complete when she heard them cry, and I was so thrilled that she got the joy of hearing her healthy babies cry!
Anna’s already started to nurse well, and Rebecca – well – she’s been wanting to sleep! Since we have no internet at the hospital, I had to come back home to share the great news with all of you who were right here with us in spirit! Look at these photos! Did you ever see anything so beautiful? I think not Maybe I’m partial though.
We were already thanking God for healthy babies before delivery
Continue to pray for Ruth’s quick recovery and for the girls to put on some weight. We thank all of you so much for your love and support and check back here soon for more updates, pictures and prayer requests! We won’t let our guard down now- but pray them through these first critical months! Now enjoy these photos (remember to click on them to see them nice and large)
Rebecca Joy is born
Anna Grace is born
Rebecca Joy right before her first time with mom
Anna Grace sleeping well on mom after nursing for the first time
What started out as a leisurely lunch quickly turned into excitement/panic/excitement! We received a phone call from Ruth’s doctor that the c-section has been scheduled for tonight, Monday at 9 PM, 7 PM Eastern!! He felt it was important enough to schedule the surgery even before getting Ruth’s blood work back later today. We are asking everyone to take some time out at 7PM Eastern tonight to lift Ruth and the babies up in prayer!
Last day with the twins inside!
We have peace about having the babies now, even though we originally would have liked to wait until the Nov 20. Ruth was having several Braxton-Hicks contractions yesterday, and after talking to several doctors involved with Ruth’s delivery, we see God’s hand in it all. We cannot risk any real contractions since Ruth’s last c-section was just a little over a year ago. We also just learned that 3 more incubators were added to the local regional hospital, so if we need them, they’ll be there. We’re praying that we don’t, but praise God they’re there.
We continue to trust in Him and ask you to pray with us for:
- A smooth surgery
- high platelet count for Ruth so she can have a spinal block and not general anesthesia – we get the blood test results back this afternoon
- healthy baby girls with no need for incubators or any other complications
- Ruth’s quick recovery and no need for blood transfusions
Yesterday, on the very same day that Ruth went full-term with her twins, something very special happened. In our backyard, two flowers bloomed from one plant. The promise flower came back! Just as a rainbow serves as a reminder that God will never again destroy the earth by a flood, these flowers reminded us of God’s promise to us! In the darkest hour of our lives God gave us a symbol of hope, and now, right before the completion of that promise, He reminds us of His faithfulness. What a wonderful God we have! I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see a double-flower again without welling up with emotion and gratitude to God.
Read the original story behind the Promise Flower here (it’s a post from last year right after losing Anna Rebecca).
7PM tonight, the promise blooms. Be praying!
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