Thanksgiving Day 5 years ago God blessed us with our first daughter, Rebecca Grace. Born at 27 weeks, weighing 2 lbs. 0.8 oz., Becca’s first few months were filled with lots of unknowns and blessed with many prayers of the saints for her life.

The first Sunday of this month Becca was baptized. It’s been a blessing for us to see the Spirit’s work in her life. We praise God for claiming her as His child. Becca was very excited about her baptism. She kept telling us it was the best day of her life. We gave her a cross to celebrate her baptism.  (The photo on the right is of Becca and our pastor.)

The first day of this month Becca got to start her birthday countdown calendar. Each day she opened a window and got to do something special: small gifts, swimming (several different days), special snacks, special games, and surprise outings such as Burger King, two nights in a hotel, a scavenger hunt, making cookies, and so on.

This year we’ve seen Becca grow in her leadership as she includes her siblings in playtimes. We love watching and listening to them play together … even Anna gets included when possible. One of the wonderful benefits of living overseas in our situation is that Becca’s main playmates are her siblings. We enjoyed seeing Becca and Isaiah grow closer together because of this. We’re praying that the Lord will continue to allow us to cultivate this gift.

We celebrated Becca’s birthday by having our entire EMU Cambodia team over on Becca’s birthday (Nov. 26th). The party  was a little overwhelming for Becca. Tonight we plan to have a family-only party.  (Our team is down from Ratanakiri to celebrate Thanksgiving.)

In Becca, God has given us a special, living reminder of how much we have to be grateful for.