Noah Luke Smith

On March 26, 2015 at 2:52pm after about 11.5 hours of labor we welcomed our baby boy into this world! He was two days past his due date and totally worth the wait! My labor was relatively easy and the hospital was the best we have delivered at! Noah weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and was 20 inches long...our biggest baby! He is absolutely perfect and stole our hearts at the first ultrasound, but getting to hold him...wow, there aren't really words!

Each of our children's names were chosen very carefully and each have special meaning! Kaylee meaning "Who is like God" comes from Josh's Grams middle name "Kay", Josh's middle name "Lee, and then she has my middle name of Suzanne.  Naomi's name means beautiful, gentle, and pleasant (which she is all three), and her middle name Skye was just one her Daddy liked.  We also named our baby that we lost Dakota Zion which means forever smiling. He or she is in Heaven forever smiling with Jesus!

Noah's name is no exception!  With the blessing of dear friends we named our son after my childhood pastor who passed away in 2009.  Pastor Noah was instrumental in shaping the person I am today.  I sat under his leadership for a good portion of my life and he was the pastor that reached out to my father and discipled him after he came to know Christ as Lord and Savior.  I pray that our Noah will follow the path God has for him and be a world changer the way Pastor Noah was. Noah also means "rest or peace" and he has brought much rest and peace to me after our loss.  His middle name was chosen by Josh and means "light giving" and that is our prayer for him, that he will shine the light of Christ in this world!

He will be three weeks old tomorrow and these three weeks have flown by! I am so thankful to the Lord for blessing our family once more!

Yes, I know where babies come from!

Don't be alarmed by the title of this post, I think a PG rating can still be given.  But I want to answer the question I have been asked far too many times. The awkward questions of "do you know where babies come from yet?" or "have you figured out how this keeps happening?"...yes I do and quite frankly that's why I am blessed to be a mother of three beautiful children!

This isn't written to any one person, but to anyone who has ever asked a question like the above, or the other end of the spectrum of "so when will you have kids?" or "do yall even want kids?" or the newest question for me is "are yall done now?"....

I have a few questions for you:

1. What gives you the guts to ask such  (in my opinion) RUDE questions?
2. Why can't you just celebrate the fact that our family is blessed with new life?
3. Have you thought that maybe the person who hasn't had a child yet desperately wants children but it hasn't happened for them? or..
4. Have you thought they do want children but are waiting for a certain time in their lives?
5. Why can't you respect the fact that some people have children young while others are older, others choose to have a large family and others only want one child, some have children close together and others have large time spans between children?
6. Do you know there are people in this world that choose not to have children or some that want to adopt?
7. Why is it any of your business?


I find it so interesting if a couple announces a coming child soon after marriage some will say "wow that was fast" but if a couple waits more than a few years after marriage to start a family others will say "will babies ever come". Or if a family has children within a year or two of each other people say "that's close together" but if a family waits more than 2 or 3 years others will say "how long do you plan on waiting to have another".

My opinion is to do what you feel is right and best for your family and life. My husband and I were married in March and felt we wanted to start a family immediately and we did. Two years later we wanted another child and so we had our second child. Now almost three years later we are blessed with our third baby.  Our choices were to start a family soon, while we are young, and relatively close together. We have our reasons for those choices and they are our reasons and choices. For now we are happy with our family of five, but who knows what the future holds.

My point is, I want my choices dealing with my family to be respected, so I try and respect the choices others make.  All I ask is for you to stop and think before you ask such questions.