Fearfully and wonderfully made

On Valentine’s Day Caleb Benjamin Powell was born! He weighed in at 9 pounds, has lots of hair, is quite long and is a gorgeous baby.

If we could see you we would probably end up telling you the birth story. Every baby has one and mums like sharing them like old soldiers sharing battle stories- Roz has heard a lot of birth stories in the last few months. Here are the highlights of Caleb’s birth story- we won’t share the low lights since this is a blog for all the family. I don’t think Guy or Toby would appreciate too much information…

• He has been knitted together inside Roz by a master craftsman who knew everything about him long long before we got to meet him on Tuesday. He is made in the image of God
• I got to dress up as Dr Carter from ER to assist
• One of the Nurses took to calling him Valentino after his birthday
• After the birth Roz was ‘posted’ through the biggest hatch I have ever seen. Her trolley was pushed up to this giant hatch, another was put on the other side and she was pulled from one to the other. Why she couldn’t have gone out of the door she came in through we will never know
• We did lose all ability to speak Spanish under pressure- but it didn’t matter
• Our friends David and Sarah and Jackie have been brilliant in looking after Chloe and Evie and taking us to the hospital
• Roz is amazing
• Nobody (including the nurses) could believe Roz was going to give birth naturally rather than by a C-section (norMAL?)
• Evie is enormous compared to Caleb

I hope that answers any questions you may have had and some you didn’t know to ask. Now check out some photos!

Dr Carter...with a monobrow

Caleb is fearfully and wonderfully made. God’s works are wonderful. We know it full well.

We have named him Caleb not because it means dog but because in the Bible Caleb is described by God as a man who followed the Lord wholeheartedly. We can’t think of anything we’d want more for Caleb than that.