Just wanted to send out an update and a bunch of thank yous.  We've received loads of cards, gifts, food, visits, phone calls, emails & texts and they have all been wonderful.  We are so grateful to have support from family and friends in our most joyous and most sad moments.  I stare at Poppy everyday and am so excited to be a mother, but it too makes me cry because she was meant to have an identical partner in life.  We are mourning the loss of a daughter, but also the loss of being twin parents.  We thank Soulumination for the professional photographs you took of Amelia and our family of four.  What an amazing gift!  Please keep doing what you do.  We were deeply moved to receive the photos, scrapbook pages, data stick, matted prints and the stretched canvas print of Amelia.  Wow.  Also thanks to the Tears Foundation for picking up the cost of cremating Amelia.  That too is an incredible gift.  

A thank you too to my dad for making Amelia an urn.  It is made of the wood from the apple tree in my parents back yard.  My sister laser cut her name in wood for the top to the urn.  We will scatter some of her ashes on Chad's ferry route to work so he can visit her twice a day (when he returns to work).   A thank you to Bruce Haulman for letting us do this from his boat, the Vashona.  

Now for Poppy:  she is 5 weeks old today.   At the last doctors appointment she weighed 5 lbs 1.8 oz and was 1'6" tall.  She is eating well and doing well on walks and car rides.  Chad and I are trying to get out of the house once a day to walk, visit Granny's or go to the beach.  Between pumping, napping, feeding Poppy and ourselves this has proven to be quite difficult.  And it has been too hot!  90's lately.