Friday, June 18, 2010

Paityn Elizabeth Winchester

Paityn Elizabeth Winchester was born on May 2, 2010 in Germany. I was enduced at 39 weeks because of obstetric cholestasis. My water broke and 14 1/2 hours of labor later and I had a "emergency" C section and Paityn was born at 4pm on Sunday. Healthy and beautiful. THE BEST MIRACLE EVER. She was 7lbs 4oz at birth and already smiling within her first days of life. She is so amazing. We just are in so much awe of her. What a blessing!
Since she has been born life has been a whirlwind but an incredible one. The days have gone by so fast. Too fast!
We had my parents visit for a few days and then Bens mom come visit for a few days. Both visits were great but flew by as well! It was nice for the new grandparents to get to meet their beautiful granddaughter. Yes I may be biased but ooo how I think our little girl is so beautiful. When she was born I literally laid there holding her all night admiring the little angel God gave us. To be honest I still do.
Paityn loves to sleep, which has been amazing. She is sleeping as of recently a few 8 hour nights it is awesome since her mommy absolutely loves to sleep too.
We are so proud of Ben, he is leaving to Afghanistan sooner then I can say and he will be so missed. He is such an amazing daddy to Paityn and an absolutely amazing husband to me. Some may say I am unlucky because my husband will leave for a year but I say I am blessed. God gave me such a wonderful man to provide and keep us safe and free. I am more then thankful despite the fact my heart will be longing each day till when he comes back home. By then Paityn will be walking and talking, how crazy is that? Ben will be here for fathers day so that is so cool. We got to spend our first mothers day and fathers day together. Paityn was a week old for mothers day and will be 7 weeks old for fathers day. I cant express the love I have for Ben and how much he means to me. Being parents together has just made our love grow and us really realize how much love we are capable of. The love we feel for Paityn is beyond words, we try to talk about it and we just look at eachother and know we cant explain it. A love for your child is just beyond all explaination. It is only a glimpse of how much our God loves us, so let me just say we are all loved sooooooooooooooooooo incredibly much. this weekend at church is Paityns dedication, how exciting :)
So since she has been born we have been doing local activities. I think my two favorite towns nearby is Amberg, which has shops, cafes and delish ice cream cafes and Regensberg. Regensberg has a river running in it and it is beautiful, it also has a sushi restaurant that I love, mostly because I couldnt eat it when I was pregnant so now I can eat all the raw fish I want, I know many people think that is gross but yum not me :) There is also a mall there that is the closest thing nearby to a normal American mall so it makes us feel at home. I love going there with ben somhow I end up leaving with a new pair of shoes or a skirt or something he wanted to buy me. Im a lucky girl :) Well in Amberg there is Bens favorite brewery Bruckmuller where we are going out for a hot date tonight. He loves the German food. I love Him. So it will be a good date for both of us. Oh yea Paityn comes too but she will probably sleep the whole time. So when she gets older and says she isnt allowed to do anything we will remind her about all the cool places in Germany she went too :)

This video was at a festival in Amberg, Germany. Paityn is six weeks old exactly in it! She loves dancing with her daddy! :) We are going to play it at her wedding when she dances with her daddy! Hopefully she wont be like us and it will be more then twenty years away, that seems to soon already :)
These videos were taken this morning, June 18th. Paityn is a morning person she was so full of life this morning so we captured a little. She gets shy for the video and doesn't want to show off her cutie patootie smile but she is still as precious as can be. For those of you in the states I hope you enjoy seeing her just how she is and feel a little closer to her. Ill try to be better at updating the blog throughout this next year.
Please keep Ben in your prayers as he takes on this responsibility of his job and leadership and heads to Afghanistan. I pray I will stay strong and positive for him while he is away. This will be an adventure for both of us but "WE CAN ENDURE ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS US" I love you all and miss you all. Feel free to email us or facebook us to talk we'd love to hear from you. When I get Bens address over there I will post it if you want to send him encouraging packages, I know he will appreciate it!
LOVE,
The Winchesters

Upcoming Events in the Winchester family:

-Fathers day
-Ben deploying (Pray for safety and peace)
-Paityn's 2 months check up
-The fourth of July
-July 16- Natalie (Sophie's sister) and Kyong's Wedding in the Dominican Republic
(praying for Paityn's passport so we are able to go!)
-Sophie and Paityn visiting the USA!


sophie.d.winchester@googlemail.com
benjamin.winchester@us.army.mil