Well, Chloë had her sixth birthday today. It was only yesterday when she looked like this:

and this:

Then she started growing bigger:

and funnier:

And prissier:

And older, and bigger, and smarter:

And now here she is, at 6yrs old today, breakin’ my heart:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE ONE! Chloë Emmaline Hicks. I praise God for her.

Here’s a video of different pics of her growing up, and audio of us singing her favorite Psalm:

First, a story (my emphasis added):

From here.

Finley Crampton really shouldn’t be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn’t take the risk.

After all, their first son had died of the condition and the second was born with serious kidney damage.

So when Finley’s mother, Jodie Percival, became pregnant while on the Pill, she and her fiance Billy Crampton, 35, made the agonising decision to abort this child.

‘Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby,’ said Miss Percival, 25.

However, Finley had other ideas. And some time after the operation, Miss Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach.

Eventually her doctor sent her for a scan – and she discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant.

The child had survived the abortion and thrived in the womb. ‘I couldn’t believe it,’ said Miss Percival. ‘This was the baby I thought I’d terminated.

‘At first I was angry that this was happening to us, that the procedure had failed.

‘I wrote to the hospital, I couldn’t believe that they had let me down like this. They wrote back and apologised and said it was very rare.’

But a week later, another scan confirmed that this baby had kidney problems too, like the couple’s previous children.

Miss Percival carries a gene which triggers multicystic dysplastic kidney – which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby.

Her first baby, Thane, had lived for only 20 minutes after she was forced to deliver him prematurely.

Her second son, Lewis, now 20 months, was born with a similar condition. He survives on one kidney.

However, doctors told the couple from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, that this child was likely to survive, so they decided he deserved a chance.

And in November, Finley was born three weeks premature, at 6lb 3oz.

He had minor kidney damage but is expected to lead a normal life.

‘I knew if that operation hadn’t failed he wouldn’t have been there,’ said Miss Percival, a hairdresser.

‘I just couldn’t believe that this child had got through it all and looked so perfect.

‘He may need an operation but as only one of his kidneys is affected he can survive.

‘I still struggle to believe just what he has fought through. Now he’s here I wouldn’t change it for the world.’

Wow. I rejoice, yet I seethe with righteous anger. So these parents wanted another child, but because there was a *possibility* that he would have kidney issues and *possibly* die later, they decided to go ahead and *matter-of-factly* murder the baby. Okay, let me try to  understand this. Rather than risking a passive loss of a child due to health issues, they wanted to actively take his life? And because they had a previous child lost to such issues, that somehow justifies murder?

The article says it was an “agonising” decision for the parents. Somehow, I don’t think so. Let’s consider the words of this mother.

“Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby”

Look who the emphasis is on, according to this mom. Let’s change some words around that basically show the statement for what it is. “Deciding to murder my baby at eight weeks so that it wouldn’t have to deal with only a *possible* kidney issue and die was just utterly horrible, but not so horrible as ME, MYSELF, and I having to cope with the anguish of losing another baby.”

HELLO!??!? Murdering a child in the womb IS “losing another baby!!!!” Furthermore, she doesn’t care about the baby, because as far as she is concerned (along with the spineless daddy) is herself and her emotional stability. It’s funny that the article says, “the parents would have loved another child …” I’m not following. First, they were on “the pill.” Second, they didn’t love the child that God gave them; instead, they sought to end its life.

We’re not God, folks. We’re not the ones who decide when a life is “worth it” or not. That’s God’s job, and should be His doing. He gives, he takes away, blessed be His holy Name. When the state executes capital punishment, it should be because God has called for it, and it fits the crime. So even then, we’re not the ultimate deciders. We’re not to determine when it’s best for a Baby to be born or not. This is disgusting.

Can you imagine how this baby will feel when she grows up and catches wind of all this? Furthermore, the mom got angry when learning that the murder didn’t finalize. Awww … bless her heart (NOT!). So she writes a letter to the hospital complaining. “You know, I payed you to get rid of this problem, and now look what has happened.” The hospital even apologized for not successfully murdering the baby!

May God have mercy on the Church for standing idly by as things such as these pervade every facet of life. May God grant repentance to this mother and father and hospital who are so calloused to reality. May God have mercy on us all.

I wasn’t the only person in the Hicks family to graduate this year!

but since my daughter’s welcomed arrival five years ago, it has become a lot more frequent. This is a voicemail she left me a few days ago.

I love that girl.