Wow. I have seriously been out of the loop as far as blogging goes. Sorry for you who are faithful readers! The last couple of weeks have been extraordinarily full. Like many of you, we have been in the midst of school preparations. Dara just began her 2nd grade year at Kingsway Christian School here in Vancouver. She had no anxiety about school this year and couldn’t wait to join all of her school mates for another year of adventure and learning!
Dara on the 1st day of 2nd Grade
Dara settling in at her desk in Mrs. Wold’s class.
Dana is 22 weeks along as of yesterday. We have had a couple of significant doctor’s appointments lately- most of them revolving around our ultrasound. We found out a couple of weeks ago that we are going to have a baby boy (hooray!!). We were pleasantly suprised and blessed to no longer be in the dark about who was growing inside Dana’s tummy! For those of you who may not know- we already have his name picked out. We are going to name him Josiah Seth Klinkner. First- I will say that there aren’t many boy names that sound good with my last name, “Klinkner” so that ruled out some of the names that we were initially drawn to. But after some reading through baby name books- we picked Josiah Seth for a couple of reasons. The meaning of his name was particularly significant to us. Josiah means “God supports” and Seth means “God has appointed”. Why is that siginificant you ask? Well, when Dana went in for her first appointment with Dr. Nakamura, our OB/GYN, he after taking her health history, began to ask some pointed questions about Dana’s health over the last 15 years and came to the conclusion that he suspected that she had poly-cystic ovary syndrome. PCOS has many symptoms, but one of the primary ones is that women who have it have great difficulty conceiving. Dr. Nakamura explained in detail to us how the fact that we have 1 child already and that we are pregnant with another is a miracle considering she has PCOS. Also, many women who have PCOS, will actually miscarry during a pregnancy due to their hormone levels being insufficient in progesterone. So our choice of names reflects our gratitude and praise to God, because not only did He appoint that we should have another pregnancy, but God has actively supported our pregnancy and is helping Dana to carry it to term. Hence Josiah’s name (God has appointed & God Supports). We feel like it was an inspired name.
So there you have it. We’re having a boy! I am pretty excited to have some testosterone in the house to keep me company with Dana and Dara! In fact we just finished painting the nursery this week. We did a really fun color scheme of blue, chocolate, khaki and white in Josiah’s room. You can see below:
Stripes Phase 1
This is the west wall of Josiah’s room. So fun- and totally boy. Cool project. Our friend Katie Stilwater coached us on how to make those wonderful stripes! (Thanks Katie!) It turned out better than we could have imagined.
So working two jobs, having a baby, back to school- and being also apart of a church plant in Portland have kept us very busy. Our church, Current, is having its grand opening on Friday, September 28th at 6:30pm. You can be expecting me to be blogging more about our adventures with Current very soon. Suffice it to say that we recently leased a building in Southeast Portland off of SE 49th and Division- right in the neighborhood God was leading us to. Our website will be going up here shortly and you can read more about us and our focus and vision as a church family. Our services are Friday nights from 6:30-8:30pm. If you want to come visit, we meet at 2407 SE 49th Street- we would love to have you join us!
Well my friends, I am heading off to bed. Thought I would touch base and tease you with an update! A little follow up on my mad scientist work… my daylily seed pods have opened and I harvested all my hybridized daylily seeds! Pictures and details to come! Ciao for now!
It’s amazing! Dana told me to look! I LOVE IT….please tell her! Great job Dad!