I just love this picture of Emory and me. We all had gone to Branson a couple of weekends ago to go to the Branson Cruise (For those of you who do not know what the Branson Cruise is, for a weekend in august all of the classic cars and fixed up cars all come together and they have a car show and then on Saturday night at midnight they close 76 down in Branson and all of the cars that had entered in get to to cruise the strip without any other vechiles. It is all lot of fun for those car buffs out there. Daniel sure loves going to it. I do too I just love to give him a hard time about it.) This picture was taking in our hotel room that we had gotten. Emory was just playing so I had gotten down with her and started playing and she would just grin and giggle.

That is her new favorite thing to do it to giggle and grin. She is always grinning and giggling. The other night I had feed her before we went to bed and she had fallen asleep on my chest and I layed her down on the couch beside me and then next thing I looked over at her and she had woke up and started giggling and grinning. I just love to here her giggle. She gets so excited and she will squeal.

We have started eating cereal last week. We started out on a Tuesday and she was somewhat okay with it, but by the the 5th or 6th spoon of it she was starting to get tired of it. Then we gave it to her on Thursday and she did not want to have anything to do with it. Fussed the whole time we were trying to feed her the cereal. Here are a couple of pictures from the first feeding of cereal.

Also Emory's hair is getting so long. We gave her a bath the other night and I combed her hair and I just couldn't get over how long her hair is getting. It is also getting more red in it, too.

Yes our daughter has a comb over. I just couldn't help myself when i was combing her hair, to come it over like that.

I don't know how well you can see her curls, but they are there. Just a little bit of one.

9 Months Old!

We are nine months old today!!! Emory is getting so big. She is now started to laugh at everything. The other night she would just laugh at every little thing she was doing, it was so cute. You can't help but just to laugh with her. Sometimes we will be watching her and she will be playing and the next thing you know she is just laughing and smiling away. She is still trying to cut a tooth. I just wish that it would poke on through. I think it is playing peek-a-boo with us. Sometimes we will see a white spot and then the next time you look it doesn't even look like there is anything. We will go and see Dr. Shrum on Thursday and we will have current weight and heighth measurements for you. I know she is getting taller and heavier all the time. At therapy today, Ms. Laura said that she just keeps on improving, everytime she sees her she says. That is such a blessing too because she is behind on some of the milestones, but it is such a blessing to see her come along with everything. Because I know before too long she will be up and running before Dan and I realize it and we will not be able to keep up with her.

Emory has a ticklish spot right under her chin and on her chest. We can tickle her right under the chin or right on the chest right around her underarms and she just grins and giggles. It is the sweetest thing you have ever heard. It melts my heart everytime we do that to her and she grins and giggles. I really can't imagine my life with out her. She has changed me completely. I love her dearly.

On Sunday, we had our Keys' Family Cookout for the birthday's in August (HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLIN!!!!!) and a small wedding shower for Jason and Brittany (who are getting married August 31st). Afterwards we went back over to Dan's mom and dad's house before we left to come home, I found Emory like this:

This is her surprise look.

Last week Madalyn was up here to stay with Dan's mom and dad for a week while her parents went to Florida. She had loads of fun helping Daphna keep Emory. She would help assist with the eatings and the diaper changes and help keep Emory entertained. Madalyn is going to have a baby brother in November and I hope that this last week with Emory really helped her in some ways, so her mom, Damitra, will get some help out of her when baby brother gets here. She really wanted a baby sister. Madalyn went with her mom and dad to see the ultrasound and the doctor turned to her and said that she was going to have a baby brother and she no I am going to have a baby sister. But I think now she is more up to the idea of having a baby brother. She just loves Emory. Everytime I see Madalyn with Emory, she just keep saying aww how cute and everytime Emory would get upset she would be like what's wrong Emory, what's wrong. I just love the picture of the two of them together up above. They both have this "What" face on them. Like oh no not another picture please. Madalyn's last night with Daphna and Jimmy, they needed to go to WalMart so we told them that they could leave Madalyn with us for a little while and Emory justed loved it. Emory would try and find her when Madalyn was talking. I just cannot get over everytime I see Madalyn how big she is getting. I remember they day she was born, or the night rather. She was just a tiny thing and now she is getting so big.

Update and Vickie's Baby Shower

Well first off, I want to report about Emory's procedure she had on the 30th of July... We went down to Children's on Monday for the opthamologist to dilate her eyes and to check the pressure on her eyes and for the audiologist to do a hearing screening on her ears. They had to sedate her for both of the screenings because they wanted her to be still. Well, Dr. Lowery, the opthamologist, started right at 8 and was finished at 8:10, I was shocked at how fast his was. He came out and talked to me about what he say, he say no glacoma (sp?) and there was a little bit of scar tissue on the left eye from removing the cateracts but he said that he could see in so that meant that she could see out and that she shouldn't have any trouble seeing. He also told me that he was wanting to remove the bifocial part of her glasses, so he wrote a new prescription so whenever I can get a chance to go by the eye doctors office here and drop off the script for them to fill we will have new lenses put in with no bifocials. Then they did the hearing screening, which I knew that it would take about an hour and Dr. Stroud, love her she is so nice, came and talked to about what the hearing screening said. Emory's hearing in the right ear has improved and the left stayed about the same. So that was awesome news!!! So they have decided to switch her from wearing the hearing aides to wearing a "BAHA" (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid) which can be premant or she can wear it on a head band. Right now we are going to be wearing as a head band. As long as it has good contact with bone, it will stimulate both of her ears, which will be a blessing, because we could only get one of the hearing aids in anyways. So we were all really excited about the news that we got that day. Also, for her physical therapy that she has been going to all summer long, the OT therapist said that she has been really improving and she said that there is an order of certain things that babys learn to do, like weight bear on their forearm and then weight bear on the hand, well Emory would bypass weight bearing on the forearm and go staright to the weight bearing on the hand and Ms. Laura said that she has been doing great. Her muscle tone changes almost everytime she sees Emory and that Emory is really lifting her head up good. So all good things to report. Emory, last time we had her weighed, weighed 9lbs. 7ozs. and she is finally 20 inches long!!! We are really growing.

Saturday we had my sisters baby shower, she is due September 18th and we all had so much fun. Vickie got a ton of stuff, big stuff too. She got a baby swing, I am jealous, she got one of those activity centers where you put them in and they stand up, got a diaper genie II, baby moniters, baby bottles, creames, lotions, wash, you name she got it. Some one even made her a diaper cake, which was really cute.


Vickie opening mine and Dan's gift, which was 3 sleep-n-plays, one with hammers and tools all over it saying Daddy's little helper, one with a bear and something about sweet baby (I think) and a halloween one with "BOO" on the backside, which was very cute.

Vickie opeing Emory's gift to her Cousin Riley. The gift contain baby wash, lotion, and powder, a bottle, gas medicine, a pack of gowns, a pack of onsies, and "What to Expect the First Years."

Emory was so excited about the shower she just couldn't wait to give Aunt Vickie her present for Cousin Riley. Emory just can't wait for Cousin Riley to get here so she will have a playmate. "Hurry up, Cousin Riley, I want to play with you!!"

We all had such a great time at Vickie's shower. Hope you enjoyed, Vickie???
That is me, Vickie (holding Emory), Emory, and our mom, Mary (in the back)