~LABOR DAY WEEKEND~

During our family get together at Daniel's mom and dad's on Labor Day, Uncle Jason pulled out his Mandolin and started playing it for Emory. She absolutely LOVED it!!!! I think we have a musician on our hands!!!!!!!

~Emory loved the mandolin~

~Showing Jason how she plays the mandolin~

~Jason showing her some different techniques~

~No, Uncle J this is how it is done~

~See Uncle J this is how it is done!~

~Showing Emory that he could do that too~

~Looking at Daddy to see if he was paying attention

to her playing the mandolin ~

~Super excited when he noticed~

~Excited that Uncle J brought out the mandolin~

~Showing Granny how it is done~

~Jason brought out his banjo and Emory was not

as infatuated with the banjo as she was the mandolin~

~Showing Uncle J that she like the madolin better~

~NO NO Uncle J I want to keep playing with it~

~really getting with it now!!~

~Uncle J showing his appreciation for the wonderful

music that we heard from Emory that afternoon!~

~Wish it was hunting season already... ~

~I love these photos of Dan... so serious~

Elk and Swan @ Ponca, AR

WE ARE TWO!!!!

I am finally update the blog, per requests from everybody. Here are some pictures of the birthday party.

Instead of a birthday cake, this year we decided to make cupcakes for Emory's birthday. We tried to make a big 2 out of the cupcakes but it kind of looked like a 'z'.

Helping Emory open her birthday presents, she REALLY did not like this part of the party. You would think that she would have loved it but she just did not. We got lots of toys and we want to thank everybody for our presents.

Riley was helping us open the presents. He was a big help. I think he enjoyed it more than Emory did.

Riley loved the balloons. He got a kick out of hitting them.

Getting upset...

Getting more upset...

Finally had to recruit dad to help us out.

Riley loved the tissue paper.

The birthday girl.

Emory with her cupcake.

Emory really didn't like her cupcake.

But Riley sure did.

Emory and Madison Adams.

Hey, where's Madi???

There she is!!!!

What's new with Emory

Well since surgery, at therapy they have noticed that she has muscle tone in the backs of her legs, which they did not notice before and also that around her lungs she is a lot looser than she was before surgery. She is moving her legs a little bit more than before but not much, but we are not getting discouraged because the Dr. said that it could take 6 months to a year before we would notice a change in that department.

She is getting, it seems like, all her teeth at one time. She has had her bottom teeth for a while now and she has been getting her upper teeth since June, well we are now working on the teeth beside, on both sides, of the upper and lower teeth, we are getting molars on the top and bottoms on both sides. Needless to say I really want my happy baby back!!!! She has not been too bad with all of her teeth coming in but once she starts crying it is really hard to please her, she doesn't want to be held, she doesn't want to be put down, she wants her toys, she doesn't want her toys.

She is now starting to wave, either good-bye or hello. It is so funny to watch her wave. I love it. She will always wave at me when I go up to see her at lunch at my in laws and after I have told her hi she will wave and then go back to what she was doing and then look back up at me and wave again and then I will tell her hi and then she will go back to what she is doing and it will go on for like 5 minutes.

She is starting to throw 2 year old fits. And they are 2 year old fits. She will start crying and then start throwing her head and hands around. It is kind of funny to watch her at this way.

She is now getting up on all fours and every once and a while she will scoot herself to what she wants, not all of the time but a few times she as a couple of times. She will get up on all fours, look around to see who is looking at her and then when she realizes that someone is looking, she will start trying to clap, it is kind of funny to watch her, she loves to get praised for anything and everything she does.

I have been having a rough couple of days the past couple of days. I have been back at work full time for a couple of weeks, and I told myself that Emory will probably get mad at me and want nothing to do with me but she had been doing so good the first 2 weeks but this weekend she didn't want me to hardly feed her and then this morning, she didn't want me to hold her after I feed her this morning, and then when I was dropping her off at granny's, I had just gotten her out of the car seat and got her up on my shoulder and as soon as she saw granny she reached for her and I almost started crying. I told myself that this is normally for her with all if the changes that she has been going through, but it is still hard. Work as been a little bit stressful lately and I know that I have been carrying all of that with me and she can sense all of that from me.

Sorry, no pictures this post, my camera needs to be charged. I promise to put it on the charger tonight and start snapping away again. I have gotten out of the habit of taking pictures that it is hard to get back into it.

Pictures from surgery

With Stitches

Without Stitches