Okay, so apparently I am not very good at updating my blog anymore. I keep trying to make a promise to myself that I will try everynight to start getting on the computer and update the blog whether it be with just pictures or with pictures and stuff that has been happening, but apparently I break my promise every week. So anyways, last week we went down to the Rock (aka Little Rock) for Emory's appointments on Monday and Tuesday. We went down the night before to stay at my dad's house with him and my step-mom Deb and we had a really good stay with them. Monday we met someone in the speech department at Children's and we just went over how important it is to have Emory's hearing aides in at all times and no matter what to always leave them in and turned on even if she is throwing a screaming fit. And we also discussed just things that she is doing right now with her hearing and speech (the lack thereof) but her cooing and aahing and stuff like that. We also went over information about when Emory does goes to school. The lady that we met asked me what her plans where for school and she said that we probably had not even thought that far ahead and I was thinking NO!!!!!! she is only 7 months old and I just can't imagine that time when she does go to school. I thought that that is so far away but she said that with public schools that they have to acomodote Emory no matter what so that was good to know. Also on Monday we met with the Orthopedic doctors to check out Emory's arms, hands, legs, and feet. They also wanted to do some X-Rays of Emory since she has not had any since her stay in the NICU. So Daniel and I thought okay they could probably get her whole body on one film and they would only do about 5 X-Rays at the most. No, when the nurse called us back to the room for the X-Rays, she said that I could go back out to the waiting area since they were 20 (yup, TWENTY) X-rays, my jaw dropped. I couldn't get over that they wanted so many of her. It just blew my mind. Well needless to say, I thought that we would have gotten out of there that day by at least 3 maybe 3:30 no get got out of there at 5! And then the next day was to check out her kidneys (which are still doing fine, no change since the last check-up since March) and we were there at that appointment from 2 - 5. I was never so glad to get home. So all in all the appointments went really well and all of the doctors kept saying come back in 4 months so October will be a busy month for us.
Early while I was on the computer checking the email and Ethan Powell's website (http://www.ethanpowell.com/ (PRAYER WORKS!!!!)) I could hear Emory just playing away in the living room and then all of sudden, silence so I went in there to check on her and I found her like this:
She was just playing so hard that she fell asleep right there amongst her toys. I just couldn't help myself and I took a couple pictures of her while she was sleeping.
These are some of my all time favorites of Emory. She has started to hug her small stuffed animals while she is playing with them. It is so cute. She is starting to get more and more active when she is playing. June 7th she turned 7 months old and I know she is behind on some stuff, but is starting to really pick up her smaller toys and she is focusing more with and without her glasses it seems like. She has the fold and go gym things and they have toys that hang down and of course we have to make them hang down a little longer than what they oringal do and she just loves it. She loves to be outdoors as well. When we are a one of Dan's ballgames or just outside in general and the breeze is blowing, she will grin from ear to ear when it hits her face. It is just the most precious thing to see her do that. It melts my heart everytime. 
