Pictures with Santa!!!

Friday at my work we hired a Santa to come in and customers could get their picture taken with Santa. Well Mom and Vickie brought Riley down to get his picture taken with Santa and Daphna brought down Emory to have hers taken. Well Riley just sat there didn't cry, Emory on the other hand just cried up a storm. It was completely different from last years picture, she was asleep.







Here Emory is in one of her birthday presents from her Grandpa and DD. She looked so cute in it on Sunday. I had some patent leather looking shoes with bows on them that went really good with the whole outfit.



Here is Emory talking to Nana. They carried on a big conversation.

Yesterday the weather was so bad that we pulled out some of our christmas stuff for Emory to wear. I found this shirt at babygap and just thought that it was the cutest. I thought that since it was threatening icy and snowy weather that I would put it on her in hopes that it would snow.

The many faces of Emory

"Mmmmmmm.... Granny"

"I can't see you Granny so you can't see me"

"Oh there you are!!!!"






We took our Christmas pictures on Monday night and here is a little preview of some of the pictures that my mom took. As you can tell in some of the pictures Emory was quite for sure what to think about all of the picture taking.

FINALLY.... THANKSGIVING PICS

Our Little Turkey





Daniel's birthday was on Thanksgiving this year. Hope you had a great birthday honey!


This Thanksgiving was completely different than last years. I was thinking all day on Thanksgiving what we had done last year. How we had worked it out with both sets of parents and what not and it dawned on me that we spent last years Thanksgiving at Children's Hospital. We has so much to be thankful this year. We got to be home with family and spend it with the ones we love and got to enjoy our little girl at home instead of the hospital.

Emory has received a new hearing aide device. It is called a "BAHA." It is a Bone Anchored Hearing Aide. (www.umm.edu/otolaryngology/baha.htm If you to this website it will explain the BAHA)It so very cool. I have always heard that you can see when a child learns something new for the first time by the expression on their faces. Well Emory when she first got her new hearing aide of course she cried like the world was coming to an end but that is normal something not for sure if we are going to like it. But Emory has so wonderful with it. It is on a headband (normally we take off our headbands) and she leaves it on for the most part. The day after when she was home with my mom for the day and the neighbors dogs started to bark Emory's eyes got really big and and she has this surprised look on her face and my mom explained that that was the dogs barking. Mom said it was the most neat and amazing experience because she knew that Emory heard those dogs barking for the first time. Well here is was the BAHA looks like (the pictures are not the best but at least you get to see what it looks like:





You just snap the hearing aide piece (the first two pictures) in to the base on the headband (the third picture) and then we can place the base part anywhere on her head. Pretty amazing. If this works out to be a good thing, which it already is, the will surgicially implant it behind the ear.

It is staring to look a lot like Christmas around our house. I decided this year to make a wreath, which my mom helped me with (thanks mom, love ya) and the tuesday of Thanksgiving week I put up our tree.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know Daniel and I sure did. We didn't have to spend it in a hospital this year. Felt very strange and wonderful at the same time. We had Thanksgiving with Daniel's family down at Jasper and wonderful food to eat and we also had a annual birthday month get together. We had 7 birthdays to celebrate: Jason(Dan's brother)- Nov 5th, Emory - Nov 7th, Karl(Dan's cousin)- Nov 7th, Ed(Dan's uncle) - Nov 18th, Granny Emma Faye - Nov 19th, Daniel's - Nov 22, and Brittany's(Jason's wife) - Dec 7th. We had such a good get together. Here a few pictures of Emory in her Thanksgiving attire.

Well I don't know what is happening but this happened to me yesterday, I have put the pictures that I want to post on a CD and I am trying to post them put instead of the picture it puts some form of html format instead of putting the picture up there. So as soon as I get home tonight from work and family gatherings I will post the pictures.

Birthday Pictures!!!!

EMORY IS TURNING ONE YEARS OLD TODAY!!!

These are some pictures from this morning. We will have more later on tonight.

"Mom... it is to EARLY for pictures!!!!"

"Mom... it is STILL too early for pictures!!!!"

We were not a very happy camper this morning for me to get really good pictures. But there will be some more later on this evening and I hope that I get some good ones.

Happy Birthday Emory!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween! We sort of did. Emory looked so cute in her ladybug costume (thanks, nana!!! you did a fanastic job!!!) and we took Emory everywhere yesterday and it just wore her out. She was super hot in her costume and everytime it got to be around the time she would need to feed she would scream like I have never heard her scream. I was kind of glad that yesterday was over but I just love to see Emory in her costume. Here are some of the pictures from yesterday:

The Redneck (Daniel)

The Ladybug

Emory and Lucy (Whitney)

Emory and Riley

"C'mon Riley pull yourself together, they want ANOTHER picture of us together. Like they don't already have a million pictures. They are like the paparazzi!!"

"Okay, Emory you told me to pull myself together. Now it is your turn. They keep telling us one more, one more, and it turns out to be ten more. I have just turned my gaze to what I love to look at the most, the fan. Can't you do the same so they can get the shot."

I just love these pictures of Emory. She is starting to make the funniest faces and she starting to really clap her hands. If you start to say pat-a-cake she will clap her hands or if you start to say yeah she will clap her hands. She is getting to be such a big girl.