Emily Marie - The Minor Years

This is Miss Emily's New Blog - I would like all the family members to be part of it - This will be the journal of her life in an electronic age. Feel free to add comments about her or your own memories and family photos etc. Think of it as an Electronic Baby Book

May 30, 2004

OH NO my Belly Button fell off

Also went to my first South Texas BBQ. Everyone said the food was good but mine tasted same as always. Mommy has her digital camera now so maybe her and daddy will take some more pictures of me cause Grandma seems to be falling behind.

May 27, 2004

Day 4 - Beginning to wake up

Tried keeping the eyes open more today. Gramma was beginning to worry that I would never do anything but sleep. Mommy kept telling her I stayed awake at nights just fine.
Went to the grocery store today to buy mommy more Twix Ice Cream Bars(We like those Ice cream bars)Gramps was our cheauffer today. He is big and strong and makes all us girls feel safe when we are with him. ALso met Mommy's friend Troy today. He was warm and had a nice lap so I slept on him for my nap. His wife is wanting a baby so I was extra good while he was here. This way he will be tricked into having his own baby and won't he be surprised. Gramma took new pictures of me and my new skinnier mommy today and one of troy and me but it didn't come out to good. Well its time for me to eat again so here's your pics.

May 26, 2004

3 Days and Counting

Today was another day of firsts. I seem to be having a lot of those. It was my first visit to the pediatrician. My first visit to the healthfood store and my first visit to the bank. It was also the first time Gramma gave me a bath. She says I sleep too much and she stripped me down and got me wet all over. I screamed, the water was warm but the breeze wasn't. Luckily it didn't last very long and then they made me all warm and fed me. I went back to sleep.

It is so nice to have all those admirers out there in blogland. But it takes so much out of me to keep getting all these pictures taken for my fans. This picture was taken when I was 2 days old and I believe it captures just how exhausted I am or maybe how few items of clothing I have that really fit.

May 25, 2004

Best Baby friend award goes to:

Lydia Nolan for her amazing support to my beginnings. Were not sure why she is so nice. You might almost call her an angel and we are at a loss as to how to say thank you for all her help and goodies. When she first found out my mom was pregnant she delivered bags of maternity clothes. At my baby shower she helped with the games and brought me so many useful things which helped my mommy because she really doesn't have a clue about everything I need yet. Just today when she came to see me she brought more goodies for mommy and me. She also went on and on about how pretty I was. I think I like her.

Gramma, Mommy and Me have been discussing a few ways we can pay back her immense kindness. Gramma says she will give her free computer help and advice for life. Mommy said she would babysit so Lydia and Kelly could have a night out or two. But she needs a little while to rest before she tackles a bunch of us littuns at once.

Me I promise to give the best gift of all. My undying love and hugs when I see you and my presence whenever you desire it of course. Gramma says you are going to live with her when you get old on a farm so I am sure I will see you lots during my lifetime.

Thank you for being a good friend

My First Hospital Picture

growingfamily.com - WebNursery
Not sure why mommy had these taken since they always come out funky. Having your picture taken right after that trip down the birth canal never makes for a good hair day. But even in a bad picture I am still cute.

May 24, 2004

Baby Web Review #1

Baby Web Review #1
Being a sensible Grandparent I want to know what web sites are cool before I set her free roaming the internet. So I thought I would build myself a whole Blog of them.

thekidzpage.com has a wide variety of content lots of free online interactive available to satisfy various age groups. They even have farm animals that make noise when you click them. Overall I give this site 4 stars. Nice free site a little heavy on the ads but content that is amusing and works.

If you try this site and like it let us know in the comments section.
theKidzpage Free Kids Games, Colouring & Jigsaw Puzzles
posted by Brandy # 5:30 PM

May 23, 2004

Lifestyles of the Cute and Newborn

I'm Home, I'm Home and mommy says we aren't going back. They showed me my room which they say isn't ready yet because the Crib Gram bought at JC Penny has not yet been shipped even though it was supposed to on May 5th. Mommy said some really funny words when talking about this subject. They all sounded like @#$%^% & $*&$. Well heres pictures of what's there so far.








All my grandparents came to visit me after I got home. Taking pictures again.
Gramps took one of me with Grandma.


And grandma took more of me.





Well its time for me to rest so I can wake mommy and daddy up all night

May 22, 2004

More Pictures of Me

Day 1, Me and my Gramps. They finally let me out of that evil nursery place and my Grandpa Les came to see me, I hear that he is King of cookies and naps so we will get along just fine. As you can see he brought the crazy pictures lady back too. I didn't mind much, I am back with my family now and they are all trying to hold me at the same time. Its nice to be wanted but Grandpa wins since he is bigger than all of them.

May 21, 2004

It looks like today will be the day

But Looks Can be deceiving

My mommy went to the hospital today because I tricked her. See when she went out to lunch today I decided to play and I gave her the first contraction of my birth. I even arranged it through the powers that be to have Gram call her at the exact same time the contraction started. For the next four hours we had contractions together exactly 5 minutes apart. So my mommy decided to be smart and call the doctor who told her to go to the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital about 4PM with my grandma, daddy showed up about 6. This is their first hospital picture. They looked so happy and ready to go.



Then I made them wait. I was offended that they they thought I should go out into the world in the middle of the night. That was my sleepy time. Didn't they know that. To get back at mommy for wanting to make me visit the new world at such a late hour of the night I decided to be stuborn and stayed right there in my nice warm home. And there I spent the night giving mommy contractions with no relief. Grandpa brought everybody food and came and visited us for a while but he had to go home so mommy would get some rest.



About 4AM Mommy fought back and finally agreed to an Epidural. She said that it was a gift from God and here I thought I was the gift. It made all her pain go away and she spent the next 2 hours sleeping but I think I may have over-played my hand because those contractions kept on coming and now I couldn't stop them. Maybe this was not such a good idea. See the pink tiger in the pitcure, my daddy bought that for me. My mommy thinks it is cute hope she doesn't try and keep it



I finally gave up the struggle, these contraction things were just too tough for me and they finally pushed me into the world at the civilized hour of 10:57AM. And what a cold, cruel, wet world it is. These people have no respect for us cave dwellers. They had on all these lights, and I missed my home. Then someone wrapped me up in a warm blanket and handed me to my mommy. I tried laying there with my eyes closed to see if I could make it all go away. My Uncle Josh managed to call mere momnents after I was born to say hi. Does he have good timing or what??



This crazy woman keeps walking around me setting off flashbulbs in my face. What's with that. How can someone be so rude.



Okay she won't go away maybe if I give her the face she will quit taking all these pictures and let me get back to snuggling with mommy.


I tried running away to visit with my daddy thinking maybe he would protect me from the camera lady but he just smiled and she took more pictures.


And still More - Daddy kind of acts like he thinks I'm cute doesn't he? He has no idea how much trouble I will give him over the years. But I am sure he will love me anyway.


Then an even worse thing happened they took me away from my mommy and into this place they called a nursery. They did all sorts of tests and other mean things. They already knew I was perfect. I don't see why they had to subject me to all these tests just to prove something so obvious. And this time not only did I have the crazy camera woman but my Tata Santos and my Aunt Jenny staring at me too. I think all this might take some getting used to but just in case they didn't realize I wasn't having a good time I decided to scream for them to show them how I really felt. Mommy I want my mommy.


Vital Stats On Our Newest member - Miss Emily Marie -
7 Pounds 1 Ounce - 20 Inches long - Born May 22nd 10:53AM

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