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This is Emily's favorite baby.

She is such a good little mommy
Emily and Granny (Daddy's Momma)
THIS IS HER MEAN/MAD FACE.

She pokes her bottom lip out - too funny.

Most of the time when you ask her to make a mean or mad face

she is laughing too hard to be serious.

No title tonight, just some ramblings and photos of course - the only reason to tune in!!

We are getting ready for Gustav. Not really worried, just getting prepared. Walmart is already wiped out of everything, and quite the madhouse. There were a few things on my list that Walmart was out of, I will finish preps tomorrow.

Emily is mischevious as ever. She can now say her name. It sounds like Ninny. Too cute. You can ask her her name and she always says dog first. You can ask her if she loves you and she says no, cry. She wants you to cry!!! She loves to jump - on (and off) the couch, off the coffee table, in her bed.... She doesn't care if anyone catches her or not!! I am looking into getting her in gymnastics at the first of the year.

SPEAKING OF THE OLYMPICS

THE FAMED "BIRD'S NEST"THIS IS WHERE THE WATER SPORTS ARE BEING HELD
AIR CHINA AND THE OLYMPIC MASCOT DOLLS

We have been watching the Games some, not a whole lot. We missed the opening ceremonies. We have been watching the Travel Channel specials on China. Oh the memories.

Here are a few pics of some of the buildings that were built for the olympics and some of the pre-olympics pictures that we took while we were in China last November. I have more, but will have to find them (Donnie stores pics in one place in the computer, and I in another!!)

ENTERTAINING IS HARD WORK!!

Uncle Raymond and Aunt Cayrn and cousin Gina came for a visit Sat. Raymond is my younger brother and he lives about three hours north of us. This is only the second time he has seen her (he came Christmas Eve). So Momma go out the camera, and had a ball taking pics. I have limited pictures of her with other extended family members, but I will post pics of Emily with grandparents and aunts and uncles later. I need to make more of an effort to get more pictures of E. with friends and family.

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY.....

This was taken the day Emily came to the orphanage - 12/23/2006

This is her hands and feet - "inked" 1-30-2007

REFERRAL PICTURE

This was taken June 27,2007

We received the first pictures of our sweet Emily on Aug. 2, 2007. What a day!!! I had a funeral to go to in the morning and recieved "The call" in the afternoon. The first picture of her I saw took my breath away!! I never expected her to be as beautiful as she is/was. I was also blown away by her age - 7 1/2 months at referral. I was anticipating her being closer to 1 year or more. As for Daddy, he couldn't come home from work so that we could see her picture together, but he was just as excited as I was. This is typical Donnie personality: He couldn't see her picture till he killed the ants on the sidewalk!!!


To all of you still waiting, be encouraged . The wait is well worth it!! It is hard to beleive it has been since we first laid eyes on our precious baby.


To celebrate our anniversary, we are going to take Emily to the park. I'll post pics of our special time later.