April 28, 2007 - Finally Aunt Jodie and Cousin Jenna arrive from Holland for 3 weeks!!! Yeah!!! Emmalee had not met her cousin Jenna and had not seen her Aunt Jodie since she was born. 
Emmalee had no problem figuring out who they were. Emmalee immediatly gave Aunt Jodie big kisses and started eating her chin!!! She must have thought it tasted good! We are very happy to have them here! Emmalee is looking forward to having Aunt Jodie and Jenna babysit for a couple of weeks! We sure miss Ome Jan and cousin James!!! We are counting the weeks until they arrive! Love always, Jill and family!
Emmalee had no problem figuring out who they were. Emmalee immediatly gave Aunt Jodie big kisses and started eating her chin!!! She must have thought it tasted good! We are very happy to have them here! Emmalee is looking forward to having Aunt Jodie and Jenna babysit for a couple of weeks! We sure miss Ome Jan and cousin James!!! We are counting the weeks until they arrive! Love always, Jill and family!
Today, April 23, 2007 is my Mamaw's birthday! She is a true Taurus!!! I mean that in a good way. She is very strong willed and did what she felt was best for her family! My sister again said it best! Mamaw is another amazing women! Mamaw has two children, three granddaughters and five great grandchildren!!! We love and miss you!!! We hope your birthday is wonderful!!!! Love, Jill and family!
You have to look closely! Emmalee thinks that now that she has Chopper and Chipper she should be able to eat big people food. She scooted/crawled over to where her brother Bradley was eating his burrito and grabbed ahold of it and rolled over to have some. She wasn't to happy that we would not let her eat it. Emmalee is eating cereal with fruits in the morning and cereal with vegetable at night. She is doing really well with solids.... I can't beleive how quickly things change! We love everyone!!! Only 10 days until our Aunt Jodie and cousin Jenna get here. We wish Uncle Jan and cousin James were coming too. We will see them in July so I quess that is okay. 
Her big brothers took her into the bouncy before all the other kids arrived. 
Emmalee is just like her Daddy... she can sleep anywhere! 
It was a terrific picnic as usual. Emmalee wants to Thank Papa Jim, Nana, Grampa Tom and Grandma Diane for such a fun day!!!
She does not know what to think about this dress thing.....
Papaw and Uncle Jimmy went to Starkville for Papaw's 68 year High School reunion. Nana had a wonderful time and took lots of pictures. Jodie she is starting to take after you and me... I don't know if we can handle the competition.! We love you Nana!!!! Here are some of the pictures she took! 
The sign is posted over near where Grandma Nina's house use to be. Love to everyone from Papa Jim, Nana Phyllis, Rob, Jill, Josh, Bradley and Emmalee
She is a very happy, loving and precious little girl. We went to the doctor yesterday for her follow up from having the ear infections and pink eye. Dr. James went ahead and did her 6 month check up while we were there. Emmalee weighs 17 lbs 10 oz and is 27 1/4 inches long. She is doing wonderful. The doctor asked me if she was sitting up by herself and I told him that she was with assistance. 
He sat her up on the table and she sat and played and made a liar out of me. I then told him it was the therapist in me providing the contact guard - stand by assist needed. Well that is all that is happening around here. 
I also went up to teach a CPR class. While teaching Jo's Mom and Mother-in-law CPR, Jo played with Shane and Emmalee. 
Shane is almost a year old so he is 6 months older then Emmalee. They were very cute together. Shane crawled all over the place and Emmalee watched him wondering.... hey how are you doing that. 
I want to do that too. They were so much fun to watch, we laughed so hard. Shortly after we got there Shane got up from a very short nap and we put both kids on the floor. Emmalee was laying on her belly watching Shane. Shane crawled to one side of Emmalee and just looked at her, then he crawled to the other side of her and stared. Emmalee then rolled onto her back and Shane crawled to her feet and grabbed her pants with both hands and pulled..... I started teasing Jo and her husband, Keith that Shane was already trying to get into Emmalee's pants. We all laughed. We sat them facing each other and Emmalee reached out and grabbed two handfuls of hair and Shane just looked at her like - What do you think you are doing. 
We can't wait to take another road trip or to have Jo and Shane come play at our house. Thanks for a great day! We had a lot of fun. Love Jill and Emmalee
