A LiL Update...

Here are some photos taken at Emmalyn's Birthday dinner, yes I know there a month behind. Also are a few pictures from cousin T.J.'s birthday party as well. More pictures are to come in a few hours....

Emmalyn's First Birthday!!!!

Emmalyns First birthday party was a huge success, if you don't count the fact that she was not in such a great mood!! :) We enjoyed all the friends and family that were able to make it to the event, and are so thankful for the love Emmalyn has been shown for the last year. Emmalyn is loving playing with all the toys she got, and mommy is enjoying dressing her up in all of her clothes!!!

Auntie Julie with baby Emmalyn

Emmalyn's Birthday Cake!!!

The Cake we got to eat..YummY

Girl was not happy to be eating her cake

Not sure why we forced her hand into her cake LOL

Aw mommy and daughter love!!!

What an adorable picture!!!

Family

We love our Family

See you next year!!!!!

Babies First New Years....

Emmalyn's first New Years was very exciting....oh yes she slept the whole night!! :) We did enjoy taking a few pictures of her pre-New Years though. Hope you enjoy these beautiful pictures of my baby girls big night!!

Look at this Smart Little Girl!!!

Christmas Eve

Well its Christmas Eve and I'm waiting for my baby girl to get up from her nap. This week was so disorganized it sent me in a spiral, but of course on top of the head ache I already had from being sick. Emmalyn got her first illness, which yes I can say was a joyfull pain in the butt. She had a tempature that nearly got to 103*, and it turned out to be an ear infection. This of course is probably a sign of whats to come, :). So we got her some antibiotics and a lot of tylenol (for baby), and she is just starting to livin up. Since she's been keeping food down and has been quite cheerful we took her to see Santa today. Really bad idea when your child can tell people from parents, and gets freaked the hell out by a white bearded old white guy. Oh well, its like tradition to see if your kid screams or just cries the first time, mine I can say cried, walled and then tried grabing for Daniel and I, whom were about ten feet away. She would quickly glance up at Santa, turn her head and for a brief moment contemplate whether this was okay that she was in a strange mans lap. Thankfully my child had a good feeling it's not okay and screamed, unfortunatly I'm sure in sixteen years I'll be praying she still thinks that way. So once I get a moment I will up load that picture and the family pictures we took, for all to see.

Happy Christmas Eve and Off to Grandpa and Grandma Steels house

Just a few Random Photos

Okay well we have been very active lately, I have just been horrible on keeping this updated due to an over load on summer school homework. For some reason I decided to take way to many classes and now I have no free time...well at least for the most part. The last few weeks have been amazing for Emmalyn. Though these pictures don't show all of this, they will be coming soon to a blog near you. (this one to be exact) So she experienced her first 4th of July, which was amazing. We went to Elk Grove park and were right under some of the best fireworks I've seen yet. You will never believe how great Emmalyn was during the show! I brought earphones for her to wear in an attempt to muffle out the booms from the fireworks, and boy did it work. Granted we were so close you could feel it in your chest, Emmalyn sat there like a pro and watched all the fireworks. She looked in shock of what was going on...and then when the last big hurrah started, I looked down at my little angel, and she was out. Yes people she watched the whole thing and then passed out during the loudest and most startling part. It was amazing. She is also grasping on how to function her arms and hands a lot better. She plays in her exersaucer with ease now and can not stand to lay down. She always wants to be sitting up, even though she can only hold herself there for a few moments. She also hot her second tooth in a couple weeks ago, which I've had the darnedest time getting a picture of. For some reason when I pull her lip down to snap a picture she puts her tongue out to stop me. So we are leaving for Aptos tomorrow and I will yet again have a billion pictures to upload and to try and update, so hopefully in the next few weeks there will be many blog entries with pictures of my love bug for you all to see. I mean she is the cutest thing to fall from Heaven!!

She thinks I'm crazy with all my picture taking, but boy does she love her toys.

My big blue eyed monster!!!

Hanging out watching the RiverCats of course....

To cute in her monkey sweater that her cousin Britt got her...

The Fam-Bam on Father's Day

Passed out but holding on to GiGi for dear life

She's our princess!!!!!!!!!!

More to come at a later date...

5 1/2 Months Old= 1st Tooth Breaking Thru....

Yes everyone today yet another milestone has been accomplished.... Today when I went to pick up my baby girl, Miss Becky told me that a tooth had come thru. When I stuck my finger in her mouth I felt a little jagged edge. Yes it was my babies first tooth. This little golden tooth is on her bottom gum, in the front. I'm so excited, and the best part is that my girl isn't even fusing about it. Teething I'm sure will have it's bad days but for now we have a beautiful tooth and no fuss.

Look at this Beauty!!!!!!!!

Uncle Patrick's Graduation

So a couple weeks ago we went down to Merced to watch Emma's uncle Patrick graduate from High School. It was fun, we got to see a bunch of the family that we don't typically get to see and visit with. More captions to come later when I have a few moments, but I wanted to get some new pictures up for now!

A couple videos of my froggie...

Here's a couple of videos of Emma passing another milestone. I know how insignificant it may seem, a child or baby playing with a toy, but when you've sat and watched your baby grow and learn, its the most amazing moment in life. For a while I was worried she was behind in a development, not like that would be a bad thing, I was just worried, but in a moment it all changed. She, since she was born, doesn't want to let go of her hands, and I was afraid she'd never let go and try to grasp things. This is a very important development, it leads to everything else, and like I learned in Psychology, babies don't skip over developments even if it's taking them a long time to learn one. But as you can see in these videos my angel is unlocking her grasp and taking a step in a new and brighter world. This world is called toy land and so far I think she likes it!!!

Here she is playing, for the first time with out her hands being clasped together, with her new toy that Grandma picked out. Got to admit she knew what to buy because wow this girl loves it!!!

She loves this toy....

Hope you enjoyed watching as much as I enjoyed filming them!!!!

Its the Small things that make it worth it...

Okay well as most know tomorrow my little angel will be five months old. It may not seem like that long, but wow how times flown by. My precious little girl has grown, from a wiggle blob, into a moving, laughing, and now playing baby. So many mile stones have past in the last week, it's hard to stop and reminisce without shedding at least one tear. You can only imagine how many hurdles a baby can go over by the time they're FIVE months old, unless you've been thru this whirl-wind already. Let me start at the beginning of this week, with one of her many accomplishments up to today, daycare. Yes many may feel that daycare is not a great place for children to be, as it takes away from family connection, but I couldn't have found a better 2nd family for my daughter. Well I guess if my old babysitter still had her daycare that may have been a little better, but I am a tad bit biased. This daycare is ran in my neighbors home, literally two blocks down, and I've known her family for years. She, and her helpers, are amazing with Emmalyn and the other children. She teaches them knowledge that may have gone unknown until preschool. I hate to admit it too, but Emma's better behaved at Beckie's than with me! LOL Oh well I'm just glad I have a safe and fun place for Emmalyn to be while I go to school, to make a better life for us.

This is the first day that she went to DayCare...and look how happy she looks!!! Of course she had to go in a dress so that everyone knew she had style...

Here she is starting to roll more to one side...and that's GiGi her giraffe...whom she absolutely loves!!

This is a picture of Emma starting to sit up, a lot better than before, in her new toy....yes she always has new toys!!! I can't help it, there too cute and she looks too cute playing with them!!!

Okay so I just took this today, as you can see Emma is eating baby food. We've been trying to get her for weeks to eat oatmeal cereal but she screams when I give it to her. So I thought in celebration of her turning five months tomorrow I'd try something else. Sweet Potatoes..and yes folks she LOVES them. She eats her whole, tiny, bowl of them, minus the leftovers on her face!!!