Summer Lovin III

   Part 3: photos from Emma's first birthday last summer and some from July 2018 as well!! :)

The morning of her birthday I was looking at photos from her first day on Michael's laptop and came across this top photo that I had never seen before!! How was that possible? Michael also took a year and a half to tell me that it actually looked like the doctors and nurses were having a little bit of trouble getting Emma to breathe or wake up right after she was pulled out of my body. But while it was happening at 12:51 that afternoon, and I was praying and crying about her not making any noise, Michael assured me that she was doing fine. Now she is doing so much more than fine!!  

    Praise the Lord!!

   As we are Americans, we do love to find any reason to go out to eat, even if it is for our baby's first birthday and she is fed only via G-tube and she sleeps through the whole meal. Ha, and yes I am sure we will do the same thing again this year. Maybe this time she will accept a bite of cooled mashed potatoes, since she has been getting tiny spoonfuls of purees and applesauce recently.

   I was very proud of myself for making Emma's Moana themed birthday cake! Even Michael was impressed with how well it turned out and when I posted pictures online many people assumed it was from Publix. Nope!! :)

  My dad is not in this full family photo, since he was the one taking the picture, but he is in the photos from the handful of summer ones, including a few from her birthday, that I did post last year about Emma's first 40 Days at Home!

NaNa getting her great grand baby snuggles in! Emma is her first great grandchild, and her second was born just a couple weeks later- a boy named Oak, by Michael's cousin, Ashley.
  Father's Day 2018 was the day after her party, as it will be again this year. Father's Day 2017 was so special as it was the first time we got to hold Emma for a while, aside from the one minute I got to hold her and say hello to her shortly after she was born. Of course, I wanted to do comparison photos to show how much she had grown within the year.

 Being silly around the house, wearing Mommy's glasses to be twins with Daddy!

Celebrating two months at home with her new leg splints made by Occupational Therapy!

   For the 4th of July Michael and I talked about going to a fireworks show with Emma and had it planned for a couple weeks before he decided that it wouldn't be a good idea- thinking it would interfere with her treatment times, it would be too loud and hot for her, etc. So instead we went over to our neighbors' house (Ashley and Ryan, who we finally became friends with after living next to each other for two years!!) and they made dinner for us. Now that we know Emma will be good and would probably love the fireworks as she is always looking at bright lights, and we like taking her out places (especially after her first vacation to the mountains!), hopefully that can be the plan again this year! 

2018 vs sleeping on July 4, 2017

 At the beginning of July Michael's parents came down to visit again. It is always fun getting out of the house and taking Emma to different parts of town and to different restaurants. A majority of the time she falls asleep, other times she just quietly looks around. I don't think we have had any issues yet with her crying or having any issues where we had to leave- except Michael had to give her the nightly treatments in the lobby of Kobe Steakhouse during the LPA Convention a week after this! But her lungs are stronger now and most days she can go up to 14 hours without needing her treatments again. However, once in a while she does seem to need them exactly at the twelve hour mark.

 & a couple more family photos from the summer:

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