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Practice for the Parade

Every Parent has an especially proud memory of a moment in the early life of their child, when he or she expresses a glimpse of the who they may one day become. Usually a talent, discovered early in life for things like math or music, mechanical prowess or linguistic might. Emily Jane's first apparent communication with the outside world appears to be in preparation for riding in parade floats.

Other Things She's Done This Month:

Making motorboat noises with her mouth

Pulling up to her knees

Speed crawling attempts to escape the nursery

Speed crawling attempts to follow Penny and George

Feeding herself fruit cocktail

Whispering to herself.

Her first art project (painting and placing the eyes)

Making two bottom teeth

Fully outgrowing all her 6 month clothes

Realizing she can reach outside the bars of the crib

Surgery Update...

Friends and Family, Emily Jane's surgery appears by all accounts to have been a success. She is 9 days post-op and her eyes are doing well. The procedure literally took 5 minutes. EJ was gone from us for about 18.5 minutes. She woke up hungry and was her regular self by lunch time.

Meanwhile Cindy and I have both had bad colds and Cindy had to miss two days of work last week. You might imagine, Cindy, on crutches, with a severe cold tending to a baby who is now getting a big kick out of trying to "get away" by crawling really fast and giggling.

Emily Jane's most recent words are "Olie, olie, olie" pronounced, "ole-lee" and making motor boat noises with her mouth. I'll try to upload a video later (when I'm finished re-downloading a driver.)

Look for another update soon.