Happy 14th birthday, Emily!

Happy Birthday, Emily. We are so blessed to have Emily in our family! She is beautiful, talented, thoughtful and a good friend to all. Emily loves ice cream, dancing, being with her family, babies, photography, making movies, and she plays the piano beautifully! She also just joined the Venturing group with Ashlee. We love you, Em. Thanks for coming to our family! We love you!

Some funny things Emily has done or said:

Emily loved to pretend to talk on the phone when she was little. She had four play phones and would sometimes talk on them, but she always wanted the real phone. She would have pretend conversations on them all day. (She pronounced phone, own) A sample conversation, "Hello. . . uh huh. . . My daddy's no home. My mommy's home. . . me read books. . ."

Emily was very much a daddy's girl. If dad was home she insisted that he change her diaper, get her in and out of her car seat, push the stroller . . .

At 2 1/2 she already had an eye for nice cars. We were heading to our car after church when she pointed to it and said, "That no my car" Then she pointed to a brand new, green, sports utility vehicle and said, "That my car"!

At 3 she still couldn't pronounce her Ls. She pronounced her name emoey. One day she said, "I know how to spell my name, M-O-E". She figured that out because if you just say all the letters, that's how she said her name. One of her nicknames after that became, Moe.

At 4, Emily was trying to do a perfectly straight front roll, she kept going side ways, and was getting frustrated. I told her that if she would practice she would be able to do it. She ran to the piano and played on it for a few minutes. She tried her roll again and still went sideways. She said, "I practiced and I still can't do it!" (Both Amber and Ashlee took piano lessons and I would ask them to practice. Emily had only heard the work practice used with the piano!)