Emily was Baptized this past Sunday. We were joined by family in friends to celebrate with us this joyous occasion. She was baptized at St. Mary’s, the same church and by the same priest that married Eric and I. It was a very intimate occasion since Emily was the only one that was baptized. Her godparents were David and Liz. Emily was a trooper. She slept for most of the mass and only cried when the water was poured on her. She was very pleasant and attentive to her surroundings. Everyone joined us later at Salsa’s restaurant for some lunch, tres leches cake and margarita’s!

I will say that she must have been very excited since she woke us at 1 and 3:30 am. She ate and fell asleep the first time, but the second time she just wanted to talk to us. The past two weeks she has discovered she has a voice and is eager to share it with us. All we could do was watch her and smile.

I am finally taking some time to update you on how Emily is doing. She is scheduled for her 4 months shots next week. I schedule it the day she had her 2 months shot. After having to hold her down and watch her look at me like I was the most evil person in the world I decided that Eric should have the honors next time. She almost sleeps through the night. She sleeps about 5-6 hours, eats and falls right back to sleep. Eric and I have been taking turns, so in reality it has not been so bad. Eric continues to take pictures of her as much as possible. This baby will have plenty of baby pictures to look through. He even entered her in an iPod picture contest. He didn’t win, but I know he enjoyed taking them. As you can see, from many of the pictures, we enjoy reading to her. She has a mini library, thanks to the help of her aunt Margaret and cousin Amy. One side are all of her English books and another is her Bilingual section. Eric reads to her the English books, while I read to her in Spanish. Her aunt-godmother Liz has tried to read to her in Spanish, although she is still trying to perfect saying “quesadilla.”

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Emily had her 1 month appointment today. The last time she saw her pediatrician was 2 weeks ago. Since then she gained 1 1/2 pounds. She is now 8 1/2 pounds and 21 inches. She is getting bigger by the minute!

Watch this video of Emily when she was only 4 hours old!

Our sweet baby girl has joined our family and we couldn’t be happier. After 24 hours of labor I did not make much progress so the doctors decided that I needed a c-section. Before you feel sorry for me I have to tell you that I did more sleeping than anything. I was given Demerol and it knocked me out. Emily arrived at 8:12 p.m. October 8, 2005. She weighed 7.08 oz and was 19 1/4 inches long. We were surprised to find out it was a girl. When the doctor told us we were having a girl Eric and I just looked at each other surprised. All this time we had a feeling we were having a boy. As they put her in my chest I realized how much I already loved her. She is so precious to me that I could not imagine my life without her.