Video of Emma Crawling

Emma has been crawling for quite sometime now, but I was finally able to take some time to record her! Emma liked pulling the neck thingy attached to the camera to bring it closer to her face. She thought this was funny :)

Emma in her pretty dress

Last night we had an orientation to go to for Richard. It was intended for the families to get a better look into what the recruits did day to day. All of his instuctors were there and also the "top dogs" of the Dallas PD were there too! During our break for food, it was like every mother, wife, fiance, and girlfriends of the recruits went out of their way to approach Richard and I to tell us that Emma was absolutely beautiful and that we were definitely going to have our hands full when she gets older! They also loved Emma big eyes! Richards main instructor and priest thought Emma was so adorable also! I knew when his instructors met Emma, it would definitely score Richard some "brownie points" :) P.S.- Aunt BB bought Emma the dress

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Here is Emma "belly crawling" she is soooo funny when she is determined to get somewhere :)

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Emma is now pulling herself into standing position, especially in her crib. Of coarse when I try to record her doing this, she doesn't, but as soon as I put the camera down, she is pulling herself up. Here she is when I am finally able to record her!

Lots of 1st's

Emma has been learning so many new things the past few weeks, I figured it's time for some updates:

• She has learned to "Belly Crawl" and if you have food, WATCH OUT!
• She is now pulling herself up into a standing position, especially in her crib
• She can go from laying on the floor into a sitting position, yay!
• She has figured out how to open the door to Richard's entertainment stuff (he is not happy about that!)
• BABY PROOFING is now essential
• She loves most food we give her EXCEPT bananas and avacados

Here are some other updates:

• Nikki (Richard's younger sister)was nominated for Homecoming Court and the game is this Friday at 7:30, CONGRATS Nikki!!


• Richard has been notified that he has passed background check and is now moving on to Phase II of the Dallas Police Academy which includes a medical review and psychological review, which is this Friday at 8am and will be offered the job by the next Monday!! YAY!

Finally meeting Little Billy!

My mom flew Rae, Billy and LB in for Labor Day weekend. I was so excited to finally meet my nephew I was counting down the days. It was so surreal to be face to face with Rae for the first time in over a year. I can't believe how much has happened within that year. The pics of LB dont do any justice! He is SOOOOOO adorable in person. But it was weird because he is a little over 5 weeks younger than Emma, but he made her look so tiny!!! We had a great weeekend, exhausting, but great! Here are some pics:Note Pettie in the background, lol!

School has finally begun....

I am going to UTA and school started on Monday. I had such a bad day on the Sunday before because mentally I was scared that maybe I wasn't ready yet. But everything went sooooo great! I love all my classes and I'm having a very optimistic outlook for this semester, which it's nothing like me to be optimistic! I am very excited about all the work and projects and I feel like everything is going in the right direction for the three of us! We may have been thrown a curveball but we made the best of it!!! Also, my goal for this semester is to attend ALL of my classes if possible.

Emma did great for her first day of daycare! She also has a tooth coming in, we can't "see" it yet but we can definitely feel it underneath her lower front gums!

Thank you Uncle Steve for all your nuturing and having so much faith and belief in us!!! It really has made a difference knowing that all our friends and family have supported us through everything!