Happy Birthday, Emily!

I thought it would be fun, and appropriate, to blog about an event that occurred 30 years ago!  I’m going to rely on a document dated July 29, 1981 and quote it verbatim – here goes:

“Laurie woke up at about 1:30 Sunday morning (July 26) and was starting to notice contractions.  So right away both of us were wide awake.  We timed the contractions and at 5:00 AM they were about 5 minutes apart so we called the doctor.  He said to go on in to the hospital.  We called Laurie’s folks so they came over to watch Adam.  After we got to the hospital, the contractions stopped!  There would be one once in a while but nothing regular.  We walked around for about 45 minutes but that didn’t help too much.  The doctor looked at Laurie at about 12:00 (noon) and decided that she was too far along to go back home so he broke her water.  Then things started FAST.  They gave her some of the stuff to induce labor too.  At 1:30 the contractions got real strong and at 2:17 Emily was born.  Her full name is Emily Catherine Irene. She weighted 6 lbs. 13 ½ oz. And was 20½“ long.  She has some light hair, like Adam had.  Both Laurie and Emily are doing fine and will come home tomorrow.”

I looked at the letter prior to the one quoted above and see that I wrote I had finished painting the baby furniture (crib & chest) and we had the baby’s room all ready.  Our timing was pretty good.  Emily’s birth was at Methodist Hospital in Omaha.

Since this all happened 30 years ago, I thought I’d see what was going on 20 years ago for Emily’s 10^th birthday.  We had a party with 14 girls, plus Emily and Rosie.  And, Adam and his friend Scott attended and did a skit for the girls and made balloon animals!  We had pizza and an ice cream cake.  The girls played a lot of games.  Our gifts to Emily were a bike helmet and a lego set.  One of the gifts she got from a friend was the game ‘Scatch’ – we enjoyed playing that for a long time.  Also, 4 days after her birthday, Emily had braces put on her teeth!

10 years ago Emily was working at LensCrafters on her birthday.  She worked until 6:30 and some friends came to see her when she was getting off work and surprised her with balloons and a hat.  They went out to eat at Olive Garden.  We had an ice cream cake at our house later.  We went to the airport that night because Adam came home for the weekend from his intern job at Lehman Brothers in New York.  He was in a wedding for his friend Bill that weekend.  About two weeks after Emily’s birthday, Rosie had her wisdom teeth removed!

There you have it, good times and good birthday’s.  Happy Birthday, Emily, and have a great time tomorrow!

Love ya,

Mom, Dad and Mickey