Tuesday, October 04, 2005

No more therapy

No more terrible stretches for me. Mommy and Daddy took me to the chiropractor and it turns out my second piece of my spine was out of place. They put it back and released pressure from the bottom of my spine. No more head leaning. I am feeling much better and no longer have to get my head all pushed around. Daddy says he is not sure why so many people do not like chiropractors. He was kind of leary of them at first too. But the therapist said it would be a year of stretching to fix my neck, and the chiropractor seems to have fixed in just two weeks. A nice lady in our church, Dee, who works at her brother's practice where I went didn't seem surprised. Daddy seems to think that even though it seems everyday to Dee, he thinks it is a miracle and is very happy that I am doing better.

Okay, well daddy has had some problems getting pictures uploaded but promises to get the picture of the quilt up as soon as he can. Oh also my friend and neighbor, Lucy, is doing great too.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Torticollis

Wow Daddy is really taking his time on getting those pictures of the quilt. So in the mean time I thought I would tell you about my neck. From what I understand, in a very limited 4 month old capacity, is that Torticollis is basically a shortened neck muscle. Thus my neck leans to my right shoulder all the time. Mommy and Daddy and my babysitter thus have to exercise my neck at every diaper change during the day. I don't like it very much, but they tell me it is for my own good. Just like broccoli (whatever that is) will be too?

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Many Faces of Me

Okay Daddy is a little slow on getting the pictures taken of the quilt. So in the mean time here are some pictures he managed to take of me.

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Monday, August 15, 2005

Daddy's Dream

Daddy's dream is that some day we will be able to get a hold of Lola's family and the other 2 families and all be able to post pictures on the same blog so all of the families can watch as other girls with the same birthday from around the world grow up. Daddy's seems to think that would be pretty cool.

Rita's quilt has arrived by the way and daddy says he will post some pictures of it soon.

This is Rita's story

I was also born on May 5th, but in 1955. I was so reluctant to celebrate this 50th birthday with a party, no woman enjoys getting older, I guess!

So I had been thinking about how to do it in an special way, my birth-date has always been making me feel kind of special.

About a year ago I had this idea, to find a little girl who would also be born on May 5th, this year and make her a symbolic present.

It seems silly, but you don't know how much I have been thinking of that new baby, it was very nice waiting for her.

I am a quilter and I have been working on this project for a few months now. Ella will receive a baby quilt.

But she won't be the only one.

I am originally from Belgium but we have traveled a lot in the past 20 years, and I made friends all over the world.

We spent 10 years in TX, where 3 of my kids were born.Now, we live in Russia, where my husband works for an international company.

I couldn't choose in which country to look for that baby girl, so I finally decided to search in different countries.

Emma is the 2nd one: I found a baby called Lola, in France, and am trying to find a little Japanese girl, and also a Russian one .

This will give them a chance to connect when they grow up and possibly build friendship.This would be cool, wouldn't it? The funny thing up to now is that they both have a 4-letters name, like me...

And Ella in 2nd of the family, as I was!

When my quilts will be ready, I will tell you and send one to Ella.

I wish you all a lot of happiness with your nice family!

Rita

Rita's reply

Rita left this comment on daddy's blog:

I was born on 05-05-55 and just turned 50 ! I have been looking for a baby girl born on 05-05-05, andbeen preparing a present for her. I would not like to display my personal data on the web...How to get in contact with you? I'll look on your blog for your answer.

This is my dad's blog entry about my birth.

05/05/05

Well we had hoped Anna would come early and be born on 03/03/03 but came late instead. So when we had a chance again at 05/05/05 we never thought we would actually get that date. Well I went home for lunch on 05/04 and Amber was getting home from her doctor's appointment and she said the doctor told her she didn't think she would make it through the day before having it.

We thought, Yeah right, heard that story before. But then Amber's started contractions while I was home and they were 5 minutes apart for an hour. So I called work and said I don't think I will be back in today. Sure enough we went to the hospital. (Half packed, we had two more weeks why be packed?) They admitted us and we were on our way. Around 5pm or so Amber was ready for the epidural and was about 4 centimeters. Well unfortunately everything seemed to stop around 11pm. No more big contraction and no more dilation. And of course they are not going to call a doctor in after midnight just to get things going. So we had a long slow night of waiting for the doctor's morning rounds.

Finally the doctor came around at around 9:30 am and broke her water and prescribed Pertosin. At 11:03 we had our new baby on 05/05/05.

However, she did not receive her name until 05/07 2 hours before check out. But as you have probably already seen in the previous post we did name her Ella Kathryn. Kathryn is my mother's name. Ella was 6.2 and 21 inches and is a spitting image of her sister when she was first born.

This is me and my family

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Me and Daddy

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Me and Sissy

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This is me the day I was born

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