10/25/03 1 day old... Emily and Grandma Faith
11/1/1993 A week or so old... asleep on the couch
12/15/1993
3/10/1994 Just a few weeks before Emily's lip repair, her first surgery
3/10/1994
3/10/1994 Emily and Mommy
4/5/1994 At the hospital after the first surgery
4/10/1994 Emily and Grandma Rita a week or so after the lip repair
8/15/1994 After the lip healed
10/10/1994 Emily's first birthday party
7/10/1995
8/10/1995
6/1/1997 Emily's easiest trip to the hospital... to get tubes in the ears
7/1/2001 7 years old, a month before her next surgery
8/12/2001
8/21/2001 the night before the surgery to correct her pharyngeal flap - to correct her velopharyngeal incompetence.
8/21/2001 We love this picture. It would be the last best picture of a signature element to her smile - that "hunk o' skin". Even though it had to go, we were going to miss it.
8/22/2001
8/22/2001
8/28/2001 A week after the velopharyngeal flap surgery, and the first day of third grade
8/28/2001 Emily wasn't sure just how to smile, it was surely different for her
11/1/2001
3/24/2007 Fast forward to present day... Maryssa and Emily - daughters of twins... you'd never guess, right?