Subject: new teeth and new nanny
March 8, 1999

Hello everyone!

I am finally well again and crawling around at 100 miles per hour. I now have both of my top front teeth plus another on top and four teeth on the bottom. Dad thinks I have molars too because I seem to be using them to eat cookies, but there hasn;t been a sighting yet. I am going with Mom and Dad to have a fun visit to the dentist on Tuesday (mom is getting a filing and dad is getting a cleaning and I get to watch). I have also been brushing my teeth with mom. I like to watch her and then she brushes my teeth and I take a drink of water out of a cup. Most of the water pours down my front but I still get some to drink.

I am learning about in and out right now. I started with the cloth box that grandfather gave me and now I am busy putting mail in and out of my mailbox. putting things in and out of my shopping bag and climbing in and out of the box that my yard swing came in.

This big news is that Sara came. She stays with me 8-5 and I cry when she goes. She and I really have fun and she pays a lot of attention to me. We eat spaghetti onthe tray and I put it in my hair then we get to take a bath. I met all the other nannies and Sara was the best, I was crying because of my teeth and she just made me feel better. She even washed my clothes sometimes and last week I got to dress up , it was fun.

Sara and I are going on a field trip with the people from mom's work on Thursday. We are going to go hiking in Eaton canyonand then when I get tired Sara and I will go home.

Mom and dad and I went on a picknic and I really like it. I enjoy the swings, and yell when I come swingingup to someone. Mom puts me on her lap and goes down the slide, but I don;t know if I like it yet.

I am eatingother stuff and actually tried meat in raviolis. The doctor said I didn't gain as much weight as I could when I was sick, so I get to fatten up. My head keeps growing though, thats because I am a deep thinker.

I say 'at' now for cat and 'etti" for spaghetti. But I've made mommy happy because I have finally started to say momomomomom

My court date got set for May 7, the day after my birthday and I am excited because a lot of people will be coming. ( the more the merrier) Kim and Frank and Helen and Bugsy will all be there that day. We are going to disneyland for my birthday on the 6th and will have cake on the 7th. Maybe Mary Maresh or Carol and Pieter will also be there. Anybody else want to come and celebrate with us?

Hello to eveyone If you were here I would stick out my toungue and make the raspberry sound then I would sit on my bottom and twirl in a circle on the wood floor then I would hold up a book to read and then I would put my arms in the air and laugh and laugh

Love

Emily