Madeline Phyllis Smoak, 12/17/96

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Me and Mom on a hot day.	I am just SO good at this.
This is me at about three months. I am a bit bigger now!	I am one cool baby! Perhaps I am a movie star baby, incognito?
Dad: Dale Smoak	Mom: Betsy Schwartz
Daddy's holding me and Dinah, the smaller of our two cats. I think the cat is about six lbs in this picture, a pound more than me	This is one of my "space alien" shots but I think it's a nice picture of Mom.	Mom and Dad's new house in Arlington They thought they'd have two or three weeks to unpack before I arrived, but I fooled them!
This is my first bath in the NICU. I was 4 lbs even, sixteen and one half inches. My birthday is December 17, 1996. I was born at 1:38 am and this picture is about three hours later. Susan is the wonderful nurse who took care of me the first night.	I do love my snowsuit!
Dad bet Mom Ten Thousand Dollars that this snowsuit would still fit me next fall. Mommy's going to be rich! This is July and it fits Just Right.

I had to stay in the NICU for 17 days because I was almost six weeks early.
I was lucky though; I haven't had any health problems, I just had to
stay until I was able to keep warm and eat all my meals without help from
the nurses.

This is my Mom and Dad on their wedding day.
Don't they look nice? And so well-rested! I've never seen them like that. This was October 8, 1995.