Who is on that box?

Emily did a couple of modeling jobs before we left California. She LOVES modeling! She keeps begging me to get her into it here in Dallas but I am not sure I have the time right now. It takes a lot of time and dedication (we went on A LOT of castings before she actually got the 2 jobs). I am very bummed to say that I did not get to accompany her on either job!!

The first job she got was for La Coste Clothing. She auditioned when Lucas was only 2 weeks old and I was way too tired to drive her into LA at 6:00 at night - I almost said no to the audition but fortunately Scott was in town so he was able to take her. They ended up being 45 minutes late for the audition (yes, LA traffic). A few days later she got the job - we were SO excited for her. Thankfully the job was on a Sunday - it worked out perfect because Scott was able to take her without skipping work. I was still to tired to take her and I didn't want to bring the baby because that is a big no-no in the modeling world (siblings on the set). It took what seemed like forever for them to produce the website that she was modeling for. One day last August I decided to check the site - sure enough there was the Autumn/Winter 2007 children's line and Emily was right there! Here are the snapshots of the site pages:

I am not sure how long they leave this collection on their site. Here is the website: http://www.lacoste.com/usa/main.html you can click on clothing and children.

Emily's next job was in March of '07. We got a call saying that MGA wanted to book her strictly off of her card (which is rare but does happen). They gave us the call date and time. On that Monday, I dropped Lucas and Ella off with Ga and Pop in the Winco parking lot - and we started off for Burbank. We are not in the car more than 5 minutes and I get a call from the agency saying that the shoot is cancelled because they didn't get the correct product in. I figured she wouldn't get re booked because bookings like this are usually too good to be true. Well a couple days later they re booked for Friday - great what a busy weekend - we were headed to Palm Springs for a weekend dance competition. Well I woke up sick on Wednesday. Thursday I was even sicker. Friday EVEN worse. I had a fever, my ears hurt, I had body aches - I was pretty sure I had the flu - I was really sick in bed - I couldn't stand without getting dizzy. GREAT!!!! Scott couldn't take her because he had work commitments. Good 'ole Ga & Pop to the rescue!!! Ga took her to her 2nd modeling job. Poppa watched Ella and I took care of Luke (he still slept A LOT at 5 months). After over 1000 photographs she finished the job and they were sworn to secrecy about the product! (But they shared it with mommy & daddy :-) ) She did packaging for a new Shrek Baby Doll that was coming out for the Shrek 3 movie. Well the movie came to the theaters and then left. Meanwhile we were constantly checking the toy aisles for the dolls she modeled with. We had pretty much given up on the toy and figured that they had scrapped the idea. Bummer! As fate would have it, Emily, my mom and I were doing some after Christmas shopping on the 26th (after 9:00 at night) we were looking at some clothes for Emily to buy with her gift card and we spotted some Shrek toys that we had not seen before. OMG! Emily was on the box!!!! The picture on the front of the box doesn't quite look like her because she is looking at the baby not the camera. There is one picture on the back of the girl Shrek baby that has her looking directly at the camera. There are three different dolls - two boys and a girl. Her face is on the fronts and backs of all of them but she is only looking at the camera on the back of the girl baby. Of course, we had to buy them! I bought one of each and Ga bought the two boys because they only had one girl left. I had to fight her for the girl baby but she let me keep it in the end ;-P We still have not found another girl - we have looked at several stores for her. I guess they only made one girl for every two boys. I think that is silly since most of the dolls are played with by girls and most little girls opt to have girl babies! We have of course found several more boys but we still want another girl if you ever find it! We can't even find one on the internet!
Here are the pictures of the girl box:

The back of the girl box:

These pictures were taken last March - almost a year ago! She has lost six of her front teeth since then! Boy, is she growing up so fast! She will be 8 in May - where oh where does the time go? Seems like just yesterday I found out that I was pregnant with my baby girl!