3 new videos below!

1. Jenna playing in the pots and pans - a new fav
2. A video of Jenna in her crib after she has woken up in the a.m. She stands up and waits for us. It is super cute.
3. DVDs are a new favorite pass time as well...

no bottles today!

Jenna has been down to 1 bottle for quite some time now...just at night. I do not think she can take in enough milk with her sippies during the day so I made sure she drank a bottle of milk at night. I started to not give it to her right before bed ...maybe 15 - 30 minutes so she was at least not associating it with sleep. That worked well.

Tonight, she got tired really early...was rubbing her eyes and saying "ni ni ni ni" (aka night night) by 6:30. She had had quite a bit of milk with her dinner so I decided to try no bottle.

So far so good! She is snoozing away.

I am not planning to take the bottle totally away for awhile but this is a good test run.

Our little girl is growing up!

No News Is Good News

This is my Dad's mantra and I have to agree. The older we get, the more you appreciate "boring." No real news means no drama. I'll take it any day. A "boring" day means no one is sick, no one is having work issues, the house is in good shape, Ramsey is doing OK, etc.

I thoroughly now enjoy the days where we all wake up, feel good, have breakfast, get ready and off we go - Jeff and I to work and Jenna to school. A day where I do not get a phone call from Primrose that jenna is breaking out in a rash or has a fever.

Random post I know - but it is interesting the changes I see in myself now that I am "older" (31) and a Mom. :)

YUM

Penicillin Allergy is Official

Thanks Grandmom Sykes...for the penicillin allergy!!

My Health Update

Well the news isn't in yet but I am ready to know what and if anything is going on with me. After being sick for 2 weeks with 2 separate bouts of fever and aches like I have never known and a trip to Urgent Care, I got blood drawn yesterday and am having an ultrasound tomorrow. Possible gall stones or pancreatitis. Neither sounds good but we shall see.

This stronger antibiotic seems to be helping a lot and the pain now only appears if I walk far and fast.

I have a feeling everything will come back clean which will be good but annoying bc it means I am having mystery pains and it could just happen again. Sigh!

Having bad days really doe smake me appreciate the good ones though and like my Dad says "No news is good news" and "As you get older, you learn to like boring."

So so true.

Our eating machine

Jenna LOVES to eat. We all know this. The child demands Cheerios be in her stroller when we go for walks. She needs to eat every 2 hours and she lives for snack time and lunch time at school. I'm not sure of a day that I have looked at her Primrose Report card and not seen "I ate all" checked next to her feedings.

Below are 2 videos of her chomping. When there is cheese involved, do not get in the woman's way. After the first video, when she pauses to point and grunt at something, I hand her the Baby Mum Mum (a rice cake essentially) and continue taping her.

Now that she has 8 teeth - 4 on top and 4 on bottom - she can actually take bites and it cracks me up to hear her chewing.

Mundane video yes, but the grandparetns should love it :)

Videos below...

Getting caught up on my video uploads...below is a new video of Jenna walking...I would say she is officially walking now (as of Sept. 1st really). She is up and about more than crawling. Her new thing is that she HAS to be carrying something while she is walking - which is cute but dangerous as she is still rather wobbly at times.

Also our little Iron Woman trying to play with Mommy's dumbbells. She tried forever and pick those weights up!