Shoes!

Jenna LOVES to play in our closet and try ALL of our shoes on :)

The Big 3-1

It is true that the older we get, the less exciting b-days are...but it is nice nonetheless to be recognized for making it another year :)

This b-day unfortuneately I am sick and Jeff also has the sniffles. Oh well! I am not even hungry so we are just warming up leftovers...and it will be an early night for me again. At least I made it longer than 7:30 p.m. like last night.

All is well here. We are just trying to stay healthy. Work is good. Jeff is super busy.

Jenna is pointing at everything and saying "DAT!" (aka, what's that?"). She is mimicking us alot. Today she said "Good Girl" after I said it to her while putting her shoes on. She also tried to say "I love you" after we say it to her. Melts my heart.

An ode to fried donuts (Chinese food style)

So Jeff and I frequently order Chinese food. it is just good stuff and it is cheap and usually leaves us with leftovers. We have a small problem though - we are now obsessed with the sweet friend donuts you can order. They come in a pack of 10 and we kill the pack in minutes every time. We literally cannot order Chinese food without getting the donuts.

Oh, and Jenna seems to have my sweet tooth. We have not offered her much in the way of sweets ( i will not even let her have juice!), but one day we offered her a piece of the cinnamon twists from Taco Bell and she went NUTs. Even pointed to them and screamed when we were no longer sharing. We also made the mistake of sharing an Auntie Annie's soft pretzel (cinnamon sugar again) and again with the "I need more NOW" screams in the middle of the mall!

I will NOT share the Chinese donuts or she will never eat normally again :)

Stay at Home Mom for the day

Jenna's day care was closed today (teacher work day before Hillsborough County schools start back tomorrow) so I took off work and stayed home with her. Doing this reminds me again of how much respect I have for SAHMs. Following a kid around all day is hard work and is just utterly exhausting!





Jenna is a GOOD baby and she is not even full-on walking yet, but man, it makes for a long day when I am with her 24-7. It makes me feel bad to say that b/c I know there are women out there who LOVE being home with their babies and other women who wish they could be home with their little ones. And those women that have multiple kids and stay home...wow. MUCH respect. Both of our moms stayed home with us and yes, we appreciate that more and more each day.





Anyway, we had a great day. We played, met daddy for lunch, visited my co-workers for a bit and ran some errands. We took a walk and she went to bed a little after 7. But I am TIRED!





How can you ever really get mad at this face anyway??

Jenna may be our little athlete?

I'm sure all parents think this...but I am wondering if we might have a little athlete on our hands. Jenna picks skills up very quickly...like playing ball. In days, she has gone from rolling the ball to one of us to picking it up, holding it above her head and throwing it perfectly to us...knowing when to release it, etc. It is so cute! I put video below but she has gotten much better even since I took that.

She also LOVES the little riding Zebra Aunt Kim got her. She has learned how to get on and off by herself after Daddy showed her once.

Plus she is fearless...good and bad but definitely scary. She thinks it is funny when Jeff roughhouses with her...puts her on his shoulders and falls backwards onto the couch, you name it. We shall see, but Daddy is an athlete (Mommy not so much!)

She WILL need to learn how to walk first though :)

I hate listening to her cry

I do not know what is going on with Jenna these past few nights but she just is not sleeping soundly. She had been sleeping through from 7 pm to 7 am, with the exception of nights where she was sick or teething badly.

She definitely has a bit of a cold now too, and it feels like teething will be an ongoing battle for months to come, but I do not know why she is not able to sleep for more than one hour at a time without waking and crying. Last night she cried so long and hard that she lost her voice :( I HATE it but I do not want to start bad habits (going to her every time she cries when I know she is fed and safe, etc.)

We are really trying to stop the middle of the night bottle habits too. That option is a surefire way to calm her down and get her back to sleep in just minutes but we HAVE to stop it so I am doing it cold turkey. She still gets one bottle of milk at night beofre bed bc that is how I know she is getting enough milk in. She takes sippy cups now but does not drikn enough out of them to allow me to ditch the bottles 100% quite yet. The ped assured us that if she is eating 3 meals, 2 snacks and getting water thoughout the day and 12-16 oz of milk a day, she does not NEED to eat overnight.

Regardless, it is hard to listen to your baby cry and just leave her in there...sigh...

I feel so domestic tonight

Jeff has been putting in some crazy hours at work -- being at Enrollment meetings by 6.30 a.m. and tomorrow night he is hosting people at the Tampa Bay Rays baseball game too. I am so lucky in that Jeff does most of the cooking in our house. It just kind of worked out that way after Jenns came along and to be honest he is a much better cook than I am...he can improvise in the kitchen too whereas I am a slave to recipes are cooking 101. Sigh.

Anyway tonight I came home from work, got Jenna at school and was able to bake teriyaki chicken and made some noodles and corn for him as a surpise (he had thought he was going to grill for us). So, when he came home dinner was almost ready! It has been a LONG time since I could say that.

It was cool too b/c Jenna was in the kitchen with me feeding herself her dinner (Gerber ravioli) and it was just really fun to be able to cook and have her with me. I felt like for a moment I could do it all :)

Now off to walk the dog...

A good Sunday

Today is a great day. Jenna slept through the night (looks like we have another tooth now so that explains the couple restless nights). She slept until 8 am too!

We all got up and had breakfast, then went for a walk and stopped at the park to play. Then we came home and played with some toys before she went down for her morning nap. Now, Jeff and I are both on our laptops and catching up on DVR shows. Later, we plan to go to Best Buy and Walgreens and grill out for dinner. Our favorite show True Blood is on tonight too. Just a great day.

Tomorrow we are back to the grind - work and day care.Luckily, Jeff and I both like our jobs and Jenna is doing so grat at school..she really is thriving there.

Jenna’s 1 – year photos

I finally got the CD today! There were lots of images to choose from but these are a few of my favs

 

Testing 1 2 3

I’m testing this post from a new software program. “Would you like a wood chip?” Jenna shares very well :)

Jenna's 1 year check up

We had jenna's 1-year check up today...it went really well.

• She is 22 lbs 14 oz and 30 inches long - 80% for both.
• Her development in right on track and she is actually "advanced" in terms of how many words she is saying.
• She says: mama, dada, baba, dog, up, ball, thank you, uh oh
• she is shaking her head yes and no
• She dances to music when she hears it
• If you ask where Ramsey is, she looks at the dog (same thing for her boyfriend Tommy!)
• She got 3 shots...Hep A, the pneumonia shot and chicken pox. Hopefully she will tolerate them OK.
• Dr. B said she is doing great...Our goals now will be to have her totally off the bottle by 15 months and ideally the paci them too...but I do not feel as strongly about the paci thing until age 2.

That about sums it up :)

I...Have...A...LAPTOP!

I am typing this post on my brand-new Dell laptop that I got for my B-day!! Jeff gave it to me early (12 days early to be exact) so I would have plenty of time to play with it. I have had it on for about 25 minutes and am already so excited!

Now I have fewer excuses to not update more...!

No hands!

Jenna likes her new sippies but also thinks it is funny to use it with no hands and shake it and then spill milk so the dog can lick it up!

My 2 loves taking a nap

Jeff was giving Jenna her nighttime bottle last night when things got suddenly quiet...

Pantry = lots of fun

Trying on Mommy's shoes

This is one of my new favorite pictures of Jenna. She crawled over to my shoes and actually tried to put her foot in it several times!