Jenna was baptized yesterday morning, March 7, at Lakewood United Methodist Church in Cypress, Texas. It was a beautiful service with a beautiful baby, and we were surrounded by our loving families. Thanks so much to those of you able to join us. It was a blessed day!
Google isn’t letting me post a video tonight, so I will try to give you a link to it on Facebook. <<<<That gray text means it’s a link…Let me know if it does or doesn’t work. If it doesn’t, I will try again tomorrow.
My baby girl is changing daily now…this past weekend, she was still doing the tripod sit. Now, she can sit up all by herself while playing with toys or doing whatever else she wants to do. And she’s not just doing pushups (literally hands and toes on the ground, with her body in a plank), but she’s getting her knees under her – she looks to be so close to crawling. And I copied this from a blog about Hunter moving around when he was almost 9 months old - “The best way [s]he's figured out to move is to go backwards, and then turn around…” Basically, she can get anywhere she wants to go but that’s usually a 4 foot radius of where I put her down. She’s way ahead of where her brother was at this point though. It’s a lot of fun to watch.
Jenna went in for a vaccine today – we spread them out and try to do one each month instead of 3 or 4 at a time at each well baby visit. She weighed in at 14 lb 8 oz, which appears to be closer to the 50th percentile line on the baby girl growth chart, so maybe she’s catching up with her peers??? She still looks like a 4-month-old – she’s tiny!!
I did get some pictures and video, but still don’t have a thumb drive to transfer them to the computer. Maybe next week while I’m on vacation…and I’ll have lots of pictures to put up since Jenna is getting baptized on Sunday, then spending the week in the country with Brent’s family while we take Hunter to San Antonio for his first official vacation. He has NO CLUE what is coming…it will be SO much fun!!
Jenna and Hunter took their very first bath together tonight. It was so precious. They love each other so much. Jenna loved sitting up in her tub seat and Hunter put water on her little head with his hands. I’ll just have to monitor how long the bath takes because I think Jenna was getting pretty cold while I scrubbed her brother from head to toe. Had to dowse her with warm water!!
Jenna is also sitting up by herself really well now. I love how she throws her arms up and down, hitting her belly, when she’s sitting up. Like she’s saying “Yay me!!!!”
Hunter now gets to walk to the park instead of riding in the double stroller with his sister. I love how he runs ahead of us on the path and stops when we tell him to because he’s getting too far ahead. And I love how he stays close to the stroller when he realizes that Jenna is cackling at his goofy running and hopping.
I love how they have to see each other as we walk down the stairs together ever morning. Jenna and I go down a few steps ahead of Hunter so that she can look up at him while he figures out which way he’s going to come down – jumping is the favorite these days since Jenna laughs and laughs each jump/step.
Jenna absolutely loves to sit in her high chair with 3 or 4 toys on the tray and either bangs them as loud as she can, or sees how fast she can throw them all on the floor. It is a wonderful game to see how fast Mommy can then find them all and put them back on the tray, only to be thrown again less than a minute later.
I love that my son knows more than I realize he knows. I thought he said something about a trapezoid on the way home from school the other day, but I wasn’t sure. So today when we were playing with his magnadoodle thing, I decided to draw one and see if he knew what it was. “Trapezoid” he said. I told Daddy to come see how smart his son is and he repeated the feat for him. He also named the typical shapes (circle, triangle, square, star, heart) as well as oval and diamond. When I drew a hexagon, he called it an octagon, so they apparently have taught him the general shape, but he doesn’t know yet to count the sides. The only word he recognizes is his own name, at least from what I can tell. And Mickey Mouse, if I say the letters for him, but that’s cheating because I sing him the song all the time. :)
I love nuzzling Jenna under her chin with my nose to make her smile or laugh. She’s so ticklish and has the best giggle.
I love how Hunter puts the word “silly” at the end of most of his sentences, like “Don’t do that silly” or “That’s not right silly.” I call him silly way too often apparently.
I love my kiddos. What more can I say??
Did I say weekly???
I have been taking lots of pictures, but still don’t have an easy way to get them onto this computer, so you’ll have to wait to see Jenna’s “Sex in the City” dress she wore on Valentine’s Day, pictures of them swinging together at the park (multiple gorgeous days over the past few weeks, interspersed with all the cold and rain), and the adorable pictures I got of her playing with Hunter on her 6-month birthday. Instead, you have to see old pictures from Christmas because that is all I have access to right now. :)
Wow, what a difference a few days makes. Hunter helped me decorate the tree this year. I use a lot of unbreakable balls so I let him just stick them wherever he wanted. Note the long hair, and then scroll down to the Christmas Eve pictures and you’ll see the butcher job I did on him. It’s still growing out 2 months later. It will never be as long or as short as the pictures below, that is for sure!
From decorating the tree in November to decorating cookies on Christmas Eve. We all had fun with this, especially Hunter with his sprinkles. He was pretty wired on sugar after all this….good thing we had already been to church that day!!
Can you guess which ones I decorated??? I’m sure you can if you know anything about Brent’s artistic ability, not that mine is that much better.
And here is what Santa left behind.
The next picture exemplifies my world these days….Jenna watching Hunter’s every move, even if it’s him playing with her toys. She just adores him, and he likes her most of the time too. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
