8 weeks - really??

I guess it's natural when you have your second child to compare him or her to your first. I'm so glad that I started this blog when Hunter was born. Since I haven't done nearly enough scrapbooking like I had intended to, this blog allows me to go back easily and find old pictures or figure out when Hunter did this or that for the first time.

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So when Hunter was 8 weeks old, he had hardly ANY hair!! Look at him!!

Hunter also started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks, which I can't actually find on the blog, but I am about 99% sure that was the case. And Jenna is following suit so far. In the last 6 days, she has slept "through the night" 3 times. The last two nights, she has gone down for the night between 9:30 and 10 and woken up the next morning at 5:15 on the dot. I'm about to wake her up for her last feeding tonight and we'll see if she does the same. So far, today's schedule has been pretty much identical to yesterday's so hopefully, we are on a roll here!!

Jenna - 8 weeks

We received a beautiful crocheted blanket from my sister's grandparents-in-law (is that right??). Anyway, my sister obviously has very nice in-laws because they make stuff for us and send it unexpectedly so I get surprised when I go to the mailbox!! Thank you Nanaw and Papaw. (Maybe this is obvious, but the pics below have the blanket as Jenna's "prop.")

I thought the next one looked like she was taking the picture of herself - you know how you hold the camera out in front of yourself to take your own picture?

And the next one reminded me of a commercial I've seen, or maybe it's a magazine ad...something about her expression...

I really wish I had Windows Live Writer on my laptop. I like how I can do the larger pictures with that program. Plus, I don't have any good picture editing tools on this computer either. Oh well - maybe next week.

Pa-Daddy came to visit last week and I snapped a couple of pictures of him with the kids. Hunter wanted him to read to him for an hour and Pa-Daddy was very patient and made it through the Pooh book (which is very long and I'm surprised every time I read it that it keeps Hunter's attention the entire time).

Jenna - 7 weeks

I couldn't decide which pictures I liked best, so you get to see all my favorites. The first one was manipulated a bit, which you might be able to tell. It kinda glows...

And in the basket...
My sweet baby girl...

And her silly little grin!!

Gotta love her!!

Lots of Firsts

I promise I’m not a bad momma and I did give sponge baths the first 6 weeks of Jenna’s life – I just didn’t take pictures necessarily.  Since her umbilical cord didn’t come off until that 6 week mark, she hadn’t taken a full blown bath until last week.  Oh man, does she love the water!  She loved looking at herself in the mirror and moving around.  Hunter helped give her a bath this weekend too – so much fun.  We take baths pretty often now since the poor little girl keeps throwing up all over herself.  (And I’m working on my video making abilities, so I’ve put a song into this one.  I hope it works because I LOVE this song.)

Jenna also started smiling last week.  Sometimes its a random smile, but I can usually get her to do it if I tickle her face (aka poke her in different places while making funny sounds).  This usually instigates Hunter wanting me to do the same to him, which is actually what we used to do when he was this age to get him to smile on command. :)  Capturing a picture of her smile in its full splendor has been a little tricky though.  This is the best I’ve done so far.

We also ventured out to church yesterday, so Jenna had her first visit to the church nursery.  I’m guessing most folks take their newborns into the sanctuary with them based on the reaction of the lady up front when I said Jenna was only 7 weeks old, but I figure I was in the nursery at 2 weeks old, so my daughter can go before 3 months (which is apparently what is typical).  And would you believe they didn’t break her???  They may have kissed her a zillion times, but no harm done.  And Hunter moved up to the 2-year-old class.  We missed promotion Sunday in August, but he went to his new class with no trouble and I believe got to wear a firefighter’s hat, so he was a happy camper when we picked him up.  We managed to get them together in some pictures once we got home and got some food into their tummies.

 

I like this last one best because it looks like Jenna was telling Hunter a story or something that was keeping his attention, when in fact, I just told him to look at her.  LOL!