Happy 24th!

With Jay and I on our diets, poor Janessa had to bring over her own treats to share with us! Emily (and Tyson) made cupcakes too! Yummy! Love you birthday girl!

 

Young Macho Man

Dad lost weight and it made him gain hair!!!!! Way to go dad!!

I think I need to go on this diet!

Like Father Like Daughter

We think it's funny how much Josie loves to watch football with Daddy! We could be watching anything else and doing anything, but as soon as the football comes on she turns her head to watch it. Even when we feed her she turns her head with the bottle in her mouth! She sure is daddy's girl!

Happy Birthday Janessa!

 

Josie - 15 Weeks

Josie is getting better at playing independently. Not that I like to have her play on her own much (because I love playing with her), but it is nice to set her down and have her play while I sterilize bottles etc.

Besides her Sassy Mirror, Josie's other favorite toy is Mr. Firefly! Josie LOVES Mr. Firefly! Just yesterday she figured out how to squeeze the button that makes a squeaky noise. Jared and I were so proud!

This little girl is also getting so independent that she likes to put herself to sleep. I don’t know if this has to do with her being in daycare and maybe the daycare provider puts her down when she's still awake and leaves the room. But right before I took this next picture Josie was crying…she was NOT happy. I knew she was overly-tired so I kept trying to rock her and get her to quit crying and fall asleep. But she kept crying. So, I thought that maybe she just wanted to quit rocking…so I put her in her bouncy seat and she quit crying immediately. (It’s kind of sad to know that she was unhappy because I was holding her…haha). Then, she just stared at the ceiling fan for about 5 minutes and fell asleep. She's does the same thing at night after we feed her her last bottle. She's been dozing while we feed her, so we swaddle her and lay her in her crib before she's completely asleep and she falls asleep on her own. I do feel very lucky for that. Also, my friend Jill told me that Josie is a great transferor. That means if she is a asleep in my arms and I put her in her bouncy seat or swing, she stays asleep. I am so grateful that Josie is such a great sleeper.

Happy 3rd Birthday Tyson!

You are such a big boy! We love you!

 

While at the cabin......

......this past weekend, Dad was persistent enough to finish the puzzle that everyone had been working on for months! Now on to the next one!

 

14 Weeks Old

Josie is growing so big and is so cute! Sadly, if you look closely in these pictures you can see the scratch on her nose.

We love you little girl!
We have such fun playing with her. She's really doing well grabbing her toys, holding them and bringing them to her mouth.

Playing with Tyson

Will try this on Youtube so Joel can see. Let me know if everyone can see this now please.

I played with Tyson today. We went upstairs to find Marbleworks but didn't see it so we brought another tub down to play with. Here are the Fisher-Price toys my own kids use to play with when they were little. Watch the end of the video when he gets so happy. Tyson's so fun to play with! I can hardly wait to play with the other two grandbabies when they are a bit older!

Saying "cheese" to the camera!

 

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JOEL - These were some more pics from Christmas! Dad sure loves to show off his diet to us. The rest of us had a turkey, ham, beans, rolls, cake, cake ball things, vegetables, etc. Dad had one celery stick, a tiny piece of ham you could barely see and a 1/4 ounce of turkey. Wow Dad...don't get a tummy ache with all the food you ate. LOL...You can actually see that dad's humonguous gut is shrinking now!! Way to go!

Lookie what I got!

Your dad gave me a gift certificate to The Quilted Bear for Christmas this year. After taking Jessica back to school, I decided that I would head to Ogden to the store to see what I could find to buy with my gc. I looked around the store by walking slowly up and down each aisle but by the time I was done with aisles, I only had a scentsy and several packs of scents plus a cookbook in my cart. I headed back over to the nativites of Jim Shore and Willow Tree to look them over further. I decided that I liked the look of the Willow Tree better so began to load up the cart with boxes. I love it! It is really beautiful.

 

3 Months Old! And Merry Christmas!

Josie has been kind of sick this week. She's still congested and more fussy than normal...but she's still eating a lot and surprisingly she has also smiled more than ever this week! She is such a doll! We love her! She hasn't been sleeping as good as she normally does and I think it's because she hasn't felt very well and seems to be a little over-stimulated with the Christmas activities. Still, she's loved playing with her aunt and uncle! We all love when she gets so tired and she falls asleep in our arms. I love when she opens one eye part-way to see if I'm still holding her and then smiles with half her mouth and closes her eye again when she sees that I am.

We're still in the process of switching Josie to formula and things are going okay. She spits up more than she used to and her diapers are a lot more offensive, but she seems to like the taste of formula and has the same appetite! What she really doesn't like now are her diapers! In fact, I think her messy diapers may be contributing to her slightly increased fussiness.

She’s still growing big and strong. She’s grabbing at more things and beginning to be more interactive with us when she plays. She’s making more noises and we just love it! She's still such a wiggle worm and kicks her feet hard when she's laying on her back. She's graduated from her newborn clothes and is wearing 0-3 months clothes now. When we weigh her on our home scale with us she seems to be around 13 lbs but that may not be 100% accurate. It’s amazing to me that she weighs almost twice as much as she did when she was born.

We love Josie and we love watching her grow! We are eager to see her develop into a little girl, but we are loving every moment now! Josie made out better than everyone this Christmas...even though she really didn't have any idea what was going on!!

The toy that's been the biggest hit is her "Sassy Me in the Mirror" - She loves to see herself!
I can already see we're going to have a little drama queen on our hands!

Jared and I pretended to be surprised when we opened our gifts...even though we've been using them since we purchased them on Black Friday.

"Oh, look! I got the camera that's taking this VERY picture!"



Merry Christmas!

Christmas 2009