12 weeks old

Jessyka's new favorite spot is in her bouncy chair playing with her toys! As you can see, she tends to play so hard, she falls asleep. She is still wanting to hold everything and put it to her mouth only now it's more frequent. As we know, she will pick out her own "blankie" or "favorite toy" but we are trying to get her to like the checkered blanket her daddy bought for her before she was even born.

A new thing learned: sleeping through the night! :) Although, I did jinx this by telling people. She had been sleeping for 10-12 hours without waking at all for several nights in a row and then reverted back to her 8 hours a night! :( But she is still young and we are still letting her call the shots.

Even though this page is for Jessyka.... other news this week: Dustin and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary on Sunday. We had a wonderful day driving through Big Bear, stopped at Big bear lake for lunch and went to the Zoo they have up there. Then for dinner we went out for sushi and picked up the little one from nana's house to spend the evening at home.

10 weeks old

Another week older and this week she has discovered her favorite toy! It's a dinosaur named Dino and he makes the sound of "blah"!!! She absolutely loves it!

New things learned: She speaks quite a bit of baby jibberish! She is laughing and smiling a lot more and likes playing "hide the smile" when the camera comes out. She likes to smile up until you snap the picture and then laughs right after because she "hid her smile". Jessy is also learning to grab things and likes to hold her burp rag. That would be a very good thing if she learned to wipe her mouth already. Ha! Not just yet!

Nana Lori also reported that Jessy is on the move. She decided to skoot away from Nana when she put her on the floor to change her diaper. Jessy has also done this in her crib when mom goes to pick her up in the morning. She starts off on one end of the crib and skoots on her back to the other end. She already knows that she can roll so she is over it! She tries to crawl when she is put on her stomach but only tries for a few seconds and then gives up. I'm sure she will get it sooner than later. That's all for now.

First 4th of July

Every year we are lucky enough to see the fire work display from our front door. The park that hosts all of the festivities is right across the freeway from us. Momma and Jessyka got home just in time to give the baby a bath and walk outside to see the fire works. The fireworks always start at 9pm and Jessyka made it up to 8:55pm before she decided that she had to eat right then and if she didn't get a bottle that minute she was going to scream her head off. We go in the house and make a bottle and she goes right to sleep. Needless to say, she was in bed by the time the fireworks were over. Oh well.... we'll have to wait until next year.

9 weeks old

Today marks 9 weeks since the birth of our little tater tot! She is still having trouble sleeping when we would like her to and we are sure that this has something to do with Mommy's messed up work schedule during the pregnancy. Jess has been sleeping in her crib in her own room for the past 3 weeks and only now has she decided that she doesn't want to sleep in there. Many mornings she can be found sleeping in her swing because we didn't dare move the SLEEPING BABY!

A new thing learned: sticking her tongue out at Grandma and laughing! Another thing learned is splashing in the bath tub and learning that the yellow ducky that has shown up for every bath time is okay.

She is so observant of everything... Watching and taking in the world!