16 weeks old

Cooking with daddy!

Belly time with daddy

Jessyka is starting to finally enjoy her tummy time! Especially when daddy is down there with her. She absolutely loves her daddy time and loves playing speed racer with him. She shifts and everything. Ha,ha!

She is growing so fast! She is up to 14 lbs and right around 24 inches (couldn't truly tell how tall she was since she is such a wiggle worm). They say that by six months they should be twice their birth weight and according to growth charts, she is right where she should be! That is always good to hear. Jessyka also started rice cereal this week per the doctors approval/request. She loves it! We are putting it in her bottle (yes, we know putting it in her bottle is a controversial issue but she is doing fine). She is not acting so hungry anymore and isn't taking as many ounces. Which is good. The spitting up is coming less frequently too which means that mommy doesn't have to do as much laundry! :)

Jessyka is refining her "picking up" skills and has gotten quite good at throwing her favorite toys around. Jess has also started putting herself to sleep too! It's good but sad because we don't spend as much time rocking her anymore. She is still proving to be very independent.

Misc Pictures

Finally a smile
Happy baby!
Peace
Playing is hard work
Welcoming Mr Doggy with some baby gibberish

P.S. Jessyka experienced her first earth quake this last week! She thought it was funny and started laughing!

14 weeks old

Since the last post, we have all been adjusting to mommy working nights! The good thing about being on nights is that mommy can stay home with Jessyka all day... who needs sleep anyway! :) The term: sleep when they sleep is so true but what if they don't sleep?! Daddy to the rescue! We have learned to take shifts.

New thing learned: Peek-a-boo! Jessyka has learned to put her bib over her face and drop it in the effort of playing peek-a-boo. She did this with grandma multiple times. Sometimes she would be laughing and other times she did the stick her tongue out and laugh.

Jessyka has also decided that she doesn't really want to cry anymore.... she would rather yell! She has her happy gibberish and her mad gibberish! It's rather cute actually. A question popped into my head though.... "is it too early to teach inside voices?!" haha.

Jessyka is already turning out to be independent. She likes her alone time in her bouncy chair to play with her toys. In fact, she will yell if she isn't able to sit in it.

We are also sleeping through the night again and taking as many naps during the day as she wants. Naps seem to help her sleep better at night... go figure.

Jessyka also enjoys watching bull riding when she goes over to nana and papa's. One day when Jessyka was sitting on mommy's belly she decided to throw herself back and laughed hysterically. (Good thing mom was holding onto her). When Jessyka was asked if she was a bull rider, she threw herself backwards again still laughing hysterically. This went on for a few minutes.

Tummy time is still not one of Jessyka's favorite activities. In fact, she still hates it. Although instead of trying to crawl, she would rather do push ups. Making progress?!?!... I think so!