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Happy Valentine’s Day

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Jessica’s first Valentine’s Day was fabulous. We spent the weekend in Midland (come back later this week for more pictures from the weekend). Needless to say, spending time with all her grandparents, and most of her aunts, uncles and cousins, she got lots of hugs and kisses for Valentines. Here she is modeling her first Valentine’s outfit and bib. Unfortunately, outside of when the big is usefully protecting her outfit from spit-up, Jessica thinks it is something interesting to try to eat, so I didn’t get the best picture of her modeling the bib.

Daddy's Making Me Smile

I'm Falling on My Side, Mama

I'm Trying to Hold the Bib Out for the Picture

Does the Bib Taste Good?

Daddy and Me

Happy Birthday Dad!

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Today is my father’s birthday. I am very much a daddy’s girl. I was looking through my pictures to find some showing the two of us. It is sad, but I didn’t find many. It’s probably because for most of my pictures, I’m the photographer. This one was taken by my sister when we had a family trip to South Padre Island last May.

Jennifer and John at the Port Isabel Lighthouse

My dad is also quite the shutterbug. My parents scanned a number of pictures of me when I was a baby (since I’m going to post a comparison of Jessica to her mommy and daddy soon), and there weren’t many of my Dad and I, since most of them were taken by my Dad. Doesn’t my Dad look young? He was 25 when I was born. Looking at him in this picture, I actually see a lot of my brother who is currently 26.

John and baby Jennifer

Here is the card I made for him. I used the Mojo Monday 124 sketch. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Hoppy Birthday

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Unfrogettable
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point
Accessories: Stampin’ Up 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon Temptin Turquoise, 1/2″ striped grosgrain ribbon Wild Wasabi; Inkssentials Glossy Accents (snail shell)
Tools: colored pencils; Stampin’ Up 1 3/8″ circle and scallop circle punches; Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder

Rolling All Over the Place

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On Wednesday, Jessica was trying her darnedest to roll from her back to her tummy.

Trying to Roll onto her Tummy 2/3/2010

Yesterday, she succeeded. I laid her on her activity mat for some play time and went into the kitchen to unload the dishwasher. Next time, I look at her, she’s on her tummy. And she did it 3 additional times, twice on the mat and once in her crib. Before you know it, she’ll be crawling around. She’s already pretty adept at turning herself and scooting herself.

Playtime 2/4/2010

I tried to catch her in her rolling action, but it didn’t happen and so I just have some playtime action in the following video.

I leave you with some funny faces.

Mommy's Funny Valentine 2/3/2010

This second one was a precursor to a sneeze I believe.

"Mommy, just let me sneeze"

Spending Time with Family

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Surprisingly, when all the family was in town this last weekend for Jessica’s baptism, I didn’t take very many pictures. Julia got some good ones. And Kristy took a number at the baptism for me (of which I hope to post soon).

I like this picture as it looks like cousins Jessica and Aspen are holding hands. Since Aspen and her parents live here in Austin, I hope they become the best of friends and we see them holding hands a lot in the future.

Jessica, Papa and Aspen

This next picture is pretty funny. My brother was snapping his fingers and otherwise trying to get and keep Jessica’s attention. I don’t think Jessica knew what to think of her Uncle Jason. He can be quite silly.

Nanny and Jessica

At that’s it in terms of the pictures I took. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t take more, but there were a lot of people taking pictures, so maybe they’ll share.

Jessica Update

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Jessica is growing so fast. Sometimes it seems unreal that I am the mother of a almost 3.5 month old.

She was invited to her first party on the 17th. It was a get together of all the recent babies at the church. So really is was more of a party for the parents to get to know the parents of the kids their kids would be interacting with at church. Jessica slept most of the party as it was held during her normal afternoon nap time, as did a lot of the other babies. James and I were the youngest parents there as the other babies had older siblings.

Jessica and Daddy After the Party

Happy Jessica, 1/17/2010

It is so fun to see her interacting with her world. She really likes the monkey on her activity mat and the monkey on her car seat. Both of them have legs she can easily grab a hold of.

Grabbing the Monkey, 1/18/2010

I really like this next picture. She is my little model when she has tummy time.

Model Jessica, 1/20/2010

I put her in her exersaucer for the first time recently. She is still a tad too little for it (recommends 4 months), but I think she’ll soon enjoy it.

Trying Out the Exersaucer, 1/21/2010

Jessica is definitely a thumb sucker. Sometimes she’ll try to put her whole hand in her mouth.

Sleepy Jessica, 1/22/2010

As a side note, Wisconsin Cheese has a free Kitchen Kids brochure you can download. It looks interesting. I definitely want to get Jessica in the kitchen helping cook.