A Dread Story

You may have noticed that Jane has lots of hair.

If not, you have likely never met Janie or you simply don't read the words of our blog and simply skip to pictures of the little miss. It's alright, I don't blame you. In fact I have probably done it on your blog, too...

anyhow:

When babies hit about Jane's age their hair typically gets a bald spot from rubbing against blankets and things when they sleep. Jane's hair, because of it's length, instead has formed a single dreadlock.

It cracks us up. so much that we have seriously considered purchasing a bead to put on the end.

However yesterday after her bath it folded over on itself creating a nasty matted hair blob. It essentially looked like a dead fly was caught in the chaos of our child's hair.

Today we cut it off. Scott got all sentimental. "It's her first hair cut!"

But truly all we cut was her dread. So it was her first (and hopefully her last) "dread-cut".

Oh Janie. While it lasted, Seattle was so proud!

Jane's Blessing

We blessed our Jane at Scott's home ward on January 1st, 2012 in Thousand Oaks. Scott blessed her and it was beautiful. What a great way to start the new year!

I apologize in advance that we only have a handful of photos. I was VERY sick this day.
Jake, Sid, Phil, and Amy (looking gorgeous, as usual).

Katie and Jason came out especially for Jane's blessing. It was sooo good to see them!

Things that make me happy: Cali edition

Well, actually this was almost a sad one. Jane almost tried to stay behind in California with Grandma Janet. Grandma Janet let her have a queen bed to herself and Jane thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Jake waving for about 40 minutes straight when his beloved cousins were leaving. It was sad, but very cute.
Every morning when Jane wakes up she gets super excited to see me. It seriously makes my day. each and every day.
Sid holding his baby.
Jane playing the baby Jesus. She actually fussed all day on Christmas Eve (she had a little cold), but I kept reminding her that the baby Jesus didn't cry, so she would have to be happy then. She was. A Christmas miracle, indeed.
Grandpa and Jenna.

Janie was totally sold on Jenna (aren't we all?)
Jane having some tummy time.
Just being cute.
Christmas pajamas.
Sadie and her favorite being in the whole world: Ruby.

Food!

Everyone knows that the best part about the holidays is [family, of course... but a pretty close second would be] food!
and boy did we eat.
Ian's Pizza Night, a Milwaukee favorite that we brought home. where we converted everyone to it's goodness.




Making Christmas cookies. Jane was very helpful.
and my personal favorite, on Christmas morning Dallas tried to eat only gummy bears for breakfast. His parents were pushing for pancakes. They compromised with this:
although I'm 90% sure the pancakes weren't touched. clever boy.

After getting home

Here is some catchup from the initial week back in Milwaukee. It's brief, we spent most of our time mourning our shortage of Vitamin D.
Jane can successfully sit in her bumbo. Actually here she did much better with a blanket (she is a scrawny little thing) but now she can sit just fine!
She finally is big enough to use her shark towel from the Brownell's. We think it's awesome. So does Jane. In fact she cries as soon as we take it off of her. seriously. every time.
Janie greatly enjoys snuggling with Daddy. I love that she is wide awake and her Daddy is fast asleep...

Recently...

In couple of days a whole slough of things-I-needed-to-blog-about-but-never-did updates will begin. So I first wanted to tell you what we have been up to the last week or so rather than what we did in December when I was slacking in glorious California sun.
It's super exciting here.
We spend our time doing things liken balancing puzzle pieces on me (Scott wanted to document his efforts-- I'm not going to lie, it was pretty impressive).
sleeping. lots and lots of sleeping. Jane has had a slight fever the last few days (99), and I have had a low fever (100) and Scott has a nasty cough. It's the perfect excuse for excessive snuggling and a cookie-only diet.

Poor Jane has had to be transported inside of a [practically] sleeping bag. Sorry, girlie, it's single digits here.
We skyped Grandpa and Grandma Imy
and Jane keeps growing up. We moved her to her [sort-of] big girl bed. Basically it's just not her tiny bassinet. But as a mama I interpret it something like "I'm all grown up and don't need my mama two feet away anymore." Well baby girl, your mama does need you two feet away so can you please stop growing up?
Speaking of growing up, our little girl rocking her bumbo's world. Look at those cheeks! She has moved up to the 24th percentile for weight (she was born in the 15th). But don't be fooled, she looks much more chubby here than she truly is. Her teeny body tends to slump in her bumbo because she doesn't have enough meat to fill it up.

Family Pictures

Four Generations
Some of the grand kids on Christmas
Christmas!

Christmas in Cali: Firestation Edition

Scott had a two week break in school for Christmas and we decided to take full advantage by flying to California!
It was wonderful.
First stop was the Fire Station. You know, to drop off our baby.
Okay... maybe not.
Here is Captain Brunson (Scott's Dad) meeting Jane for the first time.
Please ignore Janie's stink face, she is going through a teenage phase a little early.
Jane made herself quite comfortable.

Our Angel of a Baby

There are no words to express how awesome Jane is. We are so incredibly blessed to have her in our life.

Jane likes to remind us of how awesome she is. Here are some of the reasons she has given us:

—[Prepare to be totally jealous*]—

1. Jane is not a crier. She will fuss every once in a while (for probably a total of 10 minutes a day), but as soon as she has what she wants she is happy. Whether it's a diaper change, food, a blanket and space to wiggle, a binky, dad, or mom, she will calm very easily once we figure out what she wants. If all else fails (which has only happened a couple of times) I put on the moby wrap and she calms down within a minute.

2. Jane sleeps through the night. Not kidding. Since she was 5 weeks old she has slept at least 8 hours in a row each night. The only times she didn't were three days in a row when she was congested because of a cold. Currently she sleeps from about 10pm-8am

3. Jane loves to snuggle. I eat this up and have a hard time doing anything all day.

4. She is an awesome eater. She eats 4 oz every 3 hours and is good about spitting the bottle out if she finishes early.

5. She is a champ at holding up her head (she can even sit in her boppy comfortably now!)

6. Jane loves her mama. I especially love this.

My favorite time of the day is when she first wakes up in the morning. She will make some noises to see if anyone is around and when I stand by her bassinet so she can see me she breaks into the biggest, greatest gummy smile. She will then just sit and smile and coo for several minutes.

She also had her two month appointment this week. Jane's stats:

Height: 22.5" (50th percentile)

Weight: 10lbs 8 oz (25th percentile)

Head Circumference: can't remember but it was in the 75th percentile— which is a relief because at her one week appointment they measured it wrong and it showed up at the 5th percentile and completely panicked me.

*but not too jealous, because you and I both know that our next child will make up for her angelic nature.

Oh baby Jane. We love you more than words can say.