Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Journee is almost 10 months old now and we officially began planning her 1st birthday party! Yikes... where has the time gone? She is quite active and so desperately wants to be mobile. She has the backward crawl down but hasn't quite figured out how to move forward yet, which frustrates her greatly. We are hoping she will just skip the whole crawling thing (since the idea of her being on all fours on the potentially dirty ground doesn't quite thrill her mama!) and just go straight to walking! We may have a little while though before that will occur.
Journee's 2 top front teeth offically popped through as well, so she now has 4 teeth in!

Pretty certain this will be my final opportunity to snap a picture with a ridiculous bow on her head.... she figured out how to promptly pull them off as soon I put them on her head!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our little lovebug is 8 1/2 months old now and got to celebrate her first Valentine's Day at the fire station.
Journee's most recent accomplishment is that she can wave now.... well,we know she's waving but others may not quite know exactly what she is doing! She certainly gets an A for effort though!

Happy Valentine's Day!

She got to visit her Valentine!

8 Months Old Already!

I have been slacking off a little with updates lately so am going to attempt to recap what has been going on the past month. First of all, Journee is 8 months old already which we can't believe! We are already starting to think about her 1st birthday party which will be right around the corner.
Journee is sitting up now and started doing that about a month ago, along with rolling over back and forth. We suppose we now have crawling to look forward in the near future. Journee is growing like crazy and at her appointment 2 weeks ago, she was 15 lbs, 9 oz but she has definitely put on some lbs since then!
Her hair has been growing quite a bit too and is is finally long enough for a barrette which mom is very excited about because now dad has no excuse for not putting an accessory in her hair when he is watching her! :)

We had to show off a picture of her with her first barrette

First Christmas

Christmas was particularly special this year because it was Journee's first Christmas! Billy had to work on Christmas day but he was able to get Christmas Eve off and we spent the morning together as a family and then went over to Grandpa and Grandma Lawe's house.
Grandma Judy came for a visit days prior and Journee had a lot of fun spending time with her as well.

We just love our Christmas Cutie!

Journee was so excited when Daddy got home to open gifts with her on Christmas Eve!

She appears to be pleased with her gifts

Journee was showing off on the piano for her aunts and uncle!

Photo Shoot....2nd Attempt!

We decided that since Journee turned 6 months old, it was time to get some professional pictures of her again. Our first attempt at pictures was quite rough but she was only 2 weeks old back then so we figured she would be able to handle it this time. Well, we were sadly mistaken. The poor photographer was at our house for under 5 minutes when Journee decided it was time to cry and therefore, not cooperate!
At her first photo shoot, I had plans for her to have about 10 outfit changes with at least 2 bows or flowers per outfit (obviously a clueless new mom!) so I learned from my mistakes the first time and only planned on 2 outfits, with only 1 bow or flower per outfit. Unfortunately, we never even made it past the first outfit!
The good news is that we still got a few good shots. They do say "Third Time's a Charm", so we'll see if we can prove that saying true during our next attempt!

Our beautiful baby girl!

We would have liked this one much better if she was smiling but I believe this was right about the time she lost it!

So happy that I was finally able to get some much overdue pics with my little princess!

Happy 1/2 Birthday!!!

We can't believe that Miss Journee is 6 months old today! We are not quite sure where the time has gone.
A quick little recap of some of her accomplishments lately...She now has 2 bottom teeth and actually the 2nd one popped up shortly after the first one did. She has been doing really well with eating her solids. We've discovered that Journee really likes pears, squash, and sweet potatoes, but she does not like avocado, peas, or carrots!
She also is crying much less now (which mom and dad are SOOOOOOO happy about!!!) and seems significantly more content these days.
One of her biggest accomplishments actually happened this morning.... She "officially" rolled over for the first time! I say "officially" because she actually has rolled over a few times, beginning a couple weeks ago for her sitter, but since this is the first time I've seen it, we are going to count this as her first time! :) I suppose now that she is a big girl at 6 months old, she felt it was time to show off!
At her 6 month check up, she was 14 lbs, 6 oz!
It's difficult to believe that in 6 months from today, we'll be celebrating our baby girl's 1st birthday... but for now we'll focus on the present and enjoy everything about her!

We went to visit Santa on her 1/2 birthday

We snuck this shot on our cell phone. Journee was all smiles for Santa!

Big Girl

Our little girl is growing up....Not only did she get her first tooth this past week but we also decided it was time for her to move out of our room and into her crib. That was a tough decision that we've been putting off for weeks and weeks. We'd grown so accustomed to her being right there beside us in her little rocker that it became difficult for us to even fathom the idea of her "moving out". She actually did very well her first night and only got us up once and went right back to sleep.
In addition, we took Journee in for her weight and height check and she is now a whopping 13 lbs, 6 oz and 24 3/4 inches long!

Journee got her first tooth on November 8th

Tried to get a picture of her tooth, which came in on the bottom, but it was nearly impossible so this was the best I could capture

Journee's first night in her crib... she woke up very happy!