Cheeeeese!

The very first time Journee gave us a 'real' smile, it absolutely melted our hearts.... and continues to do so each time since then! She is just all smiles lately and we think she has possibly begun to chuckle as well. Of course every time we grab the camera to take a picture of her smiling face, she then becomes more interested in staring at the camera than anything else so the smile isn't always easy to capture!

12 Weeks Old!

3 Months Old!

Hi Ho Hi Ho.... It's Back To Work I Go!

I absolutely loved spending every minute with Miss Journee Rose over my summer break, but August 10th marked the beginning of my new school year which meant it was back to work for me! 
Fortunately, we found Leah, who has proved to be a wonderful caretaker for Journee! 

We were able to get out for a few hours to celebrate our anniversary and dropped Journee off at Leah's house for a trial run

Celebrating our 4th anniversary

Journee with Miss Leah

Newest Newest Newest Nelson

Journee's newest cousin, Tucker Savant Nelson was born on July 18th so he and Journee are approximately 7 weeks apart . We were so excited to meet the little man and we couldn't be happier for John-Paul and Kristen. Here are some pictures and a video clip from our visit a couple weeks after he was born.

Journee was excited to see her other cousins, Charely and Miles too!

First Trip to the Fire Station

We are very fortunate that Billy works so close to home and it's nice that we can go visit him while he's at work. Here are a couple pictures of Journee's first trip to the station. We'll make sure to take more pictures during our next visit.

Night Out

Billy and I were able to have our first night out without our little Peanut thanks to her Aunt Leslie and Uncle Steven. It was my friend Lesley's wedding in La Jolla so we dropped Journee off on our way to the wedding and were able to enjoy ourselves for a few hours.... well sort of! You know that feeling you get when you leave to go somewhere and you're sure you forgot something??? Well, that was the feeling I had all night long! It was definitely strange to not have her with us, but we knew she was in good hands so that definitely put us at ease.

Where Has the Time Gone??

We cannot believe that our little princess is already 6 weeks old! Where has the time gone? I feel like I was just pregnant yesterday!

We have faced some little challenges in the past weeks, but we are all doing great! I developed an umbilical hernia during pregnancy (I'm wondering if there was anything I did NOT experience with this pregnancy??!!) that I had to have surgery on a week ago. The recovery was a little tricky with a newborn, but Billy and my mom picked up the slack for me and were both wonderful caretakers for Journee. Aside from that, we are still trying to get the little Miss to put some chunk on her body. The biggest challenge thus far has been making sure she is eating enough and gaining the proper amount of weight. I have little chats with her and tell her that it's rare that you'll be told to put on weight so she needs to live it up and take advantage of this!

We see the doctor pretty regularly now just to make sure she is keeping that chunk on her body. Perhaps Journee got so accustomed to going to the doctor's offices while she was in my belly that she figured we should just continue that ritual!.... but that is NOT our plan so we are hoping to break that trend very soon! She did have an upper GI this week and fortunately the results showed that she doesn't have a blockage of any sort. It did show that she has reflux so she now gets rice cereal added to her milk to help with this.

Each day is a new adventure with Journee Rose and it's so fun to see how much she changes from one week to the next!

3 weeks old

4 weeks old

5 weeks old

6 weeks old

Tummy time

Happy Fourth of July!