Jennings Happenings: August 2012

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Four Months

Oh Abigail why must you get so big so fast, and why must you be so stinkin cute! We are so in love with our baby girl. She turned four months old on Sunday so I took some pictures when we got home from church. She had been wearing her white knit tights, but I had to take them off to document the leg chub :)

I took about 100 pictures, and of course the first picture I took turns out to be the best haha.

She would not stop grabbing her dress and sucking on it. Seriously, everything goes to the mouth right now!

Love my chunky baby girl :)

So we went to the doctor for the first time since May and boy has she grown, she is now 15 pounds 9 ounces, which sounds huge - but is still 2 pounds lighter than Jackson was at this age haha. She is in the 80th % for weight. She only grew 1 1/2 inches which kind of surprised me - she's only 24 1/2 inches and in the 35 % for height. She's long enough to be growing out of 3-6 month clothes but maybe that's just the chub doing that :) Either way she is growing way too fast, oh ya and has a huge head just like her brother. At least she's in the 98% and not off the charts...

At the doctor, after being weighed - letting all the rolls hang out

The beauty girl hasn't made a ton of changes this month. Other than the fact that she is now rolling over. She rolls from back to tummy effortlessly. She loooves being on her tummy and still sleeps that way. There have been a few times where I have set her down on her tummy and come back to find her on her back. I haven't seen it happen but she's obviously rolling both ways now, my little ambi-turner :)

While she's not officially scooting forward intentionally, she is quite the little mover. She'll be on the blanket facing one direction and then I'll come back and she'll be facing the other way - she does this both on her back and tummy. I am going to guess she'll be scooting in a month or so.

Her sleeping schedule is still about the same, she hasn't really gone much longer in the nights, still about 8 hours on an average good night. She still takes one long afternoon nap and shorter naps in the morning and evening. I can see her transitioning into a 2 nap a day schedule in the next month or so though. But the girl always falls asleep in her carseat if we go out in the evenings.

Abbie on her first four "month birthdays"

One day while I was holding Abbie on my lap in the guest room I looked over at the exersaucer that had been sitting there for six months and realized - oh wow she is probably old enough to play in there now! So I plopped her in and she loved it!

And Jackson now loves it too!

Just FYI the exersaucer is now normally downstairs, not teetering dangerously at the top of the stairs :)

She is still the most smiley happy girl ever! She is very easy going and will sit or lay in a room contently watching Jackson play. I am so happy that they love each other so much :)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Life as of late

We have had lots of fun these past couple weeks. Lots of swimming, Disney, and watching the Olympics!

Some memories I want to remember...

Watching Olympics with Jackson - at first I didn't know how he'd feel about watching shows other than cartoons, but he's been loving it! Some of his favorite things to watch are rowing (super random but he loves yelling "row row row!" and moving his arms like the athletes), gymanstics (big jumps!), swimming and diving, basketball (when they showed womens bball he looked at the tv with a super concerned look on his face, finally he looked at me and said, "oh its mama hoop") and his favorite is track and field (like mother like son)

Oh how I wish this video wasn't upside down - I don't know how that happened while I was filming but this is just too cute not to share. He figured out this starting block on the couch setup on his own. Right before I filmed this we had watched a hurdle race and i explained what they were doing as they started in the blocks and jumped over the hurdles. He wanted to try... (probably his favorite phrase right now "I try!")

I am loving seeing my two amazing kids interact. Jackson is so in love with Abbie. Now whenever she cries he says, "sorry baby, no cry sorry sorry" and rubs her head until she stops crying or he gives her a binky. The great thing is that most of the time, this works and she'll stop crying. She is so in love with him. She will sit in a room content if she can watch Jackson playing. If we leave the room she gets sad. He has finally started saying Abbie! For some reason it was a really hard word for him to say but now he calls her Abbie most of the time, but still calls her baby and Abigail.He is really good at making her laugh and smile...

Last Friday we went to Disneyworld with a friend who works there. We don't have passes yet but wanted to go while Tyler had some free time. It was dang hot but we had fun. We started at Hollywood Studios, then went over to Animal Kingdom. We went home in the afternoon and planned to go to Magic Kingdom in the evening. The weather wasn't looking great so Tyler decided he wasn't into it but I still wanted to go. So Jackson and I went alone and it was one of the funnest nights! We rode dumbo, buzz lightyear and even the barnstormer rollercoaster! He was barely tall enough but I was sure he'd be too scared but he absolutely loved it. We hung out at Pooh's house, joined in on a dance party with pluto and goofy, and checked out the new Casey Jr Train play area. When we left the park I bought him his first toy story characters and he was in heaven. He just held the box smiling the whole ride on the monorail. He has loved playing with Woody, Buzz, Jesse, Bullseye, the aliens (ooooooh) and his favorite dinosaur, rex.

Oh in other news, Abbie is rolling over! Not from tummy to back like a normal baby, but from back to tummy. It's funny how different she is from Jackson in this regard. He haaated being on his tummy but she loves it and prefers it to her back.

We went to Blizzard Beach last Saturday and while Jackson is still scared to go down the bigger kid slides by himself he'll ride the crazy tube slides as long as he's with Tyler or me. But he's getting braver in that he will jump off the side and dive in now. He used to only jump from the steps but now he'll do it from the side. Also they have these big glacier things that float in the water for kids to climb on (kind of like the lily pads at sunsplash) and he loves laying on those and then rolling or scooting head first in the water from there. He does this all with now floaties and loves loves loves his freedom in the water.