More Milestones - May

I'm continually amazed at how much Jenna is learning and growing each day. In May Jenna reached a few more milestones.

Milestone #1 - Jenna can hold her bottle! What an accomplishment, I know! It makes it nice when I can lay her down on the floor and she'll drink her bottle while I get some other things done.

Yeah for holding the bottle!

So proud of this BIG girl!

Milestone #2 - Jenna pushes herself up onto her knees. This girl is on her way to crawling! She will get up on her knees and rock back and forth. She will also get into the push up position and then push up onto her tip toes and stick her butt up into the air like a stink bug. It's too cute!

Getting ready to GO!

Up on those knees!

Such a HAPPY girl!

Milestone #3 - Jenna can now push herself into a sitting position. She is able to sit for longer periods of time and enjoys sitting up to play rather than lying down or being on her belly. The only down side to this, is now she tries to roll over and sit up while getting her diaper changed. Makes that job SO much harder!

Jenna LOVES that octopus!

Milestone #4 - Jenna has learned how to clap! I can say "clap, clap, clap" and she claps. We also play patty - cake. She's really only got the clapping part down, but it's sure cute! Here is a video of it.

We love our Jenna Mei! She is such a goer and is always trying to figure out how things work. It is fun to watch her as she discovers something new. She furrows her brow in concentration and works at it until she figures it out, or cries because she gets frustrated. I look forward to being there for all she has left to discover!

Many Milestones - April

Jenna has reached many milestones in the last couple months that we have yet to document. Here are the ones for April.

Milestone#1: Jenna turned 6 months old. That in itself is huge step! At her 6 month check up she was 15 lbs. 6 oz. (37th percentile), 26 3/8 in. long (50th percentile), and had a head circumference of 17 1/2 in. (88th percentile). Averaged all out and the doctor called her "perfect"! And she certainly is!
The only downer from the visit (besides the shots) was hearing that if Jenna's eye hasn't cleared up by her 9 month wellness checkup, she'll have to see an eye specialist to have it probed. Yuck!

Milestone#2: Watch out, she's moblie! Although Jenna learned to roll in March, she is now a pro! She does what Austin calls "The Double Barrel Army Roll". To get where she wants to go, she will roll twice in quick succession. If we blink she is on the other side of the room!

Here Jenna rolled under the coffee table. Mom and Dad weren't quite ready for her mobility. We hadn't gotten things off the floor and put away quick enough. Doesn't that smile look a little too mischievous?

Jenna LOVES books! We try to read with her a little everyday. Here she is with some light reading; Austin's GRE study book! Ha Ha!

Love that face of hers!
(She has Austin's eyebrows! I love it!)

Milestone#3: Sitting - Jenna can sit up by herself for short periods of time. We have been practicing having her sit by sitting behind her. She just sits and plays with one of us being there to catch her when she falls over. She'll usually fall to the side, but she's gotten a few mouth fulls of carpet from falling forward.

Milestone#4: Giving kisses - Jenna started giving those wonderful wide mouthed, tongue filled kisses. All you have to do is say "kisses" and pucker your lips while doing the "mmmmm" kissing sound and she'll open her mouth and lean in for a juicy one! They're the best!

Daddy getting one of Jenna's wet ones!