Learning learning learning Jocelyn is 10 months

I have been slacking on writing any new posts lately because my old computer is super slow and frustrating to do anything with. So I ordered a new computer and so a new computer= a new post! YAY!

 

Jocelyn has been doing a lot of things these last two months. Lets see if I can remember everything she has been doing...

 

Her aunt Amanda came to visit from Utah as well as her husband my grandparents and my aunt. Jocelyn had a lot of fun with Amanda. She grew 5 feet while they were there ; )

 She learned how to pull herself up and stand with the help of furniture. The first time I saw her standing was when I walked into her room when she woke up in the morning. This is what I walked in to find. A happy standing baby.

 She has also learned how to stick her hand into her snack container and shove a whole handful of snacks into her mouth. She eats just like her daddy. If your mouth is not full, then your bite was not big enough.

 And since she has learned how to stand up this is all she does lately. Standing....

 and pulling herself up to stand

 Maybe the most silly thing she learned is how to make her hand make noise as she drags it across her books. She sat here and made this sound for 20 mins. She thought she was pretty smart. Don't you love how she smacks the book as hard as she does to make sure the sound will happen?

 I actually learned here that Jocelyn thinks random things are funny like her aunt Tori saying bang. She also thinks the word bacon, piggy, and the phrase "Penny come here" are the funniest sayings. The thing she thinks is the funniest that we get a laugh at with no fail is letting her watch the Dogs jump up and then out of the truck.

 She learned that Cheese is finger licking good!

 And I learned that the dogs are all very patient with her as she pokes at their eyes, ears, and noses and also plays with their tags.

 I guess she has a bad streak in her though because she ended up in baby jail at my parents house because she just doesn't learn that closing the baby gate will lock her out. I guess there are still some things she has to learn.

8 and 9 month

so I have been busy with moving and have not been able to update my blog. So here is goes for the past 2 months. 

Jocelyn is 8 months old here and this is her Easter dress. She was the cutest baby at church that day I have to say. 

Just out on a walk. Any time she is fussy I put her in the stroller and walk around. By the end of the walk she is all smiles and much happier. Oh how much I love this baby so much. 

The Saturday before Easter there was an Easter egg hunt for all the kids in the neighborhood put on by the church. Grandma Rose is pushing Jocelyn to the party. 

All she wanted to do was eat the egg. I had to coax her into putting it into the basket.

Doesn't it look so yummy?

I just love how happy she is to go to church on Sundays!

9 MONTH OLD PICTURE BELOW. She is growing so fast and I am loving the personality she has. She is always so calm. Even when we keep her up way past her bedtime. She smiles all the time and always loves to rough house with me and her daddy. She beams when her dad gets home from work because she knows it is time for some rough housing. She claps her hands every time she is happy or has done something she wants me to acknowledge. She is such a goober and I love it.

Tori Graduated this month! Yay! My baby sister is now in college!

Jocelyn Clapping

And here are some cute pictures Tori Captured of her in her lady bug outfit. I call her my little ladybug all the time so this outfit fits her well.

We all got a really big laugh at this picture below. She is learning the downward facing dog position in Yoga it looks like.

OH and we moved in with Jon this month as well. Here is the house after it has been decorated. I painted the front room blue and I love it!

 

Here is my room below. We will have an actual bed in a little while but I love my wall. When the light hits it just right the silver stripes shine since there is glitter in the paint. It was supposed to make it look metallic but it didn't quite work out like we wanted it to.

Jocelyns room is painted green

 
Oh and I got a brand new stove. I LOVE it!

Jocelyn thinks it is so funny to get into all the movies and make a mess. Naughty naughty.

This is her rough housing with Daddy. She loves to smother him in kisses. Her kisses are more like getting a bath of saliva. But you gotta love those baby kisses anyways.

7 months continued...

Just a funny video I wanted to share with everyone. She loves her pacifier so much. I had to ween her from it to where she only gets in when she naps and sleeps at night and that was the longest week. Sometimes when we go to the store I bring the pacifier along just in case she has a melt down and I need it. Well I brought it this shopping trip and before we left she saw the pacifier and just got so excited. Enjoy the video!

Happy Valentines Day/ 7 months old

My little diva is 7 months old! Dont you just love little baby shoes?

We celebrated Jocelyn's first Valentines Day this month! She is such a good valentine to have I have to say. I had fun dressing her up all in pink and giving her hugs and kisses all day long. The only thing that would have made her valentines day better this year was if Dad did not have to be living so far away from us in order to do his job in Bagdad.

In this month we were able to go to Utah. My grandma had passed away so we went to go to her funeral and we were able to visit with other family while we were there. Everyone was so happy to get to see Jocelyn since they have never seen her in person. She definitely loved all the attention she had that week while we were there. She is such a flirt and people pleaser. I love her personality.

She started to give kisses while we were in Utah. Her first kiss was to my mom. She opens her mouth and chews on your chin. It is so weird but so funny.

Then on our way home from Utah Jocelyn was sitting between me and Tori and she kept making all sorts of faces at Tori while I was sleeping. Have I said that I love her personality yet? 

 Here we are at the Gilbert Temple open house. Amanda and Cody came to visit for Amandas birthday so what better way to celebrate than to go see the temple? I was so happy they came with me to see the temple because this little 15 lb baby weighs so much after you hold her for an extended period of time. It was nice to have 2 other sets of hands to hand her off to. Do you like our lion king type pose of putting Jocelyn in front of the temple?

 One day we are going back to the temple with Jon so we can get a family picture in front of this beautiful temple. It was a great day and great week having Amanda and Cody visit.

Half a year old!

Jocelyn is now 6 months! boy how the time flies. I just can not believe she is half a year old already. It has been so much fun having her this past 6 months and I absolutely love being her mom.

 

 

 

We started feeding her baby food at 4 months and I just thought this was a cute video. She gets so messy. As she eats she likes to put her fingers in her mouth after each spoon full. If we hold her hands down she will just put our hand in her mouth instead. I don't know why she likes to do that but it is just her thing I guess. I feel like more food gets all over her and the high chair than down her throat. Oh well.

 

 

 This video is just of her playing. I love to watch her play with things. She is so fascinated with the toys and always wants to put them in her mouth. All her toys are all drenched by the end of the day with her slobber. needless to say I wash her stuffed animals constantly.

 

 

 We like to tease our dogs and put Jocelyn on their backs like this so that when she gets older and starts to bother them more we will know the dogs are used to this and will not try to bite her. This dog is so good with her and just lets her do whatever she wants to him. He is so mellow.

 

 

 We moved this past month and if it were not for this baby carrier, it would have been a long moving week. Jocelyn has been pretty dependent on me holding her and you can only do so much with one hand when it comes to packing up your house and cleaning. We FINALLY got moved and now jocelyn is much happier that I get to play with her and pay more attention to her.

 

 

 Just a picture of her on a walk we took.

 

 

We bought her a toy piano so that she could pick up on those musical traits that I hope I passed on to her.

 

 

Since we are outside a lot we decided she needed a hat to keep her from getting sunburned. I love this hat so much because of all the color but Jon hates it. I guess we have different tastes in baby clothes.

 

 

JOCELYN GOT TO RIDE HER FIRST REAL HORSE! I was so excited to take her out to do this. Jon surprised me one day this past month because he did not have to go to work on a Friday since he already reached his 40 hours that week. I did not know he did not have work that morning and when he told me he did not he had a plan to take me and Jocelyn out for a horseback ride. I had not been on a horse since I got pregnant so I was so excited to go again. I love riding! Jocelyn loved it too.

 

 

We are just such a cute little family. We were joking that every time we have a kid we all need to take a pic of our family on the horse. By the time we have all our kids we will have to sit some on the neck of the horse. Hopefully we will have a strong horse by then. I look forward to all the other kids we will have and bring them on horse back rides in the future.