Jianna is learning, learning, learning!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas everyone! Well Jianna not only continues to grow but is rapidly learning how to do new things everyday. This month she has learned to eat solid foods like rice cereal, carrots, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, peaches, pears bananas and applesauce. She loves sweet potatoes and peaches. So while we were eating grown-up sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner she was eating her pureed ones. She has also learned to drink water from daddy's glass.

Along with her changing diet comes her changing physical abilities. She is learning to sit up and roll over as well. By Christmas we expect she will be sitting up, and maybe even pulling herself up, by herself. She loves to stand up but hates being on her tummy. So the minute you put her on her tummy she rolls over to her back. We are having so much fun with her. Can't wait for Christmas morning. Have a happy and safe holiday season.

Halloween/Fall 2008

Jianna has had a busy first fall. She went to pick apples at the apple orchard in September. We carved a pumpkin and went trick or treating on Halloween. She literally was a pumpkin that day. Then we went to the corn maize here in Lubbock and she helped mommie and daddie find their way through a 1.5 mile maize built out of a corn field. She saw her first barnyard animals that day also. She cried at the pigs but liked the turkeys. Hmmm. She had three pumpkin outfits. One was given from a friend. One was made by a friend. And one was bought by mommie and daddie. It's always good with a four month old to have extra outfits you know!

She weighed 15 lbs. 9 oz. at her four month check up last week and was 26 inches long. She is really trying to cut a tooth and so she has been a little fussy as of late but still smiles through it all. Except when we put her inside the carved out pumpkin. I guess that was too cold and slimy for a smile. She did get tuckered out too after trick or treating for three hours. But overall she is the best baby in the world.