Janelle's First Professional Photos

For our baby shower, one of the gifts Kristy and Dory gave us was a Smile Savers subscription at JC Penneys, which gives us two years of no sitting fees at their photo studio, which is really great! Well, we took advantage of our gift, and below are "a few" of my favorites.

View entire photo set.

Dallas Arboretum

One of our weekly Get-Mommy-Out-Of-The-House activities is a trip to the Dallas Arboretum. While Janelle is still at the stage where she pretty much sleeps through the visit (although the last couple of visits I'll take her out of the stroller and she'll stare at the leaves and people walking by), I'm really enjoying it. (Thank you Joey for suggesting to Roy that I should get a membership!)

I've been taking a lot of pictures while we're there. Below are a few of my favorites. You can also view my collection on Flickr.

She's definitely smiling now!

Yes, my blog has officially become a "baby blog". I have yet another cute video of Janelle. :) Over the past couple of weeks, she's started what they call "social smiling" -- not just smiles when she has gas. ...Although she still does that, too. :P This video is over her a few days ago when I woke her up.

Happy Birthday Janelle!

Depending on who you talk to, yesterday or today is Janelle's one month birthday. Wow. Can't believe it's already been a month! Anyway, I have yet another video -- this one of her talking and laughing. Love it!!

Our phone number has changed!

Greetings folks! Just a quick note to let you all know that since Roy and I now have cell phones, we've canceled our home phone. Email me if you don't have my cell phone number.

More Janelle Videos

I'm posting these mostly for my Mom to see, but I figure anyone else might enjoy seeing my little beautiful babe!

Whoa! Our First Diaper Explosion!

Roy and I decided we'd take the baby out today and run some errands. We looked at some apartments we're thinking of moving into later this year. Went to the store to pick up a few things. Then we found this new little bitty Thai restaurant we decided to try.

Janelle's bottle-fed now, and so we'd fed her, packed up a couple of bottles, and headed out. Our last stop - the quiet Thai restaurant. We're just about done. Janelle had been quietly sitting in her carrier drifting between dozing and quiet alertness. Suddenly she starts crying and I decide to go ahead and pick her up and try to calm her down. Well, she then wets all over her little outfit, which surprised me b/c so far we hadn't had any problems until then with her diapers leaking, and this was a *major* leak. So, I quickly grab the diaper bag and we run to the restroom. It was a pretty one-toilet restroom -- beautiful sink, fancy everything... absolutely no counter space. So I reach out into the hallway and grab an empty chair and drag it into the restroom to give me *something* to change my baby on.

And then I opened her onesie ... and *it* was *everywhere*. I could not believe our baby could make that big of a mess. And she was absolutely not pleased that I was angling her 21 1/4 inch body on a changing pad across the seat of this wooden chair trying desperately to undress/clean her without making things worse. I guess it was her incessant screams that brought Roy back to the restroom (thank God!) and he quietly knocked on the door, and when I opened it, he quickly stepped in and helped me.

Since that time, just a few hours ago, we've come home, given Janelle a bath. Daddy's taking a nap, and I'm still marveling at our first diaper explosion. I immediately think of the stories my Mom lovingly (and with a chuckle) tells of similar instances from when me or my sisters were babies. For me, I think the chuckle will come later. All I can think right now is "whoa".

As time goes by...

I don't know if I ever mentioned this before, but Roy has this page set up a family photographic timeline where he posts a picture of each of us from the beginning of each year. This way, after several years, you'll see us age (gracefully, hopefully), and you'll see additions to our family make their appearance(s). So far, we've done it officially for three years (with a few images we could find that have been added for previous years), and this year we were able to add Ms. Janelle to our timeline.

Click here to see our Family Photographic Timeline

Janelle Is Here!

Our gorgeous little girl was born at 6:30pm on Monday, Feb. 4, weighing 8 pounds, 3.5 ounces, and measuring 21 inches. It ended up being a c-section, so I'm having to heal up from that. (i'll write out the whole birth story some time when I have a little more time.) As expected, Roy and I have taken lots of pictures and a couple of videos - below are links to them.

Janelle Photo Set


Janelle's Wake Up Stretch


Dirty Diaper Dance

U23D!

The Baby Bump!

I figure I should post another picture of my baby bump that seems to be growing every day. This pic is of me at about a week ago (34.5 weeks along). Baby gal's still doing great -- she's kicking me right now as I type, in fact! Just a few more weeks to go!!

This picture is one Roy snapped while we were in San Angelo at his Grandmother's house.

Does this look like me?

Roy emailed me this picture earlier this week. "Not sure why, but this reminded me of you." :P

Joss Whedon's new tv series!!!!

YESSSSSSS!!!!! Joss Whedon spilled the beans today about a new tv series he's working on for Fox (fingers are crossed! please don't cancel them!) called "Dollhouse". And it's going to star Eliza Dushka (aka Faith the Vampire Slayer)! What *spectacular* news!!! (Read more about this here.) WOOHOO!

Roy gets his first kick from the baby!

Roy felt the baby for the first time Monday night. Li'l baby Janelle has been kicking me and moving around for several weeks now, but every time Roy put his hand on my stomach, she'd get very still. It was almost like a game with our little stinker! Finally, on Monday, Roy and I were talking and he had his hand on my stomach, and she decided then to give him a good kick! :D :D :D

Our 24 week sonogram

This video is amazing. Shortly after beginning, the tech zoomed in on the baby's face, and you can very clearly see our baby opening and closing her mouth. (Gives me goosebumps!) You also get a good view in the video of her feet, spine, and ribs. But the closeups of her face are just really amazing!!

Our little stinker is a...

… GIRL!! Roy and I went in this afternoon for our second try at seeing what this baby is (last time, baby’s legs were crossed and curled up), and it’s a girl!! Little stinker did still have her legs crossed again this time, but the tech managed to get a good look when she kicked a few times. Needless to say, Roy and I are really, really happy! :) :) :)

I'll post the video from the sonogram tomorrow. :D :D :D

Lizzie

I just have to post this... Look how beautiful Lizzie (my baby sister) is. I was going through her myspace pictures, and I totally stole these from her. These are a couple of my favorites.





Love ya *BABE*!!

My first preggo picture post

Well, I figure the time has come for me to post a preggo picture of myself. As you can tell in the picture below, I'm definitely showing. This picture was taken about two weeks ago when I was at 20 weeks. Today, I noticed that I can no longer see my toes when I look down. :P

More U2 Humor

In continuing with the U2-related humor, I found some funny U2-ish clips online. Thought I'd share with you guys. Enjoy!

Vertigo (U2) Spoof

A friend of mine sent this to me, and it just had me rolling!! HILARIOUS!!