Spicy Princess

Jessica already has attitude. This is her saying "Don't mess with me!!"

While we were in Maui I had been giving Jessica a lot of tummy time so she could build her muscles. I laid her down on her tummy on the bed and she proceeded to push herself up. She then suddenly she flipped over onto her back. I think it surprised her just as much as it did me. Since then she has done it 4 more times. I am so proud of my little baby!!

We have had a very eventful month. Our Australia trip went really well. Jessica did great on the flights (slept through all of them). She didn't really like the 106 degree weather that we had in the Outback though. Pics will be posted soon. Hawaii was nice and relaxing. We only went to the beach once though because we were to busy visiting everybody. We had heard there was going to be snow in Portland when we returned, which there was. However, we were not prepared for the amount of snow that came during our first week of being back. I'm told it is the most snow Portland has seen at once in 40 years. There is about 1-2 feet of snow. Our cars were completely buried.

Also Jake, Jessica and I are all fighting colds right now. I think it has hit me the worst though. Jake has a sore throat, Jessica has a runny nose and coughs and I have a sore throat, stuffed up nose and a fever. Now Billy and Mandy have sore throats.

I had planned to do my Christmas shopping when I got back but since we are snowed in I don't know when I am going to do it. Luckily both our families are out of town so our Christmases will be late this year.

Here are some current pics of Jessica:

Jake had 3 finals during the past week so you can imagine he was quite busy studying so the baby duty was almost all mine. He helped when he could but he was mostly focused on school. This being the case I have been a bit stressed out. Jessica has been crying a whole heck of a lot and I hate it when there is nothing I can do about it. Night times have gotten better though. Her sleeping schedule is 7pm until 3am which sucks while we are here but once we get back home with the time change if we keep her on the same schedule she will be sleeping from 12am until 8am which would be perfect. Of course she still wakes up for feeds during that time so she isn't sleeping that long straight through although that would be fabulous if she did. Even though the past week has been very stressful what makes it worth it was when I got to see this:

Tomorrow we have to be out of our apartment and we have only just begun to pack. Also Monday we are leaving for our 2 week trip around Australia. There's nothing like waiting until the last day to pack. When you are professional packers like us we don't need more then one day. ;) After Sunday we will no longer have internet access so there won't be any more posts until we are back home in Oregon.

OK this was too cool I had to share it. It's Albert Einstein right.....
Now look away from it and walk back about 10 feet from the monitor and look again. What do you see now?

We leave a week from today on our whirlwind holiday around Australia. Not to mention having to be out of our apartment this Sunday. We have a lot to do in the next week.

Here are some cute pics...

More pics have been posted to our photos page too!!

We have been having a little problem with Jessica. The only place that was good enough for her to relax was in either my or Jake's arms which meant that one of us always has to hold her. As you can imagine that would make dinner time interesting. Today I went out and bought a bouncer and amazingly enough she sleeps in it. It is so nice to give my arms a break from always holding her. If all goes well with her in it we may just have her sleep in it at night and we will get our bed back!! I was hesitant to spend $60 on something that we are only going to use for 4 weeks and then sell but now I say it is the best $60 I've spent in a lot time.

Well, Jessica had her first blowout yesterday. All you parents out there know exactly what that means. She had poo all up her back and all over her PJ's. At least it doesn't stink yet!! Once she starts to eat food besides breastmilk it will be a whole other story. We gave her a bath and was as good as new when we were finished. I love the smell of freshly cleaned baby!!

She is going really good. She is putting on weight every week and there is only a little yellowness left to her. She is up to 6 pounds 10.5 ounces as of last Friday. We will get her weighed again when I go to my new mom's group tomorrow.

We have posted all the pics we have taken of her through yesterday here.

Drying her off after a bath.

Gotta dry off under that chin.

Jessica's first of many beach outtings!!

Happy day you were due to be birthed day Jessica!!