What We've Been Up To....

We've been busy! Jocelyn continues to grow and is in a bit of a growth spurt - eating record amounts (for her!) the last few days. She loves to be worn, and spends lot of her time in the baby ktan - definitely by far my favorite baby product!!!


We started doing "learning time" in the morning with Carolyn. Each day, we do the calendar and weather and then we do a language arts lesson (first rhyming and listening to sounds and are now doing letters). Then we do another concept - patterns, the seasons, classifying, etc. Carolyn really enjoys this time and looks forward to it each day. It's been great for me too and is a special time for the two of us together.



We painted the letters for "Jocelyn" (Carolyn has a matching one in her room that we made for her when she was a baby) and hung that on her wall.



Carolyn continues the role of adoring big sister. Here she is helping Jocelyn with her binky!

My two happy girls!

Say Cheese!

Jocelyn at 2 months old (9/12/09)

Although she's not always quite this happy, she sure does have a great smile! Jocelyn gives us a lot of smiles now and is developing a personality. She loves to coo back at you when you talk to her. Carolyn really enjoys her still and it's fun to see Jocelyn smile back at her!

Jocelyn's developed just enough strength in her neck that she can do her bumbo seat for a few minutes at a time. She enjoys being able to look all around, but after about 5 minutes she gets tired and her head starts to "flop!"


Carolyn got a camera from Pap and has developed a real love of photography. She loves to take pictures and sure takes some interesting ones! Her favorite shots are close ups and here you can see one she took of herself and one very close up of Jocelyn (the poor little sister takes a lot!).

Sweet Sisters!

Carolyn continues to just absolutely adore Jocelyn. She can't stand to not be near her and although Jocelyn gets annoyed at all the touching, she loves to look at Carolyn and often smiles at her. Jocelyn has been giving us some great big smiles for well over a week now, which is so fun, but we've yet to capture very well on camera!

Almost One Month!

It's hard to believe it's been almost a month since we added a second baby girl to our family (although sometimes it feels much longer!!). We've been busy and things seem to be "settling" a little better. Diane was blessed to have a week of help from each of our moms and meals and support from friends. Here's some pictures of what we've been up to.....



Carolyn is attending two weeks of our "town camp" for pre-k kids. She goes to the park each morning from 9-12 where they play at the playground, do arts and crafts and have visitors (fire dept, service dogs, etc) come in to meet the kids. Carolyn sings each morning on the way to camp about how much fun it is! She takes a lemonade and fruit snack each day and is thrilled to go. I'm so pleased!



Carolyn keeps busy at home too. She loves to play play-doh and makes lots of shapes with cookie cutters! She played with her play-doh for almost 2 hours this day!

Carolyn is ALWAYS looking for a project to do! While Nana was here with us, she suggested that Carolyn go on a nature hunt to find things to make a collage about nature. Carolyn had a wonderful time looking for things and glueing them on with Nana - what a great project!


Carolyn loves to hang up all of her projects and pictures on her wall in her room. One day she said to Zach and I "let's see who has the most beautiful room in this house?" She walked around and then decided that it was her room! She is so proud of all her work! Mom wonders when we will run out of wall space!!


Carolyn continues to just absolutely adore Jocelyn. The first thing she says each morning when she gets up is "where's Joeclyn?" She loves to sit while I feed Jocelyn and play with her hands and feet. I feel so blessed with how well Carolyn has adjusted to her little sister and love to watch them together already. It will be so special to watch them grow up together!


Jocelyn had her first bath and didn't enjoy it very much! She cried and cried - but the next week she was calm and seemed to enjoy her bath a little bit more!


Jocelyn doesn't like to lay flat down, but will sit contently if we prop her up a bit with a pillow! She likes her seat better than being flat on her back and already seems interested in looking at things around her. :)

Jocelyn had her one month check up and is growing well - she was up to 8 lbs,6 oz and grew an inch (although we all now how accurate measuring a squirming infant is!). She goes back to the doctor in September for her 2 month check up.

Jocelyn Christine!

We welcomed little Jocelyn Christine into the world....

Sunday, July 12th
12:59 pm
20.5 inches, 7 lbs 5 oz

We came home from the hospital on Monday and enjoyed having Zach home with us most of this last week. My mom is coming to help tomorrow and then by next Monday I'm hoping to be back on my feet and feeling a lot more normal. We're starting (and I hope continuing!) to sleep a little better and I'm healing from Jocelyn's very quick (we arrived at the hospital just about 1 1/2 before she was born!) delivery!

Carolyn ADORES Jocelyn and is THRILLED to be a big sister. She can't keep her eyes and hands off of Jocelyn and spends most of the day at her side.

Our family of 4!

7 lbs 5 oz, a shock to us since Carolyn was 9lbs, 3 oz!

Sweet, sweet Sisters!

Daddy and his girls!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

We had a very special day for Mommy's birthday today (and at this time of day I think it's safe to say baby and I won't be sharing a birthday!)

Zach took the day off of work to spend time with Carolyn and I. In the morning, Carolyn and Zach made and iced cakes for my birthday. Carolyn did her cake all by herself (including the writing). Interestingly, there isn't much difference between the cake made by Zach and the one made by Carolyn. ;)




In the afternoon, we went to a friend's house to swim. It was the first beautiful day we've had in the longest time and we really, really enjoyed the sunshine! Carolyn has become very brave in the water and loves to swim around in her life jacket!

Bike Riding and Belly!

Carolyn loves to ride her bike! We took her to the bike path Sunday afternoon, which started out really well, but ended in her being exhausted and cranky - I guess we went past her limit! She didn't want to turn around ever, but really I think she didn't understand that as far as we went out she had to come back....

39 1/2 weeks!