Jessica over the past couple months

I have been really bad about posting for quite some time now. Probably since Jessie was born. We'll see if I ever recover enough to catch up. :) Since I'm so far behind, I think I need to do more combination posts... posts that involve several stories and pictures at once... so I can get caught up more quickly. I'm also losing the stories. I look at the pictures now and wonder what I was thinking at the time, so we need to get going on these.

I noticed that I had several pictures of Jessie just hanging out, so I thought I'd give you a quick look at how she's grown over the past couple months. It may be hard to see in the pictures, but she is still quite big. She is 7 months now, and weighs over 20 lbs. I sure get my arm workout with this one.

March 25 - I think I was just getting a picture of how cute she was picking up her head and smiling at me.


March25 - Here's a picture of her scooting. She would scoot around with her head on the floor. It's amazing she didn't end up with rug burns on her forehead.

April 3 - Jessica and Mommy - This was on Easter and I wanted to make sure she had a picture from Easter even though she didn't get to decorate any eggs

April 7 - Jessie loves flipping through the little book on this exersaucer. I think she's really working on figuring it out. Of course, now, we have to make sure there are no books on the floor when she is down there, otherwise, that is what she goes for. She prefers the paper style so she can eat it and tear it. So much fun... isn't that what books are for?

April 17 - Our first trip to the pool. It was cold. The air was warm, though. I didn't get in, but no one else seemed to mind. I've always known Jessie had significant rolls, but this picture was the first time I'd ever noticed how much she really does resemble the Michelin Man. So cute... on a baby.

April 19 - Jessie was starting to sit on her own very well. Now she's quite proficient at pushing herself up to sit on her own. In fact, she's now starting to crawl a little. She'll crawl a couple steps, and then needs a little break, so she'll sit herself up for just a moment before continuing on. If you had to move that much weight (at 7 months old), you'd take a break, too.

April 25 - I was trying to get good scooting pictures here as well. At this point (6 months) she was getting up on her hands and knees and rocking, then plopping down on her belly. Somehow, she always seemed to make forward progress.

May 12 - I was trying to catch her in the process of sitting up, because she had just started to push herself up to sitting at this point. Now, she sits up and is crawling all over the place... though the crawling has barely started, so it is still a little slow. It will speed up by next week, and I'll have to be more attentive to make sure she doesn't disappear somewhere in the house.