Just a cute picture that daddy caught tonight

We have been busy as you may have guessed. Here are some of the things that Jessaleigh does:

• Smiles (and it is very sweet - her whole face lights up when she smiles at you)


• Laughs


• Hold her head up (most of the time)


• Makes the cutest noise when she almost sneezes (I call it her aborted sneeze noise - kinda like ah . . . ah . . . ah . . . gooooo


• Has terrible newborn acne (Chanler never got this. This is also why birth announcement aren't out yet. We took some pics pre acne, but wanted one with a smile, but by the time she was smiling she looked like she had some nasty skin condition. As soon as her skin clears up birth announcements will follow)


• Sleeps like a champ (she wakes up once between midnight and 8am. I think I technically lose more sleep because of big brother rather than newborn)


• Loves staring at our torchiere lamp (Jessaleigh will stare at a lit torchiere lamp forever. She will also stare an a unlit lamp forever waiting for it to turn on. She like lamps so much I have started referring to our lamps up stairs as "lampy" so that they feel more like part of the family)

Jessaleigh is starting act more like her brother did in the wanting to know what is going on all around category. One of the funny things that she will do is to try to see behind or above her head. She does this mainly while laying down, she will arch her back as far as she can or until she sees whatever is making the noise out of site. You can also catch Jessaleigh moving her head from side to side trying to figure out what is touching her head. She is really funny to watch when she is at it!

Recently Jessaleigh has found her thumb and loves to suck on it. I am not quite sure how I feel about the prospect of thumb sucking, but am hopeful that it will not become a pattern for long. For now, tons of people have told me how cute it is that she is sucking her thumb???? I have no idea why it is cute?

And now Jessaleigh has found her toes. They are great fun to grab and hold.

Clearly she has things to say already

After a very long day we went out to dinner tonight. Jessaleigh was in a high chair at the end of our booth. During the course of dinner our little miss Jessaleigh was gawked over by the server and hostess of course. The funnier part were the two (count 'em 2) young BOYS (about age 2 or 3) that visited our table to smile at and ogle her.

She was in heaven

Fulfilling his brotherly duty, Chanler "came to her rescue" to fend off one of the suitors (the second one, named Owen, was 3 and a half, and used to be 1, then 2, then now he was this big at 3!! - he was VERY friendly). Jessaleigh herself bopped the first one in the kisser before his parents came to collect him.

What are we going to do when she is a teenager?

We started Jessaleigh on O's (i.e Cheerios only organic,etc.) last Monday. Day 1 she loved to eat them, but couldn't get them into her mouth by herself. By day 4 she has figured out that if you grab a big enough handful that your chances of getting O's into your mouth are much better. She currently looks just like her brother - shoveling O's into her mouth as fast as she can!

Jessaleigh also started waving this week. She will hold her fist out to you (in a power to the people sort of way) and then slowly try to open her fingers (with no regard for which direction her hand is facing). She get very excited when you realize she is waving and wave back to her.

Jessaleigh now gives kisses (when SHE wants to). She mostly prefers to "kiss" foreheads or cheeks (I guess that is where she gets kissed the most), but occasionally will go for your mouth. Jessaleigh kisses look like this - open your mouth as wide as you can and then hang your tongue out. They are a bit sloppy, but wonderful!

This is what Jessaleigh calls her daddy. And she is so excited when he beckons to her call!

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Please note: Jessaleigh thought and engineered this all on her own. She spun herself up and figured out how to pick up her feet. Unfortunately I was having camera issues so I didn't get all of it on one video...

We got a good deal on some Robeez, and they were delivered tonight (go UPS, down with FedEx), and Jessaleigh proved that she is definitely all girl.

She was holding one of the shoes, and I was holding the other, and with a gleam of desire not to be denied in her eyes, she took three steps toward me and grabbed the other shoe. Up to this point the most that we have seen her take is one (being generous here) step at a time, usually followed by an abrupt seating maneuver.

Yes, that's right, our daughter's first steps were for shoes! This bodes ill for my checkbook :)

I figured it has been awhile since I have listed Jessaleigh's vocabulary, so today seemed like as good a day as any... Here we go:

Mama - Mommy
Dada - Daddy
Wawa - Water
Waba - Water bottle
Oosh - Shoe
On
Off
Up
Dun - Down
Ouw - Out
Nana - Nursing
Mamama - Grandmama
Dat - That
Haut - Hot
Da - Dog
Haut Da - Hot dog
No
My - Mine
Ball
Open
Close
Eye
Nose
Mouth
Ear
Mo- More

She also has signs for:
More
All done
Potty
Nite nite
Nursing
Milk
Water
Airplane
Eat

Today Jessaleigh discovered / rediscovered / became infatuated with...

Eskimo Kisses

We spent 1/3 of our time at the grocery store today playing "meme nose?" - I get a Eskimo kiss; "Ra-ra Nose?"- Chanler gets an Eskimo Kiss. Around and around and up and down the aisles.

SO Sweet!

Jessaleigh's vocabulary is always growing and changing, but recently she has started correcting some of my favorite Jessaleigh-ism's

Tiss = Kiss
Avo-ta-doe = Avocado
Too-tum-er = Cucumber
Hup Tolder = Cup Holder

While driving:

Jessaleigh: Why did you stop the car Daddy?

Daddy: Because there is a Stop sign.

Jessaleigh: What is it was a Go sign?