Christmas and Month 9

So a mental note has been made for last year.  Do not wait until the week before Christmas to have pictures taken with Santa.  I decided that at noon on Sunday to go to the Orange Park Mall.  First noon on Sunday is bad, but I stood in line for 2 hours for a 30 second photo.  Since Jaydyn is just learning to crawl she has carpet burn on her nose from not being able to coordinate her hands and feet while going fast. 

Look at my rug burn!  I am still cute though!

 

Waiting to see Santa

As we went up to Santa, he asked "how is she going to react?"   I looked at him (while putting J on his knee) and said, "I am not sure, but lets make this fast."   As I was backing away from her she was looking at me..... (here is the snap shot)



She looked at Santa.....



Then looked back at me....

Christmas has come and gone.  Growing up I couldnt wait for Christmas morning to come so I could get up and see what santa had brought to me.  All the way up until Christmas eve it felt like forever for the magical time to get here.  Well.... when Christmas morning was finally here, I was always woken by my parents (I am not a morning person) and I can tell you that our daughter is the same way.  She slept until 8:30 a.m. on Christmas morning.  Once we got up and she had her bottle it was time to open gifts.  I (mommy) had to open the gifts for Jaydyn since the only thing she was interested in was the wrapping paper and a little box from Piercing Pagoda.  She crawled all over the floor around the tree and was as happy as a lark.



The Friday after Christmas Chad and I made the 4 hour drive up to Lizella, GA to do Christmas with his family.  We went to his grandmothers house and it was great to see the grandparents and his greatgrandma spending time together. 

New Years Eve was bitter sweet for me and Chad.  My mom volunteered to watch Jaydyn while we went out to celebrate the New Years.  Mom came over around 6 p.m. and we ate Chineese for dinner then gave Jaydyn a bottle and she was out.  We left the house around 9 p.m. (by taxi) and by midnight I was calling  taxi for them to take us back home.  We decided that we needed to be home with our newest family member and ring in the new year with her.  We got home around 12:30 a.m. and we were in bed by 1 a.m. Eventhough Jaydyn was still a sleep, we felt better knowing that we were with family and that we were all safe and sound. 

The next morning I woke up around 8 a.m. and decided that it was finally time to take down the Christmas tree :(.   My mom had stayed the night (since we didnt want her to have to drive home with all of the drunks on the road for New Years Eve) so she helped me take down the tree.  It is a tradition that I have tried to follow since Chad and I moved in together.  We put the tree up the first weekend of December and take it down on January 1st.

Back to work on the 2nd and a promise of a good New Year.  I have decided to pursue my side-business a bit further and advertise a bit more of my services.  Here is my new logo:
So far this year I have completed an order that was sent to Kansas and I have two more orders to start on.  Chad and I both have started back to school in the hopes of completing our degrees ASAP. 

With it being a new year, Jaydyn gets a new hair-do.  We went for the pig-tails.  I LOVE THEM!!

The pig-tails were such a success that we ROCKED them at daycare the next day

Jaydyn has learned how to crawl (FAST) and is not suffering from any rug burn on her nose. 

Month 9 photos were challenging.  Laying her down and actually getting her to leave the sticker on her onseie was a battle of its own. 

Random photos:

 

The month leading up to Christmas!!

With much anticipation and the days counting down until Christmas, we are remaining busy but I believe that all of the Christmas shopping is done.  If it isnt done, well then.... I guess you arent getting a gift this year. 
So Chad is now home and we are nicely adjusting to the family life. Last week I had to take Jaydyn to Wolfsons Childrens Hospital for a sonogram on her kidneys.  She keeps getting badder infections, so they want to make sure that her kidneys have properly formed.  So until the results come back regarding that, we are anxiously waiting to see what they have to say.

Jaydyn wanted to make sure that everyone would have a smile on their face like she has on hers, so MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!

 

 Chad made Chief while he was overseas so the morning of command photos he wanted to take a picture with Jaydyn. Wonder why he didnt want a pic with me?? (LOL)  Because it was 4am and I looked like POOOOO!!!!

 On December 19th we had the command Christmas party for VP5.  Mom was nice enough to watch Jaydyn for the night so Chad and I could have a DATE night out for the first time.  I guess with a little bit of soap and water we can clean up fairly well.  This is the one time a year that I actually wear a dress. 

 Jaydyn is getting around pretty good (now that she has started crawling), but the one bad thing about her crawling is that her hands are feet are now as coordinated as we would wish them to be, so she has rug burn on her nose from the nose diving while crawling.  She is a trooper though.

 My little love bug!  I just want to pick her up and cuddle and kiss her.  I love this munchkin!!!

 Well she is standing and pulling herself up a lot.  Look at them THIGHS!  They are HUGGGGGE!!

 Her hair is out of control!  No matter how many bows and how much I try to push the hair out of ther face and tuck it behind her ears she always ends up looking like this:

Months 7 & 8

WOW!!   Well these past two months have been nothing less than hectic.  We have made numerous trips (in the middle of the night) to Wolfsons Childrens Hospital.   Baby J is doing much better, but it is amazing what a little ones body can go through.  We have not been the luckiest in the escaping of ear infections.  I feel like a syringe is a common staple with the morning and before bed bottle for J.    On top of J being sick, I myself have also been sick with an upper-respiratory infection and ear infections (double on two separate occasions).   

Also as most of you are aware, the storm that many believed that could never happen to the northeast reared its ugly head at the end of October.    With this being said…. “I am staying extremely busy at work!”

Back to J…. and the past two months…..

It seems that in just a few weeks so many things have changed and J has grown with leaps and bounds.  She is repetitavely saying "Mama "mama ma ma mama ma mamamamamamama," waving hello to everyone, crawling like crazy.  

10.20.12- J and I went to the Southern Womens Show with Mrs. Jenn.  We had fun looking around and Mrs. Jenn even bought J her first tutu.   She just looked so adorable in her tutu.   LULU in her TUTU!! Thanks Mrs. Jenn.

 

10.21.12- J officially sat in a shopping cart by herself and loved grabbing everything within a reach.

 

Well for Haloween she was an owl.  After searching the internet and etsy.com I decided to make an owl costume on my own for her.  Thinking that this would be a small chore, I purchased felt and make a pattern of a feather to cut out of the felt.   Many hours later with sore hands (from using the scissors), multiple band-aids and frustration, I completed the owl costume.  Here is a pic of the lil one getting ready for daycare.  

 

At daycare they had a trunk-or-treat event, so I was able to get off of work early to attend for a few minutes.  One of the parents had decorated their truck with the “100 Acre Wood” Winne the Pooh theme.   We couldn’t pass up a photo opportunity to sit in the 100 acre wood. 

 

For the evening of Halloween, we went to Baldwin, Florida and trick-or-treated with Bubba & Amber (with KK).  After about 4 houses, J decided that she was hungry, so I was then carrying a 20lbs owl around the streets of Baldwin while she drank her bottle.  She is sooooo nosey that every time we stopped at a house, she would stop drinking her bottle and wait for everyone to come back to the street to continue drinking. 

11.7.12-  Jaydyn loves her some quality time with Grandpa Hendricks.  They like to play peek-a-boo together and somehow I think that this is what they were playing during this photo.

11.11.12- I had to work on Sunday (11.11.12) and while I work I received an email from my dad indictating that they may be having too much fun playing with grandpas bandannas and wigs.  LOL…. This picture is one that we will keep for many years and use it as blackmail if necessary.

 11.11.12-  In addition to J and grandpa wearing wigs, J also turned 7 months old.   She is getting harder to keep still and hates the stickers that go on her onseies.

 

 

Week of 11.20.12-  This was an amazing but sad week.  Just the other day I had my step-mother do my hair in the kitchen of my dads house.  This was the first time I have had my hair done since I had Jaydyn and was much needed.  I put off having my hair done because I didn’t want to take Jaydyn into a hair salon, but then a light went off….. Why not have Jeanne do my hair (she did hair for many of years) and then let my dad watch J while this was being done.  So, I had my hair done on Saturday and then had to work on Sunday.  Sunday afternoon I called my dad from work to see how J was doing.  He mentioned the Jeanne had tripped over a stup and that she hit her head pretty hard.  He reassured me that J and Jeanne were fine, so I didn’t think much about it.  That evening when I went to pick up J from my dads house, I noticed that Jeanne wasn’t acting normal and encouraged dad to take her to the hospital to get checked out.  Without going into to much detail, it was a good thing that he listened to me and got her to the hospital ASAP.   Due to the hospital visit her son (Tony) flew down to Jax and stayed with them for a week.  In addition to Tony coming into town, my grandmother was also scheduled to arrive in Jacksonville for the month.  The photos below are pictures of Jaydyn meeting her Great Grandmother Hendricks and her Step-Uncle Tony.

11.21.12- For Thanksgiving I put J in her fall dress and sent her to daycare

 

11.27.12- While driving to work one morning, J continued to carry on a conversation with herself in the backseat of the car.  While stopping at a stop light I took my iPhone and leaned back to take a picture of the little one in action.  This is what I got…….< What a GOOF!!!!>

At J’s daycare they take school photos annually and I automatically fell in love with all three poses.  Here they are…. And here is my cheese ball!!  She looks so grown up L

12.1.12 - Another set of photos were taken with a different backdrop. 

For those of you who know the Wellborns on a close level you will understand the following photos.  For those who have just started following my blog.... here it goes.  At five weeks old Jaydyns father deployed overseas with the US Navy.  Knowing that this had to be hard for me, I also knew that it was going to be extremely hard for Chad to watch his daughter grow up through FaceTime.  Eventhough Jaydyn doesnt really know/remember her daddy, he is COMING HOME.  While waiting for Chads plane to arrive, we waited in the hanger to get out of the cold weather.  Jaydyn didnt seem to care about anything other than watching the other kids run around like little crazy ones.

 





 Chad talking to Jaydyn while I was trying to get a picture of both of us together.  Its a shame that he is looking down at J, because I think that this could have possibly been a great photo of us both.

 Chad has just been reunited with his daughter after being away for over 6 months and the first thing he mentions is that her thighs are HUGE! Poor kid...

 While waiting for daddy to get home, Jaydyn decided to use some of the quality time to catch up on some much needed Zzzzzzzzzzz's

 SMILE DADDY IS FINALLY HOME!!!  ITS TIME TO CUDDLE NOW!!!

When Jaydyn is out, she is OUT!!!

Well until next time, when I get a few minutes to sit down and actually update the blog, the Wellborns would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.