Weekend with the Booth's

Cade's brother Brett and his family came to visit from San Diego. We had a fun weekend at the Booth house hanging out with all the fam. Here are some pictures from that weekend.

Grandma and Jadyn

Just Chillin

Brothers and their babies



Hanging with cousin Madden

 

Buds!

Sunday Drive

Note: I had to throw that last pic in because its just too cute. That Sunday when we were driving around Jadyn was being so good in her carseat. I found out that having her frog tag along made all the difference. Who would have known all she needed was a little friend and now she does so much better.

Blessing Day

We blessed Jadyn this past Sunday on March 6th.

 It was such an amazing day. Jadyn was a pretty good girl. She started to loose it right before it was time to bless her. Thank goodness for a binkie and for Uncle Scott to keep it in her mouth. :)

Cade is such a good dad and gave such a good blessing. We feel so lucky to have her in our lives!
Thanks to all the family and friends who could make it. We missed the ones that couldn't.
Here are a few pictures (especially for those who think going to Hawaii is more imporatant. Ha!)

5 Months

We seriously LOVE this girl and can't get enough of her.

I can't believe she is already 5 months old. I don't know how much she weighs right now but will find out next week. My guess is a little over 12 lbs.

I have to keep reminding myself that her adjusted age (developmentally) is 3 months. The doctors say I will need to adjust her age until she is about 1 year old since she will be about 2 months behind. I see other 5 month old babies who are so big and who are playing with toys and are so strong. Jadyn is getting there but is still so little for her age but is getting stronger everyday.

Here are some things I want to remember at 5 months:

*She loves to sit in her Bumbo so she can see whats going on.

*She loves her swing. If I can't get her to go to sleep any other way I know if I put her in her swing she will zonk out in a matter of seconds. This is often what she looks like. 

*She absolutely hates the car right now. As soon as you put her in she will scream the whole way until you get her out. So sad. It breaks my heart.

*When she is playing on the floor and there are toys hanging above her, she will get her little arms and legs moving so fast. She kicks likes crazy because she is so excited. She doesn't quite grab the toys yet but will occasionally flail her arm up there and hit them. She recently started blowing bubbles in excitement too. She will focus so hard on the toys and pretty soon she will have a bubble mustache going down each side of her mouth.

*She giggled for the first time last week....So cute. Melt my heart. Wish I would have caught it on camera.

*The fluid in her belly is slowly going down. I can tell a difference lately. This is helping her be more mobile I think. She will occasionally roll on to her side. My niece informed me the other day that she knows Jadyn is not fat... but she looks fat because of the water in her belly. I thought it was funny.

*She finally went to church for the very first time on Sunday. Our doctors told us to keep her home for quite a while because of her premature lungs but we decided it was finally time. She was a good girl and was pretty entertained by books that I brought.

*And finally... something really blog worthy... Ha.....We played outside today for the first time!! So so sad that it has taken this long. I'm really jealous of my Cali peeps who get to play outside everyday and go on walks. Up until today, all Jadyn's outside experiences mainly consisted of be covered in the car seat on the way to the car because it is always freezing or snowing or raining or something. But today it was a whopping 50 degrees so we ventured out. We went on a walk and Jadyn loved swinging with her Momma. It will probably snow tomorrow but we enjoyed the nice day while we could :)

Photo Shoot

We recently did a little 4 month photo shoot with Gianne Snow. 

. Here are a few (ok more like 10) of my favs. Sorry for the picture overload.

Thanks Gianne!

Four Months

Yesterday Jadyn turned 4 months old.

STATS:

• Height: 21 inches
• Weight 11 lbs. 4 oz

We love spending everyday with this love bug!
I think my favorite thing she does right now is when she talks to me. Love those little coos



Smiles

 I am proud to say that Jadyn finally smiles. Jan 10th was her first real big social smile. And she still melts my heart every time. It is the hardest thing to ever capture on the camera. As soon as i bring out the camera she just stares at it forever and wont take her eyes off it. I just happened to catch it twice.

Right now J is a pretty easy baby. She is still on a pretty good schedule: Eats every 3 hours, is awake for about an hour, then sleeps for 2 hours until its time to eat again. ( I contribute some of her sleeping to her anemia). After her noon feeding is when she is the most fun. She likes to talk, smile, and we will play on the floor with toys and do tummy time. She sleeps for about 7 hours at night which is so nice. She seems to be getting so big and I'm happy to announce that the fluid in her belly has gone down quite a bit in the past 2 weeks. It got really big there for a while and our pediatrician was a little concerned that it was getting harder for her to breathe because of the pressure it puts on her lungs. We went to see another GI Dr at Primary Childrens and by that time it had gone down quite a bit. They are not too worried about it. They say it should continue to go down on her own and might take several more months. We continue to do blood work on her, me, Cade and family members to see if we can figure out her diagnosis. But right now she is a happy and seems to be healthy... thankfully!

P.S. I do realize that this is now officially Jadyn's blog. Cade and I are very boring now. Maybe someday we will do something worthy of sharing but as for now Jadyn is much more fun to talk about.

Catching up

So I decided I need to post more pictures of Jadyn since she has been home so I don't forget what shes like when she's little. Most of these pictures are older but hopefully some updated ones will be coming soon.

These are some of the things she loves:

• She loves to cuddle with mom and dad (which I'm told doesn't last too long..sadly)

• Loves bath time!!!

• And doesn't mind too much getting dressed 

(She is definately getting some cheeks on her which make them that more kissable!)

Other things she likes right now:

• Loves to fall asleep on her boppy of all places
• Likes her carseat as long as the car is moving!
• Loves to eat..which is a huge improvement from her hospital days
• Likes to study your face and be more alert at times
• Is begining to like her crib a little bit more even though she has not transitioned to nights in there yet - hopefully we will master that soon