Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Grossest Blog Yet

About two weeks ago, Jaycee dropped the baby gate on her big toe. She cried and cried. . . Nothing too out of the ordinary for that type of injury, but she wouldn't stop for quite some time. I actually thought she'd broken her toe at some point until I looked and saw a wiggle or two. A few hours after the incident, Jaycee Lynn would not stop complaining and whining about her toe. Sure enough, there was a blue bruise (a little hard to tell because of the purple nail polish). It started to swell, and swell, and swell.

Then, the night we were on the dinner cruise in San Diego, Jaycee was wearing her fancy evening sandals. While dancing around, she tripped and smashed the front of her toe. She cried and cried. Then she told me she felt better (there was blood and puss everywhere by the point). She had managed to pop the pressurized toe and get some relief. And so, over the last few weeks, the toenail has slowly but surely been peeling it's way off it's original location. These pictures are from today. Quite the progress! And it will grow back. There is a healthy little nail underneath this hideous one. Poor Jaycee :(



Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Jayden's 4 Month Check-up


Jayden's stats for her four month check-up:
Weight: 14.10 pounds (50% percentile)
Length: 26 inches (95% percentile)
Head Circumference: 16.25 inches (50% percentile)

To compare Jaycee and Jayden's length, Jaycee was 26 inches at her 6 month check-up. We're not sure where Jayden gets her length, but she is one LONG baby girl!


Saturday, April 24, 2010

We've been busy. . .

We have been so busy these past few weeks! Back to school after spring break, our family visiting from England (then getting stuck in California for an extra week because of Iceland's volcano), Josh in school and working, etc, etc, etc. Life goes by way too fast. Luckily in the mix of everything we've gotten a few good pics of the girlies.

A serious picture of Jaycee Lynn on our dinner cruise in San Diego.


Jayden before her very first cereal eating experience. A happy girl in her big girl high chair.



And the cereal tasting begins. . .

The "what Jayden thought of it" face. She actually didn't mind it at all. She's got such a go-with-the-flow type of personality. She is a doll!


How cute are those eyebrows?!



Thursday, April 08, 2010

A Day at the Wild Animal Park

We had a few hours this afternoon and spent it at the Wild Animal Park. It was a beautiful day with perfect weather. Jaycee got to visit the gorillas, the elephants, and the "park" (aka the kids' play area).

A cute short story:
We were looking in a gift shop, contemplating buying an overpriced little toy for Jaycee. She found little toy animals. I said "Oh, look at the monkey." To which Jaycee replied, "No unkey, gorilla." Ah, yes, she was right. Gorillas and monkeys are different animals. Duh Mama!












Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Whale Watching

We went whale watching today in Dana Point, CA. Unfortunately, we did not see any whales, but did see a few pods of dolphins (some common and bottle nose). To make a long story short, Mama and Jayden are the only ones that made it though the day without feeling the motion sickness part. There was no barfing, but there were some upset stomaches and sadness midway though the boating trip (i.e. Dada and Jaycee). And poor Jaycee, she didn't do too well on the winding road over from our side of the mountain either. Two bad motion sickness trips back to back. . . but we all survived and without a change of clothes! Yeah, we might have pushed it a little, but we did get some great pictures.










Monday, April 05, 2010

Easter 2010

We had a wonderful Easter morning with lots of treats and smiles.








Easter Day Plateau Walk

Easter afternoon we decided to go on a hike to the Plateau. We visited the Vernal Pools (which were full of water snakes, eeww!). Here are some of the pics from our day!

Dave & Taylor


The Becerra Bunch


One of Dave's masterpieces


A cute picture, that Tay snuck up on! We had no idea she was behind us until we saw the picture at home!


Jaycee and her Dada


Another nature shot from Dave


The best picture we could get, despite the wind.



Dave's pose of strength


Jaycee with Mama


Dave with Oma Inge (and it was her birthday too!)

Thursday, April 01, 2010

OMG- Our camera is here!

We finally got our new camera; hence the wonderful pictures!