7 months and on the move!

Jaycee's favorite thing this month is to pull herself up to everything and she started walking along the couch! She is still unsure of herself, but she is a little daredevil, so I expect her to try things as early as possible!! The same day she started walking along the couch she said "Dada" for the first time and then almost a week later actually said "Mama" like she was talking to me not like she was going mamamamamamamamama just to hear the sound of her voice! We had to put a big dinosaur toy in front of the dvd player and stuff in the living room and she is learning the meaning of no! I am so glad she's such a good girl and catches on fast cause disipline is not my favorite aspect of parenting, but I am firm with her and she really does know what no means! Just before her 8 month mark, she started standing on her own! Only for a couple of seconds, but she is not afraid to try new things! She is becoming more independent and can play in the living room for about 2 min while I am in the kitchen before coming to find me! She is my little buddy!

Our Jaycee Boo is 6 Whole Months!!

She is growing so much!

~She loves her See-n-say!
~She loves it when Mommy sings Primary songs, Itsy-Bitsy Spider and finally Patty Cake!
~She had meat for the first time and actually liked it!
~She started waving her arms around all over the place and inspecting her hands! It's so cute to watch her learn what she can do with this newly acquired human body!
~She reached for me the first time and I of course was in tears I was so excited!
~She got her first tooth! FINALLY!
~Because of this, she is not sleeping through the night like she had been!
~She learned to pull herself up to the furniture and she thinks she's so big!!

I can't believe she has been in our lives for a whole six months! It's incredible to me that we ever even lived without her! I am so grateful she is mine for eternity!!

5 months and a lot of firsts!

(Once again, pictures will come later!)

There were lots of first this month so I am just going to make a list!(Once again from the calendar!)

~Her first fourth of July was pretty uneventful! Daddy had to work and she slept right through the fireworks we did get to see!
~Jaycee went on her first camping trip! It was at Timid Springs up Beaver Mountain for the Ipson family reunion.
~Jaycee got to go to her first funeral! Her Grandpa Great Henrie passed away after having a stroke 4 days earlier while we were at the Ipson reunion.
~While we were in Las Vegas, she sat alone and grabbed Mama's face and gave her a kiss, without me asking for one! SOOOOOO CUTE! And at this emotional time it was so healing!
~First time being away from Daddy for more than just a day while he was at work! After my grandpa had his stroke, Tom had to go back to work, but I really felt like I wanted to be with my family when he passed away! I am so glad I was! What a spiritual experience! Jaycee had to stay with Mama and Daddy was not happy about this! Mama and Daddy both cried as Daddy pulled away and for a lot of the rest of the week! Mama missed Daddy terribly and wanted the comfort that only he could give at this very emotional time! Also she felt so bad that Daddy wasn't there to see his "Boo" everyday! Daddy cried cause he missed us and didn't want us to have to go through this alone! The reunion at Buckhorn was very sweet!
~She had eaten her first food last month, but this month she was learning all about more vegetables, and then started learning about fruit! She is very good at eating her veggies still even though she has tried the sweet!
~She went to the ER for the first time! She had a cough for about a week but one night when she was eating her food, she was gasping for air. It scared Tom and I really bad! We got to the ER and she didn't cough once, which frustrated me at first, but then I remembered Tom had given her a Priesthood blessing before we left the house and it made her all better! Boy are we grateful for the Priesthood and a Daddy who is worthy to give us blessings!!
~We went to the Henrie reunion for the first time at the Johnson Oak Ranch! It was a blast! We were so grateful to be together as a family, but we were sure missing our Grandpa!! Jaycee got to go on her first 4 wheeler ride!
~The day before she turned 6 months old she started crawling in the mother's room at church!
~She is still exploring her voice!
~She is scooting everywhere!

3 months and Mother's Day

Well, I am a little bummed, cause I was going to sit down and do a post about every month, which I still intend to do, but I wanted to put pics with each, but the only way to get a pic on this computer is to copy it from Facebook, which it is not letting me do right now, so I will have to come back and post the pics later, but I have waited far too long for this to make me quit! Yes I had to get out her baby calendar to remember all this stuff!

Jaycee is getting bigger everyday! She is growing and changing so much! She is loving to watch the colors on TV and she is grabbing objects! She grabbed her toy keys before she was 2 months old, but is now grabbing all sorts of things! Mommy finally got her first smile on camera! It is adorable! Jaycee is now sleeping in her own room in her big girl crib! We took her to the park for the first time and she took to grass quite a bit better than I did when I was that age! She is holding her bottle on her own now, which freaks mommy out a bit cause she is just getting too big!! The big news for this month is that she rolled over on her own! She is getting so big and strong! I love my little girl so much!

A Mommy milestone this month was that I celebrated my first Mother's Day as a mother! It was awesome! Tom and Jaycee got me a stroller that I have been wanting and Tom got me a bracelet and some earings! We got to spend the night before at Nana Hughes' and go to church with her! It was definitely a day of contemplation! I couldn't believe how incredibly blessed I was! Tom and Jaycee are my whole world and I couldn't be happier!!

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The Plan of Salvation

Wow, it always is way too long between posts! Well, we have had an interesting couple weeks! On July 8 we were so excited, getting ready to go to the Ipson reunion up Beaver Mountain to a place called Timid Springs. I was excited to go for a few reasons! I LOVE to camp and I was excited to share that love with Jaycee! I love camping food and was excited to make it! I also love Tom's family! My parents have always taught me that when you are sealed to your spouse, you are sealed to their family, so you better like the family! I have to tell you that I have 2 great families now! I felt in a funk though all day that Thursday but I thought it was just the stress of getting everything ready. We got to the camp and got to bed around 3 or 4 on Friday morning. The next morning I woke up and was still feeling weird, and still couldn't figure out why. Around noon our time Jaycee just started to cry and get really fussy. I was sad and a little embarrassed cause she is never like this and I wanted the family to see what a good baby she is! I am even more embarrassed about how prideful that is. Well, we thought maybe she had a tummy ache cause she got some formula she isn't used to the night before. So I tried to rub her belly to get the gas out. She didn't feel gassy, so I didn't know what was wrong! Our little family all decided to take a nap since we didn't get much sleep the night before. All of Tom's cousins went out shooting, something that he LOVES to do! He felt like he needed to stay with us though! I felt bad but it was so nice to lay next to him and just get some rest! Later that evening Tom wanted to show his cousin DJ something on his phone. So he turned it on and noticed that he had a voicemail but he couldn't check it cause there was no service. All of the sudden a text message from my brother came through. It said something like, "Grandpa Henrie has had a stroke and is not doing well. Call us when you get this!" I was walking across the camp toward Tom and he said, "Nat, your grandpa had a stroke!" I didn't need to hear anymore. For some reason I knew it was bad, and the reason for my funk all became clear! I kindof fell on the ground and started bawling! My cousin Bree all the sudden noticed what was going on and she ran over to me and asked what was going on, I blurted out something about my grandpa having a stroke and she tried to comfort me saying something like let's figure out what's going on and people recover from these all the time but something inside me told me that he wasn't going to get better. All I can remember is saying no, no! Tom came and just held me, and I told him, "We need to leave right now! We need to get to Vegas!" DJ let us use his truck to go get service to find out what was going on. I called my poor mom who had been trying to get a hold of me all afternoon! She said that 11:00 that morning (12:00 our time, right when Jaycee started getting fussy!) Grandma called and asked if my dad was there and that there was something wrong with grandpa. My parents got there and my dad knew he had a stroke and called 911. They had done the CT by the time my parents and grandma got to the hospital. The prognosis was not good! It was not a clot stroke that they can fix within 3 hrs, it was a hemorrhagic kind where he was bleeding and all they could do was do surgery to drain his head, but he would never walk or talk again! He would not have wanted that! So they decided to take him home on hospice. They said he had anywhere from 2 hrs to a week and he would pass away! At this point I was in shock! This couldn't be real! Linda let us take her car and Tom and his cousins packed it as fast as possible and we were on our way to Vegas at 10 pm. Good thing Tom could drive cause I was kindof a wreck! Thank goodness he took a nap instead of going shooting! We got there at about 1 am Vegas time. Grandpa wasn't responsive really, but he did squeeze mine and Jaycee's hands! That was a sweet experience! Most of the family got there by Saturday night. The next few days were a blur filled with both laughter and tears, but no sleep! There were many times we thought it was close and we would all gather reverently for the impending Spiritual event. The Spirit was truly strong in my grandparents house! The angels were close! On Tuesday my Aunt's family got there. They were the only ones left in the family that were planning on coming, to get there. My cousin's husband and 3 year old were truly missed. Well, Grandpa waited for Uncle Jeremy and the kids to get there and then passed peacefully with the whole family standing by! Once again, a very Spiritual experience! The funeral and burial were hard but good! All of the people who came showed just what a great man my Grandpa is! I am glad to call him mine! There has been so much support freom people I have never met as well as friends and family! I am so grateful for all your prayers andam grateful for all the little things people have done like Bree coming to the burial! I was sad that Tom had to come back home on Monday and wasn't able to be there for the funeral! I was so glad he could come be my support person and shoulder to cry on for the burial. He is my rock! Every time I think about Grandpa being gone, it still doesn't seem real, although I know it is. I am so grateful for his service throughout his life. When he died he was the first counselor in the Las Vegas Temple Presidency. Those days they spent there were long and hard but he and Grandma wanted to serve! I miss my Grandpa but am comforted in the knowledge that I will see him again! I am so grateful for the Plan that allows me to be with my family forever!