Bath Time

Tonight's bath was way too easy! Jenna had been asleep for a few hours and I woke her up to nurse, then decided to give her a bath. Normally here's how a bath goes...
1a. Aaron gets baby naked and wrapped in towel
1b. Julie starts running bath water and filling the tub
2. Baby cries because even though she's wrapped in a towel and being held by her very warm-blooded father, she's cold
3. Julie and Aaron make sure water temp is ok
4. Cries turn to screams...loud screams
5. Aaron puts baby in tub in her towel so she doesn't have to feel the tub which seems to bother her...nonetheless, screams get louder
6. Julie lathers baby while Aaron uses the baby tub shower head in an attempt to keep baby warm or distracted (yes the tub has a sprayer)
7. Julie cleans baby as fast as possible while Aaron sprays the soap off as quickly as possible...mom and dad have joined in the screaming at this point
8. Aaron whisks baby away to her room in a fresh towel, puts a diaper and clothes on her as soon as possible (she continues to scream nonstop).
9. Julie cleans out tub while Aaron is dressing baby
10. Baby falls asleep out of exhaustion from screaming, then wakes up again after she's been in bed just long enough for Aaron and Julie to settle into a TV show. We think she may be having a bath-related nightmare.
11. Baby finally stays asleep.
Here's how tonight's bath went:
1. Julie undressed Jenna and wrapped her in a towel.
2. Jenna grins and snuggles
3. Julie lays Jenna down on the bathroom rug and fills the tub...Jenna coos and watches
4. Julie puts Jenna in the tub
5. Jenna laughs
6. Julie washes and rinses Jenna
7. Julie takes Jenna out of the tub and dries her off
8. Jenna makes a bunch of cute sounds
9. Julie dresses Jenna for bed
10. Julie reads a story to Jenna
11. Julie puts Jenna in her crib for the night, even though she is awake
12. Jenna goes to sleep.
Way too easy! Oh and no, I don't think it has anything to do with Aaron not helping with her bath tonight! :)
We took this picture of her before a bath last week. We'd put her on the bath mat while the tub was filling and next thing we knew, she'd put her arms behind her head. It was hilarious! Unfortunately the bath itself wasn't so hilarious and ended up being more along the lines of the first scenario described above.

My 11 Week Old Baby!

Jenna is 11 weeks old now! I took her 11 week picture a couple days early - on Valentine's Day. Grandma Brull gave her this BIG teddy bear for Vday and Jenna loved it. Check out the super cute picture we captured!

On a sadder note, we had to say bye to my brother (aka Uncle Brad). :( He left today for his year long journey to South Korea to teach English. His adventure sounds like it will be a lot of fun, but we already miss him! I bet my parents never thought they'd hear that!

Back to happy times! WE SOLD OUR HOUSE! We actually sold it a couple weeks ago, but for some reason I've been superstitious and not wanted to post about it. I've since realized that is silly, so I'm posting! We only had the house on the market for 15 days before we got the contract ironed out! How amazing in these times that we had such good luck. Unfortunately the house we were really wanting to buy (the whole motivation for putting the house on the market) was already sold. We had been looking around at other options and I stumbled across a home For Sale By Owner. We dropped by one afternoon to look at it and fell in love with it and as soon as we got the contract worked out on our house, we put in an offer on the other house and it was accepted. Who hoo! It is a 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 3 car garage, 3.5 bathrooms, fenced yard, upper level laundry, kitchen island, whirlpool tub, and a basement that is studded and has electrical and most of the equipment needed for a bathroom. It was almost exactly what we've been loooking for and definitely gives us a house we can grow into. It is located in south Olathe and we are really sad to be leaving Spring Hill, but it is a great house and we think it is the place for us for a very long time. We are scheduled to move March 12th, so anyone not working that day is more than welcome to come by and help us move. ;0 J/K

Back to Princess J. She's gotten very vocal this week and has started squealing and laughing, especially at Dad and her toys. She's also starting to really get into a schedule. She's been falling asleep between 6 and 6:30pm. We will wake her up for one more feeding usually between 8 and 9, then put her to bed. She then sleeps and gets up at 7:45 am on the dot. While I would much rather it be 8:45 am, it is probably good for me to get back into the habit of getting up earlier because I go back to work on Monday!