Welcome Baby Julia Kate

It's a GIRL! Our niece Julia Kate Jones was born on January 19, 2010. She weighed 6lbs 13oz (not 8 or 9lbs like the doctors thought) and she was 20inches long. We are all shocked that Jamie and Jerry were able to wait to find out the gender of their baby. Especially Jamie since she will admit that she's the most inpatient person ever! It drove me crazy not knowing but now she is here and big sisters Jenna and Jillian are happy to help cuddle her.

I don't have very many pictures yet because unfortunately I was unable to be there for the birth. I am so sad I missed it but Jorden came down with RSV so I had to stay away. He woke up that morning with a rattling sound in his chest and I knew that wasn't normal and called the Dr. They said to bring him in since he's so young and RSV is common this time of year. So, the plan was to take him to the Dr really quick after taking Jensen to school then go up to the hospital for the birth. Jamie went in at midnight to be induced so I hoped she wouldn't deliver before I could get there. I figured they would tell me Jorden just had a cold but he tested positive for RSV which can be very dangerous for babies, especially newborns so that meant I could not go up to the hospital. I finally got to meet Miss Julia that night after Jeff got home and I put the boys to bed. Jamie had a really easy birth and was able to go home the next day.

Julia Kate looks a lot like her sisters

Caught her with her tongue out!

I think she looks like Jerry in this pic Jorden finally got to meet his new cousin and future playmate. He looks huge next to her but she's a Jones so I'm sure she will be a chunky baby very soon!
3 girls, wow poor Jerry!

We got really lucky and Jorden didn't have very many symptoms of RSV except a little runny nose and a cough a few times a day. We had to give him an inhaler 4 times a day and big brother Jensen enjoyed doing that. I guess Jeff and Jensen had it too because they had coughs and runny noses. I think Jorden is over it now and we are keeping our fingers crossed we all stay well.

January good times

Welcome to 2010! Can you believe it has been 10yrs since everyone was freaking out about Y2K? :-) The holidays seem like they came and went like a flash. There was so much to do and then poof, it was over. We didn't do much on New Year's Eve this year since we have a new baby. My friend had her little boy's 1st birthday party on that evening and that was fun then we came home and went to bed. I was in bed by 10pm which is kind of lame but I value my sleep these days! We had some good family time at the Omniplex on New Year's day. We love it there and can spend all day looking at all the cool science stuff and playing. Our membership really comes in handy. After that, we went along with his parent's, to Jeff's brother's house to play Wii and eat BBQ. It was great family time.

Jorden's first OU outfit handed down from brother- BOOMER SOONER!

Jorden being cute with a Binky in his mouth which is rare- he doesn't care for them much

Jorden being a big boy like brother sitting on the spiderman couch

We got Jensen Sponge Bob jammies for xmas and he wants to wear them everyday. By the way, I like Sponge Bob but it's not educational so Jensen usually only gets to watch it with Daddy every once in a while. I don't like for him to watch too much tv but if he does I at least want him to get something out of it.
I am so excited that you can drive a Segways at the Omniplex and even little kids get to. I have loved these things since I first rode one at Disneyland in 2004. It would be so cool to have one and ride around all the time on it!

Jeff took 2 days off last week since he has vacation time and they are in between busy holidays. We were thinking about driving to Texas to go to Ikea and stay overnight but since our niece or nephew will be born any day, I didn't want to go too far. Thursday Jensen went to school then we took him to Chuck E. Cheese to play. There were only a few people there since it was the middle of a weekday so we got to play the games and had a great time getting 490 tickets. After that, we went to visit Jeff's Grandma Cassie then to dinner at yummy Los Tacos. We had Braum's ice cream on the way home for desert too sheesh! Friday, we got up and went to eat at a teeny tiny diner called Nic's. A coworker of mine took me there years ago and they have huge delicious onion burgers but I had never been there for breakfast. It's a crazy busy place especially since the food channel did a story on it on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives but it wasn't busy at all for breakfast.


Notice a trend of eating out? Yeah Jeff tends to talk me into eating really bad food so I need to get a handle on that or the baby weight is never going to come off! I did work out this week for the first time since I was 3 months pregnant so I hope to do more of that.


After breakfast, we went to Norman to the Sam Noble Natural History Museum. I had taken students there a long time ago and remember it being a little boring but I thought Jensen might like to see the dinosaur bones. He has been getting more interested in dinosaurs lately. Jeff and I were surprised that he seemed to like all of it. He was impressed by the dinosaurs but also really took his time looking at all the exhibits about animals, forests, caves, and pioneers. He made us go in the cave exhibit 3 different times so I think that was his favorite. I was surpised too at how good he was at guessing which animal belonged to the skins they had on display.

The museum had a discovery room with a dinosaur bone dig where you have to wear goggles and dig the dirt away from the bones.

Saturday Jeff was still itching to get out of town and he had been researching places in OK to go and he decided we should go to Lawton to sight see. I was a little sceptical since it was chilly and rainy and we didn't really know what was there. It took us about an hour to get to a town next to Lawton called Medicine Park. They have a quaint little tourist area along a river with different shops and and bridges. Of course its January so there was not a lot going on but we had lunch then Jeff and Jensen walked along the water and over the bridges near the waterfall. I had to stay behind to feed Jorden but they had a good time. We wanted to stop at a well known candy and ice cream shop but were sad they were closed. Next, we went to the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge where they have mountains and free roaming buffalo and long horns. We drove up Mount Scott which is about 2,500ft tall and it had a great view. It was foggy and chilly but the sun came out right before we left and it warmed up some. We looked at the view then Jeff took Jensen to climb on some rocks that were at the very peak. He had been there for a college class years ago and showed Jensen some medallions that were embedded in the rock to mark the height of the mountain. Jensen absolutely loved climbing up the rocks and was a little too brave at times but it made my heart smile to see them having such a great time. I climbed around some but mostly stayed with Jorden who was in the stroller. Jensen was busy being a billy goat and didn't want to leave. We came down the mountain and went to the visitor's center which was new and very nice. They had lots of hands-on exhibits about the wildlife. There was a dark room that had recordings of different nocturnal animals and you had to guess the animal. Jensen got a kick out of that and went in twice.

Jeff and Jensen on Mt. Scott in Lawton, OK

Jeff and Jensen at the very peakOur little billy goat climbed out on to some big rocks

Being deer at the visitor's center

We have really enjoyed having so much family time lately. The last year and a half was filled with never ending home improvement projects so we never felt like we had time to do anything fun. We still have lots to do on the new house but we are not in any hurry so we are living life again.

I told Jeff that while I like all this family time, I miss my friends! After we got home from Lawton I was able to meet some of my girlfriends in Norman at the Mont. It was a good turnout with about 10 of us being able to make it. Since Jorden is sleeping through the night now, I can do stuff again and it feels so good to join the land of the living! Jeff is great too about taking good care of both boys and getting them to bed easily..

A few of the girls- Bec, Stephanie, Me and Crystal

Yippee for sleep!!

We moved Jorden to his own room a few weeks ago and it would have been sooner but.....

1. I was waiting for him to go more than 4hrs between feedings
2. We hadn't gotten around to setting up his crib.
3. We have a brand new baby monitor but Jensen lost the base to it somewhere in the house

Well we finally got the crib set up and we borrowed a monitor until we could find ours. Right away he started going longer between feedings. First it was five hours, then six hours then less than a week later he went 11hrs WOOHOO!! I guess being in his own room really helped and I was thrilled to have some much needed sleep after 2.5 months of only getting 2 or 3 hours at a time. I hoped it wasn't a fluke but its been a week now and he has been sleeping from about 8pm to 7am every night.

He even got to spend the night at Mimi's house last weekend. Jeff and I went to his work holiday party and left the kids with Mimi with the plan to pick Jorden up after. He was alseep when we got out though and there was no sense in waking the whole house so we left him there. He ended up sleeping until about 6:30am and Mimi fed him a bottle when he woke up. We are so proud of him for being a big boy!

So, I've been much more rested this week and feel like I have my life back. I even got to go to Mom's night out with the new MOMS Club I joined and I didn't have to worry since Jeff put the boys to bed. Oh and we found the monitor in a very weird place just like I figured would happen!