1st hair cut

We finally got Jenna's hair cut this weekend. She had quite a few wispy's in her face so it was definitely time! She did really well. We had her sit on Mommy's lap while Daddy snapped some pictures. We made it through the cut without any crying or fits - woo hoo!

Columbus Zoo

Last Saturday our ABF (Adult Bible Fellowship/Sunday School) group from church went to the Columbus Zoo. This was Jenna's first trip to the zoo. We've been looking at animal books and she recognizes some animals. Most animals she ends up calling "dah" or "dada", which means dog. She also can say fish (pronounced "ish") and bird (pronounced "buh").

Here's Jenna and Bailey sitting on the front porch swing before we left our house.

Mommy and Jenna at the entrance to the zoo

Daddy and Jenna petting a goat in the petting zoo section

Yes, Jenna did try to kiss the goat. Thankfully Mommy was there to stop her!

Feeding the goat cardboard, although the goat was not interested

Jenna was way too interested in the bear to pose for a picture

Daddy and Jenna posing in front of a moose who refused to turn around for the picture.

Beautiful bald eagles!

Jenna saying hi to one of the animal "mascots" there

The rhino got pretty close to us, which Jenna enjoyed!

Daddy, Jenna, a mommy elephant, and her baby elephant (although the baby elephant is hiding).

The monkeys are always so entertaining to watch. They were running and jumping all over the place. There were 2 in particular who kept "fighting" one another. Jenna enjoyed watching them for a little bit, but soon lost interest.

In the aquarium, a sea turtle came right up near Jenna and munched on some lettuce.

Sting rays and/or manta rays (anyone know the difference between the two??)

Daddy, Mommy, and Jenna at the end of our zoo trip. It was such a fun day!

Happy Easter

This was the first Easter that we got Jenna an Easter basket. Since she was only 2 months old last year, we decided to hold off until this year.

I'm not sure if she's quite awake in this picture...

We "hid" her basket and (with a little bit of help) she found it behind the rocking chair.

After church, we went over to my parents house for lunch with family. I brought along 6 plastic eggs so we could have an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. I wasn't sure how Jenna would do, but I was surprised. She did a good job of finding the eggs (which of course were hidden in plain view). She was fascinated with opening them to find out what was inside. Since I don't really want her eating a bunch of candy and since she still isn't able to eat candy on her own, I put a coin in each egg not thinking she'd be able to open them. She surprised me!

Behind my parents house there were some beautiful daffodils. We tried to show Jenna how to sniff the flowers. She didn't quite get the concept, but she tried.

Easter Train Ride

I'm a little late posting Jenna's train ride, but for good reason. Drew took Thursday and Friday off this past week so we could do some MAJOR overhauling/rearranging in the house in anticipation of Baby #2's arrival. We bought a new desk and hutch for the kitchen area because the desk we had in there was way too big for the spot, so we assembled the desk, moved the "old" desk down to the basement to use in my scrapbooking area, and moved the desk that was down in the basement up to the garage to sell in our garage sale this summer. We then moved the queen bed in the guest bedroom to the main floor and were planning on moving it on down to the basement when we realized we couldn't fit the box spring down there. When you go down our stairs there's about 3 feet at the bottom before you "hit" the wall and then it splits into two separate rooms. Well, we can't make the turn at the bottom and the ceiling isn't high enough to stand the box spring up to scoot it around the corner so they're now in the garage too. Then we moved a bookshelf and filing cabinet from one side of the basement to the other, and moved a dresser, TV, and TV stand from the upstairs guest bedroom down to the basement. I'll use the dresser in my craft room, but we're still trying to figure out what to do with the TV and stand. We then moved the baby's dresser, changing table, crib, and glider rocker and ottoman up from the basement to the baby's room. Keep in mind in the midst of all this there was complete and utter chaos and disorganization as we're rearranging everything. We have the main floor and the baby's room in decent order, but the basement is another story. That'll probably be my project over the next few weeks. We owe a HUGE thank you to my mom for watching Jenna all day Thursday and Friday while we did this!! There's no way we could have accomplished everything we did with a little toddler running around. Thanks Mom!

Now on to the Easter train ride...some church friends of ours told us about a train ride for kids in a local mall over the Easter holiday. It's only $1 for kids to ride so we thought we'd check it out. Jenna LOVED watching the train go 'round and 'round. She'd just stand there and peer through the gate at it. I decided to ride the train with her because I don't think she's old enough to understand that she needs to sit down. I could see her standing up trying to get off in the middle of it. I have to admit I felt a little silly riding the little train, but that's what Mommies do...silly things to make their kids happy! :)




We went to see the Easter Bunny while we were at the mall, but just couldn't bring ourselves to spend $17 on a few pics of Jenna with the bunny. So we cheated and just took a few pics with the bunny in the background.


I think Jenna had had enough picture taking at this point...



And then Daddy wanted to show Jenna the cool gumball machine. Too bad Jenna couldn't eat the gum afterwards. Poor girl!


Here's a short video of Jenna and Mommy riding the train...