Jade playing with her toys in her little "toy box".
December 3
Jade started learning how to feed herself with a spoon. We noticed that she would eat better if she can control the spoon. She's not very good yet.
December 4th we noticed that Jade had her first tooth. It's her lower right incisor. She's been sick for the last two weeks with a runny nose, low grade fever, occasional diarrhea and then for the past two days she started getting a barky cough (which I was worried would turn into croup). But luckily she's been okay and getting better now that her tooth is poking through. I first noticed it because she was chomping down really hard on a toy and making it squeak. She chomped on it for a good two hours while Mom Gunn and I were shopping at JCPennies. She's super funny to watch because she seems so intrigued with it and runs her tongue along the rough edges. So she's constantly making funny faces.
Trying to get Jade to open her mouth so we can take a picture of her first tooth. As you can tell she didn't want to cooperate.
December 5
Jade, Ethan and Boston at the Gateway mall. We tried to go see Santa but missed him by thirty minutes. We went out to dinner instead. This is Jade hating her pink snowsuit.
December 6 th Austin and Erica watched Jade for the first time while Aaron and I went to my ER Christmas Party. I think they were a little tired by the time we got home, not because Jade was so crazy but because they drove themselves crazy worrying about her. Austin said that once she went to bed, he checked on her at least once every thirty minutes because he was afraid she would stop breathing. Funny kid. He sure has a lot to learn before he has his own.
Hudson, his date and Aaron cutting a rug at the JVH Christmas Party at the Ecceles Stadium.
On December 8th Jade tried to army crawl for the first time. We have our little Christmas tree up and around it we have a small old train that used to be my parents growing up. Jade is just fascinated by it and we were able to catch her on film trying to get the train car. She doesn't go very far but with some practice she will definately get better. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. I've really liked the "Paperweight" stage were I can just sit her in the middle of the floor and she keeps herself entertained. Now that she gets the hang of crawling she will be all over everything.
Jade and I hamming for the camera. This was right after she army crawled for the first time.
This is what I affectionately call the baby "paperweight" stage. I love that she would just sit in front of her little "toybox" and play and watch everyone around her. I miss those times.
December 9
Jade and Libby smooching.
Decemeber 11 Austin and Mara gave us extra tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Program. They even offered to watch Jade. The program was lovely and it was so nice to go out together without Jade. When we picked up Jade, Austin and Mara's first comments were about how well she did. They said she was super easy to watch and that she was very good natured. They loved having her over. Good for her. She gets that good disposition from her laid-back dad.
December 12 Jade sprouted yet another tooth. Now its the left lower incisor. Mom Gunn was the one that found it. She was busy babysitting Jade, (yes, we do take care of our own kid. December has just been a busy month :)) while we went to Aaron's Xango Christmas party at The Grand America. Unfortunately we didn't win anything at the party and it snowed so much we thought we were going to be stuck there all night.
December 14
This is the Cousin's Christmas Photo. Grandma Ro bought cute dresses for the girls and ties for the guys for Christmas. So we decided to all get together and try to take a cousin picture. It didn't turn out very well. Out of a gazillion pictures, this is the only good one that I was able to get.
This is Jade in her cute Christmas dress from Grandma Ro in front of the Sorensen tree.
Jade watching the train going around the tree. Very exciting!
December 15 Jade stood for the first time. She doesn't seem to really like it very much. I think she's nervous about doing it because when she gets up, holding onto our fingers in a death grip, she grunts a lot and then quickly sits down. Actually maybe it's cause her chubby little legs aren't strong enough to handle the weight yet. She's really starting to get around with her little army crawl. She's discovered the new freedom and really likes it.
Jade standing at the railing all by herself. She was so nervous she kept grunting but couldn't figure out how to sit down by herself.
December 18
Dad Gunn with the Elementary kids from Redwood Elementary. For the last three years we have given them a Christmas party as a service project.
Here's the kids opening one of their many presents they got that day. Many of these kids come from disfunctional families that don't have the means of providing a Christmas.
December 19 Jade has discovered that she can talk. She babbles a lot but today she woke up saying Ga-Ga. By the end of the day it had turned into more of a Da-Da. However I'm not officially marking it as her first word. I think she just got lucky. Besides, I'm holding out for Ma-Ma to be her first word. :)
December 20 I found out that I'm pregnant. I don't know how that could have happened because we weren't planning on it and we've been very careful...if you know what I mean ;). But I am. I'm not super excited to be quite honest. This means that Jade will only be 15 months old when the little tyke is born. That is insane. About as insane as my mother was having Austin and Hudson 14.5 months apart. I ad an ultrasound done today while I was working. Amanda, the amazing ultrasound tech, could see a sac but not a heart beat. But she said not to worry only because I'm so early in finding out. I'm only 5 weeks along and that could be too early to hear one yet. So we will see I guess.
December 21 we had the Christmas Boot Party over at Grandma Bills house. Yet again it was a very nice evening. Grandma did a great job and preparing the food and having fun games and great presents for the boot. Jade, of course, was the life of the party. We've noticed that the more active Jade becomes, the less interactive we become with eachother and the more inthralled we become with Jade. While at Grandma's house, Jade actually took two little crawling steps up on her hands and knees. Dad Gunn was able to get it on his video camera. Cute little thing. December 22 we had a tender mercy moment today. Aaron has the last two weeks before New Years off from work. He had extra vacation time that he needed to use before they expired so he decided to go to Gordon's and install a new furnace in his house. To pay Aaron, Gordon just happened to have 8 new tires that would fit both of our vehicles. And randomly, both of our cars needed new tires badly or we wouldn't make it through the winter. We had discussed earlier the situation and realized that with Christmas coming on we really didn't have the money to replace all eight tires. But then Gordon offered to give us the tires in exchange for Aaron's work. It worked out perfectly.
December 24-Jade's first Christmas Eve. This is the first Christmas Eve that I have spent with my family in ages. I work every Christmas Eve so that I can have Christmas Day off. But this year I worked the last part of the Christmas Day schedule. So we were able to attend the annual Gunn Family Christmas Eve party. Dad Gunn was in charge of the festivites that night. He did a great job and we had a lot of fun but I think Jade was a little overwhelmed with the amount of people there. It would get really loud at times and it would scare her to the point of crying. Poor thing. It didn't help that we didn't get home until 2am because it snowed so much we had to travel 25 mph all the way home.
December 25-Jade's first Christmas Morning. We left super early through a blizzard to get to the Sorensen's so we could open presents. Jade is still too young to understand the concept of opening presents and being excited but she did like to play with the empty boxes and sit on the presents. She was super cute in her red christmas pj's and hair bow. Then be battled the storm and went to my parent's house to open presents with them. After opening presents with them we drove back up to the Sorensen's so that we could talk to Aaron's little brother, Tyler, who is on his mission in Sacramento, California. We have lots of video of the occasion if you ever want to check it out. We also having video of telling both sets of parents that we are expecting another baby. They were in shock but totally excited. After an exhausting day, I headed off to work for the the next 12 hours and had one of the busiest nights yet. It was so crazy with the snow and we were super overwhelmed. Not a great night.
December 26
Aaron and I sledding behind Dad Gunn's Trooper.
December 28 we got our taste of what church will be like in the months to come. Now that Jade has discovered that she can babble, that's all she did during sacrament meeting. That and blow loud raspberries at people behind her. She also let out a really loud burp today right as the sacrament was being passed and it was at it's quietest. So embarrassing but several people behind us laughed and thought it was adorable.
December 30 Jade gives open mouthed smooches. You ask her to give you a smooch and she opens her mouth wide and plants one straight on your mouth. It's gross but so cute. She also is standing for longer periods of time. The two big presents we got her enable her to stand up while holding on. She also sounds like she is saying the word Kitty when Huey or Addy walk by. It's more of a "Kit" sound but she says it everytime one of the cats meander by.
December 31-Jade's first New Year's Eve party. We went up to Midway and stayed at Inn By The Creek. We dressed Jade in her hot pink fuzzy snowsuit and took her sledding for the first time. She didn't like the suit very much so she didn't really have a good time. I think it's cause she can't really move. She looks like the kid from A Christmas Story in the snowsuit. Jade fell asleep before the new year. I didn't really let her stay up though. We tried to go to the hot pots again this year but we discovered that there were naked European men bathing in the hot pots. So we left before Cierra and Paige got a quick Birds and the Bees lesson. We ended the night with a funny show from Dad Gunn playing Wii fitness. He was so funny to watch doing yoga. Happy New Year!
Our exciting New Year's Eve party. Jade is standing holding on to her little giraffe.
We affectionately call the this photo "Frosty the Snowman". I love this picture of Dad Gunn right after being the lead tube while sledding on New Years.
All of us at the bottom of the sled track after one of our adventurous runs.
After sledding we decided to stick our feet in the bathtub instead of going to the hot springs. Too many naked Europeans. This worked out just fine. A little squishy but beggars can't be choosers.
This is Jade while sledding in her cute fluffy pink snow suit. She hated it.
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