I've read many e-mails about "saving" the favorite china or that special dress for a certain occasion and sometimes that occasion never comes. I didn't want that to happen with this beautiful quilt that my Grandma gave us, so we are going to enjoy it. I must say I love the colors in it and it really brightens up our room! Thanks Gram :)
Last night we enjoyed Christmas Eve with Jack's family. We had a wonderful dinner and enjoyed opening gifts and getting to see everyone. 
When we got home from the Burns' Christmas it was time to get ready for Santa to come and visit...we put out cookies and drinks for Santa. As you can see our Santa is very thirsty!
Finally, today we enjoyed a day of family time here at our house. Jack helped Jentry open her gifts this morning while I took pictures and then she spent the day playing with her new toys. Jack and I enjoyed Chinese food for lunch and got lots of stuff done around our house...7 loads of laundry and 15 ironed shirts later and we are packed and ready to head to Mimi and Pop's house tomorrow to enjoy Christmas with my family.
Just posing like a supermodel in my mini skirt, pink tights, and kickin' boots! My mommy knows how to make me look super cute :) Thanks, Mommy!
At the dryer working on kneeling...
Got them...now to get back off of my knees....
Good thing I've got this diaper on to soften my fall! Hey Dada...next time how about you help me out instead of taking pictures of me??!!??
At home, all ready to leave for the hospital.
Daddy with Jentry right after recovery...this picture was actually taken in the dark and Jentry's face is very red, she was MAD when she came out of recovery.
Mommy and Jentry after her nap on Daddy's chest. 
Jentry at home playing as if nothing happened to her today!
Just a quick post to ask for your prayers for Jentry. She has a simple ear surgery on Wednesday but they've forewarned us that she may need to stay for 23 hours because she is a preemie, has a heart condition, and is under a year old. I'm concerned about what should be a 15 minute surgery...I know that tons and tons...millions and millions of children, if you will...have had tubes inserted into their ears...but none of those was my precious Jentry so I feel like I'm allowed to worry about her. Anyhow, by the time you wake up on Wednesday (Except you Aunt Kathy) Jentry should already be out of surgery. Do our family a favor and send up a little prayer for her before you retire on Tuesday night and I'll post as soon as I can after surgery is over to let our readers know of the outcome!
We are pretty sure Jentry is thankful for Baby Tad who helps her fall asleep...along with many other things...this just happens to be one of the sweetest pictures we've captured of her in a while! She was tired after enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with the Burns' clan :)
Apparently she is also thankful that her living room is full of places for her to explore, she has found a few of them. Here is a picture of her getting into one of the cabinets of the entertainment center...oh boy...I guess we need to "crawler" proof this place :) Doesn't she look so sweet and innocent?
On Sunday a co-worker of mine came over to our house and took Jentry's Christmas pictures. Well, the ones I want to use for our Christmas cards this year at least...needless to say Mary took beautiful pictures of Jentry and now I'm having a hard time choosing which ones I like best to use for the card...ugh! Anyhow, here are just a few of them to wet your tongue...I don't want you to see them all or our cards wouldn't be any fun :) Enjoy these awesome pictures taken by Mary. If you would like to use her check out her website www.wix.com/maryrager/photography and tell her The J Squad sent you :) Ok, enough chatter, here are a few of the pictures!
NINE MONTHS...can you believe it's been NINE MONTHS since Jentry was born? I can't believe it! We had her NINE MONTH doctor appointment with Dr. Miller today and Jentry weighs 15 pounds 15 ounces...she is one ounce from 16 pounds! Still only the 10th percentile for weight...but at one point in her life she wasn't even on the growth chart. I'm so happy with her growth...remember she weighed a mere 5 pounds 2.9 ounces when she was born...so she has gained 10 pounds and 12 ounces since she was born NINE MONTHS ago! She is getting to be such a big girl! This month she started to reach for her Mommy and Daddy when she wants to be picked up, the Jumperoo is on the final setting and she is quickly becoming too tall for that toy, we've retired the swing and Bumbo seat, in fact at school Miss Monica and Miss Sam said that she just crawls right out of the Bumbo! Silly girl :) Jentry gets up on all fours and will rock back and forth...she crawls err scoots backwards and then hollers when she gets stuck and can't move anymore. She is so silly, Jack and I enjoy EVERY minute we get to spend with our Princess. Jentry also knows how to hold her own bottle however, she is too lazy to do so and she knows Mommy or Daddy will hold it for her so she won't hold it for herself! Jentry still doesn't have any teeth but I just know they are coming...she chews on everything! In fact we had to go shoe shopping again because she has learned to take off her shoes. They had velcro and as soon as you put them on her she would take them off and chew on the velcro. So we bought her some gold Robeez...she hasn't learned to take these off yet...instead she just sucks on them! We have finally moved to jars of 3rd foods and Jentry is doing well on them, she still eats in a fury each time she's in her high chair. Jentry has also started to feed herself cereal puffs. Mommy and Daddy like to cheer for her when she hits her mouth with her little fingers and actually gets a puff in there. Miss Sam and Miss Monica said that when she sees her pink lunch bag come out of the fridge at daycare she gets all excited! I love that she knows her own bag :) When we go to leave for the day she likes to carry the pink bag to her car seat...I think she's attached to the bag...we might have a little Vera fan in the making seeing that her lunch bag is Pink Cupcakes by Vera Bradley 
Jentry has finally grown out of her acid reflux and at NINE MONTHS is finally sleeping in her crib and still sleeping through the night :) She is the best baby ever!! 
Once Jentry and Daddy were done playing it was bath time. My cousin Betsy took some adorable pictures of Jentry getting a bath while she was here. I can't wait to have those uploaded so that I can post them on here! But for now you will have to enjoy pictures of her crazy hair! She has lots of hair and Jack and I thought these pictures were pretty funny, so I wanted to post them. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Looks like her hair is almost long enough for some hair ties...bows maybe :)
Nana admiring her cute little bear
Jentry and Aunt Angela...I think Jentry wanted out of her bear costume!
Jentry's bear costume was very warm, so after Nana got to admire the adorable bear Daddy was sure to take it off and put some comfy PJs on Jentry :)
Last weekend The J Squad joined Jack's dad and his friend Deby in Brown County for a wonderful Saturday afternoon. Jack and Jack Sr. wanted to eat at the Nashville House, I wanted to go to the Life is Good and Bare Feet stores and Jentry was happy to chill in her stroller! She was a trooper as usual and we had a great day! Thank you Jack Sr and Deby for joining us in BC!
A sleepy baby enjoying the ride in her stroller in her new "snow" suit from Mimi and new hat Mommy and Daddy bought her at the Life is Good store!
I am a day late on this post, but I still wanted to get it posted! Jentry turned 8 months old yesterday and we are surviving her 2nd ear infection in 2 months :( Amazingly she isn't too fussy or upset about the whole thing...the worst part was having Dr. Miller check out her ears, Jentry doesn't like anything on her face/head touched really...so that was a struggle. Now Jentry is taking the pink meds like a champ 2 times a day and her snotty nose is getting a little better. We haven't really started to do anything new this month...Jentry is still rolling all over our house. In fact the other night I placed her on her blanket in the middle of the living room with all of her toys and went out to the kitchen to wash her bottles. I had my back to the living room when I heard Jentry beating on the kitchen floor...she rolled all the way to the kitchen! She sits like a champ now...she only falls over so that she can roll to get to what she wants. She babbles all the time and is still eating...4 jars of baby food a day and 3-4 bottles too! When we were at Dr. Miller's office the other day Jentry weighed 16 lbs! She did have her clothes on so I know she doesn't quite weigh that much but we will find out a true weight on Tuesday when Jentry gets her 2nd dose of the flu shot. Ok...now for what you really want...here are some new pictures of her :) 
Jentry is very intrigued with the remote control for the TV. She tries to get her hands on it whenever she can!
This is one of my favorite outfits that fit right now. We got this as a gift the week before Jentry was born. We have to modify it a bit so that she can wear it this fall, but I still love it!
So maybe you didn't know...but Jack has been in San Francisco for the last half of this week. Jentry and I are patiently awaiting his arrival home this evening. I can't wait...I don't know about Jentry, but I'm guessing she's ready to see her Daddy too! Anyhow...I love to surprise Jack with new pictures of his precious princess and this time is no exception...and of course she will be 8 months old tomorrow! I would post a copy of her 7 month picture however, it isn't very good, it was taken at school in case you don't remember...I just can't wait to put it out at her graduation open house right next to her senior pictures. Her very first school picture and her last one :) I know I have 17 more years until that happens...but anyhow. I don't have the camera here to take a picture of that picture so it will have to happen another day. For now...enjoy these cute pictures of Jentry dressed in her Halloween costume...she's going to be a bear...a girl bear that is...
