Jocelyn - 1 yr checkup

Jocelyn is now:

30 1/4 inches long (81st %)
17 lbs 8 oz (15th %)
And 78th % in head circumference

Her head circumference all of a sudden jumped up, she's always been around the 50th percentile. But otherwise her length and height are the same percentiles as when she was born, so she's growing pretty steady! From her last appointment she is up from the 10th percentile in weight and her height is looking better - last time we thought there was probably a bad measurement because it was much lower than normal (for her).

She is doing great!

Easter egg hunt

We had a fun Easter egg hunt with Jocelyn!

On the hunt! She wore her bunny ears the whole time, which is impressive.

Found her first egg. She loved shaking them of course.

The first few eggs took the longest to find and then I think she figured it out a little more. And stopped being distracted by the grass in the basket.

Getting the harder ones all by herself.

Finally got one of the eggs open and had to eat it all up right away. Then she couldn't figure out why there wasn't more inside.

Getting the last one.

Taking a break to read a good book.

Enjoying the fruit of her labors! She had a great Easter!

Jocelyn crawling

Our sweet girl finally decided to start crawling! One day she just got on her knees one day this last week and then went. She hadn't even been able to get on her knees before this, but once she figured that part out I guess the rest was easy! Now she likes pulling the dvds off the shelf, chasing us (sort of), and likes being at grandma Brown's house with lots of space (we're here now).

Sometimes she crawls with her left foot instead of her left knee. She still likes walking around too and tries to pull herself up on our furniture but mostly gets frustrated and wants us to help.

Dolls and my bday

Jocelyn loves her dolls! It's so fun to watch her play with them. Sometimes she grabs one by the neck and shakes it around, I think she's still showing affection when she does it though. Trying to at least.

She was putting the doll's hair to her ear to see how it felt. She puts a lot of toys to her ear actually, makes it look like she's trying to talk on a phone, but I don't know where she got that from. Her hippo rattle especially looks like a phone when she does it.

Trvor got me a HarryPotter coloring book for my bday!

And some other stuff too - itunes gift card, blank cds to burn the music on, a potato masher, salad tongs, book called The Fall of Yugoslavia, nail polish, colored pencios, and stuff for my diploma frame (the glass and backing, he made the frame for me last year). And Jocelyn told me "dadadada" which means happy birthday :)

9 month checkup

Itty bitty Jocelyn had her 9 month check up and is quite small! It was a little surprising. So her head circumference is still on track at 50th percentile. Otherwise, she weighed 15 lbs 3 oz, which is less than the 10th percentile (which is her usual perc.). Her doctor said he's not worried because it's normal for babies to lose weight at this age because they're getting more active. Then she was 28 inches long which was less than 75th percentile,  where she has been in the 90th percentile for height in the past. Kinda strange. Her doctor made it seem like maybe the nurse got an off measurement, it was a different nurse than we usually see and he said something like, some nurses do it different. Plus she did the head measurement twice because the first time it looked off, so I wouldn't be surprised if the length was also off. If her height is low again next time he said he might worry, but he doesn't worry if it happens once.

So Jocelyn is just tiny for now, but she's happy and healthy!

She loves walking and running around. She's done a few really cute things the past few days. We said some prayers and at the end said "amen" and she said, "ah-ah" with us. And then at primary music time the chorister was leading the music and Jocelyn was staring at her so hard, concentrating, and waving her hand, Trevor said she was doing it almost on beat too. So stinking cute!

She took this selfie today on her own.

Learning to walk

Instead of figuring out crawling, Jocelyn wants to walk everywhere! We like to play "find mom" where I go down the hall and step into one of the rooms and she follows down the hall with Trevor helping her walk. It's very cute!

Trying to walk up Trevor's face, ha ha

We have a scooter!

You can see her move a little around second 20. She does that enough and she can get places. She also does this now from a sitting position:

This is after she fell on her stomach, but she balances on her feet underneath her, it looks really uncomfortable.

So fun to have her figuring some things out!