Jadeyn's First Year In Review

A few weeks ago, we played this video for Jadeyn. Ever since then, he has been fascinated (again) by making raspberry noises!! He was so excited to see himself doing it that he can't stop. So we get a daily showering of baby slobber!

We have a character on our hands!

Filing the nails! I think we have a little character on our hands! What a face! I have heard too many moms say how terrible they felt when they accidentally cut their baby's finger when cutting their nails. Therefore, I have been filing them at least every other day to keep the scratches at a minimum. He puts up with it pretty well, that is, until daddy gets him laughing!

Winter is on its way! We bought Jadeyn a sweet wool cap for the winter months. We get to use it this weekend on our last hooraah of a camping trip (in a Yurt this time so we won't freeze).

Banana Sticker
Don't you just love it when you ask a baby to do something and he does it!! He followed the instructions on the sticker perfectly!! It says: Place sticker on forehead. Smile!

Long Johns and Mickey

There isn't much that is cuter that a sweet little boy in his red long johns hugging his favorite toy!!

Jadeyn has quickly learned to make sure that he is in the middle of all the action. He loves to be at the computer with daddy. Also, one of his favorite places to sit is at daddy's feet when he is tying his shoes. Just the little support of the shoelace gives him enough support to sit up by himself for quite awhile!

Real Food

Jadeyn tried real food for the first time this weekend. He wasn’t too big of a fan of the rice cereal, but he decided that hands down: he loves the prunes!!
He’s a pretty strong little guy. The pediatrician and the ladies at day care all agree that at 5 months he is as strong as most one year olds! Therefore, we knew that feeding him would be interesting. It was! If he liked the food, it was hard to get it in him fast enough to keep his hands from trying to help out. And if he didn’t like the food, it was a challenge to keep up with his head twisting around!!

Ahh, the joys we have ahead of us!

Opening of Football Season!

Football Time!!!!The only thing good about summer coming to an end is that football season begins!! Kevin wanted to get Jadeyn properly prepared for the new season and ready to be a Bronco fan. (Even though Plummer isn't their QB any longer we can still cheer for them you know, and boy did Cutler put on a show. It's going to be fun to watch them!)

Jadeyn's First Tumble

Nice Shiner!!

Well, we knew that an active boy like Jadeyn couldn't go too long without taking his first tumble. We had decided to wax our vehicle and Jadeyn wasn't about to take a nap to allow us the opportunity. So happy in his car seat he sat on the garage floor while we worked away. We both looked back at him at the precise moment he straightened his little body and slid right out of his car seat, onto his knees and then right on his face! He lay there a bit stunned facedown 'til we got to him. Happy as could be, he smiled at us with a big ol' dirty spot on his forehead, arms and his little knees. Poor guy! No bruise at all! Not deterred by it at all, he got washed up, back in his carseat (strapped in this time) and he played for five minutes and fell promptly asleep!

Jadeyn Has Found His Voice

Jadeyn has definitely discovered his little voice in the past few days. He loves to squeal and squeal to his heart's content!!

Johnson Family Reunion 2008

All the Johnson clan got together in Park City, Utah for a wonderful time of catching up and joking around. Everyone was able to come to meet the latest grandchild. Jadeyn was a hit with all his cousins. It was so nice to have everyone in the country again even though we all had to travel. It had been the longest since we had seen Shelly and her family since they recently moved back from Kuwaitt.

Since we were right there in Park City, we just had to visit the Winter Olympic Park. They had the alpine ski jumps going for people to ski down, twist around and splash into the pool. The Olympic museum was amazing and fun to reminisce about the amazing games two years ago.



Talent night was a great hit complete with great skits and a fantastic "I will Survive" song and a perfect impression of Michael Jackson!

Family pictures were a lot of fun and a lot of work to get that many people all arranged and facing the same way smiling! We took them on a beautiful waterfall.


Of course the Johnson clan cannot get together without sufficient time in the swimming pool. This was Jadeyn's first time and he loved it! To end the reunion right, Kevin, Jadeyn and I went out to lunch with grandma and grandpa and got lots of great giggles out of Jadeyn.

Sweet Baseball Boy!

Jadeyn is so wiggly that we have to swaddle him just right so he won't wake himself up when he flails his arms. We swaddle the top half of him and leave his legs free so when he kicks, he doesn't kick the whole thing off. However, when he does free his arms, he ends up with the blanket on his face and just cries and cries!
I used to think how wonderful it would be to have a child say "I'm cold" and then he covers himself up. Now I'm just waiting for "I have a blanket on my face, maybe I'll pull it off!"
His wiggliness began way back around 5 months in the womb. He was always active. Very active!

These are my Innocent Looks!

Exploring Daddy's Face

Jadeyn has really begun to explore anything and everything he can get his hands on, including Daddy's face. One of his favorite activities (and Kevin's favorite too) is to lay under his crawl through aquarium and bat at Daddy's face instead of his fish!

Jadeyn's First Tent Camping Trip!

We headed out to Chambers Lake to try out Jadeyn in a tent. He was a great little camper! This little guy loves the outdoors, was mesmerized by the campfire, oogled over the trout and slept like an angel! Even though it was pretty chilly and down poured on us a few times, the trip was wonderful. Its the one thing that Kevin and I have really missed since having Jadeyn: camping.
But its a good thing that it looks like he'll fit right in to out lifestyle. Jadeyn enjoyed his Snugli and he smiled the whole hike!

Kevin finally got to dunk a worm this summer and caught the rainbow trout left and right. We released several fish, but kept five of them to give to our neighbors.

Jadeyn didn't get to play around in the dirt like he will be able to soon, but his little feet did get plenty dirty, or at least flinty from his sleeper!

Nice Hair!

Kevin thought that it was cruel to mess with Jadeyn's hair like this, but I thought it was hilarious. His whole person seems to change with each hairstyle. I got a big kick out of it!

Hair Options!! Hee Hee!

Bounce Bounce Baby!

Jadeyn's first time in his new toy was a hit even though he was too little to let his feet touch! He's going to love it soon.

First Eye Exam compliments of Dr. Daddy!

Ready to Play

Busy Boy!
From day one Jadeyn has been so interested in everything around him. Now that his little hands are getting more coordinated, he is so excited to be able to reach and grab anything and everything he sees. Now he has started the investigations with his tongue too!

He loves to have daddy read to him from his favorite book: The Hungry Caterpillar.