Growing Jane

Jane is getting better and better at focusing on faces and on talking back to us when we talk to her. After several attempts to catch her on camera (usually she's being talkative and by the time I can find the camera and get it going, she no longer is. Or, she is for a couple seconds, then sees the camera and stops to stare at it), I finally caught this:

She also loves to sleep with her arms wrapped VERY tightly to her sides. We always wrap her up before she goes to bed. Then, when she is unwrapped, her arms immediately shoot up and she stretches and stretches for several minutes. It is so funny!

And Jane was so excited for Daddy to come home from work yesterday!

This is what he saw when he pulled up :)

More Jane Pictures

We are in love!!! Here are a bunch more pictures of Jane. Feel free to look at the ones you want to and skip over the ones you don't :)

With Dad and Mom the day of her blessing.

Look at that chubby belly!

Sleepy little baby...

Jane really likes her swing, but seems to fall asleep in funny positions. If you look really close in the second one, you can see her cute smile :)

I LOVE naked baby pictures, especially when the baby is this cute :)

Hey mom, what IS that?

Our little baby burrito :)

First time in the front-pack thinga-ma-bob. She loved being
so close to daddy and slept the whole time we were on a walk!

She loves being outside!

Just takin' a nap with mom :)

Daddy wrapped her so tight and we sat her on the couch. She looked so tiny!

Jane hanging out with her Grandpa Larson

Wide-eyed and so curious already. We are in big trouble :)

Showing off her beautiful blue eyes.

Our Little Family

Well, here it goes. I can't promise that we'll stay very up to date or that we'll post super often, but in an attempt to keep everyone updated on what's going on in the world of Larson's, I'm going to try :)

Jane is getting so big! It seems like she grows more everyday. She is getting on a better schedule and even lets us sleep at night sometimes! On Friday night, she fell asleep at 12:30, woke up once to eat at 4:30, then slept until 9:30! It was the best night of sleep I've gotten in a long time! She's also a lot better at focusing on faces and following things with her eyes. Often when I pick her up to feed her or change her and I talk to her and say her name, she gives me a big smile in response! It's amazing that she recognizes our voices so well and knows the difference between when mom and dad are holding her or when someone else is.

Jane is so perfect! She almost never cries! The only times when she does are if she sleeps too long and wakes up only to realize she's STARVING or when she has really bad gas that hurts her tummy. Even when she does cry, she's SOOO easily consoled. Usually all it takes is picking her up and letting her hear mommy or daddy's voice and she calms right down.

And what a social little girl! When she is around a group of people, like when we're visiting family, she knows it and works as hard as she can to stay awake so she doesn't miss a thing. Those are some of our favorite times because she looks so peaceful and gives us lots of drunken smiles :) She LOVES to be held, not just by mommy and daddy, but by anyone. She is staying awake more and more during the day and has big, dark blue eyes. Peter says her eyes are so dark that he likes to hold her close and can see his reflection in her eyes. She's getting stronger and stronger all the time. She loves trying to hold her head up and works at doing it for longer and longer periods of time (since she first held her head up on her own the day she was born :). This is of course only when she's wide awake, because when she gets sleepy, she is super cuddly. She has found that she loves being on her tummy with her head on your shoulder, especially if you pat her back. Even if her eyes are wide open, she'll lay on your shoulder like that forever :)

We love her more than we could have ever imagined possible! What a perfect little baby! We know that we are so blessed to have her in our lives, home, and family.

This is also one of the best ways we could think of to share pictures of Jane, so here are a few of our favorites. Enjoy!

Jane meeting Gi-gi for the very first time. Gi-gi was so cute! She just laughed so hard every time she looked down at Jane, then she would look up and ask us a question, then look back at Jane and keep laughing! It was very cute.

Jane going on her very first stroller ride. As you can see,
she was not about to sleep through any part of it :)

"I'm not listening!!" She fell asleep like this on the couch :)

Our little family the day of Jane's blessing (April 19th)

Sitting with cousin Megan