Creeping and then.....

She is definitely creeping and rocks up on her knees, but wait to see what happens next!!!

Here are some pictures as well.  6 months old today!!!



She sleeps!!!

It is still a battle getting Johanna into bed and asleep, but once she gets down she has been staying down!!!  She has gone 4 nights in a row.  We are keeping our fingers crossed that this continues so that mommy and daddy can have a late night date night!!!  No overnights in the future however - she still gets up at 5-6 to eat!  That is okay with me as long as she sleeps all night!!!

Johanna couldn't resist putting the 'fake snow' in her mouth. 

Yum Yum



Click on the link below and you can see more pictures from December, including Johanna's first trip to see Santa!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/109076945726109693509/December#

Johanna's Baptism

Here are the pictures from Johanna's baptism. It was a great day. Johanna wanted to play in the water after she was baptized!! Click on the picture to see the full album.

Jo is 4 months old today!

Johanna is 4 months old!!!  Click on picture to see her latest pictures!

Labor Day Weekend with the family

reading with Grandma

my dad is the best

I love my grandpa

JOHANNA ROLLED OVER!!!

Johanna rolled from tummy to back earlier this week, but we didn't get it on video.  Here she rolled from back to her tummy!!!

Johanna with the Meuser's and Nickleby's

Click on the photo to see picutres from when Johanna met her relatives on the Nickleby and Meuser sides!

Johanna at 1 month

Click on the picture to see the album with all of Johanna's pictures from her at 1 month. Joe Helgeson took them and he is a fantastic photographer if you are ever interested in family pictures, grad pictures, etc. let me know, he does a fantastic job!

4th of July vacation!

Click on the picture to see  Johanna's first trip to the lake for the 4th of July
Look at how excited she is!!!

Johanna tracking momma AND daddy reading a book with her!!!

Sorry the videos are sideways...not sure why, still good - sound isn't the best quality - but still good stuff!

This is the first time Johanna has really tracked and followed momma!!  The video cuts off abruptly too - oops!

Daddy reading the story 'Put me in the zoo' - Johanna loves it, she turns her head towards the book when daddy starts reading and her legs stop kicking and she just listens!

A typical day in Johanna's world

A pretty typical day of Johanna's all put together into one video - 

we left out some of the fuss - we didn't want her to feel bad. 
Turn on your sound!

Jo's finally at home!

Here are some pics of Jo's first days home, lots of sleeping!!!
Click on the photo to see the album.

Whistle while I work...

Johanna loves to make this whistle face.  Whistle while I work!!!!!

johanna at the hospital and the cutest posed pictures ever!!

Click on the photo for the link to pictures that Ashley took. Some of them are at the hospital and some of them are professionally posed by Ashley!!! A favorite is the black and white one with a yellow flower! So cute!!

Johanna's first few days!

MORE PHOTOS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THIS ALBUM: including pics of the nickleby family with Johanna

Click on the picture below to link to the photo album of Johanna's first few days!!! She loved meeting all of her family members and new friends and is excited to meet so many more! More pictures and video's to come!

Baby Decorations!!!

Here are the baby decorations that I worked on the past few days. I was going to wait another week or two, but just couldn't hold off I was too excited!!

Our bathroom week 2! The sheet rock is up and we are waiting for the mud and taping to be dry and then we paint! The tile is also in now - sorry not on the video. We are excited to see all of the progress!

Shower invitation!!!

I may be blowing the surprise for some of you who haven't an invite in the mail, but this is the cutest thing ever!!!!! Kathy made the invites - I got mine in the mail today - so fun, clever and cute!!! Thanks Kathy!

nursery decorations!!

So, since I was awake at 4:00 am and couldn't go back to sleep (and strangely still haven't) I went to the website etsy.com - Ashley had mentioned it - and I found a decoration that I am going to copy and make myself. I think I know just the person who may be interested in helping me too!!! Here is the picture...what do you all think? I need to finish the baby blanket, and the two dressers before I start my next project though!

We are so excited to put in a bathroom in the basement. Matt Godbout is doing the work for us and we are excited as day one got underway. It will be a small bathroom, but it will be nice to have one in the basement, especially now that our 'guest room' is the basement! Our spare bedroom is now the nursery, which we are working on completing! We have 2 dressers that were painted a green and a black, which we are going to repaint white to go with our white crib. We will put pictures of the dressers up when they are done.
The bathroom will have a small stand up shower, toilet and the vanity. Fun, fun, fun. We - as if I did any work - have the frame up around all four walls, the ceiling frame up and the shower in. We were going to go with a deeper shower, but Matt said it probably wouldn't fit because of the depth so we went with a smaller one. Good thing we did, because we could barely get it into the house. It was pretty light and I helped Matt get it through the front door, but we had to take the front door off, and the frame off of the laundry room door just to get it into the bathroom!!! It was a fun and productive day!

Belly Dancing!!!

A small sample of baby dancing and moving around the belly!!! Some good comentary and sound effects are include for you as well!!

LESS THAN 100 DAYS!!!!

99 days until the due date....that is if she comes on time! I know on the Oberholtzer side we were a little stubborn and wanted to take our time arriving 9-10 days late!!!

Work on the Nursery!!!

Daddy and both grandpa's had a busy weekend!! Here are pictures and videos of the nursery. The guys painted the room with 2 colors - an off white on top (which you will see in the first video) and then a soft yellow on the bottom. The guys also worked on my favorite -- electrical, putting in all new outlets and covers.

This first video is of the electrical being done.


This video shows work on the bottom portion. Jason painted all of the corners. I don't know if the grandpa's limited his work to just the corners for a reason or not(hmmmm)!


Here are a couple of finished painting pictures. We love it!!!




Next step is to add the chair rail (which we will paint the same off white as the top portion!) I am also going to repaint two dressers. One of which will be used as the changing table. I will start those projects once the weather is a little nicer and I can sand them down outside without FREEZING!!

Thanks to all the guys for working on this for us!!!!!!

Exciting Weekend!

We are excited for the weekend. I am going to go visit my mom, Ashley and Gram - and hopefully talk baby stuff all weekend. All the while Jason and my dad (mabye Bob?) are going to work on painting the nursery and a few other things on the honey-do list!!! I am thrilled to come home on Sunday and have a painted nursery!!! We decided to paint the nursery a light/pastel yellow and an off white. It will be the same style as the blue and white room with the chair rail that was in an earlier post. Once I get home on Sunday I will get a pic or video and post it!!

Maybe she will be a musician!!!

So all day today it felt like our little girl was using my nerves, tendons, ligaments and everything else like they were a part of a harp and she kept plucking them!!!

Jason is putting the crib together. A nice white wood crib will (hopefully) look great once we paint the walls yellow!!

...and here is Erin with the finished crib!!! Now we just need to add the sheets and blankets, dresser, changing table, glider, a little paint and a BABY GIRL!!!

I couldn't get the video to upload the other week, but this was the on the car ride. Make sure your sound is on so you can here Jason compliment my angelic childhood!!!



and yes...the video is sideways...sorry!

Nursery

We are going to do something similar to this in the nursery.

Different colors though...a soft yellow on the bottom and an off white on the top.

Fun, fun, fun. 

We bought the paint and Jason and my Dad are going to paint the room in early Feb -

YEAH the process is starting!!! 

It's a GIRL!!!

some nursery ideas

So yes we are getting really excited about finding out the sex of the baby in a week!!  I am starting to go a little crazy with figuring out what to do with the nursery.  Here are some pictures that I like.  Fun, fun, fun!!!

 I really, really, really like the decoration above the crib.  I think it would be neat above a crib or changing table.  Could paint something like that or maybe use some fabric to make the initial square and then use a shelf or two.

I like the stripe effect behind the crib.  We are thinking of doing a light/creamy yellow for wall color.  Then we could add a small stripe or two in a darker yellow or another accent color.

I really like this painted changing table.  I like that it looks refurbished/old.  I also like the accent of the knobs.  If we used the dresser that Kathy has, we could paint it white and do the knobs in the wall color.  Or paint the dresser another color all together.

We like the idea of a shelf running across the length of one of the walls.  This idea could maybe go on the wall across from the first idea I put up.

Another changing table that I like.

I really like the look of this wall.  We won't do it in our nursery, but mom I thought of you and thought you might like something like this in your breezway.  They are quilts or parts of quilts cut out and hung on the wall.  Looks neat.

Lots of decisions with this nursery!!!  I think we have at least narrowed down that the walls will be a soft creamy yellow...but otherwise the rest is up in the air!!!