March 26th, 2006
Joe is 7 months old today. Here are a few pictures I just took of him in his baby prison. He's clearly trying to eat his way out of his crib in one of them. So, he's now tried rice cereal, apples, pears, bananas and hardwood. It's not easy getting decent pictures through the cell bars, but you get the idea. He's been sleeping through the night and has a sunny disposition for the most part. He still loves to swing in the swing that Laura & Andy and Shannon & Rick gave him. We also got him a Jumperoo from someone on Craigslist. He loves to jump. He giggles now and rolls over a lot. He's at the very first stages of learning to crawl. He gets on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. He was christened on March 12th. It went well. He didn't make a peep. My friend MaryAnne whom I've known since Kindergarten is his godmother and Matt's brother Mark is his godfather. I wish that more family was around to see Joseph grow (and to babysit). We barely ever go out. There's nobody nearby who we trust enough to watch Joe. We do take him to an Indian restaurant every few weeks. I only go India
Palace, the doctor's office and church. Oh, every few months we do go to Mom's. It's weird being so housebound, but the weather refuses to cooperate with me. Now that springtime is approaching (well, I guess it officially arrived on Charlie's birthday) we'll get out for walks which will be wonderful. I envy Charlie & Margaret's trips to Florida and wish I could see you both- especially Margaret's hair! I hope you'll be able to meet Joe before he gets too old. The same goes for Laura & Shannon. Maybe we can all get together this summer. I sure hope so. It's kind of silly that the few of us who are relatively close never seem to be able to get together.
Well, I guess I blogged the heck out of this one. I hope all is well with everyone.
Love,
Jennifer 

Copperheads have more fun!

Hey Ya'll,
I finally took the plunge and got a new hair do!
I wanted to get the gray gone and lighten it just one shade
up from my natural beautiful brown color...um well,that was the plan...
The stylist assured me she knew what she was doing,after all,she's been in
the business for 20 years and is a color specialist! She showed me hair
color samples and agreed just one shade up from BROWN would be just
fine! She put goo in my hair and sat me under the dryer for 15 minutes...
Hells Bells! I now have coppery red,blond,brown hair with slivers of gray!
I hadda go into work the next day and prayed nobody would notice cause I sure
wazznt gonna say nothin...Heck,EVERYBODY came from EVERY department
to check me out all day long! Oh Lordy!!! However,after about the 5th
person who came to get up close and personal said she REALLY loved the color,I
sorta began to believe her and the next ten folks who came after her. Whew!!
So...Jerry,when I come see ya in 12 days,I'll be the one with the coppery red,
blond,brown with slivers of gray hair! I can't wait to see you!!!
Love,Margaret

Julia Got a New Job!

Well Congratulations to me I FINALLY got a new job. Tara is taking over the daycare stuff and I got a fulltime position about a mile from my house- YAY!! It is with a company called Bree's Corporate Imaging and we sell retention items to the military (mostly Army). Most of our customers are in Iraq which is pretty cool and the guys always love the stuff. So it has been rewarding already, I've only been there 3 days.

What else? Anthony is READING! He has been reading for about 3 weeks now and has already read more than 10 books COMPLETELy own his own! Kaiya is doing well too; she is counting and singing and all kind of fantastic stuff.

Anyway, thats all over here. WHERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE??
***elbow elbow** Margaret, Charlie, Uncle Lee, Dad, Shannon....