Hi friends and family! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with loved ones! Chris and I want to apologize for the lack of updating our blog - I know many of you have been waiting on new posts and pics. I've posted a ton of fun things just tonight... so take a look and get "up to date" with the Potins! **Be sure to scroll down to "older posts" in order to see everything!**

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Tell me... what could be greater than the annual "24 hours of A Christmas Story"??? He is his father's son!

We had terrific Christmases with both the James and Potin families. It was a ball celebrating with the newest addition to the family! Jobi got so many great things from Nana and Papa and Mumsie and Pop, as well as from all the aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, and cousins!! Oh and let's not forget SANTA! ;-)


WOO HOO! Nana and Papa starting Jobi out right! haha



Jobi says "thanks Mumsie!" for making my beautiful stocking



Jobi is certainly Daddy's "#1!" Thanks Pop for the jersey - you know it was the perfect gift!


Thanks to all our loved ones for a wonderful holiday - it was the best. Our family hopes everyone had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and our best wishes for 2008!

As a special Christmas present for the grandparents, Chris made gift books on shutterfly.com - a book all about JOBI, of course! They were ecstatic. The books look amazing... a wonderful way to capture the "beginning" of his life. He'll enjoy and appreciate having this piece of memorabilia when he gets older. He'll have no doubt how much he is loved, that's for sure!! Thanks Daddy for taking the time and effort to record these special moments.

Jobi was all decked out in game attire to watch Southern Miss battle Cincy in the Papa Johns.com Bowl with his Daddy. Either Jobi was disappointed that USM was losing or sad that it was Jeff Bower's last game... maybe a combination of the two. Anywho, I'm certain he enjoyed sitting in his brand new kids' Southern Miss chair! A pint-size, exact replica of his Daddy's.

Jobi met some new friends and family over the holidays! He actually met TWO Addisons - well actually 1 "Addison" and 1 "Addyson" (baby cousin!)


Jobi and friend, Addison Shaw - mommy's friend and co-worker, Marlena's, baby girl



Jobi and Addyson enjoyed meeting for the first time! Daddy and Aunt Linda assisted in the "introduction" :-) They'll love being close to the same age! We just hate that cousin Addy lives far away in Texas.

2 week checkup at Pediatrician - first "official" doctor visit - Dr. Burks says Jobi has great lungs! (we had figured that out already) :-) Everything checked out GREAT! He was up to his birth weight plus a pound! He weighed in at 8 lbs 2 oz. We're convinced now he's probably at least 10 lbs or greater... he eats all the time!




Here are some Christmas snapshots we posed underneath the Christmas tree. It was hard work getting Jobi's teddy bear to hold him up! Our little "Santa Baby" was the best Christmas present we could have asked for! I couldn't imagine a better gift...

Sleepy Time! (or at least trying to sleep!)




Sorry State fans... here's another proud Southern Miss POTIN!



His daddy posed this pic if you didn't guess. He thinks it's absolutely hilarious. I have no words...

Here's Jobi - ready for his first day out on the town... Christmas tree shopping! Of course, we didn't stay out for long at all but it was nice to get out of the house and into some fresh air. Especially during the Christmas season! (even though it was about 75 degrees) And here's a pic of him sporting just one of his many cute Christmas outfits!




Playing with one of my favorite toys "Mr. Turtle" and sleeping in one of my favorite places... Daddy's chest :-)

SORRY! We've been asked by so many of you when exactly there would be an updated blog post. We've had the best of intentions, I swear... it's just... well, you know. A now 4 week old baby - I don't know where the time has gone! The days turn into weeks that turn into months and so on and so forth. You fellow parents know exactly what I'm talking about.
Well I (Jean Anne) have been informed by my husband that he had gotten the blog up to the point of Jobi's birth and now it's my turn to take over. So, I apologize. I will try to do better with keeping it up to date.
Here are some pics of the last few weeks - hope you enjoy! (Just a little update - Jobi will be FIVE weeks old New Year's Day! Around the Potin home, we don't talk about how with the blink of an eye the time is gone, rather we just enjoy every single minute we have with our little man!)

1) Finally HOME!

2) 2 day weight check - first time in the Pediatrician's office. Not happy. Jobi weighed 8 lbs 1 oz at birth. When we went home from the hospital he was down to 7 lbs 4 oz. At this weight check, he weighed 7 lbs 10 oz. By the 2 week checkup, we were shooting for being back up to at least birth weight. For those of you who didn't know, I used to work at this doctor's office. It was SO weird being on the "other side!"

3) First time in his swing/bouncy seat - not loving it right now but we think he'll grow to like it!



1st bath - you'd think we were torturing him! just look at that poor pitiful face! we hope he'll also soon grow to love this (let's hope so!) oh the price we pay for being clean!

Jobi arrived Tuesday, November 27th at 12:40p.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21 inches long. His arrival came as a bit of a surprise. About 6 hours into induction, Jean Anne was taken in for a C-section. Mommy and Daddy are both doing great!

There is actually news in Hattiesburg today other than Jeff Bower leaving Southern Miss (which I personally think is probably a bad move in the long run), we are heading to the hospital tonight at 7:30. Jean Anne went in for her appointment this morning. The doctor "checked" her again and determioned that she had dilated 1 cm and not 2cm as previously thought. So, long story short, LP has not dropped at all. He/she is still way up in Jean Anne's belly and obviously pretty comfortable there. The doctor did a procedure to try to speed things along that Jean Anne said was not too comfortable.
So, tonight we are headed to the hospital to get Jean Anne started on Cervadil and bright and early in the morning start the induction process. However, the doctor feels Jean Anne is going to be a pretty good candidate for C-section. We will see. Either way, end result should be LP's Birthday on November 27, 2007. Please pray for us as we go through this process. Watch your emails, we will keep everyone posted!

For those of you who don't know, one of Jean Anne's favorite things to do is watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Annually, she eagerly waits for the end of the parade and Santa for it is the official beginning to the Christmas Season (JA's favorite time of the year). I was praying this year we would be in the hospital welcoming LP into the world so she could always say that she watched the parade from the hospital bed with LP. That didn't quite work out but this Holiday season will surely be a blessed one. Here are a few pics from JA watching the parade.