Jasmine Leticia Craig
Jasmine was born to Jo & Simon at 2.45AM on Thursday 20th December 2007 at West Gippsland Hospital. We chose Jasmine because we both loved the name from the beginning. Leticia is from Simon's family tree 4 generations ago, except for a slight spelling change.

July 19th - Jasmines first tooth has appeared.

June 20th - Visited the health centre for her 6 month check up. She is above average in length, weight and head circumference. She has reached 8kg.
Jas is trying to crawl but only succeeds in going backwards or in circles on her belly so far. She says bub, dad and mum. She loves to play with her toys and copies us when we show her how to do simple things. Her hair seems to be growing at last.


Five and a half months old and now weighing in at 17lbs. Jas isn't very interested in anything other than breast milk and she is continuing to stack on the weight so we won't push the solids too hard at this stage.

May 13th - We dropped into the child health centre and weighed Jasmine. She is now 7.33kg which translates into 16lb 2oz. Jo has started feeding Jas some rice cereal mixed with breast milk and we might try adding a little bit of pumpkin just to get her used to the taste of solid foods.

March 20th - Jas is very happy and alert. She weighs 6.5kg now. She likes to have long conversations in baby words and joins in with us when we sing to her. She likes to sleep on her side sometimes now and we are guessing it won't be long before she rolls from her back to her front. She is a great sleeper. On most nights she will go for a full 10 to 12 hours without waking up. Click on each picture in the slide show as it scrolls past to view that picture as a larger image.

On Thursday, beginning her 11th week, Jas rolled herself over from her front to her back for the first time. There is a short "Show Time" video we recorded for you to watch her doing the rollover.

February 22nd - Can you believe it? Jasmine is 2 months old.
She had her health checkup yesterday (Feb 21st) and she now weighs 12lbs 12.5 ounces (5800g). She continues to grow in length and is over 2 feet long - 60.50cm. She is sleeping (sometimes up to 12 hours at night) and feeding really well and doesn't have any problems changing between breast and bottle. She is a very healthy and alert baby who is quick with a smile.

At her 4 week health assessment Jasmine weighed 10lbs 3 1/2ozs (4630g) and measured 58cm long, with a head circumference of 38.5cm.

She weighed 8lb 12oz (3970g). She was 55cm long and her head measured 36cm.
We brought Jasmine home on Saturday 22nd and she settled in very well.

Jo is taking 12 months maternity leave from her job as a computer technician at LE Computers in Warragul and will enjoy the year being a full time mum. She has enrolled and started completing a Certificate 3 in Multimedia at GippsTafe which will then allow her to go on to do the Certificate 4 and qualify her to design and manage Websites.

Simon is working as a bus driver for Grenda's at the Cardinia Transit depot in Pakenham driving on "Track". He is also "driver trainer" at Cardinia depot and responsible for teaching new drivers depot procedures and familiarisation of bus routes.
Simon has recently spent 4 weeks as a planning trainee at Grenda's in Dandenong. He is hoping to secure a full time position which will open up a whole new career path in the public transport industry. He should know later in the year whether he has been successful.