Jordyn's 2 Pictures...

I posted these on fb a while ago, but I also need them in my "journal" to remember them for the future.  The outfit is courtesy of my mom.  I swear Jordyn has cuter clothes than I do.

 Jordyn at 2:

• Is an ok eater.  She will eat any fruit, anything with cheese, and anything sweet, and pancakes.  She is a grazer and eats best when she can just have a bowl of snacks and return to eat as desired.
• At her 2 year appointment, she had lost .5 a pound.  The dr. ordered some blood tests to try and get to the root of the problem.  Dr. also referred her to a pediatric cardiologist for a murmur we have been hearing for about 6 mo. now.  All tests came back fine.  She is healthy, just little.   I wish dr.s would stop giving me a hard time about it.  We were also referred to see a pediatric GI, but I never made an appointment.  I just feel like she is small and a mediocre eater and there is not "root" problem. 
• ABCs is her favorite song. Suddenly one day, she could recognize all the letters and their sounds, but she still gets confused sometimes.
• Counting lately is 1,2,3,9,10,9,10,9,10.... every now and then she throws a 6 in there. 
• Every color is "been"  (green).
• She still loves Blues Clues.  She likes to sing along, especially with the mail song.  There are also some Leap Frog shows on Netflix she likes, which is the only reason she knows ABCs.
• Napping is ridiculous.  She just plays in her room and destroys everything for 2 hours every afternoon.  She just learned how to open her door and sleeping has gotten even worse.  We just bought door knob covers so hopefully that helps. 
• She often cries so hard she barfs.  She also passes out easily.
• She likes to clean up.  She hates messy hands.  She gets really worried when she spills.  She might be a little OCD.
• She really likes other kids, and get so excited about nursery every week. 
• She is such a drama queen.  She has a fake little whimper, sticks out her bottom lip, pulls puppy dog eyes, and says "sad".  It makes me worried for the future!
• She LOVES her dolls and stuffed animals.  She is always having them go "nigh-night".
• We love her to death and have so much fun with her! She is like a little adult and talks and interacts with us like she is a grown up.  She is my little buddy and side-kick.  I would be so bored without her!

Don't kid yourself...

I really meant to add this little diddy to our family pictures post, but I forgot.  We took 150 shots that day.  About 8 were worth my time in editing.  The first few shots taken were the ones I edited.  Jordyn thought the camera was so cool on the tripod.  She would count to 3 and then I would click the remote.  She could hear and see the camera go off and thought it was just magic.  After a while though, the magic wore off and most of the pictures were just frustrating!  This is a sequence showing how most of the pictures went:

This is how we do photos....

First off, we don't pay for a photographer.  We are much to cheap for that kind of professionalism. A tripod and remote control cost less than 1/2 the price of a photographer. Secondly, we don't do it on a sunny day. No.  We wait until it is fall and cold and our cheeks are rosy.   And in a studio...that would be much to easy.  Thirdly, we don't chose a location like the park or somewhere we can easily drive to.  Not us.  We pile all our crap into the trailer and ride our bikes, praying we don't get rained on. 

As you can see, I make this all much harder than it needs to be, so we don't do family pictures often.  So you will probably see these on Christmas cards for the next 3 years.

Birthday Week!

The last week of September is Birthday week around here.  On the 26th, Chad hit 27 years.  We celebrated by going to Dave and Buster's without Jordyn!  Our first date alone since we moved to Colorado over a year ago.  We weren't going to go out because Chad was having a crazy busy week at work.  But I just felt like it was time to be a big girl and get a baby sitter.  It is not that I don't want to leave Jordyn (trust me, there are some days that is exactly what I want) and it is not that I don't trust anyone with my daughter.  It has just been that I don't know the youth here very well, and I don't want to burden any of our friends.  But my visiting teachers came to the rescue and offered to watch her for us.  So, Happy Birthday Chad, you got a meal in peace and quiet and rock the arcades.  But for the record, I won ski ball.  Let it be known.

Later in the week, we took Jordyn to the aquarium in Denver. It was such a cute aquarium! It was like the Disneyland of aquariums. Everything was decked out, decorated, and the atmosphere was so fun. A few years ago, the aquarium was bought by Landry's Restaurant chain, so they have a fancy sea food restaurant inside the aquarium. You get to eat fish, while surrounded by fish. A little ironic, but fun still. Jordyn was so excited about the fish! She just ran from tank to tank and pressed her little nose to the glass. She would point to all the fish in the tank and count "One, two, three, ten nine!" It was fun to see her so exited about it!

She called the jellyfish "bubbles".

 

On Sunday, her actual birthday, I made her wear her new birthday dress to church.  She was ticked cause she wanted to wear pants.  And thus, these pics are not the best. Yay for 2!

Sunday evening, we opened gifts, ate cake, and skyped with grandparents.  She was spoiled by her grandparents.  We got clothes and a trampoline for our little jumping Jordaroo.  She was equally excited about both. but mostly excited about balloons.