Stinky stuff

I'm sitting here with Jordan and she just made an explosion in her diaper. Who knew such an adorable, tiny little girl could smell so terrible!!

Oh! Big news: Jordan's umbilical cord came off yesterday! She can now have regular baths instead of sponge baths! We are excited to try out her cute ducky bath tub a friend from work bought for us.

Just some pictures

Mood Swings

Tummy time

Jordan doesn't really like tummy time laying on a blanket on the floor, in fact she likes to throw a fit about it, so much so that she almost crawled one day and another time she just about rolled over! She definitely prefers to do tummy time laying on one of us instead.

Curly Sue

Jordan has some natural curl to her hair but you can only see it after her bath. Once we put hats on her head so all her heat doesn't escape her hair flattens right out. Luckily I got some pictures of her hair before that happened. Here's my little Curly Sue.

One healthy baby

We had Jordan's two week check up today and she is declared healthy! We've been waiting to take her out anywhere until we had this check up and made sure of her health. We also discovered that she has gained almost a whole pound!! She was born at 6lb 5oz and she now weighs 7lb 3oz! What a little eater!

She also got a to meet her Great Grandma Goulet today and her cousin Roxana. This is quite exciting because Grandma doesn't get out much especially when it's cold and snowy like it was today.

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Jordan has got a headfull of beautiful dark hair which you probably won't see much of on here because we always keep it covered with hats (they lose too much heat through their heads without hats and with all this cold weather we've been having we don't want to risk anything). Brandon & I both had lots of dark hair when we were born so it wasn't a surprise. I was really hoping she'd have hair just like she does; and it's got natural curl! You can only really see the curl when she's getting a bath but once her hair dries and gets hats put on it straightens right out, probably because it's so baby fine right now. Anyway, she doesn't really like her baths yet but she's definitely a true girl and LOVES to get her hair washed! She'll be crying her head off during the entire bath and as soon as I start rubbing that soap around on her head she quiets right up and just lays there perfectly content enjoying every minute of it. She's been like this since day one. It's so fun to see her personality! Oh and she is a definite daddy's girl! Which I actually don't mind one bit...I think it's quite sweet. She loves to cuddle with her daddy and he can give her a diaper change without her making a peep! She tends to fuss when I'm changing her. Just some news I wanted to share real quick-like while I add another picture. I suppose a bathtime picture would have been perfect since that's what I was talking about but, sorry, I don't have any bath pictures yet. That's something I'll have to work on getting one of these days. It'll be a little easier once that umbilical cord falls off and we can actually lay her in her little ducky bathtub.

Fun in the Sun

We are trying to make sure that Jordan doesn't get jaundice because we really don't want her to have to leave and stay at the hospital. She was a little yellow but nothing they were concerned about but it was suggested that we strip her down to her diaper once a day and let her sit in direct sunlight. I think she was having a good time with this today! She seemed to be smiling a lot; I don't know if she knew that's what she was doing but regardless, it melted our hearts.

We had a follow-up appointment with her on Wednesday and she checked out just fine! When we left the hospital she was down to 6 pounds which is normal for babies to lose a little weight in the first couple days. They expect them to be back up to birth weight by their two week check up but at this appointment she had already gained weight and was 6lb 3oz just 2 ounces away from birth weight so she's doing wonderfully in that area. They were a little concerned about this because she was not nursing very well when we left the hospital, which was why we had the follow-up appointment in the first place because they wanted to check and make sure she was eating ok.

She's here!

Wow! Jordan has already celebrated her one week birthday (yesterday)! It's amazing how quickly time flies. I have been meaning to get on here all week long, I even took the laptop to the hospital with the hopes to blog right away; the farthest I got was one picture added and then saved to my drafts. It was just crazy with visitors (which we were very thankful for!), trying to figure out nursing and mostly just admiring the wonderful little girl that God created specifically for Brandon and I.

Jordan entered the world on Friday, February 20th at 12:56 AM weighing in at 6lb 5oz, 19 1/2 inches long. I was very blessed with an easy pregnancy and labor/delivery which I am thankful for regardless but also because I wanted to give birth naturally without any drugs. God blessed me with a short labor of only about 7-8 hours. We waited and waited calling the hospital twice to see if we should come up because absolutely did NOT want to get sent home! So when we finally decided to go to the hospital the nurse didn't think I was in labor because I was so calm but sure enough I was dilated to a 4 and in active labor. They moved us to our labor and delivery room where we waited for the time that Jordan would arrive. The contractions came and went continuously with me falling asleep in between. Brandon was so wonderful and comforting helping me through each contraction. Next thing we knew I dilated from a 7 to a 10 in no time which really surprised the nurse! She called the doctor immediately then had me do practice pushes which turned out to be a little more successful than she thought. Next thing I know she is telling me I had to stop pushing because the baby's head was right there and the doctor was not! For those women out there who have given birth know that when you get that urge to push there is not much you can do to stop it. The doctor finally arrived but still had to change, I think this really panicked the nurse so she left the room to see how close he was. I freaked out telling Brandon "I can't believe she just left the room!" I was involuntarily pushing while it was just the two of us in there and Brandon was about ready to head to the end of the bed in case the baby came out. Finally the nurse & doctor came back into the room and minutes later Jordan's head popped out...which happened to be at the time the doctor turned his back so again Brandon was about to go to the end of the bed and catch her but the doctor turned around just in time and helped her the rest of the way out. It was a pretty crazy experience and I'm sure that the doctor & nurse were quite surprised how quickly it went. I am so thankful how fast and "easy" it was. I don't regret at all not having any drugs and I will definitely be doing it that way again with our kids down the road. I did tear which made things very uncomfortable for a few days afterward but I'm up and running (not literally) and feeling terrific! Anyway, on to the baby!


This was taken while we were still at the hospital. I can't stop looking at her!

Look how teeny she is! I don't think I've ever been around such a small baby.

This was so funny, my mom was feeding her and kept moving the bottle around, she finally had to grab on to keep her from taking it away.

Little bit of this, little bit of that

I hate when I make something really yummy for dinner or even for any meal or snack BUT I just threw it together so I don't know measurements of what I added or even remember all the ingredients I added! It's such a pain; especially when Brandon really likes it too and would like me to make it again sometime but I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW!! That happened tonight. I made this Three Cheese Chicken Penne Pasta Bake only I didn't use Penne pasta, I used bowtie pasta and probably not even half as much as they recommend (I think I used 1 1/2 cups of COOKED pasta and they wanted that much of it uncooked). I didn't have any spinach or diced tomatoes on hand so those were omitted. Instead of 14 1/4 oz jar of spaghetti I had a 26 oz jar on hand so I used part of a jar of that...over half because I like things with a lot of sauce. THEN, I didn't have any mozzeralla cheese so I used monterey jack instead. So in all reality I did not really make this recipe tonight; there were WAY too many deviations from the original, but you know what? Brandon & I loved it! I just don't know how to write a recipe down like that!

I have some other exciting news! Brandon is officially out of the military!! He got his honorable discharge paperwork last week! It's kind of weird to think that he's been in the military for eight years. We just don't seem old enough for that (I do not mean that offensive, I promise!) But thank God he is done!!!!!