Road Trip

Sorry to be gone so long! Jordan & I just got back from Minnesota. We are working to get back into the swing of things so it will still be a couple of days before I get back to blogging. Sorry everyone and thank you for your patience!

Jordan turned ONE!!

One month that is! Can you believe she is one month old today?! I can't either. I am so baffled by it! I can hardly believe our little bundle of joy has been with us for so long! Her daddy & I agreed last night that she gets cuter by the day. I hardly thought that was possible because she was so stinkin' cute to begin with.

While Brandon was working today my mom & I took Jordan to the mall to get her pictures taken. She was such a good sport! She was awake the whole time, didn't cry or fuss and she posed like a natural model.

She's picking up on the smiling thing. We've found a couple tickle spots that can get her to smile but for now most of her smiles come during her sleep. The other day I had her laying in the bassinet in front of me on the couch and she kept crying. I finally after quite a bit of crying gave in and picked her up. She immediately stopped crying and smiled real big like she was thinking "Ha, ha! I fooled you! I was only crying because I wanted you to pick me up not because anything was wrong and you fell for it!"

Special gift

We had been looking all over for the perfect lettering so we could hang Jordan's name on the wall in her room. Everywhere we looked around town just didn't have quite what we were looking for not to mention everything was so expensive! I was getting a little discouraged thinking we wouldn't be able to do the lettering for a while, if at all; then a lady Brandon supervises at work surprised us by saying we could pick anything we wanted off The Cates Company website and it would be our gift from her for the baby. I was super excited to find out they do all sorts of decor for kids rooms but especially that they do lettering too! What a blessing! I knew what I wanted immediately! The letters just arrived this morning during breakfast and I stopped eating to hang them up then I called my mom telling her she had to come see! Jordan was laying in her crib watching as I was putting them on the knobs and stared at the letters admiring her name. Later I went in to take a peek at her and she was staring at the letters again so I guess she likes them just as much as I do! Thank you so much Kathey!! They look fantastic and match perfectly!

Bumbo!

Jordan has held her head up really well since her first days; recently, though, she has been holding it higher and for much more extended periods of time. Because of this, I decided to try her in her Bumbo seat; I've been dying to see one in use since the first time I saw one two years ago. I only let her sit in it for a few minutes because I don't think she is entirely ready for it yet but I had to leave her in there long enough to snap a few pictures!


I don't know what was up with this face but it cracks me up every time I look at it.

Going to church

Jordan went to church for the first time this weekend! She slept through the entire service but still got so many wonderful comments about how beautiful she is. We couldn't agree more! :) Here are some pictures of us getting ready for church; she was quite playful!

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.