La Familia Jordan: Two and a Half

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Well in a few days my little boy you will be two and a half years old! Over the last 6 months I have started several blog posts about you and what you have been doing, but it has been difficult for me to complete anything! Of course you have been amazing and surprise me all the time with your funny sayings and crazy personality. Here is my summary of the last 6 months.

February 2014

Early in the month we had some snow. This time you loved it! Maybe it was because your daddy was here to help you build a snowman. We went for a nice walk in the snow. You really liked eating the snow. I was laughing the whole time we were outside.

March 2014

You have started working in the yard and garden. You love finding worms! You take them from one side of the yard to the other. We are trying to get you to take them to the garden.

You have also started to ride your bike. We got you a bike for your birthday, but I think you were a little scared of it until recently. You just ride around the patio, but you are having fun and getting good at balancing.

April 2014

Dancing!

We attended cousin Nate and Sarah’s wedding this month. The wedding was nice, and the food was delicious. We got to dance a little and hang out with family. I love weddings and wish that we could have danced a little longer! It was also nice to have family stay at our house. We wish people visited us more often.

For Easter Abú and Grandpa got you a rake, shovel and hoe for you to help in the yard and garden. Then your Grandma Lynne brought you some smaller yard tools, and a wheelbarrow. You love being in the garden and are becoming quite the weed puller. You say “weeds are bad, plants are good.”

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Abú and Grandpa stayed for a week after the wedding. You love spending time with them, and I love seeing you so happy. The wedding weekend was the bringing of my spring break, so we go to have a couple of adventures. The most fun we had was a Northwest Trek . You loved all of the different animals. It is so fun seeing you excited about everything! It is inspiring and I continue to be excited about life.

The weather has been so nice lately that we have been stopping to play outside on our way home. We love the water, so we frequently go to Point Defiance. You are happy looking at the water from the 5 Mile Drive, but sometimes we go down to the beach.

May 2014

You are such an amazing little boy. The things you are starting to say are hilarious and wonderful. Yesterday your daddy brought your milk to the table, like you had asked him to and you look up and said “Thank you sir.” You want to be just like your daddy. You follow him around doing everything he does.

Every day you are saying more and more and talking in little sentences. I am amazed at how much you know. The other day while I was changing my sheets you asked if you could help change the bedding. It was so cute! And by help you meant hide in the sheets. I try and make it a productive game, but most of the time you are just rolling around laughing in the sheets. You are starting to pull the corners up on the blankets. After doing that you looked up at me and said “I a good helper momma!” Soooooo adorable!

Eating "Pencils"

At daycare you have been becoming a little jealous of some of the new babies there. I hope you get your jealousy out and are ready when our new baby comes. You love babies, and you will kiss my belly and talk to the baby, but you do not want to feel it move. You felt the baby kick you awhile ago and it kind of freaked you out. I don’t blame you, it kind of freaked me out the first time I felt you!

Likes: singing, reading, digging in the dirt, running, the farmers market

June 2014

At the beginning of the month your abú came up for my baby shower and decided to stay for an extra week. You had so much fun playing with her every day. You went on walks, played in the park and cooked a lot! You were so proud of yourself the day you helped make a cake. You came running up to me as soon and I opened the door and told me that you hid a cake in the basement. You get so excited about lots of things. It is so funny because you can’t even say what you want because it is too exciting!

Resting after your haircut

Since I am taking a year leave from work, I had to pack up my classroom and office. It was an added stress to the end of the school year. Daycare had an emergency one of the last days of school and you had to come to work with me. You pretended you were shy for a few minutes, but you loved all the attention. You especially loved hanging out with Jamie. She let you feed her fish, and look at stick bugs!

Fun in the bath

Helping Dad build a patio.

I’m still concerned about how you are going to act when the baby comes. At daycare the other day you asked Ms. Becca for some “Momma Milk.” She told you that you don’t get that at day care anymore and you told her to seal it from another baby! You have also been really snuggly and often want me to holdyou like a baby. I hope this transition is not too difficult for you.

Reading with Grandma

Happy Father's Day!

July

Excited about our adventure on the city bus

The last weekend in June your abú came to stay with us again because Daddy had to go on a trip for 4 day. She is staying until the baby is here. We are soooooooooooooo lucky she has come to take care of us. Not only does she play games, sing songs, and do puzzles, she also makes us delicious dinners and does laundry! I have been so tired lately I don’t know what we would have done without her.

While Daddy was gone you slept with me. We had some special snuggle moments in the morning. I feel very lucky to have had some special alone time with you before the baby comes. You use to try and touch my whole face and neck at night, I really didn’t like it, so now you to just touch my cheeks. So often when you go to sleep you put both your hands on my cheeks and we snuggle until you go to sleep. It is so sweet!

Too loud on the 4th

We had a fun low key 4th of July this year. Not as many people were able to come, this turned out to be a good thing for me. You went down to the Freedom Fair with your grandma, and then came home and took a really long nap. I think that you might have gotten a little too much sun, because you weren’t feeling like your normal self the rest of the day. But we had fun watching the fireworks. You had to have headphones on, because everything is too loud right now. You got mad at me the other morning because I was grinding coffee loudly and because the click of lighting the stove was also too loud!

Last days as a family of three!

I think you know big changes are about to happen. When you are not hitting me you are the sweetest boy ever! You give my belly snuggles and talk to the baby. You have starting saying “Hey guys” when you want our attention. You say things like “Hey guys, hey guys. There is a guy with no shirt on!” You really don’t like it if someone is walking by our house without a shirt. You are loving hiding. Your favorite hiding place is under a blanket. Recently you have started having me hide with you. You sit on my lap and then pull a blanket over our heads and then wait for someone to say they can’t find us. It is hot, but you don’t care you want to do it a million times.

Hiding

They have been working on the sidewalks and intersection in front of our house the last two weeks. You are loving it! You were so excited that a tractor was parked in front of our house for a few days. All of the workers are extremely nice to you. They wave and yell “Go Hawks!” when you are wearing your Seahawks shirt. Who knew that watching a dump truck pull up in front of our house could be so exciting!

Your baby will be here in a couple of days. I hope we are ready for this! I think it will be a little difficult for you transition from being an only child. But I know you are going to be an amazing big brother!

Likes: Construction vehicles, running and jumping

Dislikes: naps