13 Months Old

Jordyn is growing in unbelievable ways. It's hard to believe that just a month ago she turned 1 because it seems it has been so much longer. This past month she has begun talking and really developing her vocabulary. She loves to repeat anything we say which is really fun since she can only get one syllable of it, you never know which syllable she'll choose. All she ever wants to do it read and while I'm so sick of our 15-20 books it's been exciting too. I can now leave words out and she can fill them in. She's learning what so many things are because we point out all the different animals and objects. She also has favorite pages in certain books and they're the only page she wants to read, over and over again. We thought we would write up a quick little chart of all the words that she can say, of her own accord. There are tons of words she says when prodded but these words listed below she can just see the object and say them. Granted, they don't all sound like what they should sound like because again, she can only say one syllable, but enjoy the list, there's some cute words!

WORDS: no, yes, nose, duck, dog, cat, up, down, baby, snow, daddy, uh-oh, boop (the word she says when she falls), socks, bird, cookie, yum, book, shoes, juice, swing, bug, loud, fish, truck, ow, rock, hi, eyes, ball, stick, hot, mama, ice, whoa. (35 words)

SOUNDS: animal sounds for lion, dog, duck, monkey, sheep

SONGS: she sings "Row Row Row" and rocks her body from row row row your boat.

Also, she put together her very first phrase a couple of weeks ago. She was doing something disobedient and when Wayne tried to remove her from the situation she looked right at him and said "Dada, no!" Oddly enough, no is a word we barely ever here from her mouth so at this point, it's still cute when she says it. Lastly, she is now the proud owner of 8 teeth, she just had two come in this week. We just can't believe how much fun she is becoming, how verbal she is and how fast she is changing. I know it only happens faster from here on in. We hope you enjoy all our updates and are trying to keep you as posted on her changes as we can!

p.s. all the pictures posted are from the day at the park when we flew Jordyn's kite!

New Tricks

Here is a video we thought you might all enjoy, to show Jordyn's new tricks. We've been trying really hard to keep up on the video so you can all experience her as much as possible from whatever state you're from. This is Jordyn identifying all the body parts she knows. Unfortunately, she only likes to play this game when she's in her swing, so it might be hard to see everything. I slowed the video down some but you have to look closely, especially when she shows her eyes, because she doesn't point, she blinks! Enjoy.

Family Fall Day

Yesterday was family fall day and I thought we would share some pictures. Usually we call it our family fun day but since we did all kinds of fall things we changed the name. Neither Wayne or I had homework or anything else that was pressing so we were able to get up early and spend the whole day together doing something special with Jordyn. I chose apple picking. It definitely wasn't fall weather, it was 90 degrees but it was still an enjoyable day.

The apple orchard was about 40 minutes away so I decided to pack our lunch to take and have a picnic. I think that might have been Jordyns favorite part...being allowed to eat and walk around at the same time! Then it was off to pick apples. It didn't take us that long to pick because it was really hot and we had to take turns holding Jordyn so she could reach the apples. There were a few trees where she could stand on the ground and pick but when she was on the ground she wanted to pick the rotten ones up and she kept asking to get back up to reach the high ones. We did get a lot of different kinds and they were all very delicious looking. They also had animals at the orchard that we got to take a look at. It was fun to see Jordyn getting to put the sounds to real animals. We got to hear a pig oink, a sheep baa and we saw rabbits wiggling their noses. It was cool to see Jordyn make the sounds back at the animals too. She really enjoyed it. The days wasn't over though. There were still fall things to do! When we got home we made sugar cookie dough and Jordyn got to help with that too. She liked helping me hold the mixer and beating everything together. After dinner we got to take it out of the fridge and make pumpkin and apples sugar cookies. She liked rolling the dough but cutting the cookies got a little boring and she wasn't to thrilled about the sprinkles. I convinced her to stay and help me make 6 cookies but after that she was done. I think her favorite part about cookie making was getting to stand on a chair! We ended the night with a video in bed, all 3 of us, and then mommy and daddy got to watch their own video when Jordyn went into her own bed. It was a great day! Today I made applesauce and apple crisp from our apples we picked yesterday. Jordyn loved both although I think she liked the apple crisp better because she got to have ice cream with it! What a fun and tasty weekend.

Ultrasound Video

Well, we now have a video of our baby girl to go along with the cute picture. She is already so precious to us and we can't wait to meet her!

New Picture

I went to the doctors on Wednesday for my normal check-up and to get an ultrasound video of the baby made. We decided to do some 3-D pictures as well. This one was just too cute...she looks a lot like Jordyn with those little lips and button nose!

Funny Story

This was too cute of a story not to share. The other day I was making dinner and Jordyn always loves to get in the kitchen and "help". Pulling things out of the refrigerator is one of her most favorite things to do so a lot of times I let her. We were having cantaloupe for dinner and we had half of the melon wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge. I gave that to her to hold so she could feel like she was helping. She brought it into the play room and began to roll it around and just play. I was happy to have her out from under my feet so I let her continue to play with it, checking on her every few minutes. After a while I realized it was just too quite and went in to look on her. Of course, at the same time, Wayne walked in from work and looked at me and Jordyn like we were crazy. That's because she had pulled off the plastic wrap and was sitting in the middle of the floor eating the cantaloupe, rind and all. Of course, she was then spitting out the rind all over the floor to get to the good insides. It was very cute and I couldn't help but take some pictures. She loves cantaloupe!

The Mommy of a 1 Year Old

I can't believe it's here but Jordyn is 1 year old! It seems so hard to imagine that we've only known her one year...it seems I've been her mom forever. She has grown up tremendously and is nothing like the person she was a year ago. Wayne and I look back at the pictures and just laugh saying "that doesn't even look like her, can you remember when she was that little?" Time flies by so fast. Oddly enough, as her b-day was approaching I wasn't quite as excited as I thought I would be. Wayne will testify to the fact that I had a few meltdowns (maybe due to the pregnancy, maybe not). I know those of you with children my age will just laugh at me and say "just wait", but she has grown up way to fast! I know she's only 1 but already I want to turn back the clock and have her be my little cuddle-bug again, to sleep in bed with us at night and be a lot less independent. While I know this is such a small step compared to what's coming I am not ready for her to grow up...I wan't her to be my baby forever. Already she is our big girl. We tell her that mommy has a baby and it isn't her, she's the big sister now. But despite the thoughts of sadness and longing to what things were I am so looking forward to what is to come this next year. She is changing every day and I can't even begin to imagine what she will be like on her second birthday, or how crazy I will be going by then. I'm the mommy of a 1 year old....how crazy.