25 Weeks (tomorrow) - Picture Poetry

Our little baby Jordan Mae,


She loves to eat


and chew


and play!


Her mommy loves her


and her daddy too.


With her smiles so sweet


and her eyes so blue!

Since my last post Jordan has gotten a new toy. Her fabulously fun exersaucer. It satisfies her need to be upright and entertained! She loves the buttons that talk and play music. She found those the minute we put her in it for the first time. Now she pushes them and gets to laugh while I do a silly dance for her. I love watching her explore all the toys and she always looks like such a big girl in it.

Mommy, put down the camera and do that little dance!

She also has started eating cereal at the recommendation of her GI doctor. Despite my hesitations, I finally gave in to the advice I've been ignoring for the past month. Well, it may not be helping her sleep any better, but she sure does love it! Sometimes she gets a little upset when she realizes that she has had the last bite. Even after I have scraped the bowl clean.

Jason and I made sure to get video and pictures of the momentous occasion. I successfully multitasked by using one had for the first bite and the other armed with the camera. I already shared one of these above but here they are in order...

Here comes the first bite!


Ew, what is THAT?!


She may not look satisfied but looks can be deceiving. She now gets so excited when she sees me preparing her cereal. I cannot feed her fast enough sometimes. Hmm... has someone been watching how daddy eats?

And one more picture for fun.

Who are you and how did you get in my toy?

22 Weeks - Giggles and Wiggles

My baby is five months. How can that be? All I can think is that we are almost half way to a year. It seems like we just had her but it also feels like she has been with us forever.

I think we have the squirmiest, most wiggly baby ever. We are all starting to realize that this girl wants to move and she wants to move fast! Now the only thing holding her back is the fact that she doesn't know how to move quiet yet. Well, besides rolling to her tummy and squirming herself into the side of her crib anyway. The other day Jason was holding her and she was looking at me with this look on her face. All limbs were moving and if she could have willed herself to go then she would have flown to me! I imagine when she learns to crawl it will be like something straight out of a cartoon. Legs moving, a little smoke and the ZOOM! She's gone! Lord help us, we are going to need it!

She is also giggling a little more each week. We had our first giggle a few of weeks ago but they were few and far between. I was holding her while washing her hair in the sink and something about that struck her as humorous. I got so excited only to find out she had giggled for her daddy just before that! (Which he had failed to mention to me I might add.) Now I usually get a giggle out of her when I am taking off her onesie. She cannot keep her hands out of her mouth so getting a onesie off can be a bit of a challenge and I think she has turned it into a game. She giggles as I try to maneuver her arms out while she makes every effort to continue chewing on them. It's a fun game that makes me giggle too.

This last weekend we went to Tyler to visit my parents. Our second road trip was definitely a success. Jason and I finally got to go out for our anniversary that was a month ago. It was our first date since Jordan was born and we actually had a conversation. A long, uninterrupted conversation. Even though we thought of Jordan, we really enjoyed the fact that we both got to eat a hot meal at the same time. One of life's simple pleasures that we traded in for toothless grins and slobbery kisses. A pretty good trade off if you ask me.


Enough rambling. Pictures!

Rolling over is so much fun! Well, it's fun until you realize you want to be on your back again and you don't know how to do that. That's where I come in (again and again and again).


Before we left for Tyler we had some visitors over. Jordan got to meet a few more members of Jason's family and that included her Great Grandma Millie!


We went to Tyler for two nights and even though it was still pretty warm we spent a little time outside. I wanted Jordan to get to enjoy the country before we headed back to our concrete jungle.


Her newest outfit which I think makes her feel pretty.


It's never too early to enjoy a good book. This book was Jordan's souvenir that my parents brought back from Santa Fe. She loves to hold this book, play with the pages and... can you guess? Yep, chew on it. :)


Spending some time on the reflux wedge. Hey, Jordan is chewing on something... surprise, surprise!


"I don't know why they say you 'have a baby'. The baby has you."
~Gallagher