Happy Birthday Jordan!

Jordan had a waffle as part of his breakfast today and loved it. At first I just gave him a few bites of Jack's, but then he jyst kept want more and more so I just made him his own and gave some to Jackson to repay him for sharing his own waffle.

Jordan turned one year old today! It's pretty crazy that he's so old. It's also crazy to think that just a year ago he was born and we were still in the hospital. And he was just a tiny little baby. He's not so tiny anymore. We haven't been to the doctor yet so I don't know his height and weight yet. He's getting better at walking and starting to it more for longer distances. He likes to do things he's not supposed to do and then turn around and smile at me. His new favorite thing to do is to play with the vent on the fireplace. I don't like him to because I'm afraid it will fall off and hurt him. He also likes to grunt for things that he wants. He especially grunts for toys and books that Jackson has. Then he looks at me to see if I'll make Jack give him what he wants. He also likes to grunt and point towards our pantry when he's eating baby food because he knows that's where the cheerios and fishies are kept. He likes to clap when he's excited for things. Today he clapped when I brought him cheese. He really loves cheese. He starting to like to kick things. It's fun to watch him kick his little leg. He likes to go to bed most nights and sometimes starts waving night night before we even say it's time to go to bed. Once he started waving a half hour before bed time so we let him go to bed. He's been sleeping through the night the last few nights which is so nice. He loves Jackson and is always excited to see him and loves to play with him and follow him and do things like him. We had a fun day today. We had a party for him tonight with my parents and my sister and her family.

Jackson loved helping to get ready for Jordan's party. Once we got out the decorations he kept asking if we could decorate. And he kept talking about getting the Christmas tree out. At first I was confused why he thought we needed it, but then I realized that he thought we were going to decorate the tree. :) He found the birthday plates and wanted to set the table. But he had more plates then chairs. He showed me what he did with the extra plate. He said he had two plates so he could have two cupcakes. I told him he couldn't have two cupcakes and he said sorry and tried to find another spot for the plate until I told him he could just bring it to me.

Jackson and Jordan during Jordan's little photo shoot I tried to do. He didn't really cooperate well so the pictures weren't what I was hoping for.

But I did think this one was cute.

The cupcakes. It's supposed to be a train but it looks more like a truck to me. I've made the train before and I thought it turned out better then. When I made the cake I used the whisk type of beater in my mixer and was putting dishes away while it was mixing when I looked back at it it was whipped cake. I wasn't sure out it was going to turn out, but I think it turned out pretty normal.

Jackson with his party hat. Jordan didn't like wearing one at all. He took it off as quick as he could.

Jordan before opening presents. He lately has a fascination with his tongue. He has it hanging out and touches it a lot too. We have a lot of pictures from today with him doing this.

Opening a present...

He just kept playing with toy while the other kids (mostly Jack... I think he forgot whose presents they really were) opened the rest of his presents. I tried to get him to open and play with the other ones but he didn't want to until they were all open and out of their packaging. He really loves shape toys. That's what he plays with the most out of all the toys we have... And he usually likes to play with the circles the best.

Here he is with his cake. He tried to grab the candle instead of blowing it out. He doesn't know how to blow. I don't know how to teach kids how to blow. Luckily Doug blew the cande out before he touched the flame.

At first he seemed a little excited to be getting a cupcake, but then he had no interest in it. Doug tried to get him to bite it. Ashlee gave him a fork to help him to be more interested in it. That made him touch it with the fork at least, but he didn't want to eat it still...

Until uncle Konrad fed him with a fork. Then he liked it some, but didn't want to feed himself. So Konrad broke it into smaller pieces, but he still didn't want to touch it. Ashlee started to feed him some more. and she put some in his hand and he ate that. But he kept pointing at pieces showing her which ones he wanted. He did eventually eat a few bites on his own. I really thought he was going to love it and make a huge mess. I thought that even if he didn't eat it he would would wipe it all over his high chair and drop it off the edge, like he usually does with food. But he was very clean. There was barely anything to clean up.