10 months old!

Doug snuck into Jordan's room so that I could have a picture of Jordan on his official 10 month birthday. So here he is sleeping.

My little baby is now 10 months old! In 2 months he'll be one. Crazy! To celebrate his big day we went to his first baby story time at the library. He loved the bouncy songs/rhymes that we did. At first he just kind of watched all the other babies with a serious face but after he while he started to enjoy all the bouncing. He also loved the toys at the end too. Jack stayed by me most of the time during the toys but Jordan just went after the toys and didn't pay any attention to me. They're very different boys. Then we went to three stores, came home, had lunch, and he took a nice long nap. It was a good day for us. Then he got to play with daddy all night long while I was at enrichment. Jordan is so much fun. He loves to play with us. He's getting better at crawling down the stairs. He's done it by himself several times, but it's pretty scary for me to let him do it if I'm not there. He goes down really weird and looks like he's going to fall half the time. But he hasn't fallen yet. He's very good at catching himself. He likes to say lalalalala. He seems to be getting a little bored with baby food. I bought him some baby snacks called crunchies, thinking they were going to be a good healthy snack for him since they were zesty tomato, but instead they were like doritos, according to Doug (but much more healthy I'm sure, and I really don't think that there was cheese on them.) And since those everything else doesn't seem as good. He seems to want our food. He looks at it and grunts. He's a cute boy.

Jordan and his crunchies. Can't you see how much he loves them? Although I do think he was even more excited because I let him have the crunchy container.

Jackson has been playing in the deep cupboard we have in our kitchen. The doorway is really small, but big enough for the boys to get through. Jack calls it the hiding place. Jordan loves to do what Jack does so of course he loves the hiding place too. Whenever the door is left open he loves to play in it.

Jack climbed in with Jordan. I didn't think it would fit both boys... I guess I need to get some more food to store under there.

Leaky Roof

Last week our roof started leaking. But it wasn't leaking in the top floor like you would think. Doug found water in our kitchen. So he put a bowl to catch the water then the next day asked my dad what to do to fix it. My dad said to poke a hole in the ceiling to let the standing water drip. Doug was at work when he got this advice so he asked me to do it. I was a little nervous that I might break the ceiling and the upstairs would cave in on me but I did it anyway. So much water came through the hole throughout the day. My parents came over that night and my dad and Doug fixed the hole. It was raining pretty hard outside so they were getting soaked out there. But now there is no hole or leak! Thanks Dad for helping!

The hole after I poked it to make it bigger.

Here's the bowl with water from about halfway through the day.

Doug looking at the fixed ceiling that still needs to be painted.

I guess we did get it...

Remember a few post ago when I said we went to my sister's house for New Year's Eve and they were all sick and we seemed to be fine except that the boys had a little cough, but nothing too bad? I was very wrong. The boys have been sick this week, although they seem to be getting better I think. Jack's doing better than Jordan though. Either that or Jordan just doesn't like baby food anymore. He hasn't been eating much lately. He didn't want dinner last night, or breakfast this morning, or much of lunch. He didn't even want much bread after he had a little baby food and he loves bread. It usually makes him happy. But not today. The poor kids cough so much. On Monday Jack would just be watching tv and start crying because he didn't feel good. I assume his throat hurt. But he's been better today. He's eaten more and had more engery to play. Hopefully Jordan will get to feeling better soon too.

Stairmaster

Jordan has finally figured out how to go all the way up the stairs. He's also kind of knows how to come down them. He turned around once from the top to go down backwards by himself. He's so scared of coming down forwards. He usually will just go next to the stairs and whine until I pick him up or help him turn around. He makes me nervous when he's on the stairs because he always turns around to look at me when I'm behind him. But he hasn't fallen yet. I think the stairs are his form of rebellion :) he seems to go over to them when he's not getting the attention I think he would like to have. He must know that when he goes over to them someone will follow him and get him or just follow him up the stairs. Tonight I was doing the dishes and Doug was upstairs busy and so the boys were playing by themselves and Jordan apparently didn't like it. He kept going over to the stairs and would start to climb them and then he's turn around and look for someone to come to him. Then he'd climb another stair and keep looking around. Then he'd whine a little. He was really trying to get attention.

Jordy

Here are some cute pictures of our baby...

I just think he's so cute in this picture!

Sometimes I make a funny face at Jordan and squint my eyes and kind of scrunch my face and he tries to do it too. Usually he doesn't have as much of a smile as he has in this pictures. He usually tries to scrunch his face up too.

We taught Jordan how to play 'so big' (we say so big and he supposed to raise his arms... and sometimes he starts the game and raises his arm and we say so big too him.) But generally I think kids play this game by raising two arms. But not our boy. He only ever raises one.

Jordan wore his first tie to church on Sunday. I thought he looked so cute in it. I've been afraid to put him in one because for some reason I thought it would be dangerous since he's so little. But I decided to try it out this week and it turned out to be not so dangerous. He survived his first tie.

Happy New Year!

When I got Jackson up from his nap on New Year's Eve I told him to guess where we were going to go that night. He said "the north pole!" We didn't quite go that far, but I think he still had a fun night. We really went over to my sister's house and played the wii with them. The kids especially seemed to love it. Ashlee and Konrad kicked us out so they could go to bed at around 11:00. They really wanted to us gone by 10 but Doug had to do some work at 10 so we had to stay so he could do it. Ashlee and and her family were all sick. So they were tired and wanted to go to bed. We were a little worried that we would get sick but so far we've been pretty good. Jack and Jordan have a little cough, but seem to be ok otherwise. After we got home Doug and I put the kids back in bed and watched a countdown clock on the internet then said Happy New Year! Then Doug went up and fed Jordan because he never fell back asleep after we got home. It was a very exciting New Year's Eve for us :)

Jackson and Alli playing Mariocart. Jackson was pretty serious when he was playing. and he kept swinging the wheel like a bat. It took them a really long time to finish the race... if they ever did actually finish...

Ashlee and Konrad boxing.

Doug with his computer working.

More Christmas

Last week Jack and Jordan got one more present each to finish off their Christmas gifts. Doug's brother Darrin and his family got them these cool toys: Jordan got a ball popper toy that has spinning things and it makes noise. He loves it. Actually they both do. It's usually the first thing they play with when we come down for breakfast and I'm getting all our food ready.

Jack got a remote control car. It's pretty cool. It can go forwards and turn around. It's kind of loud and whenever Jack plays with it Jordan gets scared if he's not being held by someone. If we forget to turn it off after Jackson is done playing with it and Jordan goes over to the car, it starts making noise and he gets so scared and cries. Then he keeps looking back at it and crying even when he's being held until the car is put away out of his sight.

Thanks Darrin and Shawnee and family!