I've Been Busy

Recently I made a list of goals, things I'd like to accomplish, things to help keep me busy during Jordyn's naps and to give me something to do while waiting for Erik to get home. For the month of June, my goal was to make Jordyn a blanket, a bedspread for her new big girl bed (not yet purchased, we're getting a great deal on one from a friend of a friend. We just have to wait until they get their replacement furniture, most likely the end of July). I did a sudoku quilt (yes, just like the puzzles, you have 9 different fabrics and cut 9 squares of each and piece them together as you would do a puzzle). I happened to have a few extra squares so I made two square pillows and then another coordinating pillow as well. Here's the finished pillows. The quilt has been sent to my mom so she can quilt it for me (and I forgot to get a picture before I mailed it, but I'll post one as soon as I get it back). Jordyn just LOVES her big girl pillows, and is very excited to get a big girl bed.

My Little Girl

With Jordyn's 22 month mark just a few days away I thought I'd jot down a few noteworthy facts about my little girl. First off, she's not so much a little girl, but more of a little lady. She's very good at saying please and thank you. She'll also say sorry and she's learning that big girls don't scream, but it's okay for them to giggle. Jordyn has an extensive vocabulary and uses most of her words in the correct context (she is a bit confused with her pronouns, but we're working on that). She's well on her way to being potty trained -- she'll tell us when she needs to go, and then she runs and sits on her little potty chair. Today we're attempting a nap without a diaper and soon we might even brave running errands without one. She can count to 7 all by herself and knows her colors. Right now she's VERY fascinated with BIG TRUCKS! (firetrucks, trash trucks, dump trucks, etc). She also loves it when Daddy takes her to feed the horses. Here's a list of some of her favorites. . .

Movie: 101 Dalmatians (it's like pulling teeth to get her to watch anything else; it's great, she walks around the house yelling "this retched, retched pen")

Toy: Care Bears

Food: Hot Dogs (and she likes them cold. YUCK!)

Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?

Song: I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home and Old McDonald's Farm

Treat: otter pops

Finger Paints

For Father's Day, I had Jordyn draw pictures for her Daddy and her Grandpas. Since it was a special day, not just any pictures would do so I got some finger paints and set up our little artist out side to create her master pieces, and create she did. We ended up with 4 beautiful paintings (I guess she thought I needed one as well). In between all the picture painting, Jordyn decided that she needed a little more color in her life as well. Yes, she purposely painted herself, good thing it washes off with water! Here is our little artist admiring her finished paintings, and showing me what an artist's hands look like.

*just as a side note, I am just learning how to make storyboards in Photoshop so you might see a lot of them in the next few weeks, sorry if they get old, I need to practice!

Two Peas in a Pod

I'm Washing My Hair. . .

For years this has been a famous excuse to get out of going out, or just to get out of doing something you didn't want to do. Well, my little one decided to use this excuse the other day to get out of running errands. As I was getting ready to go, Jordyn decided to play in the bathtub. A shampoo bottle later, she walks out crying rubbing her soapy eyes. We rush back to the bathroom, where I about slip and fall on the soapy floor, to wash the shampoo out of her eyes. Several minutes later, as she's lying on my chest wrapped in a towel I ask what she was doing. She replies, "wash hair".

*no we didn't end up running errands that day. Jordyn's eyes were red and hurting for several hours after.

Making Cupcakes

Yes, we make a lot of things at our house, it's one of Jordyn's favorite things to do. She's always wanting to make pancakes, cup cakes, juice (smoothies), or her favorite it to help daddy make kool-aid (because she's helping daddy). So the other day, we made chocolate cup cakes (we never make cakes at our house, only cup cakes because my strange husband wont eat cake, but he'll eat several cup cakes a day; go figure?!). Jordyn enjoys helping pour the water and oil into the batter, and stirring the ingredients together, but her favorite part is cleaning the beaters when I'm done (another silly tidbit about my family. Jordyn LOVES eating the batter off the beaters, but she won't eat the cup cakes once they're cooked). Also, Jordyn has to have BOTH beaters, I asked her to share one with her Daddy and I got this look. . . Then she quickly decided that wasn't the right thing to do and she offered me one.

Making Necklaces

The other day while browsing the aisles at Wal-mart (yes, we were very bored), I came across these wonderful foam "beads" and decided to get some so that Jordyn could make her own jewelry. I got home and was delighted to discover that the box came with its own plastic string and needle. We got Jordyn a little bowl to hold her "beads" while she worked and off she went. With her nubby little fingers she had a difficult time getting the needle through the hole in the beads, but she eventually got it figured out, though she did get tired of stringing beads very quickly and decided that she wanted "Mommy do it" while she handed them to me. In no time, she had this wonderful necklace which she was quite pleased with, so pleased that she had to talk to Grandma on the computer (skype) just to show her.