Spring Break

This year for Andy's spring break we decided to stay in town. Nez took the week off of work and Jordan got to spend lots of time with his Lito, Lita, and Papito who came up from Florida. The plan was for Manny, Andy, and Nez to work on assembling the new shed in the backyard while Anin watched Jordan. On Saturday, Jordan got to spend some time with his cousin Amelia.

2012: Week 4 Jan 22-28

January 26

Driving to Florida for Papito's 90th birthday party.

January 28

Rockin' at Lito and Lita's house.

2012: Week 3: Jan 15-21

January 15

Jordan prefers to play on the box his toys come in more than the toy itself.

January 16

"Daddy can I get it? It'll match the living room furniture!"

January 20

Mommy was sad to leave me at school because she was leaving for 3 days! She missed me!

"I'm ready for my bath now!"

2012: Week 2 Jan 8-14

January 13

Jordan pushing his stroller at Galloway recess while visiting Daddy.

2012: Week 1 Jan 1-7

We'll see how this goes, but we thought it would be cool to take a pic of Jordan each day (or as many days as possible and post weekly). Plus with the iPhone 4s having a great camera, this may work.

Jan. 1, 2011
Jordan shopping @ Babies R Us



Jan. 2, 2011
Drinking milk from sippy cup...no more bottles??!!



Jan. 3, 2012
Jordan playing with his letters and numbers while he takes a bath.



Jan. 4, 2012
Galla's trivia



Jan. 5, 2012
Jordan realizing it's fun to feed Ali and Ali realizing it's fun to hang out by Jordan while he eats.



Jan. 6, 2012
Trying sweet potato for the first time and holding a fork too. Now if we can just get him to use the fork to eat the potato.



Jan. 7, 2012
Eating at Red Lobster is exhausting.

Round 2 Begins

Well, with the arrival of Santa this Christmas, Jordan has now begun experiencing holidays and such for the second time. Jordan met Santa on Christmas Eve at Perimeter Mall (nothing like waiting until the last possible minute and almost missing it).

Anyway, after we informed Santa of what we wanted, we had a wonderful Christmas. Grandma and Grandpa Crosby came up on Christmas morning and stayed for a few days. Jordan always loves playing with grandpa. Here, he is explaining the calendar he gave them to Grandma Mikki.

After spending Christmas Eve with Ross' parents, Lindy and Ross came over on Christmas morning to open presents and see Jordan. Does anyone know who just LOVES his Uncle Ross?

We all had a great Christmas dinner at Lindy and Ross' house with Kevin, Angela, Jodie, Jason, and Noah joining us.

Christmas was much different this year with a one-year-old than it was with a 2-week-old. Jordan really racked up on the toys this year from everyone. Although he enjoys the boxes more than what's inside.

We're thinking we are going to need to build a parking garage in the living room for all his vehicles: dump truck, convertible car, motorcycle, and fire truck. That doesn't count the insane number of smaller and/or non-vehicle toys the kid has.

Jordan had already started walking while pushing one of his toys or a dining room chair. But he is now beginning to take his first steps without holding on to anything. As of today, he has taken about 6 consecutive steps on his own.

Birthday Boy!

On the Sunday before Jordan turned ONE, we threw Jordan his first birthday party. Friends and family came to help him celebrate! After the first hour and a half of the party, the birthday boy decided to wake up from his nap to join us. Fashionably late entrance apparently.

He didn't exactly like the cake, but we got good pictures.

On the 13th at 8:36 PM Jordan officially turned 1 year old. Our goal is to take a picture of him at that time each year on his birthday and create a scrapbook to give to him when he grows up.

We hope Jordan enjoyed his turning one even half as much as we enjoyed it for him! We can't believe he's already a year old. Where does the time go?