All About Jordyn

Jordyn is growing up so fast! She is 19 months already. She is in this stage where she just wants to help. She helps with everything from loading the dishwasher, putting her shoes away, dusting, scrubbing floors, bathing Jace, putting trash in the garbage and dirty dishes in the sink, and changing Jace. It is so cute to watch her concentrate so hard on these chores!!

She is also starting to say a lot of words. Some of her favorites are "Hiiieeee" (Hi), "Nigh-nigh" (blanket), "Bah" (Barney), "BeBe" (baby), and "cheez" (which causes her to pull a really funny Jace). The list could go on forever.

Today I told Jordyn I had to put Jace to bed for his nap. I guess she knows my routine quite well, because she ran to his room, pointed to the fan for me to turn it on, and then patted on the rocking chair for me to sit down. She then held her finger to her lips, said "Shhhhh" and walked out of the room closing the door behind her. After I put Jace down, I opened the door to find her dusting the house with her toy duster. How cute!

She also gets frustrated quite easily when she can't do something or if something is different than usual. She noticed after her shower (yes, shower) the other day that her fingers were wrinkled. She walked around looking at her hands saying "Uh-ohhh" over and over again.

She had a tantrum Tuesday afternoon after lunch because something was different. I always push up her sleeves when I put her in her highchair for lunch. When I take her out of her high chair, she makes a point of helping me pull her sleeves down. Today, she wore short sleeves for the first time this year. She pulled and pulled on her short sleeves trying to get them down. She cried and cried saying "deeves, deeves" (sleeves, sleeves). She did this over and over. I finally had to give her some strawberries to calm her down.

Last, I tried to do some finger painting with Jordyn this morning. I thought I had a great idea and that she would love it. Well, it lasted for about five minutes. Apparently, Jordyn does not like dirty hands. She wanted her wash rag and wanted nothing to do with the paints. She was finally happy once I had her hands washed off. I think she must have gotten this from Uncle Andy.

Enjoy some pics of Jordyn! (Don't worry...I'll do a Jace update soon also!)

Still lovin' her box

Having cake with Kendal at Jace's baptism

Loving her baby brother

Say "Cheez"

Her beautiful finger painting that she hated doing. I think I did most of it trying to get her to help!

BAPTISM

Jace was baptized at Overisel CRC on Sunday morning, March 8. We invited family to witness his baptism and we had lunch in the church basement afterwards. Jace was awake thru the whole service and did not cry! Amazing!! He actually entertained the people in the rows behind us because he was flashing big smiles most of the time. Jordyn also sat thru the whole service. I was worried about her because she usually stays in the nursery. It was a beautiful day. Praise God for his promises for his children!

Cousins

We haven't been doing anything too exciting around here lately. We are just waiting for the warm weather to come. Jordyn has been spending time with her cousins, Elijah and Kendal.

It's so cute.

They race each other around the house on these things.

I know, Jordyn has lovely hair!

Visiting Elizabeth at the hospital.

I'm not so sure they enjoy sharing the chair.


We acquired some boxes at Christmastime.
Jordyn and Kendal LOVE them.

Just hangin' out on Jordyn's bench.

Not sure what the excitement is about this, but they love to just sit there.

Jace & Rogue don't do a lot of playing yet,
but I'm sure they will be running around together in no time!

Jordyn & Elijah goofing around!

Welcome Elizabeth Marie

We are so happy to announce that my brother, Chad and sister-in-law, Amber welcomed a new baby girl into their family this morning! Her name is Elizabeth Marie Kraker. She weighed 5lbs, 6oz (pretty good for 4 weeks early) and is 19".

We praise God for a healthy baby and that Amber was able to make it to 36 weeks.

Congratulations you guys!!!

Jace's Pictures

Check out Jace's newborn pictures at Marc Photography.

http://marcphotography.zenfolio.com/p1007092746

Thanks again Andrew & Tiffany for doing a wonderful job!

Snowy Day

Jordyn has been cooped up in the house for a couple days now because of a cold and a cough. Today she seemed to be feeling better so we decided that it would be good for her and her cough to get some fresh air.

I think it took more time to get ready than what we spent outside

Jace even came outside (don't worry grandmas...we kept him nice & warm)!

We did lots of fun stuff, like go for a walk with Jordyn's new sled, made snow angels, threw snowballs, and went sledding down a hill...

...but Jordyn had the most fun doing what she does best....pushing the stroller. She hasn't been out for a walk in quite a while but this is still her favorite thing to do!

Here is a video of her sledding...she had fun, but is quite expressionless!

1st Bath

Jace finally had his first official bath in the bath tub a couple of days ago. It took a while for us to be able to soak him in the tub because his belly button needed to be cauterized to get it to dry up. Jace actually liked the tub which was surprising because he would scream whenever I washed him up before. Jordyn was such a good helper!! She didn't stay very dry though!