Baby Update

Jo accompanied me to the first of many OB appts in our future. She doesn't know that she's got a little brother or sister on the way, and even if we told her, I doubt she'd understand what that meant. But she does love to go to a doctor's office. The whole time she was telling me to lay down on the bed. When they got out the doppler to hear the heart beat (baby is still too low, we just heard it moving), the assistant held her up so she could watch. She liked that, and brought it up a few times that afternoon. Overall she did really well, despite it being during nap time. She's in for a treat because I go to the eye doctor next week, and she'll have to tag along for that as well. And then we have the 1st trimester screening at the perinatologist's right before our Austin trip. That's when she'll probably learn there's a baby on the way.

Thru a child's eyes

Yesterday when Jordan woke up from her nap, she wanted to play her little game of telling me her socks were stinky. She shoves a sock in my face and waits for me to say "P-U!!" Not sure why, but she thinks this is really funny. So after a time or two of this I snuffled her around her neck to tell her she stinks, and she likes this because it tickles.
At the snuffling sound she turned to me and said "Mama, you a pig?"
I said "I'm a pig?!?! That's not nice!"
So she says, "Ok, you a Cow."

Super. I wonder what she's gonna call me 6 months from now.

More Easter Fun

We had a very busy Easter weekend with more social outings than we've had in weeks. It must have worn Jordan out, because she's working on a 3 hour nap right now.... What Jordan will remember most about Easter is you find eggs, and there's junk food inside of them. And if you're sneaky, you can scarf a little of that candy while mom and dad aren't looking. You just act like you're entertaining yourself; Mama and Daddy NEVER disrupt that.

On Friday Jordan's friends Melina and Levi came over for playtime and some egg hunting practice in the backyard. It was the only nice weather day for the weekend. These were empty eggs, but Jo still really got into it, especially when she saw how excited the other kids were about hunting eggs. Kay and I had planned to take the kids to lunch as well. We wanted to go someplace with a playground, and I tried to find a place that wasn't McDonald's, and failed. I really am not a fan of McDonald's, but as with Walmart, my boycotts have been slipping. This was at least a brand new McDonald's, the playground appeared relatively clean, and Jordan had a blast. I do miss the fancy shopping centers in Austin that have several easy food places surrounding a nice outdoor playground. Yet another example of the economic difference between the ATX and the ABQ....

Saturday was our family Easter day. We had to do a little food shopping for the parties we were going to on Sunday, and in route we stumbled upon (thanks to a massive wreck on Lomas and detour) an awesome mom and pop candy shop. It was really cute, everyone working there was a little old lady, and they have a small shop up front and make all the goodies in the factory in the back. It's called Buffet's (related to Warren Buffet), they make all the chocolates and candies themselves, AND they give free samples. Yum. We picked out a few treats, and as the lady was ringing the stuff up, she says, "Um, there are teeth marks in these rabbits...". Those would be from Jordan. We let her hold the chocolate rabbits (bunny heads on lollipop sticks) and she tried to take a bite out of each of them, through the cellophane and all. That's Mama's girl.

On Easter morning we headed over to our friends' place for yet another egg hunt and Easter lunch. They served up a traditional Croatian meal, which I can't spell. They had some friends visiting from out of town, who have two boys, so there was a nice group of kids and everyone got along. Jo liked seeing how excited the other kids were about the eggs. We played until nap time, then headed home to rest up for our evening party next door. Our neighbors hosted a big egg hunt in their backyard and there must have been 50 people there. By this time, I think Jo was getting a little bored with the eggs. She started to discriminate, and would only pick up the green ones for a while. They also had some good egg games, like spoon races, an egg toss (with raw eggs...), and a very personal egg passing contest where you have to pass your egg to your partner under your chin. No one got the hang of that, but I wish I'd had my camera for it. We had a lot of fun, met some new people, and pigged out on great food.

So we're pretty tired today. Jo took a 3 hour nap, and I took a 2 hour one :-) And then I printed out our taxes and started writing checks...

Jordan-isms

Jordan has some pretty funny observations and ways of saying things. Here's a few:

- She refers to her clothes hangers as the number 2
- She gets that you put an "s" on the end of things to make them possessive, but instead of "mine", it's "mines"
- Kitty cats are "catties"
- When I get her dressed in the morning, she says, "Oooh, that's cute" about her outfit
- Cheerios are still, and will probably forever be, yo-yo's
- She likes to play with the broom, and says she's "brooming" the garage

- When she wants me to turn out the lights or draw the blinds she asks me to "turn the dark on"

- When she's done talking to someone on the phone, she hands it to me and says "Mama, you talk to her"

She also really likes to repeat things I say:

- When she sees Zoe sometimes she says "stupid dog". (Zoe's been on my bad side for mowing down my tulips)
- When Jamie comes back from his morning run she says "Oooh, you stink"
- When Jamie came home from work yesterday she asked if he had a good day
- She informed me she can't go to school because she doesn't use her potty
- She told me she needed to go to the gym
- When we get back from our walks she says it's time to stretch

Waiting for spring to come back

Ugh. Springtime in Albuquerque is not the highlight of the year like it is in Austin. I sure do miss blue bonnets and thunderstorms. Everyone warned us April is the worst month of the year here, and after only half a day in, I can see it's probably true. Windy, gray, and cold. Winter was way better. Jamie was excited to do something fun this weekend since he's been out of town for the past two, and he looked at the forecast and groaned. No day with wind speeds under 15 mph for the next 10 days. Too windy to even fly Jo's new kite. I hope Easter is decent. I want to take Jo to an egg hunt in her cute new dress and get nice pics.