Jordan's 23 month update is obviously a little LATE! I could easily blame this on the baby, or on life with two under two, or on some other nonsense going on in our lives, but the truth is that I find the monthly update posts so overwhelming! There is always SO much that I want to capture and my expectations for these posts are so high, that when I do find a bit of time to actually sit and type one out, I will purposely find something else to fill the time because I just don't have the brain capacity to actually write a comprehensive post that I would be remotely happy with. SO THERE! Whew!
With that said, it looks like I do have enough patience, time, and working brain cells to bust this thing out tonight.....even though I should probably just wait till her TWO YEAR update, but holy cow! That milestone definitely deserves a post of its own.
So let's see...at 23 months J's imagination has really blossomed and she is putting more and more concepts together. For instance, there was a day when I was sitting on the couch nursing Brynnlee and she was going back and forth between the family room and the play room just keeping busy. She has this little box that holds eight tiny Winnie The Pooh books and it has a string handle on the top of it. She grabbed the box like a purse and as she was walking away from me, she turned around a bit and said, "Buh-bye, mom. See ya later! Going to work now." and she walked out of the room and down the hall toward the garage door. About 20 seconds later I heard her again..."Oh! Forgot keys!" And she went into the play room, found her toy keys and headed back to the garage door. I was dying laughing. I couldn't believe how she was able to piece so many different concepts together and act them out.
Speaking of the play room, a huge THANK YOU to my hubby and my mom for getting it situated! It's not completely organized or decorated as we would like, but it's a start.
(I thought I had a picture of it, but I'll have to update with one later.)
Some of our favorite phrases/words that she uses are:
"Mama, watch this!"
"Don't worry baby, I gotcha!" (When Brynnlee cries)
"Show mama/dada" (When she has something that she wants to hold, she says this so that you let her hold it)
"Oh, der you go! Das bedda!" (Oh, there you go! That's better!)
Hog gog (hot dog)
Spooky (everything related to Halloween is spooky! And boy does this girl love her some Halloween. I am so excited for tomorrow!!)
She has successfully opened a door, but hasn't mastered the act, thank you lord!
She still takes about an hour long nap around 1pm.
After we put her down, she can take up to about 30 minutes to get all of her energy out and fall asleep, but typically it's between 15 to 20 minutes.
If you tell her that she can do something or have something at a certain time, ie. after her nap, you can guarantee that the first thing she asks for when she wakes up is exactly what you had promised. Her memory is not lacking in the slightest!
When you try to take a picture of her, she'll say cheese and smile really big, but at the same time, she squints her eyes shut and then puts her hands in front of her face! You end up with something like this...
or this...
She can count BACKWARDS from seven! (Thank you, Special Agent Oso!)
She's wearing 24 month/2T clothes and spent her last days in size 5 shoes.
I still cannot get her to leave a bow or a pony in her hair for a decent amount of time.
She had started hiding when she pooped. Either behind the couch or in the other room. I write this in the past tense because she we have quite a big accomplishment to announce in her 24 month update!!! (HINT: it may or may not include BIG GIRL UNDIES!)
Speaking of poop...those poopy diapers of her's were getting ridiculously disgusting to clean up! Unreal!
She is beyond obsessed with the iPed (no, that's not a typo, that's how she says it!) and our iPhones. It's disgusting to me how well she can actually operate one.
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| This pic was not staged AT ALL! |
Sadly, very sadly, she has started calling me mom at times. Ughh, it came too soon! I have no clue where it even came from! ::sigh::
We don't rock her before putting her to bed anymore. It's typically a short story and then we listen to "song" (Goodnight My Love by Paula Abdul). And the reason that we don't rock her anymore is because................
Jordan is now sleeping in a big girl bed!!! Gah! Could she be growing up any faster??
When Brynnlee was just over a week old, Jordan started climbing out of her crib. Out of nowhere! She had never attempted it before, so it was a total shock to us, but it happened. She made a safe escape the very first time during a nap and it just so happened that Bobby had also left her bedroom door open because it was so hot. So he caught her roaming the hallway upstairs. That night she slept in her crib just fine. The next day we were out and about during her nap and that night, she did fine again. It was the third day, during nap that she decided to try her scaling skills again and she was not able to pull it off as gracefully as she had prior. After hearing a big thud, Bobby went in to check on her and when I heard crying, I ran upstairs to find him carrying her with bloodied mouth! I FREAKED! I thought for sure we were headed to the ER. Thank our lucky stars, after a little dabbing with a towel, there was a small cut on her lip and it stopped bleeding right away. That's what it took for us to then remove all of her toys and books from her room and put her mattress on the floor. The first step to sleeping in a real bed! We kept her mattress on the floor for a week or so and then converted her crib into a toddler bed and she has done great! She does her fair share of running circles around her room, falling asleep half on, half off the bed (see below), removing the fitted sheet from one corner of the mattress and climbing underneath it like a tent, etc., but she still gets her sleep in, so I'm not complaining!
To our beautiful, bright, persistent, playful, loving daughter,
As you approach two years old, your dada and I could not be more proud of the little lady that you are growing in to. You make us laugh, you make us smile and you make us grow a few extra gray hairs! You are so incredibly special to us and we hope you know and feel how much love we have for you.
Love you, Sweetheart!
