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I have almost finished catching up now with the photos and posts. The ones I posted a few days ago I went ahead and backdated so they are in the right spots chronologically. I still have to post about Jordan’s b-day, but I wanted to catch up on what’s been going on since then. Jordan went to her 2 year doctor’s appointment, and had a slightly traumatic experience. She had to have her ears scooped out again, and they still couldn’t see inside them. She has a crazy amount of wax in her ears, and now I’m supposed to be putting drops in her ears once a week to help with that. She was weighed and measured, and is now 33 1/4 inches tall, and weighs 22 lbs. She is in the 30th percentile for height, and the doctor said we’ll call it the 3rd percentile for weight. In actuality, she’s not really on the chart for her age. She’s pretty much average size for a 1-year-old, and she’s 2! She was 19 lbs at her 1 year check up, and she’s only gained 3 pounds in the past year. But she’s healthy and active, so I’m not worried. She had 1 shot, and then sadly we had to have blood work done, as they have always been concerned about her iron levels. I was so hoping that she wouldn’t be put on an iron supplement, since that wreaks havoc with your digestive system, and thank heaven she’s “on the low side of normal” which means I’m just supposed to have her eat Iron-rich foods. That is quite the struggle, as she has realized that’s something she can control, so she does! She will only eat what she wants to eat, when she wants to eat it. She hasn’t starved, but I’m concerned since she is so light for her age. I know it will all even out eventually, and she will eat some day, but for now it’s a bit of a struggle. She’s been pretty good about knowing when she needs a time-out, or time away. She will actually give herself a time out when she’s upset. She’ll go into her room, pull herself together, and then come out when she’s feeling better. She seems to really enjoy her new room, and I think it gives her a sense of independance. We haven’t had much trouble with her leaving her room, since she did a few times, then I told her if she came out one more time I’d gate her doorway. I have only had to gate her room 3 times since we switched her to her big girl bed. And the mornings now are so much easier. She will play by herself in her room for a good couple of hours before either I go in to get her, or she comes out on her own. Today she was in there until 10:15! I heard her wake up and start playing before 8am, but she was quite content to play by herself. She’s been really good about following directions when we’re out, too. And she’s started to show an interest in potty training again. In fact when we’re out, especially for a meal, she will stay dry the whole outing, and request to go on the potty, then she actually uses the potty, and goes back to the table to finish lunch or dinner! I’m very excited about this! The only problem we are having now is she is remembering the hurt from before when she was so constipated, and is scared to poop. She’ll hold it in as long as she can, then screams when she can’t hold it anymore. This past week has been difficult, but it does seem to be getting better. Thank heaven we have discovered that she likes prune juice, and it really helps her.
This past Wednesday Mike and I had our 3rd Anniversary! We celebrated by Jordan and I going to Disneyland with Lori and Tyler, and Mike going to a job fair with his friend Dan. Okay, so that wasn’t how we celebrated, but that’s what we did Wednesday. We decided to celebrate Friday since too much was going on during the week. Friday Jordan and I met Mike at Panda Inn (where Mike proposed, and where we had our rehearsal dinner) for a yummy Chinese Food dinner. Jordan seemed to enjoy it as well. She had white rice, cashew chicken (my favorite) and a bit of pork lo mein. It was a fun evening, and quite yummy. Mike gave me a very sweet card that he made on the computer, the new Jonas Brothers CD, Pink Panther DVD (the one with Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, and Beyonce) which just so happens to be the last movie we saw in theatres before Jordan was born, and a computer game- Wedding Dash. I have almost finished that game already! It is quite addicting! I gave Mike a cube-paperweight-type thing with 3 pictures of him and I through the years, a PS2 game called Buzz which we have played together a few times, and Heroes DVD season 1.
Jordan and I leave for Kentucky on Friday of this week, so we’ll be crazy busy preparing for that this week. I’m going to try to catch up with the pictures before we go. Here’s a teaser on what’s to come:
Jordan’s birthday party
August Disneyland trip with Tyler
Pictures from our Anniversary dinner
Pictures of Justin and Jamie before they left for New York