Such a busy weekend

Jordan is exhausted. I'm exhausted. We're all exhausted. But MAN did we have fun this weekend.

First Cameron, Jordan and I went to see High School Musical 3 in the movies Friday night. It was a heck of a production and we all had fun. Even Jordan was singing along and actually seemed to follow the story line a bit. She didn't get too antsy and no one seemed to mind that she would talk to me from time to time. (thank goodness)

Even though we stayed up late for our big movie night, we all got up early to ride in Jordan's school float for our homecoming parade. It was a massive parade. HUGE event. We rode in a float close enough in the front for us to be able to watch some of the parade from the sidelines as well. Jordan loved the bands almost as much as grabbing the candy people threw at us. I captured a moment when she started dancing to a band:


(if you can't see it, click here)

She kills me.

After the parade, we regrouped and got to spend time with good friends for lunch only to return to campus to walk around the journalism school and go tailgating. Jordan got to attend her first tailgate. She was all about cheering with the grown ups. Very sweet stuff.

The game went pretty well except we were all a bit cold (hooray for big blankets to keep us warm). Jordan had her moments, but on the whole she and her brother were awesome.

After sleeping in this morning, I took the kids on a big hike. It was a PERFECT fall day and we spent an hour and a half hiking, picnicing and taking pictures. I took some awesome shots of Jordan and Cam. It was a ton of fun and we were kind of tired. But was the weekend over? Nope. We had a costume party in our neighborhood that I couldn't pass up. So we got to dress the kids up and hang out with the neighbors. It was breezy outside, but a great time to let the kids run around and be silly in character. Jordan is a butterfly princess this year and she just OOOZES princess. She was so dang proud to be a pretty princess. I just loved how proud she was walking around in her pretty outfit. The pretty outfit pictures will arrive tomorrow. This week is going to be crazy... So I'll do my best to keep everyone up to day. I actually had a really great opportunity to learn a bit about prosthetics as I prepare for our big trip to Chicago next week. I can't believe it's next week. Anyway, I hope to take a few moments to document my thoughts leading to our big trip. I just have to catch up on a little sleep and work!

Rediscovering Motionbox

I went back to my old video storage site, Motionbox and I was happy to see its improvements. So here's a bit of video from a couple of weeks ago with Jordan showing some football spirit.

Football, dancing and fun

I pushed my luck tonight. I let the kids stay up super late last night then I dragged them all over the place today. We had Cameron's soccer game where Jordan got to play soccer with her newest friends. (Anyone her size is a new friend. It's so sweet) Then we ran to the football game and stayed for the first half. Jordan fell asleep in the car and I dropped Cameron off at a neighborhood birthday party. We immediately went from that to a dinner gathering with a bunch of families at a local pizza restaurant. Crazy. I'm exhausted, the kids are exhausted. We're all fried. It was fun, but exhausting.

Jordan is a busy girl. She had another dance class this week and she just LOVED it. The moment she walked into the dance room she flopped on her belly and just slid around. It was so silly that I had to take a picture. It's just another example of how Jordan takes charge when she's in any environment. She's ready to order any and all people around. It's amazing to watch.

Happy Holidays! Go Tigers!

This has been quite a weekend in our household. We started getting the house switched from standard messy kid-zone to slightly cleaner holiday mode. While Daddy was helping with the big Missouri football game coverage, the kids and I set up the tree in our Mizzou outfits. I also took the kids to a local restaurant for small burgers and real milkshakes. Jordan wasn't that interested. She was really interested in decorating the Christmas tree.

Of course, in Jordan's world, decorating means putting on ornaments and immediately taking them off to put them back on the tree again. That means almost half of the tree has a sparse number of ornaments to keep me from needing to police her all the time.

By the way, I think the Mizzou outfits worked. We won the big game!!

Another football game

We took the family to another football game -- and it was smack in the middle of nap time. Somehow Miss Jordan slept through an entire quarter -- She even slept through a cannon going off twice.

All I have to say is that this is the sweetest football picture ever -- and DARN it -- My phone lens was dirty.


Amazing.

Still talking about Z-O-U

Jordan loved going to the football game this weekend. We were trying to get Jordan to say the second half of the M-I-Z-Z-O-U chant. She kind of says "Oh-Eww"

She is getting better with her words. Tonight she called Dudley dog "Dudley" instead of Bubba. She wanted more bread, she said "more bread." I still can't get her to say Cameron's name -- Now he's kind of named "Bruddah."

I love watching her grow. I have a hard time accepting how grown up she is though. The little tantrums and the conversations where I know she understands me... They're all signs of her turning into a little person. Wow.