Jordan loves garbage day cause the TRASH TRUCK comes (one of his favorite words). Here he is watching them in action:
Here he is not letting anything get in his way of getting to the yogurt
40th birthday celebration at Yamato:
The first signs that Jordan might actually walk one day (not that we are rushing it):
We’ve been busy celebrating holidays and my birthday but we’ve also managed to capture several videos of Jordan doing what he does. Here they are:
Howling at the moon (literally):
Snack time with mommy:
Rockin out:
talking to the wheel:
laughing at the wheel:
reading books:
In hebrew swing is Naad Ned. That’s one of the words he knows only in hebrew. Here he is saying his version of the word (Na-ah) while he swings the foot-rest of the rocking chair in his room. By the way one of his new favorite words is “shampoo.” We’re not even sure how he learned it.
This video of Jordan is about a week old, but I forgot to post it.
Click here to hear him babbling. The only real words I hear in there are pee-pee and dada, but I’m sure he’s saying something important (or silly).
We had a great Tammy’s birthday/holiday weekend. Jordan really enjoyed Safta’s briskit (leftovers too!), and he had a blast playing with his cousins. Now when Jordan sees anyone praying or chanting he says “Saba.” We’re not sure how he caught onto that so quickly, but it can’t be coincidence.
Happy birthday Tamar
The best thing is that, more than ever, it is clear that Jordan understands what we’re asking and sometimes even answers yes or no. Since he was getting a little upset when I was taking him to his changing table to change his diaper, I now ask him, “I’m going to change your diaper now OK?” And he answers yeah, and then doesn’t get upset . He also makes a noise that is hard to describe that Tammy realized means “yes.” Tammy’s language skills are coming in handy as she always seems to figure out what he is saying long before I do.
For those who see Jordan often, his wheel-spinning addiction is not new. I have mentioned that here a few times, but I decided to capture the breadth of his addiction in photos. These were all taken within 24 hours of each other
The round dumbell
the crayons
This is the normal look of concentration we’ve gotten used to when he’s busy “wheeling”
It really doesn’t matter if there are other toys or other kids around to play with, he just wants to be left alone with something that spins:
When we give him cars to roll, he immediately flips them upside down so he can spin their wheels.
The best way to become Jordan’s friend is to roll the wheel back to him. Otherwise, he might not want to pay you any attention.
It took awhile, but we got the rest of our 1-year photos of Jordan taken at Travel Town. There were dozens of great ones, but here are the two we just had to buy:
These were the ones we already posted:
Tonight we went out for an early birthday celebration for Tammy. Jordan is such a pleasure when we take him out to restaurants… So we’ve been doing it more often (P.S. he ate his first Chinese dumpling filled with chicken, and he really liked it):
If he’s not spinning or rolling something, Jordan is usually looking for the moon
Or he tries to close himself in closets. “Door” is one of his new favorite words.
Pretty much all day he says, moon, door, wheel, mama, dada, apa (airplane) trashtruck (a new obsession) and show (TV).
Also he’s starting to say names, saba, safta, hayley.
We’ve also heard him say bye, go, and something that sounds like “hi.”
Tammy and Jordan also started their new mommy and me class last week and new music class today. We will post some pictures of that soon.
Here are a few others I took last weekend.
hard to get a clear shot, but here’s see-saw with Jaxon at my gym…
And this weekend we will celebrate Tamar’s birthday (Sunday)!
You have to watch this video of Jordan with your head to the side, but I still had to post his fun giggle-fest
This new video of Jordan playing in the closet from this morning is long (about 4 mins) but needs no further description. It speaks for itself. We are having a blast!
We had such a wonderful relaxing weekend. We lit a fire and made s’mores in the backyard in our firepit, which we haven’t done in way too long.
Now that Jordan is saying Mama and Dada, he makes us smile even more.
I can’t get enough of it!
We had Jaxon and his parents Cyndi and Brett over on Saturday night. As you can see from the video, Jaxon is a very friendly sweet kid. I cant wait until they learn how to play together.
After s’mores, we took them for a walk around the hood in their rides. We hoped to see the moon because Jordan asks to see it about 50-100 times a day, but it wasn’t visible yet. The kids checked out each others’ cars:
Here is Jordan playing yesterday at another friend’s house. He mostly did what he does these days… looked for things that roll or spin, and then says wee-yal, wee-yal, wee-yal.
Here is Jordan with Hayley who always gives Jordan LOTS of warm attention…
