1 July 2008 Growing into a little girl and not enough time to blog

Today was Jordan's last day at SPACE. This was our 4thterm - 3 here and one in Dunedin. Today she played a lot with the water and mixed in the face paint (teal coloured from lux flakes) and took thepaint brushes over and splashed it and then wanted to drink it. Yuck.
Challenge 5 of So You Think You Can Scrap has had me stumped - I think a big problem was the fact that this week is Lisa's style and has to include:
a whole piece of patterned paper as a background
birds/and or butterflies
foam or chipboard alphabet
fabric
pink or teal or lime (or use all or a combo of 2 if you wish)
circle/s
And no matter what it is....include on your layout the newest scrapping supply you have bought recently

Sounded great and I couldn't wait to get started - got a bit stumped with my backgroundpaper so got another only to discover really that my photos wouldn't really suit pink or lime with the way they were and the red and teal I had chosen for my background. Most of my photos are of Jordan at space or playcentre and she usually has lots of strange colours on.

7 June - about 3 & 4 June 2008 at SPACE and Playcentre

Love watching Jordan play - she has so much fun sometimes and is very busy transporting things from one area to another - loves to take the paintbrush over to the cornflour mix and add the paint or paint the playdough.Photos with hat are from Applyby playcentre on Wednesday 4 June - while sitting drinking milo and eating toast with vegemite.

7 June 2008 time flies

Where does the time go? How come Jordan is growing so fast? Jordan is enjoying Playcentre and SPACE - especially loves to paint and get wet spending time at the water areas pouring water from one thing to another and loves to carry around paintbrushes and paint pots and transport them from one area to another. She jabbers a lot - some real words thrown in - she is also trying to jump. Also taking her to music on Thursday where she runs around most of the time and then they play afterwards. Love her more each day.

...as a cat

I took Jordan to the Appleby gala type thing held at the playcentre there. I got her face painted - similair to another little girl as a cat - she didn't sit very still and I think because her face is much smaller than the girl's it didn't work out as well but was cute and it only cost $1. At first she wasn't interested in the playdough but then she really was - put some on a plate and was carrying it around - we got there for 9am and she wasn't wanting to go at 11.11 but prior to going I had put the casserole on minus the carrots thinking we'd be back in half an hour.I bought her 3 lots of playdough at 50c - very pretty colours - here are some pics of her as a cat

Quirky

Jordan is so funny sometimes. I have got that potty back out for some more potty training - she goes and sits on it, stands in it and generally uses it as a seat (with her nappies on!). At the Richmond mall the other day she wanted to wander around everywhere and ended up pushing the toy prams around that were outside toyworld - they had 2 bungied together - she was having great fun. She was very energetic at church yesterday too. She loves walking u the aisle - looking along the pews at people and laughing joyfully. At the library today she did her usual trick of pulling out some books and dumping them on the ground. One she did open and held it while standing up and read aloud from it. She is doing good at her sleeps most days - she will sleep in our bed - best to get her in around 12ish - today she has been asleep an hour and a half since 1230 - after a botle fell straight asleep - other days she has the bottle and then wants to play. Like the other day - so I walked her and she fell asleep in about 5 minutes - then work called me in an hour before I was due to start - only because it was Saturday did I say yes. She's such a treasure!

our trip to Christchurch

We had an unsettled drive down to Christchurch with her screaming and crying before we even got to Murchison and was unsettled staying at her other grandparents in Christchurch - think it is just that she is unfamilair with the surroundings even though she seemed okay during the day - she loved pepper the dog. Had 2 unsetled nights and then returned home via Rangiora to get photos taken by Amanda Haynes - she looked so small and cute at Victoria Park in her little dress. We couldn't find anything I liked more than what we had so she wore that. She also wore a cute pink petitt skirt thing that was adorable. Her limit was about an hour though and then she was getting a bit past it - she was really posy with Hape and I when we were over near the toilets to get the green wall background. The travel back was better for her but the rest of us were feeling jaded and carsick. Just hope work don't ring in the morning to call me in to work.

14 April 2008

Went and had our first ultrasound for our new baby on the way. It was cute to see - kicking its legs up and scratching its head at one stage. She said that we were low risk - Jordan and mum came with us - Jordan got a bit tired of the proceedure as the lady was taking a while to get the back neck measurement and kept pressing in trying to get the baby move into a better position so that she could get the neck measurement with the nose in the same shot.
The EDD they gave was 20 October so she said to go with the date of the 17th which the midwife had worked out. It was special to see - we got a couple of little pictures too.