All dressed up

Is he handsome or what?! Here is Jordan before church this morning. We ended up teaching the sunbeams today and he had a lot of fun with them. He played the games with them and colored and everything! They had fun with him too.

The discriminating taste

Jordan has a new food obsession - Captain Crunch. It was on sale the other day so I got a box and he tried it for the first time this morning. Since then he has decided that only the crunch berries are worth his time. Here he is picking the one out of a handful and then begging for another since there aren't any in Mike's hand. What a funny kid! He knows the box too and where it is, so if we try to give him something else when he wants Captain Crunch, he keeps pointing at the cupboard where we keep it.

Banana!

Jordan has recently become very independent about his bananas. He has to hold them himself now!

In other news, it is finally starting to cool down here - low 90's. It is amazing what 10 degrees can do to make it feel better. We went to a park today for a play group and it wasn't uncomfortable at all. Jordan doesn't mind either way...he'll play outside no matter what the conditions!

We are also meeting more and more people now and we are even speaking in church already this Sunday!

Hi!

We have been trying so hard to get a video of Jordan saying hi because it is so cute. But, somehow he knows whenever a camera is operating nearby. But, I got one. You have to listen right as the door is opening, and you will hear him say hi. He says it whenever we go to get him out of his crib, whenever he sees us after any break, and he is starting to say it on the phone to Mike. He is SO cute!

Isn't this a handsome boy! I just couldn't get over it, so I had to take a picture. Unfortunately the camera just doesn't do him justice!

Anyway, here is a funny story about Jordan.

The other night he woke up around 2:45 am and would not go back to sleep. Finally at 3:00 Mike took him downstairs to give him a drink and a cracker. Apparently that wasn’t what he wanted because he wouldn’t take it. Then he kept pointing at the cupboard with the cereal so Mike lifted him up and he pointed to his cereal. So Mike took it out and gave him a little. But, Jordan kept it in his hands and pointed to the cupboard with the bowls and then next at the fridge. He wanted a bowl of cereal! So, Mike fed him a bowl of cereal and then he went right back to sleep. I guess he had a midnight craving! He was so cute because he was really happy while he was eating it.

Dancing boy

Jordan loves to dance!

Our house

Well, here it is, our house. We feel very lucky that we found this house to rent in our price range. It is a little farther out, but I think it ends up being the best location in relation to Mike's school, other than living right there on the strip. We have really enjoyed having the space, especially Jordan. And, I am not sure why, but he is sleeping so much better here. Up until we left Oregon, he was still waking up two or three times a night. As soon as we moved here, he has been sleeping all the way through the night!
We finally received our belongings last week after a lot of trouble, several lies, and a lot of stress. Unfortunately, most of our furniture had damage to it, some completely ruined. We think they just threw our stuff on the truck that delivered it. As an aside, if any of you need to move, stay as far away as you can from King Van Lines. Anyway, we are really happy to have everything now. Jordan has enjoyed rediscovering his toys too. So, here are some pictures of our new home.





Here is the front half of the living room. Our furniture looks so small in this house, whereas it looked so huge in our apartment!


We decided to leave the back half open for Jordan to play in. We put our old dining table (they cracked the top almost in half) in there for Mike to study on until it completely breaks.


Our new table!


I am so excited to have a kitchen that both Mike and I can fit in.


Here are the two extra bedrooms upstairs. The laundry is on the right and the bathroom is on the left. It has been so nice to have space between wherever we are and where Jordan is sleeping so that we don't have to be so quiet.


Here is our bedroom - one of our favorite things about the house. We were able to fit all our bedroom set and the desk in there and we still have a ton of floor space. Our bathroom is just off the the left there. The closet is amazing too. We put both of our bookcases in there and a bunch of other stuff and we still can walk around in it.

Anyway, that is our house and we are loving it. It is so nice to not have shared walls anymore or anyone below to worry about my active boys disturbing.

A trip to the strip

We decided to go to the strip this past weekend while Mike's mom and brother were visiting. I think this really was the best part of it all for me. In the MGM Grand they had this display on the floor. There were three different versions - water, bursts of light, and balls. When you walk on it, it changes (waves appear in the water, the lights appear or the balls move around.) Jordan LOVED it. He just laughed and laughed at it. The water was his favorite. He literally screamed when we took him away, and then again when we passed back by to leave. We were all disappointed at how little there actually is to do there at the stip though. We thought there would be a lot of different displays and things that didn't involve gambling or other forms of worldliness. But, maybe we just need to investigate other buildings. We did, however, get to see the lions, which Jordan also really liked.