Jordan is attending summer camp right now at her new school. Every day her Daddy picks her up at 3 PM from camp. They immediately call me at work so she can tell me what she did at camp that day. This is the best because she is so excited and full of stories. If I miss this daily call, I do not get the same stories a couple hours later when I get home. I love these calls to hear about her day and they are very important to me.
Also as part of the routine, while Jordan is talking to me her Daddy goes through the drive-thru at McDonalds. She always tells him she needs a chocolate milk shake to cool down. He takes her for one everyday (and ends up drinking most of it himself!).
Well yesterday while we were talking after her camp day, she told me that the dress I had layed out for her to wear that day she had worn to the previous camp week. Last night when I got home, I looked through her closet to find something she had not worn to camp before.
My friend, Carla, has three girls. She had passed along to me many beautiful dresses from her girls. I pulled one of Carla's girls' dresses out for Jordan to wear to camp today and showed it to Jordan last night. Her final words to me before going to sleep were to please wake her up in the morning to do her hair before going to work! Where does she get this from?!! She is such a girly girl.
Anyhow this morning, I had an early morning conference call so I was leaving the house at 6:30 AM. I walked upstairs to kiss Jordan good-bye so I could at least say I did try to wake her. I started to walk up the stairs and here she came. She was wide awake.
Jordan insisted I get her ready before leaving. I moved quickly! I got her in this beautiful flowered Biscotti dress from Carla. I put on a matching bottle cap necklace that was pink and green with a jewel. I put a sparkly green headband in her hair and put a white gauzy bow on top of Jordan's pony tail. The picture above does not capture how truly adorable she looked. Jordan even had me spray a little gold glitter in her hair. She was too cute.
CHH came downstairs to be with Jordan and I flew off to work (made it in the nick of time for my call I might add but it was worth it!)
After dropping the girls off at school every morning, CHH always calls me to let me know he dropped them off and to let me know how they were that morning. Well this morning, he had me laughing. He said Jordan refused to lay on the bed to watch cartoons. She sat up straight as to not mess up her dress. He said he would check on her and he would see her straightening out her dress every couple of minutes to not wrinkle it. He then told me that when they walked into the school, a classmate of Jordan's came up to her and immediately told her how beautiful she looked today. CHH said Jordan was thrilled to hear this.
As stated, she just cracks me up. Jordan takes such care in her appearance and she is only 4 years old. I love it.
PS We got a catalog in the mail the other day (
SB Sensational Beginnings) that contained Halloween costumes ALREADY. I gave it to Jordan and she has looked through that magazine the last couple of nights trying to decide on a Halloween costume. She just loves it. From that magazine, she said she wanted to be the
CanCan girl. Well tonight we got the
Chasing Fireflies catalog and it too has Halloween costumes in it. She is going nuts over having two magazines full of costumes now. In this magazine, she has picked the
Dreamy Dragonfly costume (this one I could live with and it half the price of the other one!). Both costumes she has pointed out the fingerless gloves -- it is interesting that she loves these gloves and is one of the reasons for picking either costume. It will be sweet to see what she actually ends up being for Halloween this year. It is so cute that she is so excited over looking at the various costumes in these magazines.
Of course, my mind always goes to the
Princess Alexa Foundation. They will have a costume drive again this year after Halloween so keep your eyes out for great deals!!
My adorable Jordie Bear wearing an outfit my Aunt Mary Anne gave her. She loved it!
Jordan is into performing magic tricks. She gets this from her Daddy and watching "Olivia Makes Magic" from the Olivia the Pig TV series. For Jordan's trick, she makes the pink ball disappear and a blue one appear in its place.
Pink ball under the blanket.... We are told to not look and to turn our heads.
Ta-da!! The little blue ball is there instead :)
Sweet Katelyn watching her sissy do the magic tricks.
Jordan is attending summer camp right now at her new school. Every day her Daddy picks her up at 3 PM from camp. They immediately call me at work so she can tell me what she did at camp that day. This is the best because she is so excited and full of stories. If I miss this daily call, I do not get the same stories a couple hours later when I get home. I love these calls to hear about her day and they are very important to me. 
Katelyn went to school today in "big girl panties"! She lasted all day and only had one accident. Big time potty training has begone. Go Katelyn! I'm so proud of her.
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Jordan and Alyssa eating dinner at TGI Friday's on Thursday before gymnastics. The girls were so excited to see each other after we have been gone for a couple of weeks.
While Alyssa, Sarah and Jordan were in gymnastics, Katelyn sat on Sarah's Mom's lap playing a game on Chris' IPhone. Katelyn loves to do this with Chris.
Look at my Katelyn...!! She is growing up so fast. She is 2 years and 7 months now. These pictures remind me of how tall she seems to be getting. She is so darn cute.
Saturday I was so proud of Katelyn at her swimming lessons. Even though she had been gone for a couple of weeks, she did fabulous. Ok, I'm about to be one of THOSE MOMS -- I actually thought she did way better than the other two little girls in her class. One parent in the middle of the lesson leaned over and asked me how old she was. When I replied 2 1/2 yrs old, they were surprised because she was doing so well. I was so proud of her.
Katelyn swimming underwater. I'm always amazed how they put the kids under water and have them swim.
After both girls had swimming lessons, Alyssa came over for a playdate. The girls love working on these bead things. You put the beads on a design and then when they are done, you iron it to melt the beads together. The girls love them. I think it is very good for their fingers to do this.
Yes of course dress up was involved in the playdate. Tinkerbell and Sleeping Beauty were so cute!
CHH and I took the girls to the Studio Movie Grill to go see the new movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was really cute and they loved it. We didn't see it in 3D however. I did not realized the Studio Movie Grill is not equipped for 3D. I learned something new :)
Sunday is "breakfast with Aunt Julie" day. It was great to see Jules after being gone so long. Dad joined us after church and we met Jules at Denny's. I see in this picture that Jordan was eating the butter! Jordan!
Sunday (while Katelyn napped), Jordan and I made Grandpa a homemade chocolate cake. Yes Christy, can you believe it?! I called Jill and got our Mom's Cajun Chocolate Cake recipe that we loved growing up. Jordan and I had fun baking the cake. Please note that Jordan is at the stove but it is not on. She is stirring the ingredients in the pan prior to me turning the stove on and boiling the items myself.
Jordan loved measuring and pouring the ingredients in the bowl. Baking a cake was actually really fun with Jordan because she loved doing it.
Grandpa and his granddaughters with his birthday cake. We put 7 candles on one side and 1 candle on the other for his 71st birthday. His birthday was last week on July 7th but we were just now able to bake him a cake since we had been gone. Happy Late Birthday Grandpa!
CHH and the girls watching the 3rd Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" . All day today they have been playing the Harry Potter movies on TV in anticipation of the new Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", that starts July 15th in theaters. This movie will be the 6th book in the 7 book series. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
My old dog, Ms. Oscar, was my original baby until my girls came along. Ms. Oscar was not happy about sharing the love with Jordan and Katelyn. However over the last couple of years, she has accepted both girls. She now sleeps every night with Jordan. She actually loves the girls now and they love her in return. This morning I took the above picture. I always walk in to Jordan's room to kiss her good-bye before leaving for work. Most mornings she is sound asleep like today. It was so cute to see her sleeping and Oscar right along side her sleeping as well; I had to take the picture of them.
Jordan is still into making her blanket tents. She made this one in our master bedroom. She then told me she wanted to sleep in her tent and for me to sleep in the bed in the same room. I did so. I told CHH I kept thinking she would wake up and climb into bed with me but she never did. She was so proud the next morning that she slept in her tent the whole night. It was too cute. Side note: We usually sleep upstairs to be close to the girls...especially while they are little. It was nice to sleep in our king size heavenly bed downstairs for the night. Yeah! 
Today at camp, she had to dress like a mad scientist. When I told her this, she said "Mommy, I don't want to be a mad scientist, I want to be a happy princess." I then explained to her that "mad" didn't mean angry but "wild and crazy". CHH put his white shirt on her and rolled up the sleeves for her lab coat. She looked adorable. When I left for work, she was saying "I'm wild and crazy."
I added the stethoscope and glasses to her costume. She was so funny.
Tonight when I got home, this is what I found -- Jordan in her fancy glasses, her crown, her gem shoes, and playing with her wand. I walked in the door, she pointed the wand at me and said "poof". She poofed me!