so today, my parents were driving with jordyn down to to the long beach aquarium, when they passed a slew of power lines... you know, those big ones metal ones that are bigger on the bottom and smaller on top....
jordyn, always taking in the details sees the power lines and says, "Wow, Mimi and Papa! Look at all of those Eiffel towers!" i just love that girl...
its bedtime and i just have to post this before i forget...
jordyn is doing her bedtiem routine, bathroom, pjs and brushing her teeth. she made it through the first two steps, but tonight when i said it was time to brush her teeth, she replied quite seriously...
"but Mom, if I brush them, they'll never fall out and the tooth fairy won't get them!"
now there's a way to make some extra cash in a down economy. just stop brushing your teeth, then the tooth fairy will have to come.
So today we, along with millions of other people across the country enjoyed the time honored tradition of perching ourselves in front of the tv to watch the superbowl... My two little birds had quite different reactions.
Paige loved it. She discovered what we all have come to know, that the superbowl is all about food and big tvs... She arched her little neck to peer up at the wall mounted tv in my parents living room, quite interested in the larger than life images of the football players and the vibrant colors of the game. She also realized that the game is really a chance to eat food, and as a new eater with developing tastebuds, she was quite upset at us all when we sat bowl with bowls of chili and sppons all headed not to her open mouth but ours...
Jordyn on the other hand decided that she is much more a fan of live sports. The majority of her exposure to football has been going to the friday night high school football games with my parents. Ahh, high school football games, to a three year old mostly about getting popcorn or cotton candy, watching the football players run through the sign, and wondering if someday you too might make the ascent to the lofty role of high school cheerleader... Somewhere around the middle of the third quarter, Jordyn says, "Can we turn this off and go the the real football game?" (meaning the high school game, not the actual superbowl.) She was however quite ammused with the third essential element of the game: the commercials. Highest ranking so far are the one where the sock moneky goes to vegas and the bachelor party saves shamu...
had so much fun at disneyland the other day... Jordyn cracked me up... Auntie and Tio out in North Carolina must be on her mind... she went on soaring over California for the first time, but kept calling it "soaring over north Carolina"... so sweet.
then we were in the talk with crush show and crush asked Jordyn where she was from, to which she promptly replied, "I'm from North Carolina." when we asked her later she said she just forgot where's she's from... hopefully we will get her out there to visit Auntie and Tio in North Carolina soon... its obviously on her mind. :)
Today Steve took Jordyn fishing for a daddy/daughter date... Breakfast for Jordy and Daddy followed by fishing at the lake... they didn't catch any fish (Jordyn throwing rocks in the lake probably didn't help much) but they had a great time!
the other day, we were taking a walk and Jordyn stops, points to the electrical wires and asks me, "Mommy, what are those?" "well, sweetie, those bring electricity to our houses so we can use our lights and tvs, and..." "oh, I thought we'd just put them up so the birds would have someplace to sit."
--- then yesterday we were driving down harbor blvd past the fox theater. we'd passed it a few days ago and I had told her it had been an old theater. I told her that they used to have movies and popcorn inside and that there were people working to get it all fixed up so it could be used again.... well, yesterday as we drive past it she says, "look, there's that bird feeder." "The, what?" "The bird feeder, mommy. where they have all the popcorn and movies for the birds at the feeder. that's what you told me."
--- lastly, a story for those of you who know what a princess lover jordy is... My parents often have jordyn spend the night once a week or so, and did so a few weeks back. She is just the most delightful little creature in the morning, full of observations and ponderings and snuggles and laughter. Well, this particular sleepover, they had read a Cinderella book the night before. You know, cinderella, her little mice friends and the glass slipper... here is an excerpt of her favorite part...
The next morning, Jordyn wakes up, turns to my mom and says, " do you hear that?" "what's that, sweetie?" "those birdies! do you hear them tweeting?" "i do!" "I bet they are out there making ME a dress, just like they did with the mice in CInderella!!"
i love this little girl and her imagination... birds making her dresses, going to the movies and living in a city that puts up power lines so birds have a place to sit... :) She sure makes each day an adventure...
to close, here's jordyn pretending to be cinderella last christmas...
A wife and stay at home mom of two beautiful little girls, trying to learn how to better love, live and thrive while versus just surviving the adventures that life brings my way each day.
