Photos of the Week- Christmas

Top- Making cookies for Santa of Christmas Eve

Middle-Santa came!

Bottom-Jordan seeing all the presents for the first time, he went straight to his new kitchen

Opening all his presents!

More presents! On the bottom one of Jordan's friends helped open some presents cause he just wanted to play with the presents he already opened in the morning. The last 2 are opening more right before bed. We actually didn't finish opening everything until the next evening!

Top- On Christmas evening, we did webcam with my family, it got a little late and Jordan fell asleep on the couch. - New bedspread from my parents - playing with his kitchen

Middle-Still playing with his kitchen and table. I bought the game Elefun to play on Christmas Eve (Josh's family's tradition), but we got home too late to play. So we played it on Sunday evening instead.

Bottom-Jordan couldn't catch any butterflies, so he just took them straight out of the elephant or off the floor! - Playing in the box the kitchen came in!

Music

Make sure to watch the video on the music player. I think it is funny and cute. Pay attention to the first town it shows when it sings "Santa Claus is coming to town" thats my favorite German town, Rothenburg, that is about half an hour away. (No I didn't make the video, just found it online)

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Not much has been going on this week, so we've just been playing around the house.

Pushing his cars around on a cart - Our first snow storm here

Actually it was our first snow storm at our house since we've had Jordan.

I love the look of horror, that is just like my express when it snows, I am no a fan. Jordan actually likes it though. I know there isn't a lot of snow in these pictures, but it has snowed since then and we have a ton. Well a ton for me!

Church Christmas party: Easting dinner - playing with the Christmas tree

We had a long day so Jordan didn't really get a nap so he fell asleep at dinner. One minute he was eating really well, then the next he was out cold! - I was getting water ready for his bath and he decided he couldn't wait any longer. He look his pants, socks, and diaper, but cant take his shirt off yet, so he just go in with it!

Just being cute! - Helping me get the clean laundry out of he bottom of the basket!

My visiting teacher brought this train for Jordan, he loves it - Playing in the shelves he's getting for Christmas! This year is nice cause I can leave things out that he is getting for Christmas, and he doesn't know the difference.

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We had kind of a busy week, lots of Christmas events. They are a little out of order, but hes what we have been up to this week.

The ones on the left side are at the Tree Lighting Ceremony, it was so cold Jordan was all bundled up and could hardly move! Then we went inside and visited Santa, as you can see Jordan wasn't impressed. The right side is at the Breakfast with Santa, just playing around. Jordan got to see Santa again, but we didn't get a picture. It went pretty much the same as before so the picture would probably be the same anyway.

Jordan started tumbling here on post, they don't have nearly as much equipment as his cousin Tai's class has, Jordan really enjoyed playing at Tai's class. He does have fun at his class though, we have been going for a few weeks now. - Jordan and Dana having cookies at the Subway on post.

Bottom: We changed Jordan's bed into a toddler bed, and he loves it. His bed came with a little rail to turn it into a toddler bed, but it is so small he would still fall out. - Just hanging out - On out way home from church, Jordan fell asleep while eating a cracker.

Rothenburg all dressed up for Christmas and the Christmas market. I love Rothenburg, but Rothenburg decorated to Christmas is sooo much better. I love going there! There was lots of booths at the Christmas market, but I was way too cold to take anymore pictures. Almost every town has their own Christmas market, they are a huge thing here. But this the only one I have been to so far.

We went over to Melissa's house to make gingerbread houses with graham crackers. The kids has so much fun, and ate lots of candy. On the bottom is our house when it was all done, obviously Jordan didn't help too much! - Dana wanted to pose with Jordan for a picture. - Jordan was eating some m&ms and got green all over his face, I tried to get a good picture of it but I couldn't really. The last picture is the best I could do, if you make it bigger you might be able to see it.

Santa

That how he says Santa! Isn't he cute?!

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(Fran- this is a new video there are still 2 further down that you and Mom have to look at)

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Now that I have my Christmas shopping all done, hopefully I can be better at posting pictures on here.

Getting into Mom's purse - Jordan got a hold of a sponge that had ink on it, then got it on his face.

Just Mom and the Dude - Cheesing! I love that cheeser!!!

Thanksgiving at Melissa's

Jordan eating dinner - Dana and Jordan at dinner

Eating - Playing with dessert

I bought a really ugly wreath at the thrift store, so we had to make it a lot cuter!

Helping mom decide which ornaments to put on the wreath.

The finished wreath - I didn't take a picture of it before I took it apart, but these are the things that were on it! Like I said, it was an ugly wreath!

Taking a bath in the shower! We figured it saves water and keeps him warmer! - Our Christmas tree

The angle I found at a German store for 2 Euro, not bad - Jordan by the tree

You can kind of tell that I cut Jordan's hair, and it looks horrible. I forgot that I usually put a tip on the razer, and this time I didn't. Good thing this kid is cute, so a bad hair cut doesn't matter too much. Some soldiers on post were excited cause he has a "high and tight", the military haircut. Poor Kid!!!

He loves playing with this car ramp still, best $4 I ever spent!

He says "There it is!" "Truck." and "Woohoo!"

Singing along with the beginning of the movie that 20th Century Fox puts on all their movies!

It plays right before Horton Hears a Who, he loves that movie.

Photo Catch Up

It seems like we have been so busy the past few weeks, we have been trying to get all the Christmas shopping done so we can ship it all soon. It will be so nice once thats all done! We haven't taken too many photos, but here are a few:

Some of Jordan's Favorite this to do:

Play in the water - Play in my make up drawer

Take a bath - Play in the car at the food court

Run and jump on the couch

Silly faces and playing outside

I the last picture you can kind of see dirt on his forehead, he was playing outside while I was emptying the stroller after a walk. Some how in the short time he was playing he got dirt on his forehead, its impressive how fast little boys can get dirty!

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We have had kind of a busy and a little bit of a bad week. We had 3 Halloween events, we both dressed up as pirates on Halloween.

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The 1st Halloween event was at play group, we colored paper bags then went trick or treating to a few offices. Of course Jordan thought the paper bad belonged on his head before there was candy in it! The left side are pics from play group, and the right are right before we went trick or treating on Halloween.

The left side is at the church party and the right is party they had on post. As you can see the most exciting thing at both events was the balloons!

We went trick or treating on post with Melissa and her girls. Melissa stayed by the baby and took pics while I took Jordan and Dana to the doors! The kids loved it! That day I realized Jordan have anything to put his candy in so I hurried and sewed an camo bag for him, I think it turned out pretty cute!!!

And now for the bad part of the week. It first started off good, Melissa and I dropped the kids off at daycare so we could go to Rothenburg to go shopping. It was so much fun! But I got sick from being out in the cold so much. I have been sick since, I have had some good days where I got stuff done and other days that I literally laid on the couch all day unless Jordan needed something. Poor kid! One morning when I was resting on the couch, Jordan decided he needed to rest too and fell asleep on the floor. I was surprised cause it was still an hour before nap time. I just moved him to his bed so he could finish his nap. On Friday I was feeling pretty good, so we had Melissa come over for dinner. While cooking dinner I splashed hot oil on the back of my wrist when I put chicken into the pan. Now I remember why I don't like cooking!!! The last picture was taken today, so 2 days after I did it. Then the kids were playing and Jordan tripping and hit his mouth on stool, and pushed one of his front teeth back a little. We ended up talking to the on call dentist and decided he should look at it. So we got to take him to the dentist at 8:30 pm, I felt bad for making the dentist and his assistant go it that late but they were both really nice. He tried to move his tooth back but it wouldn't move. Its not loose or anything so the dentist said it should be a problem it will just be pushed back a little. You can kind of tell in the pics of him. Then Saturday, Jordan came down with the same thing I have, but he seems to be feeling better already.

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Sitting on a stool, eating snack, and watching a movie - helping mom cross stitch

Playing in his room - driving a "car"

On Monday we painted pumpkins, the kids loved it!

Jordan Playing in His Room

Jordan likes to go in his room and play by himself, he always talks and makes sounds for his vehicles. I took this video without him knowing.

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We have had a pretty boring week so there aren't a ton of pictures this time.

Jordan and Dana eating chips - me and Jordan

Jordan has been begging to play video games so we played Rock Band 2 - coloring - its been so cold we had to pull out our winter coats

sometimes we just don't ask about the silly things a one year old does!

We went shopping downtown Ansbach with Melissa and her girls. I went to take a picture of Jordan with the church behind him, and a truck pulled up and parked right before I could take the picture. Below is the church th truck blocked.

By a fountain while shopping - having a snack - and swimming across the floor (again we just don't ask!)

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On Wed. we ate at the bowling alley for lunch, they were installing new flat screen score boards. Jordan love watching them work. Later we went to our friends, and Jordan played in Dana's bedroom.

Thursday we went to a thrift store and we got this Hot Wheel Fire Station, he has been playing with it since. Top ones: playing in his room Bottom ones: playing in the living room on our new rug.

Saturday Jordan decided to try on my high heel! Taking a Sunday afternoon rest, he sleeps on the way home from church so sometimes he doesn't take a Sunday nap.

Monday: Jordan was so proud when he colored on his hand, every time he looked at his had he would say "color".

Tuesday: watching on of his movies, I don't remember which one, but he was really enjoying and laughing at it!. Later he begged me to play games, so we played a game for awhile. The first pic on the second row is him patting the seat and saying "sit". He does this when he wants someone to sit by him and play. Wednesday: watching a movie in his jammies right before bedtime!

Nurnberg Tiergarten (zoo)

I decided to stay up and finally post the pictures from the zoo, so it will probably be a quick post. It was a perfect day for the zoo, it wasn't too hot or cold so all animals were up and about.

Monkeys, Jordan by the monkeys, kangaroos (I don't think I have ever seen one before),

giraffe, Dana by an ostridge, some kin of blue bird

more monkeys, Jordan by the monkeys, and Jordan looking at the gorillas

Some "Nemo" fish, Jordan by the deer

some type of bird, some type of cow, and an owl

Jordan by the fall colors, me and my baby, flamingos

Jordan and Dana by the ducks they swam over to us cause they thought we had food, Rinos, Jordan and the zebras

I don't remember what these are, Jordan, camels

seals and sea lions show, polar bear, they had an area where you can watch them with they are in the water, this was my favorite part.

Santa's reindeer were on vacation here, elk with lots of points on his antlers, buffalo,

I don't know what this is but he was different, tiger, and lion he walked away right when I went to talk his picture

cute little black bear, Jordan's huge hot dog, and exhausted in the car.

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Play Group: Jordan loves the cars, they have two of the big ones, one police car and the other is just a regular yellow one.

Thursday: He loves playing in his room by himself, he getting so big. Friday: we went to Heidelberg to go shopping, so we ate at Taco Bell. He loves chips so much I got him his own triple layer nacho and he loved it. Saturday: watching conference with one of Josh’s military scriptures and a hymn book.

Sunday: trying on the flight coat we got at one of our baby showers for our good friends in Utah. Its still a little big, but it has helicopters and planes on it so he loved it. Monday we went to IKEA to shop and then ate lunch, they have this fun little place for the kids to play. They have pretty good food there and they understand me, so we really like going there! Zoo pictures coming soon. Tuesday: Just being silly on the couch! I have no idea what he was doing but he was having so much fun!

Grandma set us some warm jammies, so he is back in the footed pjs. I think he is so cute it them, I just want to cuddle with him all day!

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Our Little Cinderella!!!

Jordan loves to help out around the house, isn’t he a cute little helper!

Apparently I took a lot of eating photos this week, we did eat out a few times. After play group we ate at Subway and Jordan had his own drink for the first time. He usually drinks watered down apple juice, so I bet the Hi-C was pretty strong for him! He loved it! And he actually ate some of his sandwich, I was so proud! The one on of him in his church clothes he is eating chips instead of his yummy French toast! If his Aunt Fran made it I bet he would have eaten it! She makes the best breakfast foods! The left side photos are at a Gasthaus (guesthouse) in Merkendorf. We went with some other girls from church; they were having a sauerkraut special. When we first got there we sat outside and Jordan was able to play, but then it got cold so we moved inside. He LOVED the sauerkraut, his Grandpa Boynton would be so proud!!! He ate so much, he wouldn’t try anything else. I was a little nervous about trying it but it was pretty good. They made all kinds of things with the sauerkraut, very interesting!

We also went to an Italian restaurant here in town for a battalion dinner. It was so much fun; they had a huge field, swings, and a slide for the kids to play on. Jordan thought he was so big playing with all the big kids! As you can see he had spaghetti for dinner and loved it. Everyone was impressed at how much he ate and how messy he got!

Jordan looking at is “Dad Book”, I made a little scrapbook for him with pictures of him and Josh! He always laughs, points, and says “Dada!” This week I decided to sweep move the couch and sweep and mop under it. When I was done I decided that since the couch was out of place, I might as well rearrange the furniture. I love rearranging our rooms!