Bummer of a week

Looking forward to a better week than last... Don was told last week he would not have a teaching job next year due to budget cuts and the #1 contributing school pulling students out of the student success center. So he is now looking for a job. Two days later I was in a car accident on the way to work and think my car may be totalled out- we're waiting to hear from the insurance adjustor. The good news is that no one was really hurt- just sore and I got to waste a lot of time (3 hrs) in the ER waiting on a Rhogam shot that the OB doc thought I needed. At least the other driver admitted to the cop that the accident was her fault because she failed to yield, so hopefully expenses will be covered. For right now, I am borrowing "Grandma's van".

Happy 2nd Birthday Jordon!

Today Jordon turned 2. Just so happened it is a Wednesday so I got to be off and spend the day with him. We went to the farm and visited Grandma, went out to lunch with her, and had ice cream cones. Later we joined Dad and went to Waldo Pizza followed by playing at the park. It was a great day and the weather was warm and fantastic! We got some really nice cards in the mail and special thanks to Grandpa Don and Joyce for their care packages from Idaho. Jordon loves books and puzzles so he will have a lot of fun with the gifts!

This weekend we will also celebrate J's b-day with my family at our Easter get-together, so more pictures to follow.

March update

It's been a while since I last posted, but there has definitely been a lot going on. Unfortunately, Don made the decision a couple weeks ago to have Scooter put to sleep after a rapid decline in his health that I think was a combination between the cancer and a bad urinary tract infection that he just couldn't recover from... despite antibiotics, IV fluids, a catheter, etc. It was not a fun time at the Ferrell household. Although very hard on Don, I know that we made the right decision for Scooter.

We have also had a river running outside our house, aka a water leak we've been trying to get the city to fix for a year. They finally came out and dug some stuff up, which made it worse. Now we have been in negotiations with them about who's paying for what since we have to replace pipes leading to our house. Yuck. Being a homeowner sucks sometimes.

On a lighter note, Jordon continues to talk like crazy and repeats much of what we say. Don scared him the other day with starting up the motorcycle, so now he often says "Dada motorcycle all gone- Dada put it away." Other things he likes to say....
"Birds chirping" as we leave in the morning
"Mamo git up."
"Mamo help."
"Fire truck. Tow truck. Dump truck". He loves his truck book and could "read" it over and over.
"Bye-bye Mamo's truck".

He also has a Nursery Rhyme book he loves to look at and has surprised me a bit that he can repeat much of certain rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, Ring Around the Roses, Rock-a-Bye Baby. He also really likes "Yankee Doodle" and "Three Little Piggies". He insists on listening to "Jordon's tunes" when we have music on, and his favorite song right now is "I'm a Little Teapot". He continues to love being outside and that's where he wants to be whenever he can.

He is getting ready to transition to the 2-year old room at daycare so hopefully he will do ok with that. He has a friend there- Aditya, who he would spend most of his time with in the toddler room until Adi moved to the "big boy room" a couple months ago after he turned 2. They still see each other and play together sometimes at the end of the day... so I'm hoping the fact that he is there will make the transition easier for Jordon. The bummer is having to leave Bruce, his teacher who he has become very attached to in the toddler room. Another potential positive of the new room-- peer pressure for potty training!

What Jordon's saying now

He is really getting good with his words. He can repeat most things you say and is always looking for new words to try. Here are some of the fun favorites now.

"DaDa sleepy. MaMo sleepy. Jordon sleepy."
"Get on toasty blankie."
"Umm. Grandma's cookies."
"Aunt Sarzah"
"Farquar"-- code name for squirrel
"Uncle Tim's tractor. Uncle Tim's fence. Uncle Tim's hay. Uncle Tim's cows" (you get the picture).
"Te amo" (I love you in spanish-- daycare teaches them spanish words!)
"Choco-milk"

The Anti-Sleep Child

We keep thinking it's going to get better and it doesn't. We continue to have lots of drama at bedtime and naptime, with it sometimes taking most of our night to get this kid to go to sleep. This morning he was up at 4:15 and has refused to go back to sleep, and it's not like he went to bed early, and he took only a short nap yesterday after nearly 2 hrs. of fighting it. This routine is so old; I can't believe how much time we waste trying to get the kid to sleep and lack of sleep we get ourselves from all his antics. The night before last it was vomitting, and before that it was the ear infections, and before that it was coughing from the croup- and those are legitimate issues but most of the time it's just him wanting to stay awake. Don and I have already decided that when he's a teenager and actually wanting to sleep, it's payback time.

Big Tractor Ride

Jordon went to Grandma's yesterday for the day, and all I heard when he got back was about riding the "Big Tractor" with Uncle Tim. Yes, he can now call him Uncle Tim, but still also knows him as Uncle Scary. In fact, it sounds like he was crying while Tim was holding him, until they got on the tractor and took off, then things were ok. Sounded like he had a great day there, and Grandma was pretty tickled when he gave her a "Mooch" good-bye.

Dad and Jordon