And so I have a one-year old.

Happy Birthday Jordan!

Oh, how time flies. I cannot believe we have a one-year old.

On Friday night, I baked and baked and baked. First up, strawberry cake shaped like a basketball, this baked for 1 hour 20 minutes, yikes. Next up, chocolate mini cake for Jordan, this baked for 1 hour 10 minutes, yikes again. Last, chocolate cupcakes, 21 minutes, phew.

Saturday, morning I had a frosting fiasco! Between beating it for what seemed like forever and still never reaching the right consistency and coloring the frosting, that took about 3 hours. Note to self, black, terra cotta and red take LOTS of coloring. Next up, decorating. I figured this would take the longest, but I was wrong. Since I couldn’t get the frosting the correct consistency, I couldn’t make stars, so I just drew with the star tip. 1 large basketball, 1 small basketball and 12 baseballs later, my task was complete.



Sunday was great! We had a small, but nice party; Jordan got super nice gifts, thanks everyone; and we all had a blast. Among the nice gifts were a wagon, basketball hoop, t-ball set, trucks, clothes, a baseball mitt, a bubble machine and savings bonds. Thanks to everyone for the nice gifts and for coming down to celebrate with us. Jordan enjoyed the frosting on his cake, but wasn’t much for the actual cake part.

Monday, Jordan had his one-year checkup. 19 lbs, 27 ¾ inches – can we say RUNT! Oh well, I love my little runt. Next up, hemoglobin check since his iron was low at 9 months. If I get my hands on that phlebotomist, she will be one hurting unit! Let’s dig in a one-year old’s arm with a needle for 5 minutes while it takes two adults to hold him down. She never did get blood in the needle. Finally, I asked her to use his finger. Halloween Massacre! She is terrible and should never be allowed to touch an infant/toddler with a needle ever again. In the end his hemoglobin was perfectly normal and we are moving on towards our 15 month checkup.

Prepare to Party!

Holy Buckets! It has been 2 ½ weeks since I lasted blogged. Maybe I am not cut out for this. Let me try and recall what we have been up to.

Jordan – he is now a walker! He walks more than crawls and gets into more and more trouble everyday. He listens when dad says no, but laughs when mom says it. He has 7 teeth now and no longer has a nighttime bottle. He had also turned into a terrible sleeper, so we put the kibosh on that. He now puts himself to sleep. The first night he cried 11 minutes, then we were down to 5. Last night he didn’t even cry, just played himself to sleep. Yeah for us!

My sweet little boy will be 1 on Sunday. I can’t believe it! I have also turned into psycho mom and gone mad with the first birthday. I am making two cakes and cupcakes: one basketball cake, one basketball cake for Jordan to destroy, and baseball cupcakes. We are just having immediate family over for lunch and cake. I am not a big fan of large chaotic birthday parties.

Anyways, I will post sometime next week with how the birthday went.

Yikes, two weeks already!

Yikes, I can’t believe it has been two weeks since I blogged.

This past Wednesday, Riley and I purchased a new pickup. It is a 2009 Chevy Silverado. I think I am more excited than Riley is. I love it! We bought it from Dean Bender in Killdeer. I would highly recommend them. We had a long day that day. We were car shopping before 9 am and didn’t get back to Bismarck until around 11:30 pm. Thanks to Rod for shopping with us and thanks to Carol for watching Jordan for us.



It was Riley’s state softball tournament in Williston this past weekend. Rod and Carol came to Bismarck and watched Jordan for us. It was my first night away from him, ever! Riley’s team won two and then lost their third game to the team that won the tournament. Jordan caught a bit of a cold or something while we were away, but seems to be getting better. It might have been teeth as he is drooling like crazy! We stopped in Dickinson Friday night and had dinner with my parents at The Hat, oh so good!

Riley and Tyler have decided that it would be exciting if Jordan was walking by his first birthday. So, they have started practicing. He now sits on the bottom step, stands up and takes about four steps. He would make more, but he gets too excited.

Here are some recent pics of Jordan.