One year old

 

I keep looking at pictures from a year ago.  Time is going faster the older I get.  It really doesn't seem that long ago that I had Jori.  I spent most of September last year going to the hospital to see Jori and then home to spend time with Jaydon too.  You'd never know looking at Jori that she was such a tiny little lady.  I remember asking the nurses that were in the room over and over again to tell me how big she was.  She was 5 lbs. 2 oz.  then and that was pretty good for being almost 6 weeks early.  Now a year later, Jori is a "thriving"  "round" "chubby" baby....people comment on her chubbiness all the time and isn't it true?!  She is such a cutie. 

She's full of personality.  She's a tease and a cuddle baby.  I get lots of loves from her.  She's too smart for her own good and she will definitely keep me going.  She has slowly outgrown her milk intolerance and has moved from soy formula to regular formula.  And now onto cows milk. She's a good napper and good at entertaining herself too.  Those are some of my favorites!  Her laugh is infectious and her teeth are crazy, so her smile is just fun.  We love her like crazy!

 

 For her birthday we went miniature golfing with my family.  My parents had my brother's kids for the weekend and we wanted to do something fun.  She was napping for most of it, but woke up at the end to get some pictures! We had a picnic planned for later that day so we headed straight there and spent the afternoon with family eating and having cake.


Jori with chips.  I think that's all she ate for dinner

Jori smiling for us with her cake.  She just wanted the cake really, she has a sweet tooth.

 Jaydon was helping Jori with her presents.  He would open it and then hand it to her.  He gave her a Care bear and so he was really excited about that.  And when he saw she was given headbands he whipped one out and tried to get her to wear it.  She is still getting used to liking that and we keep encouraging it too, she's so bald!  The next day was her actually birthday and we had leftover cupcakes so we got out a candle and sang to her again.  Don't worry, Jaydon was making sure she didn't touch the fire!

Not a big fan of my kiddos bathing together but Jori loves baths
so I let her in one day, she was pretty excited!

After church in her birthday outfit from grandma.

 I had to throw in a few more pictures.   A couple weeks ago I ran my 1st half marathon.  I decided last winter I wanted to run a race this year and started to do the elliptical a couple times a week.  I looked into the half marathon and it opened up to register on March 1st at midnight.  I kept thinking and thinking about it and I happened to be up with Jori that night right around midnight.  I took it as a sign...and yep, I was registered. 
I ran a few times outside in February and March, then in April I went a few times a week and then once Jaydon was out of school, I would wake up and go at 6am.  It was something I started to really enjoy doing once I was outside, but it was sometimes hard to want to wake up and go.  After lots of training I was still nervous for the big day, but it came and I beat my goal by 17 mins.  I told Jason to come at 9:30, he got there early, and good thing, a few minutes after they got there I crossed the finish line!  Jaydon wants to run a race now too, so we are going to find a kid race.  So glad I did it, but glad it is over.  Now I run 5-6 miles instead and that is much nicer!

Can't leave out this picture either.  Jaydon was so ready to go to school again.  All of the older kids started a couple weeks before him, so he kept waiting for his turn.  He loves going and he loves his teachers so hopefully this will be good for him to get ready for kindergarten.  And to ride the bus, that's what he really wants to do!