Where's my watch?

All Jordan asked for from Santa was a pink ball and a watch (to be like Daddy - the watch, of course, not the pink ball). And yes, pink is his favorite color. Anyway, Santa brought him lots of other stuff - including a new guitar and a kitchen, but according to Jordan, Santa did not bring those things, because he didn't ask for them. Auntie was a big hero on Christmas morning and brought a tricycle AND a microphone with a stand (see Jordan's bar debut in the post below to know how much he loves this). We got more video than pictures on Christmas morning because his moments with the guitar are just too priceless. So, here are a few pictures and a short clip where he asks "Where's my watch?" - as if Santa forgot.

Sorry Auntie, you're really only in the video briefly, but it defaults to this picture at the end:

Guitar Hero

As I might have mentioned before, Jordan is obsessed with the guitar. His auntie and I had him in a local restaurant a week or so ago. The restaurant has a small bar and there was a guy singing and playing the guitar. We let Jordan listen for a while and then bargained with him that he could come back if he would eat his dinner. When we came back after dinner, his auntie decided she should go out to the car and get Jordan's guitar so he could stand by our barstools and pretend to play along with the guy. He loved this and the 7 or so people in the bar were getting a kick out of him. The guy apparently caught on and realized he could make some better tips if this cute kid was part of his act, SO he invited Jordan to come up and play with him. He even lowered a second microphone for him. Jordan was in HEAVEN. The guy indulged Jordan and made "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer" the first song. And then, Jordan stood up there for two other songs that I can't remember, but they weren't childrens songs. He would have stayed there all night if we had let him. I got a couple of cute pictures and about 20 seconds of video:

Friends, food and more Santa

Sorry that it's been two weeks since the last update, but we've been busy at the Gilford house. Last weekend, our good friend Tom was in from California. On Sunday, we drove to Louisville, where he was staying, to see him. Here's some photos from that visit.

Tom's host for the weekend happens to be the CEO of a large restaurant chain. He had never been to one of the restaurants, so we took him there. As you can see below, Jordan wholeheartedly approved of the dessert.

This weekend, we attended a local charity event, "Brunch with Santa." Here are a couple of shots from that:

We saw Santa twice in one day! We have a friend who manages a local hotel. It just so happens that Santa stays there when he's in town. So, she invited us to come take a picture with him. He's not sleeping in this picture, it's just the best shot she was able to get with my camera. Hopefully, we'll have a better one soon.

Christmas decorating and cookie baking

On Sunday, we put up the Christmas tree in Jordan's room. He put all of the ornaments on and was VERY proud of himself.




On Monday night, we made cookies. Jordan had fun decorating.

And eating them.

And here are his thoughts on the cookies and some other things. I apologize, but I don't know how to rotate the video so it's no longer on it's side. Feel free to tell me if you know the solution.

I'm going to be in big trouble for this, but I have to share it. Any of you who know us know that Jordan's Daddy is a big boy band fan. You may know that there has been a reality show on TV called "The Man Band." We watched some of it. Daddy found a song that he kind of liked, called "No Way." Jordan LOVES it and asks to sing it all the time. Here is Jordan performing it (with Daddy in the background).

NOTE: Daddy has corrected me - the show is called "Mission Man Band"and the song is called "Withoutcha." "No Way" is Jordan's name for it.

Santa Claus

We took a trip to Nana's house in Somerset for Thanksgiving. Santa was at the Somerset Mall and Jordan loved him.

Belated Birthday

I was glad to find out tonight that I am not the only one who takes a long time to post pictures or send them to friends. Our friends Jill and Steve took some great pictures at Jordan's birthday party back in July and just sent them to me tonight. Here are some of them.

Wednesday was picture day at school. Mommy had to leave early that morning for Indianapolis, so Daddy was in charge of dressing Jordan. Luckily, he has a very fashionable Daddy. Here, I was trying to take some pictures and he insisted on getting the camera to "help."


Then, once he found a box to climb on, he decided he wanted to pose. He loves to say "Cheeeese."

This is the newest toy from Nana - a steering wheel that Jordan can "drive" in his car seat. It plays very loud music and makes lots of "car" sounds. Thanks Nana.

I'm not sure what's happening here, but it was just too cute not to post.


Not sure what we're going to do about the thumb-sucking, but it's really cute.

Tonight, we went to an art studio. Theo Edumnds is a local artist who has a gallery in the old distillery district here in Lexington. Jordan loves abstract art.

And this was spontaneous. Priceless.

Mommy and Daddy finally cleaned out the garage this weekend and Jordan helped . . ..



Jordan loves his "bicycle," but he hasn't quite figured how to ride it yet.

Trick or Treat

Last night, we went trick or treating. Both Daddy and Jordan dressed up like firemen. Daddy's costume was especially convincing because he borrowed it from the local fire department. The neighbors now think he is a fireman.

The costumes presented a little bit of a dilemma. The reflectors prevented the use of a flash (or if I used one, I just got a big blur), so I had to turn it off and some of them are a little fuzzy.

Here's Jordan ready to go out the door with him pumpkin. "Mommy, let's go get candy at some people's houses." ("some people" is his reference to anyone he doesn't know)



Jordan loved going to people's doors and getting candy. We have such a polite child that we couldn't convince him to say "trick or treat" because every time we asked, "what you do you say?", his response was "Thank you."



Jordan's boots were a little heavy and in general, he just didn't understand the hurry. It took us about half an hour to make it around the block once, so after that, we decided to come back and hand out candy.

Here are my two handsome boys eating some candy together . . . .


Chocolate is the clear favorite and it tastes much better when it's on your face as well as in your mouth . . .




Mommy got to join in on the fun too.