A Very Merry 1st Christmas (6 Months Old!)

We tend to keep this girl pretty busy and this month was no different. We celebrated both Thanksgiving and Christmas during the last month and had so much fun celebrating with Jordan. She is 6 months old and is now a master at sitting up, rolling over, and playing alone with her toys! Towards the end of this month she really started working on her scooting too. She'll be crawling in no time!

Jordan's first Thanksgiving was just a preview of what holidays could be like as a basketball coach's daughter...good ole' Luby's with 15 of Jordan's favorite basketball players in Corpus Christi! The things we will do to celebrate Thanksgiving as a family, I'm sure it won't be the last time either. Jordan didn't seem to mind and enjoyed hanging with her new friends and then watching daddy's team play. This was also our first experience with Jordan sleeping in a hotel...it didn't go so well at night, but what's new?! Night time screaming is our favorite!

 When you don't sleep well at night, it's easy to sleep through Daddy's games.

Immediately after Thanksgiving, we took advantage of all of the cute Christmas outfits for Jordan's first Christmas and decorated Jordan's tree.

Our friend Laura took some family pictures for us to help us get ready for Christmas. Here are a few of our favorites even though Jordan was not in the mood for pictures.

Our first Christmas as a family of 3 was quite an adventure. We started with my friends' annual Christmas party. Oh, how these parties have changed now that we have these little party animals:

We then took an entire week to travel all over Texas and visit everyone in our family. I think Jordan saw almost everyone she is related to over the break. 

 

Nothing like a good grandma to help you open your very first Christmas presents!

For her first Christmas, she got a wagon, a playroom and a new chair. Along with adorable clothes and way more toys than a 6 month old could need.

 

Our first experience with Santa was a success!

We had so much fun celebrating Christmas as a family of 3 and cannot wait to watch her grow and develop between now and next Christmas. 

Things we don't want to forget:

- Jordan got her first teeth (one right after the other on the bottom in the middle) right before Christmas. 

- Her little voice when she babbles

-She rolls everywhere..then scoots,and rolls again. Front to back, back to front

- Giggles...trying to capture them on film

-She's starting to like being thrown up in the air

-The smiles when one of us walks in the room

-Her mo-hawk

-This face :)

More pictures we love:

Jordan: 5 Months

This has been a month of new developments! I apologize ahead of time for the long post...we had a really busy month. I really should update this more than once a month. Jordan has definitely found her feet as you can tell in her 5 month picture below:

The day after she turned 4 months old, Jordan started rolling over and hasn't stopped. She refuses to lay on her back and will always roll over to her tummy to play with her toys or when I think she is napping. She also rolls herself over in the middle of the night then screams till one of us comes to fix it. It's quite exhausting!

This, of course, was the case before she knew she could sit up on her own. Now our little "FOMO" girl has to be up looking around to make sure she doesn't miss out on anything! She loves to sit up and play with her toys. This is one of the first pictures we got of her sitting up on her own (apparently it was a lot of work because we lost a sock in the process)!

Jordan's first Halloween started with a visit from her great grandPapa Fred and Grandma Susan. As much as I don't like Halloween (or tutus), I embraced it with the first halloween tutu and a lady bug outfit for our girl. 

We cannot wait to meet J's two little precious cousins Parker and Payton! We were so happy to help Aunt Alli get prepared for her new arrivals at her 'Twice Blessed' baby shower! Below is a picture of all 6 of the Barrett girls. :)

And J showing off how strong her little legs are.

She also LOVES to be outside. It's not often that she gets worked up, but when she does a little trip outside usually does the trick. We get all bundled up to go outside and watch the rain or just make a play area in the backyard!

Playing outside at school

                                      
Once she started sitting and started reaching for our food we thought it was time to try a little rice cereal. I love out intently she stares and reaches for her cereal in this video. Girl after my own heart!

This is what happens sometimes when daddy is in charge of getting dressed. The design goes in the front, dad! Let me say that he does get her dressed every day for school and has only had a few mishaps so far.

Jordan loves to get all dressed up in orange to watch her daddy's basketball games. These are a few pictures of the first of many basketball games Jordan will attend.

Although it wasn't quite Thanksgiving yet, we all started getting in the Christmas spirit. She may not know how much she loves Christmas, but Jordan will soon learn. She helped put the first ornament on the tree this year! Even better it was her own Baby's First Christmas ornament! I am so excited to share the holidays with this little elf!

We also had a visit from Nani, Aunt Lissa and great grandma Linda. Linda came in town from Seattle and couldn't wait to get her hands on Jordan. We are so blessed by how loved our daughter is!

 

Things we don't want to forget:

- She loves peek-a-boo and "Where'd Jordan go?"
-Favorite song is 'This Little Light of Mine'

- Jordan gave us her first giggles
-She wants to put everything in her mouth and drools everywhere...but no teeth yet!

- She screeches and screams when she's hungry...this I may could forget

-Reaching for her toys and bottles

-Blowing bubbles ALL THE TIME!

- Still has never cried during a bath (knock on wood). She loves it!

-The way she stares at daddy when he reads her stories (you have no idea how hard it was to get this picture. She stares at the phone every time we try. Maybe I take too many pictures of her)

 More pictures we love!



Sleeping during daddy's game.
Going to be a great basketball companion