Happy Valentine's Day

Whole Blueberries

This week, Jordan ate whole blueberries (cut in half). He is really enjoying eating himself instead of eating "mush". Whatever we are eating looks interesting to him. Daddy shared a pear with him this morning.....a bite for Daddy and then a bite for Jordan.

Horsebackriding Saturday

We went to Topanga again to ride the horses. Jordan and I both dressed as "Dr. Love" in the Valentine's spirit.

You can tell how much I love it, can't you?

I also love the chihuahua....I actually was able to hold him while on the horse, but the picture came out blurry.

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Jordan had fun playing with the puzzle while I played and rode the horses.

check out where the chihuahua hangs out while we ride.

Heartwarming Pictures

Or, at least Mama thinks so...

Food food food

Jordan has been eating whole pieces of a lot of things, including mango (in picture above). Tonight, he was eyeing mama's burger and she gave him a little. He seems to really like it. He also now has mastered picking up "puffs" with his fingers and getting them (most of the time) in his mouth.

Two Teeth on 2/2

So much going on this week that we forgot to mention that Jordan has his second tooth!

A new duck park with Isabel

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After my horse lesson, we met Isabel and her Mommy and Daddy at a duck park we have never been to. You won't see pictures of the ducks because Mama's phone camera lost its charge and her real camera was left (by her!) at Whole Foods when we were picking up our picnic essentials.

Isabel and I put on our mommy's shoes and played a lot. We rolled on the grass and played with her pink soccer ball and we fed the ducks. We had A LOT of Pirate's Booty to fuel all of our activity.

My first horse lesson

Today, I had my first horseback riding lesson.....I rode Lady and groomed, walked and fed Silver. They are both beautiful white horses. Silver is an Arabian horse, but not sure about Lady. They are both in their 20s and very gentle.

Happy Chinese New Year

Soccer Friday

On Friday afternoon, I play soccer at school. Mama was there to watch me this past Friday because she came to our Chinese New Year party. We learned how to be the goalie and also practiced "turtle" (dribbling) and some other moves we learned on other Fridays.

Eliza ...(by Mama)

This morning, Gigi was making letters with Play-Doh. First, she made a J for Jordan, then an M for Mama and then a D for Daddy. She picked up the letter E and asked "Who begins with this letter?" She didn't know it was an E and didn't know that her baby sister begins with E. Was this random? Or, did her subconscious somehow know?

When I came home from work, Gigi told me that she wanted to make a picture for her baby sister. She went into the other room and shortly after, our friend came over and she sat on his lap while she started to draw. Allen and I were in the kitchen. She came running into the kitchen and asked if "Eliza likes scribbles?" She then told me that "Eliza wants to grow up to be just like you." She went back to drawing on M's lap....and then came running back into the kitchen to ask how Eliza is spelled because she wanted to write her name on the picture. After she was done drawing, she showed me her picture and said "This is my baby sister growing up". And later, she said "my baby sister is going to love this picture".

Gigi is clearly struggling with the loss of Eliza (as am I and probably always will). On the one hand, it is beautiful that she isn't forgetting her and not allowing me to (not that I could). Her innocence in all of her questions yesterday....of course, I was all in my head wondering where Gigi thinks Eliza is....does she think she is going to come back even though I told her she will not come back.

Gigi has mentioned Eliza up to 3 times per week in recent weeks. I love how important her baby sister is to her. And, yet it makes me so sad that she will never really know her other than through her imagination.

On a related note, someone very important to us thinks that there is something about the number 2. We found out on October 22nd that we were having 2 babies....and then Jordan and Eliza were born on June 22nd. Yesterday was 2/2/2011. Maybe there is something to it.