"I misted you!"

There’s nothing like waking up the first morning from being out of town to find Miss Jordan climbing up on the bed to give you a HUGE hug and saying, “I misted you Mommy! I misted you SO much!”

Yeah. That’s stinking cute. Jordan’s language is skyrocketing and many of her words that are in the past tense get and extra -ed or -ted added to them. I love it.

I came home from almost a week out of town to go to a friend’s wedding and speak at a national broadcast journalist conference. I’ve really been out of town a lot. So what did we do?

Went out of town again.

We’re staying in a hotel while I speak at a regional conference for journalists. I asked if I could bring the whole family because I really couldn’t deal with another weekend away from the family. And since we’re going to be out of town, we’re going to have a chance to meet up with a couple of families with sweet baby girls with limb differences. I can’t tell you how excited I am to meet them! Jordan and Cameron seem much more excited about going to the zoo – I’m much more excited about having a chance to meet more families face-to-face. It’s therapeutic. It’s fun. It’s incredible to be able to show time and time again that a limb difference doesn’t slow any of our kids down.

Oh – speaking of not slowing down. That picture is of Jordan this past Thursday when I took her and her brother over to our favorite ice cream place. One of her friends from school was there and Jordan got super goofy. This is her posing with the dog statue outside of the ice cream place. She loves the dog. She loves the ice cream and you can see she’s all over both in the picture. She kills me.