The highs and lows

Miss Jordan has had some great highs and lows these days… First, she’s had to put up with me traveling a ton. The whole family has. I appreciate how they’ve dealt with it. In between all of that travel, Jordan continued to dance and started equestrian therapy. She LOVES it. To add to the fun, one of the volunteers works at her school so she can talk about horses whenever she wants.

During the therapy, there are three volunteers working with Jordan and the horse. So far she has worked with a horse named Thunder during two therapy sessions. Thunder is the biggest horse and it’s so cute to see this tiny little Jordan on such a large horse. One volunteer leads the horse and there are volunteers at each leg to make sure Jordan doesn’t fall. So far, Jordan has shown how she is able to sit very straight and maintain a pretty good amount of balance on her own. Hopefully that correct balance can help her with such loose hips!!

With all of this excitement, she did hit a major low while I was out of town: A serious stomach virus. It was really bad. Cameron has never been sick this long. Poor Jordan was unable to eat many foods for almost nine days! What made it worse was how Randy got the virus about 36 hours after Jordan started getting sick. I felt really bad being so far away and unable to help. Luckily our friend Aurora was able to jump in and help.

Jordan wasn’t 100 percent before we went to Kentucky to be with family… But by now all Jordan can talk about is food. She wants to snack and eat and eat and eat snacks all of the time. She lost a bit more than a pound… And for a little thing like Jordan, a pound is pretty serious! I’m sure she’ll get a little closer to 30 pounds again soon. (She has yet to hit that weight)

Another interesting development in the world while I was away: Jordan is getting more and more obstinate. I love her and DANG she’s cute… but when she gives me a stubborn face and tells me no, it means we have some serious work to do! She’s making up for the very easy “terrible twos” by handing me a VERY tricky three.