Happy 5 months little man! He sure has come a long way! 

 Emmy loves her little brother! I thought by now the novelty would have worn off, but she still always wants to be holding and playing with him! She is a great big sister!

Love that smile!

Em and Jords!

Ugg, what a cutie! 

Our big news for the week is Jordan had a great appointment at the neurosurgeon/neurologist. His MRI looked good and he seems to be hitting all of his milestones. The neurosurgeon team seemed confident that we are out of the woods for surgery, but wants to see him in 2 months and then if all goes well we likely won't have to see them again until he turns a year old. The neurologist said he seemed very engaged and had great strength. He is hopeful, but said we will not know long term effects of the brain bleed until Jordan gets closer to 2, but all signs are good for now. Huge relief! Oh, and Jords is 12lbs 11oz and 22.5 inches. Growing strong! Other than that, the kiddos are doing well and we are getting in the swing of school, work, home, repeat! 

Trying to get a picture of these two is like impossible! 

 Jordan's face here cracks me up! 

 My snuggle bug! 

I went up to bed Sunday night to find this...I had the bedside light on so I can see when I'm walking Jordan up to his room, Em thought this was a good place to sneak to a lay...little stinker.

 I love seeing the relationship Em and Jords are starting. He is always staring his sis, and she is totally in love with him. Pretty darn cool to witness!

Em had a great week at school, and actually enjoyed dance class this week. She did tell me that in school they do not have enough time to play (welcome to the real world of JK) but that she should be learning to read soon. So that's good. She also got a special trip to the aquarium with Grandma on Saturday, which she totally loved.

Jords is being a total love bug, Still sleeping pretty well (will do a 6-7 hour stretch, eat, then go back down for another 4-5 hours). He is getting big for sure! He has become so much more interactive over the past 2 weeks! I had my favorite moment the other night where we had a good 15 minuet conversation of him cooing and me, and me cooing back. Not sure what he said, or what I said, but it must have made him happy because he was smiling up a storm! We have a neurosurgeon and neurologist follow up this Friday, so keep the prayers coming! If we get a good report this time we should get to go a few months between visits!

 Playing barbies! 

 Em at the aquarium 

 loving the fish! 

So Many Firsts!

Last week Em had her first day of school and first day of dance class. First day of school went great...first day of dance, well hopefully next week goes a little better. Em was super exhausted since she decided to start the day at 6am, so was just out of sorts. We also had our first time having Mom with both kids while Chris was camping with his 8th graders. Don't wan't to repeat that first any time soon, but honestly it went better than I expected. 

We celebrated Grandma's 65th birthday this weekend-which I got no pictures of. We also got to spend some time with Joanne and Nana-which I also got no pictures of (yes, basically I fail). 

Happy we had the long weekend, now ready to get back in the swing of things! 

Em first day of dance (ballet and tap)

Emmy dressed Jords up and took his picture-poor kid 

 Napping like a Prince at Nana's 

2nd day of school pic-yep, totally missed the first day!

Em had her first day of school-it went great. Jordan's doctor told us to start giving Jordan rice cereal in his bottle and could try on a spoon-we'll he loved it! Chris has been gone since Wednesday camping with his kids-we can't wait to have him home for the long weekend! Enjoy the pics and videos! .

 10pm- being cute so he doesn't have to go to bed

 Em was asked to be a flower girl in Lindsay's wedding! She is so excited! 

I just love those eyes! 

Jordan finding his hands (I understand that this may only be entertaining to me...)

Emmy "feeding" Jordan

Jordan had his 4 month doctors appointment last week. He is up to 11 lbs and 22 inches long-for a 2 month old that would put him at about the 50 percentile for height and 25th for weight...he is not on the growth curve yet for a 4 month old, but that is pretty normal since he was 2 months early. His pediatrician was a amazed by how well he is doing! Smiling, laughing (he has for Chris and Nana...but not for me!), rolling from front to back. He is still working on neck control but it is getting better each week for sure. 

Em  had her back to school picnic on Sunday (starts Wednesday) and she is beyond excited! She got to visit with a few friends. She is going to have a nice small class this year (about 6 students) which will be great. I expect she'll learn a lot! 

Did I mention we are crazy and decided to remodel our bathroom in the midst of starting back at school?

 I never post pics of myself-Chris got a few so I felt obligated to post...Jordan was hitting me in the face, little bugger)

 World's saddest face! 

 Em taking selfies (yep!)

He is just too cute!

 Bathtub in! (we only had a small shower before, we knocked out a wall to the pantry to expand the bathroom)

So we had to build a new pantry

Hopefully we'll have finished pics by next week? A girl can dream! 

What a week! Students moved back to BW this week, so it was pretty crazy at work for me. But I feel like we are back in the swing of things (kind of...). Saturday the kiddos got to spend lots of quality family time with visitors. Sunday was super low key-but we did take both kids out to lunch and it was actually stress free-which is not the norm! Em has been on her best behavior lately trying to "earn" a Shopkins game (which she did on Saturday). Jordan is just cute, smiling a ton and laughed once for Chris! We have his 4 month appointment this week-I'm excited to hear what they have to say about his progress! Ok, enjoy the pics! 

 Denise and Jordan

 Smiling at Tom

 Super Girls! 

 Reading to Jords

Crazy family selfie!