Dear Jordan...

You just turned 8 months and are absolutely perfect!
Your personality is shinning through more and more each day.  It's incredible to see the little person you are becoming!  You like to laugh all the time.

 We laugh, and laugh all day.  Sometimes we even pretend laugh....you really like it!  Sometimes you realize that if you keep laughing then I'll keep laughing and we just giggle for ever.
Your little hands are holding on to everything.  You have awesome dexterity, it amazes me.  You love everything that's electronic.  You still love the remote, telephone, computer, and iPad.

Jaime gave you this little contraption that has a white baseball on top of a stand, and it comes with a cute little bat.  about 3 days ago, I got it out, set it in front of you, showed you how to hit the ball with the red bat, and said, "Bam, Bam, Bam."  Then today when I sat you in your little play area you were right in front of the ball holder, you looked for the red bat, held it just perfectly and started banging that ball.  I was so proud of you!  You remember everything!

I've had a little bit of a cold these last couple of weeks.  When I caught, you pretend caught with me.  It's kind of cute!
Every time I change you, you usually hold the dipper and know exactly where it goes.  It's also kind of cute!

Today you rolled and rolled.  You want to crawl so much, but the next best thing is rolling, and you do that  perfectly!
Every night I go to sleep thinking I can't wait to get up and play with you!

Bath Time

I love you so much!!!

your mommy :)

ps...I forgot to mention that you have bionic ears that can hear "everything."

Argentina, Peru, and a little bit of Brazil!

We just got back from our trip!   (August 31st to September 11th).  It was so much fun!  We got to see the girls (Noelle and Angeles), Rolly, Giselle, and Florci.  Our itinerary was something like this:

LAX to Lima...Peru!!
We stayed there for a day and a half.  We found out we love Peru and are definitely going back!  We arrived really early on Thursday morning and asked our taxi if we could have a tour around Lima.  It's a pretty big city.  All the "parks or plazas" are color coded.  For example, San Martin, who also liberated Peru, has a white plaza.  All the buildings around it are white.  We also went by a blue plaza, yellow, and I think a pink one.
After our tour we ended in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima.  After a little nap, we started walking around town.  So much fun!!! We had heard of an open market (the Inca market) where we bought 2 alpaca blankets. After meeting a Canadian on the road, we ended up eating at the "Rosa Nautica," a restaurant on a pier.  The waves were crashing rich under where we were sitting.  The atmosphere was incredible.  White starched table cloths, napkins, real silverware, a piano playing in the background...my kind of thing! It was also Jordan's first experience with fine dinning.  His menu consisted of spinach-pea-apple mush.
From Lima we went to Iguazu where we met up the "girls" and the "Janetsko's." (Ohh...and Colin!!! I forgot!!)

We stayed in Iguazu till Sunday.  We hiked both top and bottom trails, went to see "devil's throat." Learned about the coati...large rodents that live by the falls...cute at first, but then there's so many of them, they look scary!
We also stayed in really cute cabins, ate delicious food, and toured an animal sanctuary where we got to see tucans up close, and other interesting creatures in the middle of the jungle.
The visit with the girls was too short.  I wish we could have stayed with them a little longer, but they had to go back to school.  I'm still glad we got to see them and Noelle met Jordan.

On sunday we went to Missiones to Rolly and Giselle's.  We talked and talked all the way there (we talked and talked all week).  It's incredible to have such good friends!  We are so blessed!
We hung out at their house, ate delicious food, played with Florci and Jordan, took pictures galore, and who knows what else!  We even rested up a bit!
Ohhhh and we toured Las Marias..it's an estancia (farm...I guess) where they grow and make yerba mate.  It as amazing!  We had the nicer tour guide by the name of Virginia, Veronica, Valeria...I still don't remember her name...but it started with a "V."  I love mate...and now I know way more than I ever wanted to know about it!  It was awesome and I would do it again and again!  We even saw capybara...or something like that...they are the world's biggest rodents!  Ginormous!! (and cute...I want one! :)

The more I see Argentina, the more amazed at how beautiful it is!

We had a wonderful time..the best part was the people we saw!!! I want to go back right now!