Jordan got to celebrate her 31st month birthday by enjoying dinner at a station potluck. We had a TON of food and Jordan got to woo every single person there. She is not worried about being polite (although demanding) and adorable.

I’m so amazed to have this big girl in my house. In the last month, Jordan has taken her independence and shown me how easy it is to switch between big girl who can do everything on her own and one second later is desperately in need of me picking her up and giving her a cuddle. She still loves her lamby blanket even though I don’t let her bring it everywhere like I used to.

We lost some potty skills during our vacation, but she’s slowly getting back on track. I kind of forgot how I need to remind her on a regular basis about using the bathroom. I’m getting myself trained a little better, so she’s staying pretty darn clean these days. (I love it!)

In the last month, Jordan has shown she can get really angry. She’ll throw a huge fit, thrashing, punching, screaming… And I will try to help direct her into a calmer state of mind. The amazing thing is how she’ll return to her calm demeanor eventually and apologize to me for the outburst. It’s pretty awesome. She and her brother are still at each others throats — Although they are getting to a point where they can play together a times. It’s awesome to watch them pretend to cook at our play kitchen or run around outside being silly.

Speaking of sweetness, here are a few Jordanisms: Jordan can’t just give you a kiss. A kiss ALWAYS comes with a hug. At night, she tells me “Good morning! Good night!” In the morning, she always tells me: “I wake up!” Recently she loves to walk up to me and let me know: “I happy Mommy! I really happy!” She’s scared of bears due to my speech to the kids about how we don’t put food in our tent while we were in New Hampshire. She still will tell me at a random moment: “Bears really scary. I not like bears.”

Everyone at Jordan’s school calls her Jordy and when Jordan talks about herself, she calls herself Jordy more often than Jordan. Oh – and when she says her name, it sounds like “Yordy.”

She’s growing up so stinking fast!! I’m absorbing myself into this phase. She’s strong-willed, dynamic, sweet, loving and EXHAUSTING. I love it.

Jordan is so big. She went to the newsroom with me and helped me smile while I worked late. Then we went to a downtown festival where my girl GROOVED.

She danced freely in the crown. Just pure happiness. I couldn’t stop giggling.

She did it… Jordan stood up on her own today! She stood up on the coffee table twice! Why? She was reaching for her daddy’s wallet and remotes… and she pushed up enough to stand! Then I started putting all kinds of things she wanted onto the table. She didn’t think I was very funny.

Jordan’s been a really good girl… She took a huge nap today to help make up for the lost sleep in the last few days. She’s been at work late the last two days. She is really enjoying the many students, reporters, producers and web folks. And she’s showed me that she really would enjoy producing a newscast. She loves hanging out in the producer pod area. She’s become the fastest one-handed typing producer in the world. Very fun.

We have snow again… And it appears to be the fun, packing snow. So I’m looking forward to a fun in the snow day with Cam and hopefully Jordan if she’s interested. I am finally getting our house back in order from months of disarray. We’re planning a Super Bowl party, so the house needs to get in control at some point. Today I made headway… So that makes me feel a little better. We actually have empty clothes baskets so we can fill them with more clean clothes!

Best meal ever
Originally uploaded by Jen.

Jordan got to hang out at the newsroom for a while today. I love having her around. The funny part is when Stacey and Randy start playing around with the kids. That’s when silly things happen.

They decided to put Jordan in a take-out box… a larger than life take-out box. It was full of fortune cookies. Newsrooms that are CNN affiliates got one of these boxes. But I bet none of the other newsrooms got to have a baby inside… At least a baby this cute.

I’ve been working and going to appointments a lot this week and I feel like I haven’t spent enough time with the kids. I’ve visited Jordan in her classroom for the last few days. Today she wasn’t happy I left her to go to work. Her teachers say she called out for me for quite a while: “MaMa! MaMa!” How sweet and heartbreaking.

As for my teeth, the good news is I didn’t cause any massive damage to my front tooth. It got polished so the little chip doesn’t get worse or bother my tongue. As for the pain I’ve been feeling, the dentist thinks it’s because I bruised my tooth. I should be okay. I got a new mouthguard. I shouldn’t feel as much jaw pain using this one. But I have to admit, if my children or husband see me wearing this thing… They may cry. It’s not pretty. Randy says if he had to wear something like this, he’d rather have his teeth fall out. I don’t agree. So I’ll wear this thing and see how it goes.