Jordan's 1st trip to the circus

A couple of weeks ago we took Jordan to the circus for the first time. On the advice of a friend, we made sure to take her to the pre-show, so we got to go down on the floor and watch and elephant paint a picture, see the clown on stilts and lots of other things. I think it also made her a bit more comfortable once the show started because we had been in there checking things out for so long.

Here is Dave holding her while we were watching the elephant paint with a paintbrush.

Still the pre-show checking out juggling clowns.

During the circus she kept clapping with the music. Whenever I tried to snap a picture, the red eye reduction thing on the camera would light her hands up red and she would stop to try to figure out why her hands were suddenly red.

Since the whole experience was new to Jordan, she didn't point at any of the crazy priced items or food or ask for anything. Since we had animal crackers, raisins and juice in the diaper bag, we made it out of there spending only $3.50 for a Diet Coke Dave and I split (and Jordan had a few sips of). I'm guessing this is the only year we're getting away with that.

So, after the first place on Jordan's behind started healing, another one popped up a couple of inches over. We saw the pediatrician on Wednesday who got an appointment for us with a surgeon on Thursday. Thursday morning things were looking much better, but we wanted to take her in for the appointment to be sure. After waiting about an hour and a half in the waiting room and another 10 or 15 minutes in a room, we got in to see the surgeon who said it looked like things were healing just fine. Thankfully, it looks like that is continuing (knock on wood). Jordan seems to be fine, so she is going back to daycare tomorrow.

I'll post pictures later, but we got to do a wonderful brunch this morning with Nana and Bobo where the only thing Jordan would eat were grapes. Dave and I definitely ate enough to make up for Jordan's lack of appetite. We came back to the house and changed clothes before going to Dave's mom's for a couple of hours and then to Dave's sister's house to play on Zach's swing set. Unfortunately, there were an abundance of ticks at Dave's sister's house, so we had to pull one off of Jordan's shirt and another off of her leg.

For all of the mothers, I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!