Kian turned two! And other news.

Bardis and Jody's oldest turned two a couple weeks ago, and yesterday they had a party to celebrate.  All three of us went down to their house.  It was a lot of fun - there were a bunch of kids there, some excellent food and a great toy that we came home and bought for Jayden!

Smiling for the camera - Daddy and Jayden were exploring the balloons.  Then Daddy popped a balloon.  Luckily Jayden was still smiling.

Exploring a new pool.  Feels about the same.

LOVING the ball tent.  One of these is one its way to our house as we speak.  He could've spent hours in here.  It's a never-ending supply of items to throw.  And it doesn't involve his parents going to retrieve those items on a regular basis.  In other words, it's a winner!

As I mentioned in a previous post, our A/C broke on Friday.  The repair people can't come out until Wednesday.  So in the meantime we have all of our fans on high, we have windows open, and we are trying to spend as little time in the house as possible.  Yesterday we went out to dinner - the early bird special for Jayden's sake - and then came home and didn't move.  Today we are going to go walk around the mall, just so we don't have to sit in the house.  We're hoping the temperatures drop in the next day or so, but we don't really think that's going to happen unfortunately.

Luckily, Jayden stays pretty happy through all of this, including getting a tooth (#4!) during this heat wave.  He has the two bottom ones in the middle, but the two on the top are off to the side, not the middle ones.  Hopefully the top middle ones come in at some point. 

To beat the heat (and thanks to a reminder from my sister), Jayden is wearing his sandals!

He can stand up, but he definitely needs the support of a parent or an object.  And he still hasn't figured how to pull all the way up to standing.  But he tries - and he gets up to kneeling.  We'll get there eventually.  I'm trying to teach him to bend his knees to take steps, but he's not super excited about those lessons.