Play Time

I took Jadyn to the park a few days ago and got pics of her playing. Looking at these makes me realize how fast she's growing up. It's freaking me out a little!

She gets very serious about playing.


Showing how brave she is.


Showing a little attitude because Mommy wants a picture.
(I can see glimpses of the future 13 year old.)


My favorite shot of the day.

My Little China Girl

Jadyn was given a beautiful set of pajamas from China and we thought it fitting to snap some shots of her modeling them.

Doesn't she look happy? (Actually this is her "humoring Mommy" smile.)

See....so comfy she drifted off to sleep... (Not really, but isn't she a great actress?)

Gift from Grandparents

Oma & Opa decided to get Jadyn roller skates, after having heard me regale them with tales of her first experience on wheels. Here's proof that it was a good idea.

No, she's not impersonating Frankenstein. She just got up on her feet after we got her gear on.

She was upright a good amount of the time.


Then sometimes she looked like this.

JohnMcCain - the dish towel

On Thursday morning, I heard Jadyn say the name of the Republican presidential nominee, John McCain. She said it together, like his name is one word - "JohnMcCain." I realized she was referring to a dish towel she'd been playing with by this name.
We think she picked up on it at her daycare center, though we're not sure if this was part of a short instruction on the subject or she's overheard conversations about the upcoming presidential election.
We have repeated the names of the candidates to her before so that she would be aware of them when she heard them, but we've not formally said anything to her about the election that I can recall much beyond that.
We asked her who "Obama" - Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee - is, and she replied "president." She may not completely understand that our only current president is George W. Bush and that neither John McCain nor Obama has been elected yet.
Now, we could speculate on all the reasons why she picked a dish towel of all things to name JohnMcCain, and it's hard to say if the real John McCain would approve this message. However, she does use the cloth named JohnMcCain alternately as a cape and a blanket for her doll of Grover, the Sesame Street character who of course is blue. Ironically, the dish towel is a blue and white checkered pattern, not red.
The only thing for sure this represents is that it's the extent of our 3-year-old's political punditry.