Fish Tales..

Under the sea
The Little Mermaid,
Composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman


Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea...

Meet my fish named Payton.  In the beginning of the summer she was everyday asking is it May1st yet?  May 1st was a lucky number to her because our pool is open from May 1- October 31st and she was ready and had been since last summer.  TO begin the summer, Payton was using her purple arm swimmers and very soon into the month she decided she was brave enough without them.  She was sliding down slides into the pool, diving off diving boards (much to Mommy and Daddys nervousness..I made her wear her arm swimmers at first but then she did without them numerous times)

Backfloating

I call this back floating and Payton says this was when she was taking her nap in the pool and getting her suntan.

First Sliding Board into the pool moment.  Now she can't get enough of them.

And off she goes...Her FIRST Big Diving board moment!

Our FIRST Diving board moment..with the arm floaties..waiting patiently for her turn.

Jumping off the diving board...look mommy no arm floats and ito the 8ft.

Back floating

(I hope Grandmother won't kill me for this one.) Grandmother and her grandbabies enjoying pool time.
July 2010.

My Sun Baby!

Swim dancing and singing

Underwater swimming

Underwater swimming

Bombs away!



Heading out to the pool and posing on the way...Can you tell she loves to have her picture taken?!



Dr Pepper..good to the last drop...especially if its Daddy's Dr Pepper

Swimming by the moonlight and the pool lights.  Love the late night swims.

Needless to say it is October and time is running down to be in the pool so we will be taking full advantage of every bit of time we get to be in there whether or not it is 40 degrees or 90 degrees in the water.  She has even been named the "little mermaid" and the "little fish" by several of our sunbathing goldies (Older population who spends the entire summer on the same chairs sunbathing) at the pool.
 

Architectural Artist.... Part I (Payton's dream job in life at age 3 until now)

Architectural Artist....

When Payton was 3, we were in the pool swimming early Summer, May 2009 and Payton was being cute and sweet swimming and an older lady in our community asked Payton how old she was.  Payton told her 3 and going on 40 (which now she is 4 going on 40 or so she says). The lady then asked her what do you want to be when you grow up.  What was said next was where we had pick up our jaws.  Payton said an "Architectural Artisit."  Well this was not something we(mommy and daddy) had sicussed with her at all and we were not sure where she got this or who she heard it from.  The lady then asked her well where will you live.  She said "When I am biggier I want to be an architectural artist and live in New York with mommy and daddy." The lady asked her why New York.  Paytons response was "Thats where all the big buildings and museums are."  I think the lady was so floored because she floated off on her noodle and kept looking at Payton as if he she was in shock and then everytime she came to the pool and we saw her there she would ask her the same thing and get the same response.  I think she thought she was so young she would change her mind from day to day or that we had planted this into her brain.  I promise you, this was the first time either Tony or I had heard this information.  Now in saying this it does make sense why she loves to build draw and design pictures, mega block houses and structures and now her newest favorite is Lego creations.  I have taken pictures of some of her designs to share with you below:




This is Paytons Puzzle Box house.
If you look closely you can see the table and chairs in the living room on the second floor.



This is Paytons house of Jenga.  She decided after playing Jenga,
that the pieces were better suited for building the foundation and layout for the house.
She said she needed more pieces to make bigger walls and ceilings but the bigger room is the tv room and playroom.



This is Payton's Lego house.
She asked meto be sure if I was posting this to point out in the room on the top right the potty, sink and bathtub.
The room on the bottom left is the kitchen, notice the table and orange chairs, the counter and stove and refrigerator.
The room to the bottom right is the bedroom and the room and the top right is the sitting room.  On the left
Side is the deck outside where Dora and Boots are chillin'out.



This is the Tot Lot she said where the kids can go play in the sand or climb the wall and slide
down into the pool or even dive off into the pool.

This is her treehouse fun. She said Swiper is hiding in the back of the tree. 
She has two sets of ladders that climb to the room of the tree to see everything there is outside.



While babysitting one afternoon the girls came to get me very excited of their sculptures and Payton put it.
M had made a small building of 5 of 6 blocks consisting of yellow, green and purple to represent her mom and dads car, and
Payton had built a sculpture taller than she was with various floors...6 I think...Notice a Barbie Dog on each floor.  She stood on her bed to get the final roof pieces done she said and it is on wheels so it can be moved easier.
Would this be "High-rise Trailer living?"



An aeriel view of Paytons house and Tot Lot .

I am sure there will be more pictures to post.  These are just her buildings and I have paintings and drawings to show as well. 

Can't Sleep

Can't Sleep...Clay Walker
I've been up all night long

just waitin' on the sun
I've given up, damn the dawn
it ain't never gonna come
somethin's wrong as long as you're gone... (this is the part of the song that fit...)

Once again I sit here wide awake when I should be sleeping. Why you ask? Tony is working and overnight..overtime shift.  He is a wonderful, loving, supportive, father, best friend, husband, daddy, you get my point; HE IS AWESOME!  When things are tight he helps out picking up a shift of overtime when it is available and tonight is one of those nights.  So until he is home in my arms, I wont be able to go to sleep.  Ever since we met, his job has been a night shift job with occasional day shifts. And our patience paid off when RWECC finally went to the 3-2-3 schedule and Tony went on the day shift only as a floater working 3-2-3 from 9a-9p. YEAH we were all soooooo excited.  So the only night shifts he picks up, are the ones where he chooses to pick them up and they are for overtime.  So tonight, Payton is having her first slumber party/sleepover ever wit hher buddy Grace and they are having a blast and I am inthe den watching (saying this very pathetically) Disney channel because it is background noise and because I am antsy since Tony is not home and will stay thatr way until her arrives home in 8 more hours....so I am back to my sleeplessness.


Twinkle Twinkle little star how I wonder what you are.

Bless You...Bless You...(again and again..7 plus times)

Bless You...Bless You...(again and again..7 plus times)

Eva

Charlie and Eva Jordan

 OK. So if you have read my post about my grandfather Charlie, then now you will hear about his Other half, my grandmother Eva.  I had to post this little cuteness and it gave me a smile and shows you what kids pick up.

My grandmother Eva could sneeze. When she would sneeze, it was not once and not twice. It was normally 7, 8 or maybe 9 times.  Then became the running joke that when someone in the family would sneeze numerous times, we would say EVA.  Well my mom tends to get it honestly...she sneezes and sneezes and it tends to be usually a large number of times and my mom normally says "Momma Im comin'" or "Allright Eva."  When my allergies are going strong I get to sneezing and think or say ok MaMa which is what we called her or ok now I sound like Eva.  Well we had been in Poquoson and Payton with the weather changes and temperature changes and I guess dust as wel las being around friends pets and the animal dander, Payton became my little sneezy.

Payton after a bunch of her sneezes said "Mommy aren't you going say what your suppose to say." I said "Bless you" and reminded her that I had already said it a ton of times.   She said "I know I heard you but the other thing that you tell grandmother (my mom Linda). I said "Oh ok. You mean "À tes souhaits". She said "No the other thing."  I then asked her you mean when Grandmother sneezes a bunch and I say "Ok Eva." She said "yes." So I then told her she was "Little Eva."  She then went on her way to play and do but it really made me think.

Eva would of loved Payton so much.  She would of taught her all kinds of stuff. Hopefully My mommy learned it ALL from her so she can pass it on... now that she is retired.  Miss you MaMa.

OK Charlie,,,Yep I get it Honestly.

OK Charlie...YEP I get it Honestly.

Charlie and Eva Jordan
( I love and miss you both.)

For many many...ok for 34 years I have listened to folks pick about how my grandfather (Charlie Jordan)saved EVERYTHING.I know I have made my own comments.
Charlie I think must of had in his mind a need for them already but who really knows.  He always said he would find a use for it somewhere or how. Bolts, screws, lightbulbs, boxes, etc.  And then he had his collection of hats as well.  For those of you who knew him and those of you who did not, he had a lot of hats and some just your basic hats for a business and then some cute or even funny.

( I Will post a pic if i can ever find one of the hats on the ceiling....I know there is one or two out there. Imagine wood beam ceilings and 50 hats per beam..if I am remembering correctly)

Well over the years, As we have cleaned up in the farm house or buildings or been out and about and found something that many would trash I have found myself just laughing and saying ok Charlie... I get it honestly.  The random jokes and  comments have been said when my mom or my aunt or any other person on that side of the family has saved something that should of just been tossed.

There is a phrase.. "One mans junk is a another mans treasure."  I guess this still stands true and I keep finding that I say ughhh not me but then Tony or Payton will ask where something is or only if weh ad something to put this in or seperate this into and I say "oh yeah, I saved this or that , I knew I would need it sometime I just didnt know when."  and then I hear myself saying ok Charlie....or Tony will beat me to it and say it.

Thanks PA (Charlie Jordan) for leaving us a legacy for collecting, smiling, and remembering.  We love you and miss you and I wish my daughter Payton had had the chance to meet you. You two would have gotten into alot of trouble together I am sure.