2011
That Overwhelming Feeling
You know the feeling… when you start to realize all the things you need to get done and all the things your kids need… and it starts piling up and all you want to do is crawl into bed and take a nap because that just seems much easier? I had one of those moments…
Read More +VIDEO: Meet Jordan's swim paddle
Introducing Miss Jordan’s new swim paddle! Before we left Chicago we had a chance to hop into a hotel pool and test it out. The paddle is attached to her arm with two rubber bands and velcro. It’s very different for Jordan since it holds on tightly and she’s not a fan of how it…
Read More +VIDEO: Meet Jordan's latest helper arms
Take a look at Jordan’s new arms. It’s pretty cool to check out. I shot a little bit of video with her trying things out in the appointment room on Monday: Jordan and I are finally back home. On our way, we had a chance to visit one more Born Just Right family. Seriously, I…
Read More +Mini-milestone video: Push ups with a new arm
Jordan’s newesthelper arm has a much more flexible elbow… So flexible that she got to try out push ups for the first time. She has some work to do to learn… but this was really cool:
Read More +Building Jordan's new arm – Day 1
I feel like we’re total pros now that we’re working on Jordan’s sixth ever prosthetic arm process. The very first one when she was four months old was done the old-school way. It’s when you go in to have the arm measured and casted, then you come back every week to check a fitting, test…
Read More +VIDEO: Special gifts
We have had a very exciting weekend in our household. Jordan and I are gearing up to head back to Chicago to build her next helper arm. She had the challenge this weekend to pick out the next design for her arm. The cool thing about the type of prosthetics she uses is we can…
Read More +Santa Time!
I have a thing for taking the kids to see Santa… It’s cute and I’m running out of years where this tradition is exciting. Cameron has figured it all out… But he and I have made a pact to keep it away from Jordan for at least this year. So when we took pictures with…
Read More +Holiday time with the family
I can’t say any person in our family was ready to get back to the normal swing of things this morning… There’s something awesome about a long unscheduled holiday weekend. Sure, Jordan’s parents had to work a bit this past holiday, but that didn’t stop all of us from having fun and bringing the holidays…
Read More +Thankful for gatherings
Over the weekend we had two different chances to meet up with kids who were born just right. On Saturday, one of our friends who we met through this website happened to be at the same football game as we were. Jordan and her friend had SO much fun being goofy and running on the…
Read More +Tying shoes a little differently
Over the summer Jordan had figured out how to tie her shoes under the guidance of some really wonderful friends at Camp No Limits. The challenge for me was taking those skills and extending it into the real world. Jordan didn’t really own shoes with laces when we got home from camp and I didn’t…
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