2010JUL05 - Aunties visit and "the Syndrome"

My Aunt Sue-Sue made her annual trip to the west coast and was able to visit us in Sunnyvale, as well with my Aunt Jane and my cousin Joseph. This was Jordan's first time meeting his grand aunt Sue-Sue, but the story here is more about Jordan's aversion to my male cousins. The whole time they were at hour home, Jordan would keep a watchful eye on Joe. We all thought it was funny and didn't think anything of it until we drove up to visit my other cousin Daniel and his wife Linda.

I thought Jordan might be a little scared of Meatball, their 2 year old chihuahua. But Jordan didn't really care too much. He just let him sniff around and that was that.



The real surprise was when Dan held Jordan. He sort of cried out like, "What the heck is this creature holding me?!?!?" It was then I realized that Jordan doesn't like my male cousins very much. He allowed others to hold him, just not Dan. With Joe, Jordan just watched him cautiously, and back in May, Jordan didn't like it when my cousin Alvin held him. Well, we plan on going up to Sacramento next week, so maybe I'll see if Jordan will let Alvin hold him again. That'll be the true test, because as far as I can remember, he's really good with babies. At least he was with my other cousins when they were under 2 years old.



By the end of the evening, Jordan tolerated Dan's presence, but we still had to quickly take this photo before Jordan turned to his right to see who was behind him.