11 Months

Yep. It's already time for a monthly Logan update. I can't believe he's getting so big so fast. Crazy! Logan's new and favorite things lately are:

"Helping" with the dishes. The second he hears us moving a dish he is there in a second. He loves to stand by the dishwasher and play with the silverware.


Eating...everything! He's a human garbage disposal eating anything spicy, bland, sweet, sour, crunchy, dirty, old. If it's in front of him, he'll eat it. He doesn't care.

This is what happens when I get the camera out. He immediately starts showing off.



Squealing as loud as possible

Walking all over the place holding onto whatever he can push around with him...chairs, boxes, toys, etc.

Music...he bounces whenever he hears music he likes

Hugs. He wraps his arms around my neck really tight and gives me hugs which I have to say is much better than his kisses which usually involve his teeth. (I hate to admit it because I'm sure it sometimes hurts Scott's feelings but I think I'm the only one he actually hugs.)


Animals...I don't understand how he all of a sudden knows a horse from a bicycle but he just laughs and squeals every time he sees any kind of animal and just wants to touch them.

Brushing his teeth. Yeah I don't know how long this will last but he gets excited the second I get out the toothbrush.

Being naked. The little stinker throws a fit every time we change his diaper or his clothes and the second he's naked he's on the run just laughing the whole time.

Playing with blocks. He likes to take apart whatever you build. That's how we play with blocks.

Anyway, I think that's about it. Here's just some recent pictures of our little guy. We just can't get enough of him and that cheesy smile of his.

Before...and After

I always have some sort of project going on to add something to my day that doesn't involve diapers, cleaning, dishes, laundry, cooking, or Logan. I mean I love staying home with my little guy but, you know how it is, some things get SO old and I need something else to focus my energy on. Anyway, I wouldn't say this has been the most exciting project, but I'm accomplishing something that's been on my list for awhile and I think the end result was worth it. We painted our whole house last year right before Logan was born. By the end, I was so big and tired Scott had to pretty much do it all himself so we never got around to painting the doors. I decided it was time to get it done, which has been extremely drawn out since the only time I can do it is when Logan is sleeping and I have nothing else going on during that time. We also have hideous, brass door knobs on all the doors so I decided I had to do something about that as well. Since door knobs are so expensive, I decided to try and just paint them. So I just sanded them down a little and sprayed them with a metallic paint for made specifically for metal. I'm pretty happy with the results so far and the best part is it only cost the price of two cans of paint. I'm not quite finished with all the doors but here's what one looks like.

Before...After...

P.S. The new paint looks sparkly in the picture but it doesn't actually look like that in person.

10 Months

Logan turned 10 months last week. Once again, time is flying by. Logan hasn't had such a drastic change as he has in the past but he's still doing some new things. He's about 19 pounds and 27.5 inches long. According to my 9 month post he hasn't gotten any taller and has gained about a pound and a half. It's a little hard to believe he hasn't gotten taller since he can now reach a lot more things than he could a month ago. Anyway, here are some new things about Logan...most of them he was already doing, it's just more or better now.

He's into everything! He spills my drinks, puts his hands in the toilet, plays with toilet paper, gets into cabinets and drawers, plays with electrical outlets, pulls things off the shelves at stores, tries to climb up my step ladder, opens his wipes and pulls them all out, pulls stuffing out of our leather chair and eats it (There was a small rip that Logan has turned into two large rips.), etc.

Needless to say, if it is within reach...it's not safe. Don't worry grandmas. We've put in safety plugs in the outlets and baby locks on the cabinets and drawers.

He is starting to do some serious baby chatting. It's actually starting to sound more like talking. I will admit "da da" and "hi da" is one of his common noises and even though he mostly says those when Scott's home, I don't think he has a clue about what he's saying. Despite my daily and sometimes hourly coaxing, nothing even close to "mama" has come out of his mouth yet.

Thankfully, he's been much less clingy to his mama.

This has been going on for a few months but I keep forgetting to mention it. He smiles and kicks his legs in excitement every time he looks at the picture of Jesus in his bedroom. I had never pointed it out to him and one day I was putting him to bed and he looked right over at it and smiled and laughed like he was seeing someone he loved. I'm convinced he knows exactly who is in that picture. Now, before I put him to bed every night I take him to the picture and talk about Jesus.

He can stand up all my himself for awhile but once he notices he's not holding onto anything, he gets nervous and sits down.

He walks anywhere there's something to hold onto.

His favorite places to be are outside and at a store (he makes lots of friends every time we go out.) He and Scott have some serious father son bonding on Saturdays when they work out in the yard. He is such a good helper.

He loves to roll and throw a ball back and forth. No, he doesn't have any control over where it goes but it's still impressive.

He loves to pull hair and poke people's eyes.

He's started making this ridiculous face where he squints his eyes and opens his mouth really big. I have no idea where he got it but it's so funny. Hopefully I can get it on video sometime.

He eats like a champ. Hmm...wonder where he gets that. Anyway, he literally eats enough to satisfy an adult during at least one of his 3 meals a day.

He's terrified of loud noises like from the hair dryer, blender, and vacuum. He is so scared of the vacuum that he'll keep his eye on it and his distance from it if it's out of the closet and not turned on.

I don't have many pictures from this month. Mainly because he won't sit still long enough to get a decent picture. Plus, he seems to have snot on his face the majority of the time and, therefore, has dirt on his face all the time.

Here, I needed to get some things done this day and since he has an attention span of about 2 minutes and gets bored with his toys easily, I decided to just dump them all out. Surprisingly it worked and he was entertained for a very long time.

Here's when we went hiking with Stacy and Grace. Just another one of Logan's favorite things to do.

Is it just me or...

Okay so I've been really enjoying the Olympics. Go USA! But I have one huge complaint...Lindsey Vonn. I mean, yes of course, I'm glad she represented and got us a gold but so did many other great Olympians. What's so great about Lindsey? I turn on the TV, Lindsey Vonn. Turn on the radio, Lindsey Vonn. Turn on the computer, Lindsey Vonn. Heck I'm sick of hearing about her and yet here I am blogging about her right now. She just seems so whiny and just begging for attention and, for whatever reason, everyone gives it to her. I guarantee she's not the first person that had a small injury and still pulled off winning a medal for us. I don't want to minimize what she did but seriously if I hear one more word about her bruised shin I will just scream. I hate to admit it but by the end of the women's skiing I was rooting against her. All I wanted was for Julia Mancuso to kick her little blond behind. Anyway I'm sure she'll have a ton of endorsement deals so I know it's not all over but I can't tell you how excited I am for this Vonn obsession to eventually die down. I was just wondering if I was the only one who felt this way or if someone could shed some light on what I'm obviously in the dark about.

My recent projects

You know those bloggers that create these gorgeous, creative home decorations, clothes, hair bows, jewelry, furniture, etc from things like the trash in their kitchens or the dust on their neighbors furniture (because they don't seem like they'd ever have dust in their own houses.) Well my crafts are like the 99 cent store version of their Nordstrom crafts, the cubic zirconia instead of diamonds. Pretty much every idea I have, I steal from someone else and my projects always take me twice as long as they should and they never look near as cute as I imagine them. Anyway, I think crafts and projects are fun and even though they are 99 cent quality, I'm still proud of them and thought I would just post some things I've been up to...

You're probably wondering "What's the big deal about hanging up pictures?" Well the answer is these frames didn't always look like this. They were bought from Savers and the Good Will in a much uglier state and much uglier colors. They were about $1 each and I just sanded them a little and spray painted them.

I couldn't really get a good picture of this one but I'll just tell you they're much cuter in person. I just made these from styrofoam squares by gluing and mod podging paper on. Then adding some ribbon and black glitter.

I made these for Valentine's day. Some are just dipped strawberries but most of them are cake balls. They are delicious and if you want the recipe here it is.

This is what I made Scott for Valentines day. I just got this jar for 99 cents at Savers and mod podged some tissue paper and scrap paper to the inside and added a ribbon. I cut out hearts, 155 to be exact, and wrote love notes and things that I love about him on them. Originally I planned on making 365 for every day of the year but there wasn't room in the canister and once I got started it proved to be a rather daunting task to make that many hearts. So 155 days of love will have to do...once again, a cz instead of a diamond.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm currently working on another project right now that started out simple and easy but things aren't working out as I planned so stay tuned...

Yum!

I made some pancakes the other day and I was so excited about them I thought I would share. I will preface this by saying I just made it up based on some things I like to eat...protein pancakes and chocolate covered strawberries. I just made the batter like I normally do (from the box) then added cinnamon, vanilla, chopped pecans and almonds, granola, chocolate chips, and strawberries. Anyway, that was just one of my most recent "concoctions" as Scott likes to call them and I thought maybe someone else would like to try them out.

Logan's spider crawl

So I'm a little behind considering Logan's been crawling and walking on all fours for a while now but I thought I'd share a video of it.

Little Joys

I love this picture because he gets this same look on his face every time we let him free so he can go get whatever he's after.

Mama Lovin

good night kisses...

I have said before that Logan has been clingy...well this is what he does when I try and get things like dinner done. We're gonna have to figure out a solution very soon.

So Logan and I just love to go outside because, for whatever reason, no matter what kind of mood Logan is in, the second we go outside he is happy. Scott decided to do a photo shoot the other day since we don't really have many pictures of the two of us together and because he likes to document the progress of our yard.

Daddy Lovin

good night kisses...Like Father, Like Son

If you can't tell, they're both on their laptops.

9 Months

Logan turned 9 months last week! How fast time flies. We went to the doctor on Friday and Logan weighs 17 lbs 13 oz and is 27.5 in long. He's turning out to be quite a shrimp after being such a chunk when he was little. I swear I feed him. The doctor was a little concerned about his weight when I told her how much he still spits up. That's right I said still spits up. 9 months of spitting up 10-20 times a day has done quite a number on our carpet and couches...especially since he eats food now. Anyway, after seeing how happy and active he is she no longer thought it was a problem since the spitting up doesn't seem to bother him one bit. She increased his reflux meds and hopefully he'll grow out of this very soon. There probably won't be quite as many new updates since I blogged a couple weeks ago but here are the new things:

He "cheeses" big time when he sees the camera come out.
Can stand up without holding anything for about a minute or so.
Crawls everywhere now...no scooting anymore.
Walks holding onto things.
Has two beautiful bottom teeth.
Has started drinking from a sippy cup.
Likes to try and get mom to chase him...laughing the whole time
Has to be held down in order to have his diaper changed. Yes I have resorted to straddling him with my bum in his face just to change his diaper.
Loves to bang his hands on his tray and smash all his food.
Has lots of accidents...for example has pulled the bar stool on top of himself.
Thinks everything is a game and laughs when mom says "no" even though I'm pretty sure he knows exactly what that means.
Has become fascinated with his tongue and is starting to make clicking sounds with it.
Loves to blow through his lips so spit comes out...not sure what you call that.
Is very very ticklish.
Recently loves dogs and cats and probably any animal if he got close enough.
His most excited time of the day is the second dad walks in the door.
Loves going out. The second I pick him and the diaper bag up he squeals and kicks his legs with excitement.
Has become extremely chatty again...always making noises and jabbering.

First times:
Swinging
Sliding down a slide
Hanging from one of our trees (with mom's help, of course)

Logan with Penelope and Amanda (a couple of my beautiful beehives)

Hanging out with cousin Grace at the park.
First time swinging all by himself.

This is the smile he gave me when I woke him up from his nap on one of our walks.

Looking out the window to see when dad was coming home.

One of his new things...squinting one, or both of, his eyes when he smiles for a picture.