19-20 Months

I have been very behind on everything lately including my blog. Between everyone getting sick, Christmas, and being pregnant I don't know if I'll ever get caught up before Baby Bair 2 comes but I'm working on it. So...Logan's due for an update.

Logan has finally started showing interest in talking. Some new words and phrases are:
ball, car, go, thank you, shoes, juice, "ashes, ashes, all fall down", ready set go, fish, and any other word he decides to copy when he feels like it. He also signs a few more things however the only one I can think of now is cold.

He now "folds" his arms for prayer. Which really is just him putting his hands on his chest for the first few seconds of the prayer. It's a miracle if he makes through the whole thing.

He knows what a lot more animals say like monkey, sheep, and all the ones that growl like bear, tiger, dinosaur, lion etc.

He's learning more body parts like teeth, tongue, head, feet, fingers, and arms.

He's started eating with a fork and spoon but usually gives up after a few seconds. He also eats like a big kid at the table with dishes without dumping or dropping his plate on the floor...usually.

He's now a pro at walking up and down stairs. No more scooting backwards to get down.

After like a year of trying to get him to do it, he finally blows kisses.

He "winks" which is, of course, is just exaggerated blinking.

He tells me when he needs his diaper changed by tugging on his pants but doesn't like the idea of a potty seat.

He gives hugs.

Uncle Matthew got home from his mission a few weeks ago and got to meet his two nephews. It took some time for him to warm up but now Logan loves playing with Matthew.
Logan's absolute favorite thing to do is play outside. When the weather is nice I will just leave the back door open so he can go in and out whenever he wants. This day it literally rained all day and Logan was begging to go outside the whole time. I finally gave in and let him out to play in the rain. He LOVED running around and stomping in the puddles. I finally had to bring him inside kicking and screaming before he got too cold.

Logan loves to help mom and dad with anything he can. He seriously is a huge helper taking things to the trash, putting toys away, handing us things, wiping the table, and he loves to sweep. This is just another Saturday working outside with dad.

Logan has become quite the pro at hiding. He hides to play and also hides when he hears it's time to change his clothes or diaper or anything else he doesn't want to do. When he finds a good hiding spot he's actually hard to find because he can keep quiet for at least a couple minutes.

I'm sure I'm forgetting things but that's all I can come up with after being so behind and living with a "pregnancy brain."

30 Is the New 20 Right?

Last week Scott turned 30. Like every year, he got Thanksgiving dinner for his birthday. I thought it was quite appropriate since I'm so so very thankful he was born. Scott isn't big on being the center of attention, but I talked him into letting me throw him a birthday party for this monumental year. How cute is this invitation?
Anyways, we had all his favorite snacks and all his favorite people there (that weren't out of town or sick that weekend.) We had a "How well do you know Scott" game with 30 questions, of course, and a picture game where you had to guess his ages in the pictures, plus fun facts about every 5 years of his life. Scott was a great sport about everything and I think he actually ended up having fun with all the attention. Sadly the only pictures I took were when he blew out his candles.

I feel so lucky and blessed to have him in my life. He's such a wonderful husband and father and, like I tell him every year, I love celebrating his birth because it's just as big and important a day for me as it is for him. My life is forever changed because of him. I love him more than I could ever express in words. He becomes better with every passing birthday and I'm loving every minute of "growing old" together.

Halloween

I decided this year that Logan needed a bucket to go trick or treating with. He loved it so much, he filled it with his cars and trucks and carried it around the house every day until I put it away after Halloween. I took Logan to the store and asked him which costume he liked the best and he immediately went for the dog costume (his favorite animal). I tried to show him a cute fireman and giraffe costume but he wasn't having it. He just kept barking and cuddling the dog one. When I would show him what he looked like in the mirror wearing the costume he would get so excited, laugh and just start barking.We took him to our Trunk or Treat but he wasn't sure what to do. It was really dark so he was a little hesitant to go up to people when he couldn't see them. Needless to say, his candy stash was pretty pitiful. We went to a couple Halloween parties so I decided to make something cute to take. I made cake balls which I've blogged about and listed the recipe here and just decorated them like eyeballs and spiders. I used red velvet cake and just white frosting and they were delicious.

Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plains

In October Logan and I went to Oklahoma for 3 1/2 weeks. It was the longest time we've ever been apart or away from home. Luckily Scott got to come out and visit for a weekend. It was the big OU/Texas game so my grandparents and aunts all came over and watched the game with us. We had so much fun while we were there. We took lots of walks and trips to the park taking advantage of the beautiful weather while it was still scorching hot back in Arizona. Papa took us to the Orr family farm. Logan had so much fun playing with the animals in the petting zoo, jumping on the "jump thing," riding the pony, carousel, and hayride, picking out a pumpkin, sliding down the slides, and playing on the mechanical rides. Logan was pretty tuckered after such a fun day.We also got to go to the zoo with Nana and Papa, lots of cousins, Aunt Diana, and Uncle Kenny. Logan's favorite person was Katelyn who took good care of him and took him down the slide as many times as he wanted.Another main event of our trip was my friend Sarah's wedding. We were able to go to the sealing and wedding reception. It was beautiful and wonderful to be a part of it.Logan was lucky enough to dance with the gorgeous bride.

We had such a great trip being able to spend time with all the family and lots of friends. We ate like piggies since Arizona just doesn't compare to the delicious grub in Oklahoma. After we got home I was wondering how the good food was just going to show up on the table. It had been so long since I'd had to cook. Logan got spoiled too and was so used to having crowds around him and being the center of attention, he kept looking around for an audience after we got back home. It was sad to leave but nice to get back to Scott and home sweet home.

17-18 Months

I always give Logan updates every month but we went to Oklahoma for almost a month and I got super behind on absolutely everything. Anyway, I'm doubling up to attempt to catch up. I'll warn you now, this is probably going to be a very long post.

Here's what's new with Logan:

18 month stats- 31 in. tall (10-25%) and he weighs approximately ( I say approx because he was freaking out when they were trying to weigh him so it was just an estimate) 24 lbs (25%)

He can snap his fingers.

Can tell you what a dog, duck, snake, and pig say.

Can point to eyes, ears, nose, mouth, toes, belly and hair.

He can run.

He can put blocks together with no help.

I'm not proud of this but he LOVES watching TV. It's already become a struggle every time he asks to watch it and I tell him no. It's kind of scary how much he understands. He laughs when things happen like someone falls and dances and claps to the music. His absolute favorite show is Family Feud. He sits and watches the whole show, reacts to whatever happens, and sometimes even tries to put his arms up in a strike sign.

He dances complete with fancy footwork, spins, and flailing arms.

He loves to spin in circles until he falls down.

His favorite game to play is hide and seek.

He loves to pick up and be a big helper in whatever way he can.

I started taking him to nursery early while we were out of town to see how he did and he's been loving it ever since. We drop him off and he never looks back.

He seems to understand pretty much everything we say and will act on things that we mention or things we ask him to do. He'll get his shoes or a diaper when we ask him, put the phone on the charger, put his toys where they belong, or head for the door when we tell him we're going outside or bye-bye.

He refuses to talk. Despite pointing and labeling everything, repeating what things are over and over, saying things simply and slowly...you name it, I've probably tried it but he just isn't interested. He communicates with signs (some ASL, some his own), noises, and a lot of actions. He signs milk, food, more/want, all done.

He loves FHE. We started having him join us for very simple FHE lessons about a month ago. He surprisingly will sit through 2 prayers, a few songs, and a lesson...which is shocking since he can't even sit through one prayer before he goes to bed. The songs are, of course, his favorite.

He loves anything he can take apart and attempt to put back together and anything that has lids he can take off. He is surprisingly good at taking all kinds of lids off things.

His favorite toys are cars or anything else with tires. He makes vroom noises when he plays with them. He even has to check all the tires on real cars to make sure if he needs to fix anything.

Logan still LOVES the ladies. I was watching my friend's kids and he just would not leave Sadie alone. I had to pull him off of her a few times.
Here he is after I got him from smothering her so he had to keep his arm on her at least.Just another girl Logan had his eye on... Logan won't sit still for long but he does love looking at books even if he can't sit still for mom to read him an entire book. He started deciding that his toy box in our living room would make a nice seat and stool to climb onto our entertainment center as well.

His favorite bunny and blanky.

Scott recently got a bike and chair and since the weather has been nice they've been able to really enjoy it. Logan, of course, loves the ride.

We have security screens on our front and back doors and once the weather got nice I started leaving our doors open with the screens locked. After Logan saw me use the key just once, he was telling me he wanted to go outside which I told him no for one reason or another. It's hard to see the keys in this picture, but he just decided to get the key try and unlock it himself.

My little kitchen helper decided to climb my stepping stool and then help himself to some frosting.

After helping himself to a few spoonfuls of peanut butter...

Prego Belly

When I was pregnant with Logan, I was terrible at taking pictures of the progress so I decided this time I would be better.

Here I'm about 9 weeks and yes by then I already couldn't fit into all of my pants.
13 weeks... 21 weeks...That's as recent as I have for now.
As for this pregnancy, it hasn't been easy but it's definitely been better than the last one. I was throwing up until I was about 22 weeks or so but by then usually only a few times a week. I've been much more tired this time around but I'd have to attribute most of that to my extremely rambunctious little Logan. The diabetes management hasn't been quite as hard and so far the only other complication has been a placenta previa diagnosis that hopefully will correct itself before it causes any problems. I have a long way to go but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all the yucky stuff doesn't show up at the end like it did last time. Now I'm just enjoying the rest of the 2nd trimester when it's the easiest. Oh, and I'm about 24 1/2 weeks now.