8 months

Logan, you are just growing up.  You have moved into the big boy room.  You have made it through the night about 3 times so far.  I think it would be more but your brother complains that you are too loud and that makes him cry.  Your dad and I understand.  You only lasted in our room for a week.  You are a loud sleeper.  I think brother is getting used to your noises and I have high hopes that it will get better and better.

I think one of you favorite things to do is eat.  I think you wish you could eat all day long.  You eat about every 3 hours.  If we push it past that you are sure to let us know.  You struggle with texture and anything that isn't baby smooth makes you gag.

You take 3 naps a day...for the most part.  They are about an hour to an hour and a half long.  You usually cry for a little bit right when we lay you down.  But you fall asleep pretty quick.

You feel that you must be able to touch anything mom has.  You only play with toys for a little bit and then you are ready for something new.  You really like to play with the desk drawer.  You don't like it when you shut the drawer on your fingers.  But really I don't know that anyone enjoys that feeling.  You cry and cry but then start playing with the drawer again.

You are getting pretty good at rolling around and getting to where you want to be and you are getting fast.

You still love the tub.  You LOVE to splash with your brother.

You have started to laugh...like really laugh.  It is so cute.

This is your favorite way to be held by Dad

You sleep with two binky's.

You love to be outside and seem to be pretty content in a stroller just watching everything that is going on.

You say mama, and brrrrra (I think you are saying brother).

You LOVE your dad and always give him the biggest smiles EVER.

I really think you have gained another 5 lbs.  You are getting heavy.

You sleep through sunday school at church but always wake up for the third hour...and if you are with dad and realize its Priesthood you get really loud until dad takes you out, then you are content to walk the halls.

Overall you seem pretty content if you have eaten, have a clean diaper, and are not tired.  haha

the Birds

One morning we were in our kitchen and all of the sudden there was a loud noise in the back yard.  Its hard to describe...it just sounded busy.  Rocky opened the door and we saw hundreds and hundreds of birds.  They were everywhere.  Of course when we opened the door they flew.  We tried to capture them but everytime we moved they moved.

The pictures don't do it justice.  I was terrible at capturing this crowd.  

weeeeeeeeee

So each week we try to participate in Playgroup.  If you aren't familiare it is where a group of people get together to let their kids play and adults chat.  Sometimes we meet at the library, sometimes the church, sometimes the park...just all over the place.  One week we went to the Jumpzone.  I think that is what it was called.  They have the huge blowup slides.  James and I had a great time.  Those slides are HUGE and I was nervous about climbing up them myself.  I thought there would be NO WAY that James would do it himself.  After a couple of times up with me he was good on his own and IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME.  I usually followed pretty close behind, but not always.  My little guy is growing up.

Here are some photos of our fun.  

Lucky number 7

Logan is 7 months and chunking right up like we had hoped.  I weighed him a couple days ago and it looks like he has gained 2+ pounds in a month.  Woohoo.  He has his official weigh in Friday.

Logan is rolling all over the place these days.  It is no longer safe to have him on the bed.  I'm always surprised when I leave the room and come back a minute later and he is in a totally different place.  He is getting fast.  He is pretty good at rolling to me when I put my arms out to him.

He is LOVING James.  He is LOVING James hair.  I think two of his favorite things to do right now - besides eating are - pulling James hair and pulling out James binky.  These things happen often because James is constantly in Logan's face.  Brotherly love.

Logan loves sitting on the potty.  In fact often times when I change his diaper he will get fussy if I don't put him on the potty first.  He almost always tinkles in the potty.  Hopefully he will be easy to train....or maybe I'm just setting myself up for a HUGE failure.

I'm slow at introducing lots of solidish foods to Logan.  He has had avacado, rice, peas, oatmeal, beans and carrots.  We just did oatmeal, beans and carrots this week.

He LOVES his binky and seems to fall asleep much better if he has two binky's in bed.

We started saying "uh-oh" to him with things fall and I swear he tries to say it back.  It is so cute.

He talks a lot.

He likes to play with the toys that James is playing with.  This is hard for James which makes it hard for Logan which makes it hard for mom.  A very vicious cycle.

Logan LOVES me right now.  He LOVES me to hold him.  So James has become a little more needy too.

Logan likes to stand up.  He doesn't jump like most kids.  Just stands there.  Actually if he is in his jumper he shuffles he little feet.  "Everyday he's shufflin."

When I get him up from sleeping he usually puts his head on my shoulder and pats my back.  It is so sweet.

We have attempted to put Logan and James in the same room together a few times now.  James hates it and asks us to take him out because he wants to sleep alone.  If I don't take Logan out they both cry and we end up worse then we started out.

He is napping much better these days.  He usually has 3 naps and they vary in length from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours.

He does pretty well in the stroller and loves to watch everything that is going on.  He isn't a huge carseat fan but we are managing ok.

He has a cute little laugh and a sweet smile.

Potty Training....again

We gave up on training James but decided that if we started young enough with Logan that we would be good to go. 

Day 1 -  one tinkle and one poop

Day 2 - two tinkles.

Really we aren't potty training Logan.  I just happened to have him sit on the potty before bath time one day and went to change his diaper one day when I was sure he had pooped.  He hadn't so I thought I would put him on the potty to see if it helped aaannnddd it did.

Anyway we are back to potty training James.  This time has been WAY easier.  I tried twice before and quit within an hour.  For about 3 weeks he had been asking me if he could poop in his diaper.  After 3 weeks I couldn't take it anymore.  I put him in undies and told him that if he went three days in a row with NO accidents that he could have an Ironman toy.  5 days later he had is toy.  We aren't 100% but we are doing pretty darn good.  Yay for undies!

6 months

Weren't we just at the Dr. office getting your 4 month stats and shots? Man time is flying.

This go around you were 13 lbs. 14.5 ounces.

 The Dr. says that isn't enough and I need to feed you more. Am I starving you? I felt so bad. You are 25.5 inches (I think, I was so focused on weight)

 So you have been cranky and not sleeping super well this month. Probably because you were constantly hungry. Well we are going to fix that fast.

You have been napping better which is so nice.

You are SOOOOOO wiggly.

You are constantly moving unless we have you swaddled.

You are sitting better and better.

You LOVE LOVE LOVE the tub. I think it is you most favorite place to be. You kick your little legs like crazy. You still kick your little legs all the time so when you hear the tub start you REALLY kick. You are talking more and more.

 Its funny to hear you and James have little conversations. He trys to mimic the sounds you make. I think you love it.

You are rolling around more and more. I try to get you to roll to me but we haven't gotten to that point yet.

You grab everything that is within your reach.  You have the MUST TOUCH NOW mentality.

You LOVE to pull my hair - OUCH

You don't like it when James takes your toys away from you.  Which is ALL the time.

You have tried Rice cereal, avocado, and a little frozen yogurt - a sample from Costco that started out as mine but somehow ended up in your mouth.  Yes, yes we will do better at feeding you more things.

You still love me the most. I love that.

 I'm hoping to get you fattened up this month and get you back to sleeping through the night.

 *The last of these pictures are from the Dr. office.  We had to wait over an hour in the room to see the Dr.   It was tough and we will probably change Dr.'s

Snow in the South

We keep hearing about the big storm of '93.  Yes, it could be possible that '93 was the last time that Alabama saw snow.... until today.  It snowed for a solid 2.5 to 3 hours.  It even stuck to the grass and parts of the road.

James was so excited.  We went to the attic, pulled out the snow clothes that we didn't think we would see so soon and headed out to play with the white flakes of fun.

After about 10 minutes of fun we got cold and headed inside.  Had some HOT chocolate, took naps and woke up to even more snow.  James was determined to build a snowman.

It was Rocky's day off and we wanted to do something fun.  So we took James to see Finding Nemo in 3D.  When James woke up from his nap it was time to head to the movie.  So we promised him that he could build a snowman when we got home.

Rule one - When in Alabama don't promise anything that has to do with snow.

Really only one rule is needed.

We saw the movie and when we came out the snow was GONE without a trace.

So we then sang part of the snowman song.."in the sun he melted, melted, melted. In the sun he melted small, small, small."  And James seemed ok with that.  Whew - anything to avoid those 2 year old tantrums.