Logan's 18-month update

A year and a half old already...wow. Logan is quite a character, that's for sure! He has really started being his own person. It's easy to tell when he's happy and when he's sad! When we were eating lunch at Sonic one afternoon, he used his tots container as a sippy cup holder.



This pose is for when he doesn't want to do something. Cute, but frustrating! :o)


We went to the Zoo after lunch and he got to ride the train! Mommy and Abby rode on the train, too. Actually, Mommy was busy changing Abby's wet diaper while on the train, haha!




Logan's favorite food is still blueberries. I swear, the kid could eat his weight in blueberries! We started giving him frozen blueberries when he was teething about a year ago, and since then, he has always craved frozen fruit. We'll often find him trying to open the freezer for a fruit treat!

Logan absolutely LOVES his kitchen set. He and Melissa love making me yummy treats. I've found them starting to "feed" Abby pretend food, which is pretty cute. Maybe that'll help her transition to solid foods :o)
This is how Logan chills. Juice, bear slippers, and freshly bathed. Ah, the life!

We went with Grandpa Dan and Grandma Laurie to the Elegant Farmer for caramel apples before Halloween. There were some huge rocking horses that Logan loved playing on! Grandpa thought the horses had "handles," but they were actually just stirrups :o) Silly!

Logan doesn't really like to talk as much as most kids. He says a few words, but still uses gibberish quite frequently. He says: mama, dad, chip, puppy, Emma (our cat), blueberry, clock, sock, up, down, more, please, thank you (which is just "e" right now, but he says it as a word), yummy, and a few more that I can't think of right now. He knows lots of animal sounds, including cow, cat, dog, dinosaur, monkey, lion, and tiger. Despite many attempts to teach him otherwise, he still thinks a horse growls...not sure where he got that one! He doesn't repeat what we say. He recently started shouting, "Gabba Gabba" when he wants to watch that awful show. :o)

He's getting much taller and his hair is getting long. Time for a haircut soon, but I love the curls too much to cut them off!

He's a great big brother to Abby. I'll make a post about his own baby and Abby later :o)

Abby's 3-month update

Gosh, Abby is 3 and a half months old already! Where has the time gone?! She is getting SO big. She's in 3-6 month clothes already and sometimes certain outfits even seem small!

All of her baby hair in the picture above has fallen out and she's an adorable little blonde baldie now. Her eyes are still blue. We'll see if they stay blue! Logan's are a bright, icy blue, so maybe she'll get those. Jim's are grey-blue and mine are a greenish blue. Even with all of that blue, she could still get brown!

She has rolled over a few times, but hasn't in a good week or two. Not worried -- non-mobility is so much easier ;o) Abby gives the biggest of her grins to Logan, who is completely infatuated with her. He constantly comes over and rubs her head and tries to burp her.

I am LOVING all of the super-duper cute smiles we get from this gorgeous angel :o)

She loves listening to stories with Daddy and Logan at night. (Okay, and I know this entry is about Abby, but how cute are Logan's pajamas?!)

She sleeps like a champ!!!! Abby goes down at about 10 pm and sleeps until 8 am each morning with no night feedings. She is mighty hungry when she wakes up, but I see no need to wake her up to feed her when she's capable of letting me know when she's hungry. Since she sleeps so well at night, she's not much of a napper during the day. We still don't have a "schedule" for naps for her, but she seems quite content with playing it by ear, so I'm okay with that!

Abby is still a Mommy's girl. We're still nursing, minus one bottle of formula before bed because I don't have enough for her to fill up before sleeping through the night. I'm really proud to hav gone 15 weeks already, since I didn't get any milk that came in with Logan. I am still experiencing a low supply, but am trying to keep it up as long as I can. I gave up on the Fenugreek because I hated the way it made me smell, but I drink a lot of water and eat protein to help boost my supply.

I can't believe my little girl is so big already! She's just as easy-going as Logan was, so we're blessed to have two pretty tame little ones.

And can I say, dressing girls is an EXPENSIVE obsession :o)

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun! We carved pumpkins with the kids this year, and by that I mean that they watched Jim and me carve pumpkins :o) We did a Wizard of Oz theme this year -- Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, and then a fourth pumpkin with both Dorothy and Toto. So cute! Logan didn't quite get it and kept putting the pokers in the holes of the carved-out pumpkins.

The kids were all dressed up in their Halloween shirts. Logan's was a glow-in-the-dark mummy shirt, which he thought was all kinds of cool when he went to take his nap and he had glowing green on his shirt! Abby's had a cute little black cat on it, and if I'm not mistaken, hers glowed, too, but we didn't see it. Hm...have to check that out!

The kids' costumes were so cute! Logan was an elephant (and he kept the trunk and ears on the WHOLE time we trick-or-treated!) and Abby was the most adorable tiger you've ever seen! We went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with Logan's friend Melissa and her parents. After that, we stopped by my parents' house to take the kids to a few neighbors' houses.

All in all, it was a great Halloween! Mom and Dad had to take some of the candy that Logan got, of course :o)