Half Birthday

Well my baby boy is growing up on me and halfway, well more than halfway now, to the big one year!  These past six months have flown by and lately I have found myself a little sad about how fast Logan is growing up.  I am not one of those moms who usually has a hard time with them moving onto the next stage, in fact I always seem to want them to get to the next stage and find each stage to be better and better, but with Logan I feel like he was never my baby.  He has never liked to be held or cuddled and I feel like I was just in survival mode with the adjustment to two kids for so long that I missed out on enjoying him as a little baby.  Nonetheless, he is growing up on me and turning into such a sweet, happy, fun-loving boy.  Did I mention he is one big boy.  His stats at six months were:

Weight: 18 lbs 13 oz. about 85%

Height: 26 inches about 30%

Head: 18 inches about 90%

Logan seriously has the build of a football player, he is getting so heavy to hold and doesn't help much so he is pretty much dead weight.  He is following in his sisters footsteps with being at the top of the charts for weight and the bottom for height, go figure!  Oh, and his head is almost the size of Addie's!

 His beautiful blue eyes

 My sleepy baby, he doesn't like to cuddle with me but he sure likes to with his Aden and Anais blankies!

 Happy in his bumbo, for a minute at least!

 He gave his jumper a go this past month and has really started to go crazy.  I love seeing him discover the different toys to play with on it and jump around with a huge grin on his face!

  Sunday best, such a handsome boy

 Dressed up as a pirate for his first Halloween

 Kicking it old school

Logan is seriously the most laid back baby.  He still doesn't move much and seems totally content to just sit back and observe.  I have let myself worry a little bit about the fact that he doesn't really roll (other than from his belly to back because he still hates his tummy time) or show much of an interest in standing or sitting up, but I am just trying to let Logan do things on his own time table and enjoy the fact that he isn't going anywhere fast.  He has such a sweet, easy going disposition and I just love him so much. He is enjoying his oatmeal cereal and veggies.  I have been holding off on fruit until I know he likes the veggies.  His favorite is still sweet potatoes hands down.  He is still a great sleeper at night and usually sleeps from about 9:00 pm to 8:00 am, or at least he did until that darn daylight savings decided to throw everything off.  Seriously, ever since I had Addie I dread daylight savings, with kids you don't get to enjoy the extra hour of sleep, instead they are up and ready to go an hour earlier...ugh! This past month Logan has taken a lot more of an interest in trying to grab things, especially paper and put it into his mouth.  He pretty much has to have something in there at all times.  He is at such a fun age right now, he is so smiley and interested in everything, but he still stays put...for now!  

       Happy half birthday Logan, we sure love you!

Fall Fun

We have had so much fun this fall.  Addie is at such a fun age and gets so into every holiday.  This might have been my favorite Halloween to date!  Addie has been borderline obsessed with pumpkins and all things Halloween from the first decoration she saw.  I think I heard the phrases "mama I see a pumpkin" or "mama I see a witch" or "mama I see a ghost" etc. about a million times throughout the month of October.  She loves to point everything out as we drive by and won't stop repeating herself until you acknowledge that you heard that she did in fact see a pumpkin!  I love how easily excited she gets about everything.  Here is what we were up to the past month or so.

 We took Addie to pick some baby pumpkins at the grocery store to hold her off until we went to the pumpkin patch.  You would have thought it was Christmas morning she was so happy with her pumpkins!

 Her brothers toys are always more fun!

 Logan being his typical silly, happy self.

 We visited my friend Kelly and her baby girl Kendall.  We headed to Gardner village and Addie loved all the witches.

 Family hay ride with our friends Paul, Stephanie, and Easton to the pumpkin patch to pick our perfect pumpkins!

 Riding the cow train with my girl.  Yes I realize I have crazy eyes in this pictures but Addie was so excited!

 Nephi and I were able to go to a preseason Jazz game for free thanks to the pass of all passes and we got lower bowl too!  It is was way sweet but I shouldn't get use to such great seats!

 Addie's pumpkin pancake.

 Making sugar cookies...

 and decorating sugar cookies, but of course it was much more fun to eat the frosting!

 The Syracuse pumpkin walk has nothing on the Logan one, but it was free and still a lot of fun to see all the carved pumpkins lit up.

  We are lame and didn't carve pumpkins this year, but I did let Addie paint her pumpkin and she had a blast  painting every color on one side of the pumpkin!

My baby boy went and turned six months on me in October.  I had to get a picture of him in his Sunday best and his favorite thing is to stick his tongue out.

Halloween was much anticipated this year.  We kind of explained to Addie what Halloween was and that she got to dress up and get candy and she pretty much asked us every day, multiple times a day if she could "go to Halloween and get candy"!  We were relieved when the day finally came so she would stop asking and it was everything Addie could have hoped for.

We went with our friends Kelsey, Molly and Laney to the Living Planet Aquarium and the girls had so much fun running around with each other.

Then we headed to mom's work to trick or treat!

Addie figured out trick or treating after like her first stop!  The second she got a piece of candy and said thank you she would say "I need to get some more candy" every single time.  Her little pumpkin bag finally got so heavy she asked my mom to hold it for her.  She left with all kinds of candy and other little things and  we still had trick or treating to do that night!
Needless to say Halloween was a success.  Addie got more candy than any 2 year old should ever have, which means I ate way more candy than I should have!  Now she isn't asking to "go to Halloween" anymore instead she just tells me Halloween is over.  I am holding off explaining Christmas just yet!

Happy Halloween from our princess and pirate!

Where to Begin...

I am once again way far behind on this blog.  I still haven't done Logan's 6 month post and he is now closer to 7 months.  Hopefully I can get caught up on everything this snowy weekend with little going on.  Here is our end of summer via iphone pics!

 I am officially a quarter of a century old.  Celebrated my b-day by riding the frontrunner for the first time, going to seven peaks with Phi, and dinner at Tucano's.  Yay for birthdays! Oh, and I got my first pair of colored skinny's and have been in love ever since.

 I went on a youth temple trip to the Brigham City open house.  It was breathtakingly beautiful!

 Addie has pouting down along with tantrums!  She is one sassy little thing.

 Enjoying ice cream cones

 Refusing to take off her winter coat when we were seeing if it will still fit for this winter...it does, yay!

 Found these two holding hands in the car and my heart melted just a little.  I love that they love each other!

 Made several trips to the zoo, this one began with a blowout all over Addie's clothes and her heading home white trash style!

 Family fun day at Boondock's

 Started, and stopped potty training.  She wasn't as ready as we thought.  Here's to an easier time round two starting in January!

 Who knew the mall could be so much fun!

 Fire department open house.  Addie loved riding the fire truck!

 This guy spent a lot of time in his car seat during all the previous pics but he had fun too.  I am saving most of his pictures for his 6 month post.

 We ended this summer with a bang and were sad to see it go.  Stay tuned for all things October!