Tuesday, December 25, 2012

8 Months

Logan is now eight months old and growing like crazy.  This past month he has realized how much he loves food and is becoming less interested in his bottle and more interested in baby food and some table food.  I am always so afraid of feeding him anything, for fear of him choking, but with Addie not getting her first tooth til 14 months I know Logan will probably follow a similar pattern and so he just needs to start gumming food now!  He is a champ at eating.  I was worried that once I introduced fruits to him, he would refuse veggies, but he still loves to eat them.  He loves green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, apples, pears, peaches, bananas, and has recently started enjoying yogurt and little pieces of bread.  He is working on his pincer grasp and has started to get the hang of feeding himself little puffs and loves them!  He is currently wearing a wide range of clothing sizes.  He still wears some six months things, has mostly nine months, but it now moving on to some twelve month stuff.  He is getting so big!  This past month Logan started having physical therapy once a month through early intervention.  We were starting to get a little worried about his lack of interest/motivation to get moving and sitting up, etc.  He is a really happy, easy baby, but he still isn't a solid sitter, refuses to roll (except from is belly to back), will not (no matter what) bear weight on his legs when you try to stand him up, and just generally prefers to be laying down to anything else.  Seriously, if you lay him down he doesn't move, he wakes up in the morning in the exact same spot I laid him down at.  I know I shouldn't be complaining because a non-mobile baby is so much easier, but as a mom I just start to worry when he isn't hitting his milestones.  As of right now he really isn't behind and didn't technically qualify for services through early intervention, but they were able to put us in the program anyway.  The physical therapist comes once a month and gets Logan all worked up doing things he doesn't want to do!  But really it us more for me to learn how I can work with him.  Everyone tells me that Logan is just really laid back and one day he will just decide he is ready to start doing things and that is probably true!  He has improved a ton this past month though and is sitting pretty well , but I still have to be right by him.  He rolls over to his side and could easily roll all the way over, he just doesn't want to.  Also I know that he is capable of bearing weight because he jumps and stands in his jumper non-stop when he is in there.  I think he just has the mentality of "why stand when someone can just hold me up".  Silly boy!  
 Logan met Santa for his first time and in case you can't tell from the picture, he loved it!  His little face kills me!
Fascinated with all the Christmas lights this past month
 Getting better at sitting up

 At Texas Roadhouse sitting in a restaurant high chair for the first time
 I love this close up of his baby blues
 Just munching on a banana 
Log's two favorite things in the world: Addie and his binky
 My typical happy go lucky sweet boy
Thought the cellophane wrap from a neighbor gift was the most fun thing ever!


We sure do love this little man.  Everyone told me there is something special between a mommy and her baby boy and there totally is.  I just can't get enough of him!

Thursday, December 20, 2012

7 Months and Thanksgiving

Well Logan will be eight months tomorrow and I am just now writing his 7 month post.  Not to mention I never blogged about our Thanksgiving.  But since it was one day after Logan's 7 month birthday I figure I can combine the two.  All of the 7 month stuff is blurring with 8 months so this post will be short and sweet since I can't remember a whole lot!
Likes: jumping in his jumper
eating, he is a great eater and loves all fruits and veggies I give him
smiling if he gets any attention at all
watching his big sis
wearing 9 month size clothes
rolling from his belly to back and staying on his back
sitting in his bumbo
playing in his floor gym
playing patty cakes and reading books


Because Logan has been slow to sit up, this was his first time sitting in the stroller without his carseat where he didn't freak out immediately, although he was kind of slouched the whole walk!  He sure enjoyed the better view though.
This boy finally has the hang of solids and absolutely loves to eat.

Dislikes: rolling,
naps (okay he doesn't dislike naps he just still doesn't take long naps, his morning nap is like 20-30 minutes and his afternoon nap is an hour and a half on a good day.  He then needs a cat nap in the evening since he didn't sleep enough during the day!
being sick, duh!  He developed bronchiolitis and had to have a breathing treatment done at the doctors office, luckily it wasn't very serious and he was back to his regular happy self within a couple of days.
tummy time
standing (he refuses to bare weight on his legs and just goes limp)
getting dressed.  The grumpiest this boy gets is after his morning bath when I am getting his clothes on.  He absolutely hates it.
snuggling

There hasn't been a whole lot that went on with Logan this month.  He just still continues to be the most chill, easy going baby EVER!  
He did get to experience his very first Thanksgiving and that was fun.  Except for the part that Nephi got the stomach flu and was vomiting all day Thanksgiving...not so fun.  Seriously, he never gets sick and then he ends up with the stomach flu on the biggest day of the year for food!  I felt so bad that we all got to have Thanksgiving dinner and he had to stay home all day puking his guts out!  Other than that I had a great day over at my Mom's visiting with family and eating some delicious grub!  Due to the fact that I was wrestling my two kids all day I didn't take a single picture...go me!  That night after I made sure that my kiddos were fast asleep and Nephi was keeping food down, I headed out to do some black Friday shopping at Carter's.  Yeah I decided to forego the big box stores for sweet deals on electronics and such for clothes for my kids...oh the life of a mom.  I sure do love good deals on kids clothes though! Well here's to hoping I get Logan's 8 month update done in the next few day!