Happy 2nd Birthday!!!

I can't believe that Logan is now 2 years old! It amazes me at how fast time has gone by. It seems like it was yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital and now, here he is a rough and tumble toddler. He has endless amounts of energy. One of his favorite things to do is just run in a circle while saying "run run run, fun fun fun". (He got that from his favorite tv show.) He can run in a circle for a minute to sometimes twenty.

He loves his sister and is always so careful around her. He's always willing to help out if Olivia is involved.

His vocabulary is increasing daily. He can count to 5, but knows his numbers up to 10. (We're working on the higher numbers.) He's recognizing the alphabet and colors. It's just so much fun to watch him learn. His curiosity level is endless. He is always wanting to learn new things. One of his favorite phrases is "what's this?"

To celebrate his birthday, I decided to make him a cake with one of his favorite TV characters. His favorite show right now is "Yo Gabba Gabba" and he loves Muno. So I decided to try to put Muno on his cake. It turned out alright, not the best, but for the first time decorating a cake...ever, I think it looks pretty good. Logan even recognized it right away. :)



And looking back...here are some pics of Logan.

Newborn

3 months
6 months
9 months
1 year
18 months
2 years

Family Pictures

Sam's sister, Minna, takes awesome photographs. So, I just had to ask her to take some pictures of my family while she was in town. I'm glad she agreed to do it, Sam and I are not the easiest people to take pictures of. Anyway, the pictures turned out great! Thanks for taking the time to take our pictures Minna!!!

The Holidays

This week has been super busy, but super fun. All of Sam's family came to town, so we got to spend time with them and Logan got to spend time with his cousins. He had a great time with his cousin Bailey, who stayed with us for a couple of days. The two of them seemed to get along very well. Logan still goes around the house looking for "Bayee".




Christmas Eve was spent at my parents house with my family. It was nice, relaxing, and fun. I'm very blessed to have all of my family in the area, but it doesn't mean we always get together, so seeing them all on Christmas Eve was really great. The kids had a great time playing with Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Aaron, Uncle David, and Aunt Heather. My dad made rotisserie chicken out on his grill that was delicious. However, Logan decided to have some fun of his own while my dad was outside grilling. He turned off the outside light and locked the sliding door so that my dad was outside in the dark. I had to run over and let him back in. :) It was pretty funny though, who would've thought that an almost 2 year old would do such a thing. Although, knowing Logan, I'm surprised at myself for not realizing that he would do something like that. But I think that Logan's favorite part of Christmas Eve was playing with the cat. He followed the cat around the house and didn't stop until the cat had had enough. It was pretty funny.





Christmas morning we opened presents at home before heading up to Sam's parents house. Logan was not in a good mood when he woke up and didn't want anything to do with opening presents, so Sam and I opened them for him. He did enjoy his kitchen set that he got though, it was the only thing he would even look at that morning. Olivia had fun attempting to open presents though. She tried to bite the paper off, but we helped her out anyway. She was all smiles. It is so much fun to watch her eyes light up when she's excited.





Later in the morning we made the trip up to Sam's parents to open more presents and spend Christmas day. With 22 people, it was a crowded home but it's always more fun when the entire family gets together.

With Christmas over for this year, we just have Logan's birthday to get ready for next week and then we can finally relax a bit.

Christmas Lights

Logan loves lights, especially Christmas lights. All day long if he sees a Christmas tree or lights on someone's house he'll say over and over again "ligh, ligh, ligh, ligh!!!!" He doesn't say the "t" at the end for some reason, and he's always very excited about it. It's so much fun to see him get excited over something so we decided that we would go out and drive around to look at the lights on houses. I had heard about this one house in particular and thought we should check it out. I'm glad we did, it was AMAZING! Definitely something we will go see every year if the owner of the home continues to do it.



It was 12 minutes of choreographed lights and music. It was so much fun to watch. If you're in the area, it's definitely a must see!

First Food

We were a bit hesitant to start Olivia on rice cereal because of her problems with formula. We thought she might be allergic to the milk based formula because she broke out in a huge rash, but when we tried her on soy, it didn't go any better. But we got the Enfamil Gentlease formula and so far she's doing alright. Of course, she hates the bottle and it's a fight to get her to take it. I'm hoping that one day she'll be okay with it though, especially after a day like today when she ate every hour!

But the cereal seemed to go over very well. She loved every bite and in fact, cried in between. I guess I was moving to slow or something. She just wanted it in her mouth. It was fun to watch.

She's almost got it

Maybe another few weeks and she'll be able to sit for more than a few seconds. :)

It's finally finished!

So, 1 year, 2 months, and a baby later...



It's not perfect, and I opted to not do a few details, but I think it turned out alright. I hope Logan enjoys it for years to come!

Time sure flies!

At 5 months, Olivia is sure doing a lot! She's rolling over both ways, scooting (backwards, but still scooting), laughing (mostly at Logan), smiling all the time, sleeping through the night for usually 7-8 hours at a time, and spreading joy wherever she goes!

One thing we have found out recently is that she is allergic to milk based formula. So we have her on soy. So far she is doing well with it, but it's only been a few days. We were going to start her on rice cereal, but figure we should wait and see how she does with the formula before starting her on that. We have to take her to an allergy specialist when she's about 8 months to get her tested to see if she is allergic to dairy products. Not fun, but necessary. It's wierd though because I eat lots of dairy every day and she hasn't had any problems that we know of. But with the formula she broke out in hives, and a huge rash all over her face. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the diagnosis is.

Her weight gain has slowed down quite a bit. She only gained 5 ounces this past month, putting her at 16lbs 13ozs. We're not sure how tall she is, but my guess is close to 27 inches.