Logan is SUCH a boy!

I was telling my boss the other day about Logan's latest ouchie. He asked me, "Is there any question in your mind that Logan is a boy's boy?" HA! Clearly. He is all boy through and through. You build a tower of mega blocks... he busts it and then cheers himself on for his immense destruction talent. You buy him a new cool table and chair... he insists that he stand on the table. You buy him a very cool sit and spin and he thinks it is better to stand on the part you hold with your hands to spin it. The kid has no fear. It is pretty ridiculous if I'm being honest. God Love Him - he is a dare devil rebel. (A new post about that coming in the next day or two.)

On Sunday when I was taking a lovely after church nap Logan and Daddy decided to do some handy work! This involved putting a "anti-Logan" device on the pantry. As Logan gets taller, our pantry gets smaller. Logan has mad pantry skills as you may recall. Little did Logan know that by helping Daddy - he was really creating a world of pissiness for himself! (Later when he realized what he had done... Holy Tantrum Batman! Oh well - he'll learn.

Please note - no toddler was harmed in the taking of these photos. The drill bit was removed prior to picture taking!

I can't tell if he is looking happy or slightly evil in this picture. I wish it wasn't so dark as I think it is cute either way.

Nathan said Logan was a great help with the drill and was happy to hand it back when Daddy asked. Although Logan's concept of sharing is, "Okay I gave it to you for .2 seconds - now give it back." Yes, we are still working on sharing. It is getting better though! You can see the sit and spin in the background. See that red and yellow part? Yeah that is what he likes to stand on! What it the world?!

Our first BIG ouchie!

On Thursday I got a call from daycare saying I really should come get Logan and take him to the doctor. They said he was playing in the gym and fell off a toy and bit into his tongue. They weren't kidding!! It was horrible! I called his pediatrician's office and they said to bring him right over. His doctor said we needed to take him to the ER because she felt he needed stitches! Are you kidding me?! I couldn't fathom how that was going to work out. Nathan was out of town and my parents were out of touch so thankfully my mother-in-law met me at the ER so I wouldn't be alone.

We got to the ER and the doctor said that he bit a little more than half way through his tongue and she could do stitches, but the trauma to put him (and me) through that would be horrible. She probably would have to sedate him and that would pose its own risks. Ultimately she decided not to do stiches. The picture below just doesn't do it justice I must say. You can't see the other 1/4" of the cut or how deep it is. I grabbed this picture the day after with my phone so it isn't that great.

When we were at Ikea yesterday we ran into his pediatrician (how funny is such a BUSY store) she looked at his tongue and said we could cancel his appt on Monday to follow up and that it looks great. To be honest from the time I picked him up at daycare unless you looked in his mouth you couldn't tell anything was wrong with him. Since then he has been eating and drinking just fine! We have avoided salty, acidic and crunchy foods but other than that it is life as usual!

On a side note - at the appt at the peds office they weighed Logan - he was 26 pounds 13 ounces! Such a growing boy!

Okay - you have the choice NOT to look at the photo. I will put a lot of spaces between here and there and you can decide if you want to look. I really isn't THAT bad. But I am sorry if I gross anyone out! Consider yourself warned and me free of any squimish feelings you have after looking at said picture. :-)
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New toys

Yesterday the three of us made a trip to Ikea. I love that we have one less than twenty minutes away! Makes a quick trip easy to do. However, yesterday we were there for over three hours! SCORE! I was just in the mood to get out and go somewhere. Logan was great riding in the cart around the store. We took breaks every so often so he could run around a confined space to get his wiggles out. Worked out well. While we were there we bought Logan this super cool table and chair. The table was on sale for $10! Here is Logan modeling it for you this morning while doing some aquadoodle work. He really likes it. Especially since he can push it all around the room and rearrange all the Logan sized furniture.

We also bought Logan a new step stool for the half bath downstairs and we can easily wash his hands after he eats and brush his teeth. Logan seems to love it. He got really excited that he could see himself in the mirror, reach the water and turn the light on and off. It is the little things in life don't ya know!

Followers?

Okay folks - I have 17 official followers... all of whom I know. HOWEVER - my little map thing tells me there are all sorts of people from different parts of the United States and the world who have stumbled upon my blog. Some of the people I can figure out based on the cities, but some I have no clue about. To be completely honest I'm not sure how I feel about that. SO - who are you? I'd love to know who is reading my little corner of the internet. I hope some of the random people will comment and let me know how they came to find my blog and such.

Dueling Vacuums!

Logan has always been so obsessed with our vacuum. If he can see it - he wants it! We had hoped that buying him his own vacuum for Christmas would make things better for him. We tested this theory the other day. At first Logan again was just trying to convince Daddy it was a much better choice for Logan to vacuum the living room. I tried over and over to show Logan that he could vacuum too, but he wasn't having it.

Eventually Nathan took both vacuums and were doing them side by side. FINALLY Logan was pleased with his vacuum enough to take it back and start using it. He still kept his eyes fixed on the big vacuum though. ha!

More sledding fun!

As I mentioned in my last post we took the kids out sledding Thursday morning. It was an utterly perfect day. 32 degrees, just enough snow for the little ones, no wind, nice and sunny. It was GREAT! Here are some photos from our time outside. I am not in any as I am NOT a sledder (is that a word?) Although I did go down the toboggan with Nathan and Sarah. (Back in the day my dad had a snow mobile and would pick us up at the bottom of the hill and bring us back to the top. That is sledding in style I tell you! But when that died so did my interest in sledding. Fat girl does NOT like to walk up hills - ever - and certainly not in the snow!) Anyway - here are some fun pictures!

Enjoy!

We started in the front yard going down the small hill...

Logan on the toboggan

Princess Piper on her sledding throne - such a serious little face.

All the kids getting pulled back to the top!

Tommy is all ready to go!

Down he goes!

Got a little smile out of Piper at the end of her trip down the hill.

Nathan pulling double duty

Love this picture of all three kids on the toboggan! So sweet!

Then we ventured down to the hill in the back yard. Bigger than the front yard, but smaller than the big hill...

Grandpa even hopped on a sled and went on down!

Daddy and Logan are all ready to head down. Do you think Nathan might be in need of some snow clothes? Me too. (Although he does have boots and a coat - just didn't bring them along.)

There they go! At the end of the yard is a creek, but you have to go through the bumpy garden to get there and that is usually enough to slow you down before you get to the creek!

Tommy took a break half way up the hill to make a snow angel.

Then we made it over to the BIG hill. Nathan and Logan went down, but I didn't catch a good picture of that. (We forgot our fancy camera and I just had mom's "I take forever to actually take a photo" point and shoot. I am happy though that I got as many good pictures as I did.)

There goes Sarah and Tommy! I wish I had a picture of Nathan and Logan. Logan was saying "weeee!!!!" before they even took off. He l.o.v.e.s. sledding!

Happy New Year and Post Christmas Round Up #4

Happy New Year everybody!! I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend. We sure did. However, we did so much running around that I could have used another day to recuperate and relax!

Wednesday night we went out to dinner with my brother Kyle and his wife Sarah. We went to this wonderful restaurant called Evans Street Station in Tecumseh, MI. It used to be the fire house. We had a very relaxing and nice time. Fantastic food and a couple bottles of wine and we were four very happy customers! Going out for a fancy dinner isn't something either couple does very often so we just enjoyed every minute of it.

We all spent the night at my parents and took the kids out sledding on Thursday morning. My parents house is out in the country and there are numerous hills and I think the kids went down all of them. I'll have to post pictures from that soon.

Then we dropped Logan off to my in-laws and most of Nathan's siblings (and their spouses) came back to our house for New Years Eve. It was a great night.

New Years Day we celebrated Christmas with Nathan's family. It was a nice time and in the afternoon we went to get family pictures taken. A great time!

Logan is most certainly in the middle of some mega teething again. His tongue has been hanging out like a dog for about a week now. Another of his molars has come through (at least the tip of it has - he has 4 molar tips now.)

The Wolfe Family

Grandma Nana and her two grandsons in their matching pajamas!

Logan went downstairs and started rocking out to Rock Band. He did pretty good! ha!

He was really feeling the music! haha


Aunt Deb got in on the rock out fun as well!

Here are some of the photos from the family time. Nathan, Logan and I will be getting new ones taken. We weren't thinking and Nathan hadn't shaved and we both are in dire need of haircuts! OOPS! We are planning on doing a family picture with my family in the next month or so and we'll get a new picture of our little family done then.