Snow Day Part Two!

When Nathan called and said he was on his way home from work I got Logan all bundled up and headed outside. It was perfect timing as Nathan pulled in right as we walked out! We were only out for about 10 minutes because it was REALLY cold and Logan is still has the ear infection thing going. BUT - we couldn't resist the whole winter wonder land!

We thought that Daddy has done a lot of pulling Logan around so we thought that it would be nice for Daddy to get a break and have Logan pull him around. HA!

Jekyll and Hyde at the dinner table

I must say that if Logan continues to be the love machine he is now then he is going to make some woman very very happy someday. Long story short...Logan loves to blow kisses. Logan will blow us kisses when we ask him to, he will blow us kisses when we say we love him, he will blow us kisses when we say bye bye or night night or make any sound resembling a kissy one. He will blow us kisses over the phone, over the monitor, over the baby gate when trying to convince us to let him in to a room we don't want him in. It is quite comical.

Here is a video from dinner the other night.

THEN - about 5 minutes later he started growling. And then Nathan started growling. And Logan started growling louder. Male bonding at his finest! Someone has to love these two - it might as well be me!

A nice cozy reading corner

Logan is quite the little reader. Typically it is on our laps, but more lately he is reading on his own. He will sit down in the middle of floor to read, but since he got this super cool Logan sized chair he has opted for that! I like to think of this as his lovely reading corner as his bookshelf is full right next to him.

Please notice in the picture below: Logan is wearing a onsie that is unhooked on the outside of his pants. Nathan took these pictures when I was gone earlier this week and it seems that after a certain time of night Nathan chooses not to put his clothes back on totally correctly as it is so close to bedtime. HA! cracked me up.

SNOW DAY!!!

SNOW DAY!

Boss told me to stay home today (I brought work home with me yesterday) and I worked a bunch this morning so that was good. Logan spent last night at my parents' house and mom brought him back around lunch time. After nap time I busted out the left over play doh I had from last night's Valentine's.

Logan sat like such a big boy at his Logan sized table and we had a great time playing with the play doh. Logan didn't do much of anything besides bang it together, bang it with his hand and stick his fingers in it. Toward the end I convinced him it was great fun to squeeze it between his fingers. lol I'm looking forward to doing more play doh fun with him on these snowy cold days - or warm summer days - I'm not picky.

I'm hoping Nathan makes it quickly home from work and we can go outside and play in all this snow we have on the ground! Maybe another blog post tonight if we do make it outside for snow time!
I hope you enjoy the pictures below. The second to last one you can see the tears about to fall. I had told him not to eat the play doh and he didn't take that suggestion too lightly. Thankfully he started smiling as quickly as he started crying!

I highly encourage the other mom's of little ones to give play doh a try - definitely a supervised activity, but it was great fun!

OH - and HAPPY 18 MONTH BIRTHDAY TO MY SWEET BOY!

Logan's Valentines!

Logan was hard at work tonight putting together 18 Valentines to give to his class members. Okay - that is a lie on many levels considering Logan isn't even at home. We are getting a pretty major storm and since my mom is the one who watches him on Wednesdays she picked him up today at daycare and took him back to her house so she doesn't have to drive in the weather tomorrow morning.

Anyway - Logan being gone gave me the opportunity to get his Valentines done with no little people under foot! Nathan even helped which was a great thing! I go this idea from Joanne at Ready, Set, Craft! here and it seemed pretty easy so I gave it a go. And it actually WAS easy! Go figure!

I printed out the recipe, directions and a "don't let your kid eat this or play unsupervised" note and attached those together with some embroidery floss and stuck that in the little heart full of play doh! (FYI - I did try to eat it - it is NASTY! VERY salty and just all around gross. Even if a kid does take a bite - I doubt they will take a second!)

I think they turned out cute and are a bit more fun than cards. Although - as the class size grows we'll see how much my enthusiasm for hand made valentines continues. :-)

Got everything in the pan ready to stir and I mean stir! My back has been bothering me so I made Nathan do it after a couple minutes!

I decided to make pink play doh!

All laid out and ready to go! I'm going to run them in to daycare tomorrow.

I think they are adorable! I hope the kids like them!

By the way - FINALLY done with the big project at work. Put 55 hours in on just that project alone in the past 7 days and am HAPPY to see this portion of it end! YIPEE! And with the weather my boss told me I could work from home tomorrow. Hmmmm... Logan at my parents, Nathan leaving at 7:30 for work and no NEED to be at my office at 8:30. I think I may sleep in as late as physically possible before work "starts." Although I think I will head in to work at some point.

So - Happy Early Valentine's Day everyone!! What are your plans?

Possessed by Demons!

Okay - I'm still not technically in the land of the blogging - I'm still actually under piles of paper at work... BUT I couldn't resist a blog post.

Logan is sick. Double ear infection, lungs sound "junky" (doctor's words) and just all around pretty miserable feeling. We found this out Sunday morning when we took him to his doctor's after hours clinic. Now let's rewind about 18 hours...

Nathan picks Logan up from his parents house on Saturday afternoon. He had spent Friday night there while we had a splendid date night! Nathan's mom relays that he was pretty fussy. Well if what Nathan brought home was the "fussy" she spoke up... sweet Jesus our phones should have been ringing off the hook.

I'm not exaggerating when I say the child was having an exorcist moment right there in the living room. He hadn't napped, but 45 minutes that day (after an early 6:30 wake up) so we had that to contend with as well. I was SOOOO excited for Logan to come home, but when he comes in the door and just lost it my first thought was - take him back. Part of me wishes I had taken a video of him, but that would have just been poor parenting on my part. Although it would have appropriately conveyed the HORROR that was Logan for the first 45 minutes of his arrival to his loving home. It got to the point where Nathan and I were literally scared for him. He was just NOT himself and was miserable. He was thrashing, hitting us, kicking us, banging his hands and feet on the floor, screaming bloody murder, couldn't catch his breath due to how much he was crying. If we gave him food - he threw it. If we gave him something to drink he would swat it away. I tried to give him Motrin and he hit me. I felt so helpless as I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I called the on call service for Logan's pediatrician and waited for a call back.

We ended up taking Logan upstairs to an early bath - he was crying and screaming so hard that he was horse and was losing his voice. He couldn't catch his breath. Nathan ended up getting in the bath with him just to hold/comfort him some more. I ran upstairs after calling MY mommy for some reassuring words that I was doing everything I was supposed to. (I love my momma!) I FINALLY got him to stop crying by blowing bubbles in the bath water (which I'm sure he peed in, but whatever...) After about 10 face fulls of water Logan finally cracked a smile and then a very raspy giggle. Then it was super fun to dunk momma's head in the water. FINALLY - my baby had returned. THANK THE LORD!

We got him dressed in his pajamas (by this point it was well after 6 and he hadn't eaten dinner or anything, but we calmed him down enough that we got some food in him, some Motrin in him and some milk/water/juice/something liquid in there too. I received a call back from the sweetest nurse practitioner. Seriously - the woman was so so wonderful. She said that if it got bad again to trust my momma gut and take him to the ER. Thankfully the rest of the night he was acting pretty normal so we put him to bed and he slept through until about 6:30 when we woke to him once again - possessed. I finally decided enough was enough. We calmed him back down and decided to take him to after hours when they opened at 9:00 as opposed to the ER. We knew he wasn't dangerously sick and since he was calmed down and eating and fairly happy we felt comfortable waiting the two hours. (Plus our ER co-pay is crazy expensive and the urgent care/after hours is or normal office copay cost.... yes - money did play a factor... sue me.)

So we were waiting in our car for the doors to open at 9:00. We were the second ones in there - the first ped's appointment and Logan was such a doll. Blowing kisses to the nurses, giving them his winning smile and waving to everyone we passed. Seriously kid - you are supposed to be sick - ACT LIKE IT! ha!

The doctor commented that his ears looked horrible and his lungs sounded junky, but that he was a great way to start her day. He was so sweet and didn't fuss and just smiled up at her while she did her exam. Yes - I'm raising a lady's man!

We got some amoxicillin and headed out to my parents' house. We stayed most of the day there relaxing and watching the Super Bowl. Logan was his normal happy self - not even a hint of the previous day's (and morning's) crazy miserable child. He had fun playing with the "kee-deee kaaad" (kitty-cat) and even found some big shoes to fill.....

(We eventually had to hide Grandpa's boots or Logan would have just stood in them all day. He couldn't walk in them at all and just kept falling over, but still insisting that he put them on. lol)

All in all - it was a whirlwind of an 18 hour period, but I'm happy we figured out what was going on and our little guy is getting back to normal! Okay back to work - don't tell my boss I was here!

This blog has been temporarily interrupted...

This blog has been temporarily interrupted due to the blog writter being up to her eyeballs in close to 1800 pages of deposition transcripts that must be read, summarized and analyzied by noon on Friday. Thus she is required to spend her whole day holding a highlighter in one hand, Diet Pepsi in the other and reading as fast as humanly possible. This includes her evenings (with brief interuptions by a fantastic almost 18 month old.) So I will be MIA until further notice. This project came in the door late Tuesday and our finished report has to go out the door by next Tuesday afternoon. Wish me luck - I expect I'll be working most of the weekend as well. Thank God for my fantastic husband!!