Fun with Daddy!

Nathan and Logan have always had a loving, deep, amazing relationship. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous of it at times, but thankfully Logan has started to even out the love and affection. With me being all pregnant and slow he and Nathan have been two peas in a pod. I don't know about other moms out there, but watching your husband be a pretty great dad is pretty wonderfullly sexy thing! I digress....

The other night Logan went in the half bath to wash his hands. After a few minutes Nathan went in to see what he was doing. After another few minutes I started to hear giggling and of course went to inspect. This is what I found:

Silly silly Logan and Daddy... they have such fun together!

Monday night we went outside for some fun which started inside with, "I play catch with daddy outside now. Here your mitt daddy. Bye bye momma!" I convinced Logan that I coul dat least come out and watch. ha! Silly boy. After playing catch for a bit Logan quickly told Daddy he wanted to play tag. I'm not sure Logan fully understands the game of tag because after a few back and forths of being "it" Logan just wanted to be chased. haha! Then Logan climbed up on Nathan's shoulders and yelled, "On your mark, set, gooooooooo!!!!!" And off they went! I managed to catch a quick fly by picture with my phone. Logan was loving it and Nathan was sweating after all the running around they did.

I love me some handmade gifts!!

Last week I recieved an email from an online friend asking for my address as she wanted to send me something. I didn't really know what was coming, but was thrilled when a little shoebox arrived - but it did NOT contain any shoes.

Inside was a note that said (paraphrased,) "I have been saving this fabric for something special and when I heard you were having a little girl I knew it was meant for her!"

How cute is this little dress and diaper cover?!? I just love it!

She even offered to make me a couple more if I want to send her some fabric! How generous is that?! I'm pretty excited to put little Abby Rae in this dress!

Where has the time gone?!

Goodness! Is it really June 21st?! How is that possible? We have been flying through life these days... recap of the past couple weeks...

• June 2nd (okay before my last post, but never mentioned it.) Nathan and my's 5th wedding anniversary! We went out to dinner at Grizzly Peak in downtown Ann Arbor... YUM! Serious YUM! Then we went to see the movie, "Bridesmaids" - wow was that pee your pants funny (especially if you are pregnant!) It was a really fun night and we enjoyed the heck out of it!



• June 11-12 - probably the most productive weekend Nathan and I have had in months and months. It helps when you aren't running all over the place for other commitments. We were able to enjoy the weekend getting projects done around the house and enjoyed each other's company doing it. My dad came over Saturday morning to help out with a few things - that always spurs more productivity I think! :) Logan was a great help too - he was loving using Grandma's big "loppers" (as we call them) to cut down three bushes on the side of our house.



• June 14th - maternity clothes shopping! Okay this was pretty epic for me. I was wearing the clothes from my pregnancy with Logan and I didn't buy a lot then so they were very well loved. I went with my mom and sister-in-law, Sarah (who is also pregnant and due 3 1/2 weeks before me!) Now - under normal circumstances shopping for me is an act of self inflicted torture and I DO NOT ENJOY IT. I'm a total debbie downer on myself when faced with the bad lighting and mirrors of dressing rooms. This trip however was a breath of fresh air. I enjoyed the heck out of it!! Lots of laughing - lots of gripping (in a funny way) - lots of "you really want me to try this on?!. it was a great time! My parents bought our clothes as part of Sarah and my's birthday presents - THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!



• June 17th - we picked a name for our little girl - Abigail Rae! We'll call her Abby and we are thrilled thinking it will be the perfect little name for her. And I like the sound of "Logan and Abby" together. So that is a great thing to have checked off our list!



• June 18th - a baby shower for my cousin Kendra who is due the end of July. It was a great day! It was a couples shower so a total family affair. I think it felt more like a get together/party than a shower - which was kind of nice! Although - Kendra is also having a girl and let's be honest - I just wanted to steal all the presents she got. :)



• June 19th - FATHER'S DAY! I sang in church that morning while Nathan and Logan ran down to visit one set of his grandparents who live in assisted living. They were really happy to see him and Nathan was happy he got a visit in. Then we had lunch/nap time at Nathan's parents house. That afternoon we headed to my parents house (really like the fact that our parents only live about 20 minutes apart!) My brother's family was already there and Logan - as always - had a TOTAL blast with his cousins - Thomas (just about 5) and Piper (just turned 3.) The laughter that comes out of these kids is contagious and I love watching them love on each other - especially Logan and Piper - they are two peas in a pod! (I love that we are having babies at the same time again - will be fun to see another relationship develop with this boy/girl set!) We had a great time and enjoyed the country air and the freedom to run around with reckless abandon. A great time. We didn't take any pictures as Nathan forgot the camera and I opted not to drive home after church and get it. But it was a wonderful day that I'm sure we won't soon forget!



• June 20th - I finished the process of sorting, washing, organizing and putting away all the hand me down clothes we have received for Abby. Her closet is a mountain of pink and I'm going to try my hardest to only buy other colors between now and when she is born! I think it is kind of hard to find anything other than pink for infant girls. But then again - I haven't really looked either.

Abby's closet before - basically a catch all for clutter and crap we don't know what to do with:

Abby's closet after! An explosion of pink! I'm pretty sure when I go do an shopping from here on out I will only buy non pink things! GOOD GOSH! I have all the clothes we have from 0-12 months in there and made size dividers with old shower curtain hooks that have a disk on the front - so then I could hang them backwards and still have room to write the size on the back of the disk with a sharpie... worked perfect! The baskets above are the non-hang up clothes that will go in drawers as she grows into those sizes. On the floor are more wicker bins with receiving blankets/burp cloths, shoes, and socks/bibs/diaper covers. Feels good to have a little bit organized!

So that has you all caught up. We have Nathan's sister, Christina and her family (Oliver - the hubby and Liam the 2 year old) coming up Friday evening to spend the night. Tina and I are making Liam and Logan super hero capes! How much fun will that be?!? We are pretty excited. They are not going to be like "superman" or "batman" they are going to be their own super heroes. Logan keeps asking when he is going to get his "super hewoo cake" and is quite excited about it. Then we have our niece's first birthday party on Saturday and then hopefully church and a quiet day on Sunday. Sounds pretty perfect to me!

Glad we are more current on the blog now! woohoo!!!

Tractors!

This morning we met Nathan's parents, grandparents and sister at a park in a nearby town to look over some antique tractors! Logan was pretty thrilled - especially after Momma made him wait so she could do a quick shop at a local kids consignment store.

(side note: Children's Orchard is awesome. They had a fill-a-bag event and could buy a large bag -$15 - or a small bag -$5 - and whatever you could fit in the bag from certain marked clothes you could get! I opted for the large bag and fit 41 pieces of clothing in there!!! When I totaled up my savings it would have cost me $115 to buy all of that at their regular prices! SWEET!! We were pretty thrilled! A bunch of stuff for the summer for Logan and also some little pink clothes for baby girl!!)

Back to the tractors... Logan had a blast! He was able to climb on almost each and every one which thrilled him to no end. We spent a couple hours there and then headed home for lunch and nap time. Here are a few photos from the morning's fun...

Memorial Day!

We had a pretty busy Saturday/Sunday of Memorial Day weekend helping our neighbors get ready for their son's graduation party on Sunday afternoon. We were thankful that we had the opportunity to head out to my parent's house on Sunday evening, spend the night and have all day Monday to just relax and enjoy ourselves! And that is exactly what we did!

Monday started off with Grandpa's homemade french toast and sausage for breakfast - YUM! And then we quickly got ready and headed into town for the local Memorial Day parade. Logan was a ball of energy not really wanting to sit still - that is until the parade started. He was so into it - it was pretty adorable!

Here are a few pictures of all of us before the parade started.

By far Logan's favorite parts of the parade were the marching band and the horses. He announced to us when any horses were coming and talked about the parade off and on the rest of the day. It was all together pretty great. We loved that he was so into it!

It wasn't until the firetrucks and firemen came by that Logan really got into the whole waving part of the parade. He was waving so hard it looked as though his arm was going to fall off! So so funny. He was pleased as could be when someone actually waved back!

One of my favorite things... fly overs!!!

Someone discarded their flag on the ground. Logan was happy to pick it up, wave it around and take it home!

Once we arrived home Logan hopped in Grandpa's wagon for a trip around the yard. They even went across the bridge in the backyard and picked Momma a flower which Logan came RUNNING and YELLING in the house to deliver. He was quite pleased with himself!

Stomping through Grandpa's garden... they boy was having a ball. My parents have a fair amount of open land and Logan just loves being out there as we can let him just have a free for all! The live out in the country and it is fresh air, hardly any traffic and lots of hills and grass to play in. A FIELD DAY for a little boy like Logan!

We changed into our bathing suit and of course needed another quick drive of the tractor before we could switch gears to sprinkler fun. This time Logan drove!

WATER TIME! Logan was such a happy boy during this (shocker, right?!) At first he would only run around the outside edges and didn't want to go in too far, but after a few minutes he was following Daddy as they walked the same way through the middle of the sprinkler. Love his face in this one.

A quick break to take a picture with Grandpa in front of the Walnut tree he planted last year. It is growing fast!

In the above picture Logan said he was going to crawl through the sprinkler like a cat... this is apparently how a cat crawls in case there was any confusion.

With a little prompting from Grandpa and a demonstration from Daddy Logan was happy to give sitting on the sprinkler a try. Silly boy!

Aren't I just the luckiest girl to have these two guys in my life! Love them to bits!

After nap and some food Logan went fro another round of sprinkler time. He was so exhausted that he needed to take a break and eat two popsicles. He opted to lounge on one of the cushions from the deck. Looked quite comfy!

It was a wonderfully relaxing day - at least for me it was... I just sat and watched Logan run around. That was plenty exhausting for almost all of us! We didn't want the day to end, but sadly we had to go home and head back to reality the next morning!

Thank you Mom and Dad for a GREAT day!

Stud Muffin and cute story...

Could he BE any cuter? I mean really? He insists on wearing his sunglasses upside down and while there was a chill in the air which warranted a zip up hoodie - it didn't really need the actual hood - but Logan thought it was a much better fashion statement and asked for it to be up and asked for his picture to be taken in front of the door. He is a funny little man. (Another story below.) :)

Last night I told Logan it was bath time and he said he wanted to take a shower. He has never really taken a shower before. I think the interest was sparked by a quick shower with Daddy on Monday to remove all the grass on his legs from running in the sprinkler at my parents' house. But we figured - hey if he wants to take a shower, why not. He got in and Nathan had him stand in the back (I'm assuming) after getting his hair wet and washed his hair and face. Logan then demanded, "Close the curtain Daddy!" So Nathan closed it and stood in the bathroom. Logan peeked his head around the curtain with his orange sponge and asked for soap and then closed the curtain again. He announced he was all done cleaning, but wanted to stay in the shower. So we let him and when Nathan peeked in on him a few minutes later he was just sitting on the floor with the water falling on him. It is funny to see him acting the big boy roll. :) We are amazed by him daily.

Logan is also getting excited - or at least I think he is getting excited about his baby sister. He is kissing my belly good morning and goodnight and he wanted to give the baby kisses when I dropped him at daycare this morning. It is sweet and I hope the sweetness continues when she is on the outside. So far he has always been pretty great with babies so we'll see when the baby isn't just visiting, but rather never leaves!

It's a GIRL!

Yesterday was the big reveal day! I must say I was so anxious/nervous/excited I was sure I was going to throw up! And no - I'm not really joking. I was a mess. After thinking about it I think the reason was that after the ultrasound we were going to have a great image in our heads of what our little Wolfe Pack was going to look like. Will there be another Logan running around? Will we have a girl and will she have my curly hair?! Turns out that while we don't know if she will have curls we DO know that this little baby is a GIRL! To say we are thrilled would be an understatement for sure. We both got all teary during the ultrasound.

Baby Girl was moving all around and appears to really prefer to lay on her left side. She was on her back for a bit, but always went back to the left. This made getting some of the images hard for the ultrasound tech- namely the heart images. I had three separate ultrasounds while there and she finally was able to get some images that she felt were pretty good. We'll see what the doctor thinks.

(I always fine the spine pictures pretty amazing!)

The magical three lines that scream GIRLY GIRL! I knew what I was looking for and I thought I caught a glimpse and asked the ultrasound tech where we were looking and she said, "Between the legs." I quickly yelled, "THAT IS A GIRL! THAT IS A VAGINA!" (Yeah, not my finest moment I admit.) ha! But the nice gal laughed and said, "Yes, yes you are!" Instant mental picture of a Logan with longer hair and a dress. Because really I can't picture my children looking different - although I know for darn sure they probably will!

Last night we had our families over for the big announcement. They had all been waiting the whole day for it and we appreciated their patience!

Nathan really wanted to have a special cake with the interior frosting tinted pink or blue and while he offered to make it - in the end we purchased an (overpriced) cake from a bakery called, Cake Nouveau - the gal who owns it has been on numerous cake decorating competitions online (we love us some cake shows) and we had been wanting to buy a cake from her for a while. Seemed like the perfect opportunity. Nathan set everything up and we were good to go.

Our family was all gathered around and I cut a piece of cake and when I lifted it up they all saw the pink buttercream layers and let out a big hoot and cheer! It was pretty great if I do say so myself. The cake looked lovely.... the only problem was....

... it tasted AWFUL!! Like seriously AWFUL!!!! The buttercream outside was supposed to be milk chocolate, but it was a coffee/chocolate flavor and I detest coffee in any form. The chocolate cake inside was dry, the outside edges were hard. What was supposed to be vanilla buttercream inside only tasted of shortening and had a very greasy texture. Overall it was just a big fat disappointment. Even Logan wouldn't eat more than two bites. I think only a couple people ate their whole slice, but most everyone was in agreement that the cake was pretty gross. Nathan of course liked it because well - if it is a chocolate based dessert Nathan will eat anything! :)

Overall the day was fantastic, our families were thrilled and we were given some very cute baby clothes and such. (Girls really do have MUCH cuter clothes... let's be honest!)

We can not wait to meet our daughter and we'll see if she will be Daddy's Princess or Momma's Tomboy! I think deep down I am hoping a combo of both... a girl who likes her pinks and purples and isn't afraid to get dirty! :) We love her already!!