My little love muffin...

My new favorite picture... I took it last night. Nathan and I were the king and queen of the "long arm photo" (I probably have at least 100 long arm pictures of Nathan and I pre Logan) but with our new fancy pants camera it is hard to do. This was my first successful snapshot with the long arm approach.


Logan is becoming quite the professional photo subject. He squeezed right up to me when I asked him if he wanted to take a picture with mommy! *sigh* I be so in love with my little love muffin!

Logan's first kiss...

As my few previous posts clearly states - Logan fancies himself a little gal named Izzy. Today when I picked him up he was saying goodbye to his friends he walked over and gave Izzy a hug as usual. Then he went in for a big wet one! HA! Izzy seemed please since they both clapped afterwards. HA! It was great!

And now we are home... listening to him scream his way through a tantrum. Oh the joys of toddler mood swings.... *sigh*

Yet another sledding post...

Are you sick of snow and sledding pictures? Eh - you'll survive. Saturday we spent the day at my parents with sledding and our annual German dinner! YUUUUUUUUUUM!!

Some of our extended family (my mom's side) came out to enjoy the day as well. We had a great time!

I am home "sick" today - actually I'm feeling better, but there is nothing pressing going on at work so I'm going to get stuff done at home. I was sick all day yesterday... the kind of sick where you don't know if you should sit or kneel in the bathroom. Yeah - it was GREAT! We got another dumping of snow overnight as well and it is a winter wonderland outside!! Enjoy the photos!

Look at that Angel Face boy of mine!

Uncle Nate and Piper - it was REALLY bright in the morning and I had the camera on the wrong setting... oh well.

INCOMING... compliments of my brother.

We're father and son... I think Logan is starting to look more like his daddy.

My handsome nephew Thomas!

Weeeeeeee!!!

My sister-in-law Sarah was flying down the hill!

Tommy wrapped himself around his daddy and they went flying! (in the morning Tommy sledding into a pine tree and then went REALLY far and sled right into the creek! EEK! Scared the crap out of me - thankfully he was fine, but we really need to teach that kid how to bail off the sled!!)

Logan was trying to participate in the snowball throwing antics. He'll be lethal someday!

I am seriously addicted to Toddler Hugs... seriously. I need a 12 step program.

My favorite picture from the day... My brother, my nephew and their little snowman!

GROUP SHOT! What a fun time!!! Can't wait til next year!

Pictures of Logan and his girly friend...

Check out these blond-haired blue-eyed cutie pies from pajama day yesterday at the Adventure Center! I especially love the one where Izzy is going in for a kiss, but also the one where Logan is like, "hold up girly - they are taking my picture!" ha! At least we have no question that my boy likes having his picture taken! HAHA!

All we needed was slow motion...

It seems to this Momma that my Mr. Man has a little crush on one of his gal-pals at daycare. Her name is Izzy and she is quite the cool little lady. Curly white blond hair and big blue eyes. The kids always have a day report sheet that covers how they ate, what filled their diapers and fun things they did that day outside of eating and pooping. On Tuesday Logan's talked about all the fun things he did with Izzy. They chased each other, pushed each other on the bikes, played follow the leader and such.

During pick up on Tuesday Logan and I were in the reception area and Izzy and her mom, Kari were down by the Toddler 1 room. I pointed out to Logan that she was down the hall and off he went. I swear to you all we needed was a flowing meadow and slow motion and it would have been a cinematic moment! Kari (who is wicked cool by the way) and I were cringing because we totally expected them to just slam into each other and one or both would totally bite it. Thankfully the two just ended up in a loving toddler embrace and then giggled down the hallway. So sweet!

Today was pajama day for Toddler 1 and they both were busting out their footie pajamas. Their teachers took some pictures of them together and I will post them after they get scanned. I just have some print outs of small versions on computer paper. So I'll scan them tomorrow at work! SO STINKIN CUTE!

Another thing I don't want to forget...

I like to use my blog as a way to get things "on paper" so I don't forget them as Logan gets older. I love love my sweet boy more than words can express. When he was little I sat in the chair in the corner of his nursery and after a few weeks I had starting singing this same melody over and over. Then I started adding words and after another week I had Logan's Lullaby created. It is something I sing to him every time I put him to bed.

So the thing I don't want to forget. Taking Logan up to his room after a dozen kisses blown to Daddy and a half dozen "bye byes" and waves. Sitting down in his chair and he stands on my legs and bends over so his head is on my shoulder. As I sing his song every time I take a breath or pause for any reason he pulls his head up and kisses me then cuddles back down. Some of the time he will find it funny and after each kiss he will giggle. Which ends up making me giggle and then it is a cycle of singing, kisses and giggles. hehe.

It is such a sweet little time for us and I don't want to forget the times when he would cuddle in and kiss his momma over and over again during the simple melody of a song.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you all had as wonderful a day as we did here in SE Michigan! Went to church even though Nathan and I are suffering majorly with some WICKED colds and congestion... seriously horrible. That was the worst part of our day for sure! ha!

We stopped for a few groceries after church and then home for lunch. Logan was a love muffin all day which is always great. Nathan and I have never been big on doing a ton for Valentine's Day, but we started writing each other love letters back when we were dating so that has been our tradition. We exchanged letters and that is always a great feeling to hear about how loved you are!

While Logan was napping I baked up some sugar cookies to decorate later. I've been trying to focus on Logan being a big boy so I'm trying to think of more big boy things for him to do beyond just playing with toys and reading books as per our usual. This was a perfect opportunity! And I must say Logan was great at it! I showed him what to do on the first couple cookies and he was on a roll after that!

He was getting annoyed when the sprinkles were sticking to his fingers so he would randomly feed them to me. I must really love this boy because I DETEST sprinkles completely. *shudder*

He of course had to hold a cookie in one hand and would randomly take a bite while working on the other cookies.

He was so intent on what he was doing.

Time out for a cookie bite!

Momma was in charge of the red sugar because I didn't trust him with it. BUT - he was a good boy and only would pick up a pinch or two and put it on the cookies.

I am not liking getting my picture taken, but I figured since I am in so few I probably should start so Logan knows his mom was actually present in his early days!

My little Valentine

ALL DONE!

Double fisting - Toddler Version.

Nathan showed Logan how to dip his cookie directly in the sugar (as he was doing) and eat it that way. What a great Dad he has... lol

Daddy's Valentine!

I hope everyone had a great LOVE day!