It is Michigan after all!

NATHAN IS HOME!!! YAY! He came rolling in around 10:15 last night. I was VERY happy to see him! This morning Logan about died when he saw his daddy in bed when momma took him back to our room. He was SOOO happy and gave Nathan lots of hugs and kisses before realizing he hadn't ever noticed our alarm clock and all the buttons on it. Daddy was old news at that point. ha!

Last night Logan and I celebrated our last momma/Logan night by doing some serious playing outside. If you look at my previous blog post Logan is wearing long pants and a jacket. Last night it was shorts, sandals and a t-shirt. The weather changes SO fast! BUT - Logan being the smart boy he is planned his outfit just in case... it is Michigan after all... It could have started snowing at any moment. Hence the winter hat:


And he was totally insistent upon it. He had it in hand and then I told him to go get his soccer ball and he dropped the hat. Then brought me the soccer ball and ran back to get his hat! lol Mean 'ol Momma took it off his head and hid it... this is the look he gave me:


He quickly got over it when he realized the sandals on his feet allowed him to feel the grass. If you recall last summer he HATED grass... apparently we will have to train in again to play in the grass. With the sandals on he was high stepping around the hard whining about it all. It was pretty comical. So we went back inside and changed his shoes and then he was good to go.

Checking out the backyard from his Logan sized picnic table.

We played hard and he needed a break.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! Our niece Piper is turning TWO next week and her birthday party is today!! I'm super pumped, but it also means that three months ago LOGAN is turning two. I think I need to go lay down now... cuz that is just CRAZY talk.. my baby is a BABY!

Pictures for Daddy

Nathan has been traveling for a couple days now and we miss him a whole bunch! I have been enjoying sending him pictures of Logan while he has been gone. I just hope it doesn't back fire and make him miss home more. I really just want him to know we are thinking of him and love him. Here are some from yesterday.

On the days Logan goes to daycare (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) we always walk out to the driveway and say good morning to the birds and any neighbors that happen to be out. Logan found a ball on the way out and thought it a good idea to play a little catch before we left. Then our neighbor and good friend Larry came out and said good morning before leaving for work. Logan took off and ran across the dewy grass with his arms wide open to give him a hug! It was so sweet! When we talked to Larry later that night he said it was a great way to start his day. :-)



Last night after daycare I rushed home to throw together a salad to take to a little potluck dinner at some new friends house. These new friends are members of our small group from church. We typically meet at our house the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Our fun neighbors are in it as well. SO anyway... last night we went over to Laura and Andy's new house for a little cookout. They have a great park across the street so after dinner Logan and I jetted over there for some fun. Nathan and Logan LOVE playing in the park so we had to send Daddy some pictures of our fun. (I really love his new hat, don't you? Thanks again Grandma!)

(There was another boy there named Logan - he was a little older - and his dad had to keep calling his name since he was being a little mischievous. My Logan was all sorts of confused with some random person yelling his name.)

Seriously - look at this boy's smile.... melts his momma's heart!

Every night before I go to bed I always check in on Logan. This is the scene I found last night. He looked so sweet and peaceful so I had to take a picture and send it to Daddy.

Nathan is in Chattanooga, TN this morning and should be getting on the road at 9:30. He drove til 11:30 last night and isn't allowed to leave again for 10 hours. LOTS of rules when you are driving a commercial truck! He has 11 hours today to make it the 600 or so miles home! He says he'll make it, but the truck is a piece of crap so we'll see how it handles through the hills of Kentucky. While I do enjoy having the whole bed to myself I can't wait to have my hubby back next to me where he belongs!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us, but we are looking forward to a lot of time with our families. I hope you all have a great weekend too!!

A few videos...

I don't have much to report. Logan is awesome. Since getting his tubes his vocabulary (words we understand) has close to doubled. His frustration level has also close to doubled since mommy and daddy can't understand everything else he says - which is A LOT. He seems to be making some sort of noise all the time.

Nathan is going on an impromptu business trip - leaving tomorrow and back Friday. I am looking forward to mommy/Logan time though!

He is loving all thing active these days. THANK GOD FOR SPRING. Enjoy the videos!

Must haves...

Another one of those cute moments I want to remember...

This morning we were getting ready to head out to daycare. Logan typically always carries his lunch box to the car and then I pick him up and we walk out to the driveway and say good morning to the birds and neighbors. This morning was a little different as when we were on our way out to the drive way, Logan says, "No No!" and pointed back toward the house. So I let him down and he went running back in the house. I got the car loaded up and went back in the house to see what he was up to.

I called for him and out he comes wearing his new hat that my mom bought him on Monday, backwards. Then in his right arm is his plastic baseball bat and the left arm had the plastic ball. HA! Please keep in mind that it is pajama day at daycare so he is wearing red pajamas with a bunch of different tools all over them. It was hilarious. He walks over to the step down into the family room turned around and lifted his arms up ready to be picked up. It may not make you all laugh, but my gosh is he hilarious to me!

This is a picture my mom took of him on Monday in said hat. He also got a new soccer ball and shoes. Thank you Grandma!!

Oh and then last night during our small group get together at our house Logan was being VERY generous. One of the couples brought some cookies. Every time Nathan grabbed one Nathan would follow him back to his chair, take the cookie and give it to someone else! HA! He did it two or three times... it was pretty dang funny.

I hope everyone has a great weekend! We have a pretty quiet weekend ahead of us. Tomorrow will be a lot of time spent at home (minus a quick trip across town to drop off all our e-cycle garbage. All dead electronics, etc etc - dropped off and recycled locally and appropriately! I'm very excited to get rid of a lot of the junk in the house!) On Sunday my dear dear friend Leah is coming by with her boys for a quick visit from across the street! I'm VERY excited as I haven't seen her since Logan's birthday party! YAY!!

I hope you all have wonderful weekends as well!!

I scream... You scream...

And if you are a toddler named Logan and you scream then Mommy sends you to the front of the grocery store with Daddy to quiet you down with some ice cream while she finishes up.

Nathan being the awesome daddy he is took pictures with his blackberry. Logan is a BIG fan of double fisting. If he has one fork he has to have two forks. If you give him one cracker he must have two crackers and so on and so on. The same holds true for the spoons... but DOUBLE that and you have tonight's quadruple fisting extravaganza!

Oh the joys of taking a toddler grocery shopping. It was always a non event in the past, but the last couple trips have been MUCH more difficult. I have to hide bananas and any other recognizable food items from him or he insists on eating them right then and there. But either way it is still nice to have them along for the shopping ride. It makes it much less of a chore and much more fun for mommy!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Really Mom?

Last night we really enjoyed a beautiful night outdoors in the warmest day this year! Logan was running all over the place and we were playing quite the game of tag - it was too funny. He really loves running and being chased.

It was getting close to bath time so we ventured onto the deck to have some calm down time. Logan really thought that climbing was a better use of his time.

I, of course, thought it would be best to try to take pictures of him. This is what Logan thought of picture time:
He must have tilted his head right before I clicked the picture because this was NOT the face I was expecting when I looked at the camera and I busted out laughing. It is SUCH a face. I like to think that Logan is very sarcastic in his head and is thinking, "Really Mom? Seriously? Just take the picture!"

Logan's "tricks"

This morning I was able to get Logan to perform on command. This is no small success! Logan knows how to do so many things, but the second I want to show him off for friends/family he shyly smiles, tilts his head and more often than not runs in the other direction.

This morning however he was agreeable! YAY! Enjoy a few of his "tricks!"