Rainy Days

Coming from Nevada, I have always loved the rain.  All day drizzles, not so much, but full out thunderstorms with lots and lots of lightning. :)  I remember when I was little, a weird, really low street corner by my house would fill up with water and we would practically go swimming in it. But rainy days, like snowy days, are much, much different with a toddler.  The incessant "outside, outside, outside, outside....?" or "walk, walk, walk, walk?"  are driving me a bit crazy. :)  But, luckily, I have a rain cover for the stroller, so as long as I don't mind getting wet, we can get out for a bit.  

• These rainy days have led to lots of crafts which have mainly resulted in a very happy baby and a very disastrous mess.  
• Ryley and I are making some headway in training for our half marathon, and can run a little bit further up the gigantic hill we live on every day.  
• Ryley is really enjoying his research internship at the VA hospital where he is studying ectopic fat deposition in the skeletal muscles and livers of mice, and how this is associated with diet, disease and aging.  I am a little bit jealous that he is working in a lab, but then again, he is cutting up mice all day while I am playing with play dough and eating chocolate. :)  
• Saturday it was finally sunny, so we went to the park to BBQ and feed the ducks.  While we were barbecuing, Logan filled his diaper.  So, I took him into some trees and changed him.  Much to my surprise, his poop was very shiny.  Upon closer inspection I discovered 5 pieces from my Italian charm bracelet.  My son pooped out half of my Italian charm bracelet.  We are still looking for the other half.  

The aftermath of our paper mache adventure.
That balloon was covered in several layers of flour/water
soaked newspaper goo, but as soon as we were finished
(and I turned around)
Logan decided that he preferred the balloon this way.
Oh well.

I really wouldn't have minded the bald balloon, but quickly
after stripping said balloon, he ran into the living room with it.
The balloon was still dripping with the flour and water goo,
and somehow he managed to cover at least 50% of the surfaces
in my living room.  Unfortunately, this goo dried like it is supposed to,
and my living room (including my couches) are now paper mached.
Here he is blaming the whole mess on his imaginary friend, Bobby.

On our way home from Ikea.  I't's a pretty good thing
our little man still has those cheeks.  Otherwise he might not
have anywhere to rest his head!

Last night about 10:30 I decided I needed a fish for my Primary lesson.
My sweet and amazing prince charming of a husband
went to Walmart without me even asking him and
picked us up a beta fish.  Logan took one look at him
this morning and promptly named him "Yummy Yummy."
I hope this is not a sign of things to come for this poor fish.

What happens when you ask Logan to smile.  Sometimes growls accompany it.
And the red stuff is strawberry... this kid has eaten almost 2 boxes of strawberries
in the past two days.

Logan loves to watch himself on video.  I took a little video of him talking, and after it was done, he wanted to watch more.  He calls himself "baby."  This is a video of him wanting to watch more video.  It was actually a pretty funny cycle, where he would watch this video, say all this again until we turned it on again for him, and then start in again with his "baby, baby, baby?" :)

The End of Year One

Thought that is was about time to update the blog again. :)  Ryley officially finished up his first year of medical school on Friday, and starts his internship with the VA hospital on Monday.  Yeah!  We are so proud of him!  

Here is some of what we have been up to the past month:

The morning of Ry's 26th birthday we ran a 5k part of a triathlon for the  4th Street Clinic.  Ry volunteers at this clinic for the homeless on Saturdays and helped to organize the triathlon.  Logan was a trooper, and stayed in his stroller for the whole thing!  Next year we hope to be able to do the whole triathlon.

Logie has figured out how to take his arms out of his shirt.  And how to get his arms out of his car-seat.  Naughty little thing.  Don't you just love his ragamuffin hairdo here? ;)

Double Chocolate Mousse Torte from Melskitchencafe.com
Most amazingly delicious cake ever.
Yeah for Birthdays!

My sweet husband is 26 years old!  This was the 5th birthday of his that we've celebrated together.  I love this man with all of my heart, and thank the heavens every single day that we are married for time and all eternity.  I am so grateful for the love he shows Logan and me every day.  I never have to question who or what comes first to him.  We fall more and more in love every day... and we still haven't figured out why people say marriage is hard.  It's the most fun thing either of us has ever done! :)

Logan got stuck while trying to climb up onto his high chair to get to the egg coloring stuff. :)

At the end of this fiasco all of us were dyed varying colors and we had a total of 2 eggs that were not broken.

Our sweet little man. :)  He makes me so happy every time I see his little face. :)  He is growing up so fast!  When he wakes up from his nap he now yells, "Peekaboo!" until I come get him.  Logan also loves to read stories, and knows some of them by heart, so he can read them to me!  He can use a fork and a spoon now, and is always trying to feed us his food. :)  He's always skipping around the house, bouncing off the walls, and destroying everything I am constantly trying to make look nice.  The other day I went to the mall.. got all dressed up, tried to look put together.  The whole time I spent dragging Logan out of clothes stands, putting back things he tore off of shelves, chasing him across stores. Needless to say, I did not look put together by the end of the trip.  This little boy has completely turned my life upside down, and I am so glad!  I wouldn't have it any other way.    

He's a tree hugger!

On Mother's Day, being chased by dad right after church.  We also found out this month that Ryley's brother Chad and his wife Chelsey are having a little girl!  Logan is going to be surrounded by little girl cousins. :)

He loved my Mickey pajama pants so much that he made me take them off and put them on him.  He was only satisfied when they were pulled all the way up to his neck.  Silly little man.

Our boy loves his olives!

Logie's "Purple Egg

















Logan and his bubbles. :)