Logan's Week of Discovery

What an eventful week this has been!  Ryley has been so busy with his first year clinicals, "sensitive exams", and finals coming up this next week that we have hardly seen him!  Yet, my wonderful sweet husband still finds time to help me with dishes, play with his silly kid, and run errands that take forever with me.  Oh I love that man!  My lovely root canal is almost done... and my tooth is now the most expensive thing I own.  :(  So depressing to think that we could have gone on a cruise with what it has cost for this dumb tooth...or got a new car... or got a new computer....  And we even have amazing dentist friends that have given us awesome discounts.  Oh well.  Thus is life.  

Logan has been the busiest of all with all of his new discoveries.  He has made good friends with the toilet (several times), tried to fit himself under the railing (thank goodness he got stuck), goes up and down the stairs constantly, has found that our couch has a built in slide that makes mommy nervous (which makes it extra fun, of course), found out that the squishy brown stuff in his diaper is gross to eat but oh so fun to play with, that food is more fun to eat when cut into shapes (which means that this is the only way he will now eat food), discovered that carrots and celery can be sneakily hidden in a vase, that   sledding is kind of fun, and that mom keeps that way cool white stuff known as "flour" in a Logan accessible place... (why oh why did I do that?!) He also learned how to do a somersault all by himself.   OH yes.. he has also learned the word "NO" (from a sweet little girl at the park)  and lets me know his opinion on everything... "do you want a bath Logan" "NO!"  "do you want a snack?" "NO!".... And somehow this week my sweet little boy with the occasional tantrum fit has turned into a terrible tantrum throwing 16 month old with occasional sweet moments.   And over the past four days 5:30 in the morning has become his favorite time to play.  

So tired... oh, so tired.  

And yet, I love this little man more every day..

And Spring Break is just around the corner!  

So handsome for Church...which he has discovered he can get out of
by merely arching his back and screaming at the top of his lungs. 

Evidence of the failed escape attempt

Sledding!

Sledding lasted about 5 minutes, and
then we had to come visit the ducks.

Bundled up.

I was so proud that he had eaten all of those carrots that he kept
coming back for... until I saw this.

Celery apparently makes very good swords.

He loves his "cool" glasses.  "Cool" is another one
of his new favorite words.

He knows he's handsome.

Love this little person

I turned around for about 3 minutes to mix my cinnamon rolls...

Saw this heading out of the kitchen....

And feared the worst.

He was so happy with himself!...
I thought, "at least its just flour... flour vacuums up."
Why didn't I just assume that Logan would then go lick all of his flour piles?
FYI- Wet flour is MUCH harder to get up than dry flour.
That was a very long night. :)

Logan somersaulting all by himself!

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Logan's first sled ride

Logan caught in the act of licking his flour piles...

Lessons in Parenthood Learned This Week...

*Logan will eat just about anything nutritious as long as it is hidden between two slices of bread and cut into the shape of a heart.

*Logan will eat everything inedible... including his own feces.  Which is why from now on he will always have a button up onesie on over his diaper to prevent the lovely scene that ensued this morning.

Yeah for little boys! :)

What a nut!

 So, Ry and I have officially decided that we have the silliest little boy that has ever lived. He is such a little ham!  I'll let the pictures explain...

Ok, so this isn't him being silly, but I just love that face so much!

Logan's saggy diaper.  He really liked how it would sway back and forth when he ran.  He thought he was hilarious, which he was, and got very upset when it finally fell off him completely. 

This is one of his new looks.  We get it whenever he think's he's being clever.  Which is pretty much all the time.  I'm slightly worried that his eye might get stuck like that...

Reading stories before bedtime. :)

When I want to bug Ry I tell Logan to go tickle his toes.  It's really cute, actually, and he was on his way to do this when I snapped this picture.

So many teeth!  He now has 6 up top, with 2 more coming, and 4 on the bottom, with 4 more on their way.

As a side note, I would like to put out a warning to all those who will be treated by Ryley in the early morning or late night during his first year of rotations... This is what happened to the glass door on my TV stand at 6 in the morning when Ry ran into it on his way to get Logan some food.  Right before this happened I watched him run into the wall next to the door in our room, trying to get out of the door, 3 times.  I love my man so much! :)

Logan loves his raviolies...

Logan helped me make a cheesecake last Friday.  The Crisco got taken away after  I noticed that he was taking big mouthfuls of it.  I guess that's one way to pack the fat onto my skinny little boy. :)

He liked to dip the spoon into the crisco, then into my leftover graham cracker crumbs, and then suck it all off.

The spoon apparently wasn't doing a good enough job.

You should have seen the floor....


Logan the amazing somersaulter.....  

The Holidays

The Holiday Season this year was wonderful!  We were blessed to be able to spend time with both sides of the family, and we were completely spoiled by everyone!  Ryley did great on all of his Med school finals, so he was able to relax over the break.. it was so nice to have my husband back! :)  We were able to spend Christmas in Ely and New years in Idaho with Ry's family.  Logan was completely thrilled by all his presents.  Throughout Christmas morning I kept hearing "Oh wow!" and "Oh boy" from my silly little man.  Every time he wakes up in the morning, or from his nap, it is like it's Christmas morning all over again!  There were so many things that happened over the past month or so, that I will let the pictures tell the stories... As for now we are just happy to be back at home, sleeping in our own beds and spending these last few quiet hours together before school starts up again...

    

The Festival of Trees was amazing!  This is the MSA tree that I helped make decorations for.

Logan eating the buttons off of a snowman at the Festival of Trees.

A very impressive Gingerbread House at the Festival of Trees.

Logan at Zoo Lights

Reindeer

Logan saw Santa twice... once at Zoo lights (shown here) and the other at the mall.  He didn't think very much of him either time....

Logie bundled up for the lights at Temple Square

Jess, Cam, and Logie in front of the Christus at Temple Square.

Temple Square

Temple Square

Christmas Morning with his "Mater" truck

Playing the drums

Playing with soap crayons in the bath with Uncle Aydan

Mom apparently had too much fun with the bath foam. :)

Aydan, Kassi, Mandi, Logan, Jessi, Cammi
This was supposed to just be a picture of the sisters, but Aydan and Logan jumped in at the last minute. :)

Logan in Swan Valley, Idaho

It was soooo cold here!  

But also SOOO pretty!

At the cabin in his new Jammies from Uncle Chad and Aunt Chelsey!

"World Famous Square Ice Cream" from Swan Valley

Zoa enjoyed some too. :)

Brain Freeze!

Christmas Trees and Green Beans

Here's a quick picture update of our little man:

For some reason he really thought that if he sucked on the bottom of the beater, more frosting would come out. :)

Silly Cam and Aydan playing Wii during Thanksgiving.  Logan loved to pretend that he was racing too, and whenever the mario cart song would start to play, he would drop whatever he was doing and book it into the living room. 

Logie and his Uncle Aydan playing in the bath.  

:)

He really loves his tongue

Our little gift

Logan also really enjoyed walking around with Cammi's soccer medal around his neck and this tulle over his head.

As soon as we put this spiderman costume onto Logan, he started making this face while saying "blah."  He had never done that before, but now he does it quite regularly.  Weird little man. 

Logan was so funny when we put this Christmas tree into the front seat of our car to bring it home.  He kept pointing to it and looking and Ryley and me like, "Do you two realize that you just put a tree into our car?"  

Logan topping the Christmas tree

For about 3 minutes he was completely in awe of the tree.

After those three minutes were up, all he wanted to do was pull down the decorations so he could get to the "balls" on the tree, which is his new favorite word.  Despite our efforts at keeping the decorations out of his reach, he still somehow manages to get down at least 1 candy cane a day. 

Logan's new favorite hiding spot.  Sometimes he climbs behind the tree where I can't reach him.  Next year we need to get a pokier tree.

Ryley and I were in the middle of watching "Eat, Pray, Love" when we looked over and saw this.  Apparently we hadn't put his unfinished dinner up high enough....