Baby Nole.

Here's our little seminole on gameday! *fingers crossed* for a win against BYU. Maybe this sweetheart will give us the luck we need with her cuteness...whadya think?

A girl and her puffs

We've added "afternoon snack" to our list of daily activities now! Logan gets a handful of puffs (puffed rice cereal pieces that melt on her tongue) to play around with and eat every afternoon. She's just started to enjoy them, which she didn't at first--wasn't quite sure what to make of having to dissolve her food before she swallowed.

I mostly like to play with the puffs.

Most of the snack that I have on my tray ends up on the floor or stuck in my bumbo.

Don't let this picture fool you, I may LOOK like I can feed myself but I haven't figured out how to open my little fist to get the puff in my mouth.

So mommy has to do it for me.

What do I think about the puffs?

I think they're GREAT!

Inspired By Cake Boss

Ok, I can't lie- I'm a bit of a cake boss fan. I like to record several episodes and then sit down and watch them all at the same time and marvel at the creativity that he has. I usually watch and will say something along the lines of, "I bet I could do that" to the screen, knowing deep down that I'd be lucky to create something minutely as good. I've been dying for a chance to give it a try and didn't want to just make a cake for the heck of it--I wanted there to be a reason. So, when Patty, one of my best friends from high school, found out she was having a baby girl today, I decided it was time to test myself. This is what I came up with:

Not too bad for a first try, eh? I know it could be a lot better, but I was just experimenting to see if I could do anything remotely artistic. I really do like the result though. :) I made my own pound cake from scratch and my own fondant (which was insanely difficult).
Then we took it over to Patty's and celebrated the news of their sweet little girl.
And I had to keep Logan from digging in herself. Such a precocious girl!

New Love

I have a new love: baby leggies. Before Logan was born, I saw them all over the place online (mainly in those winter months of my third trimester) and always thought, "well, those are cute, but WAY too expensive." They usually ran $10-20 a pair and that was just way out of my price range. Our hero, Target, now carries these wonderful creations for under $3...hello affordability!

Don't I look like the star of an 80's workout video?

Ok, dad, enough of that, I'm way too mature for kisses. :) (actually, she really loves them and will return them to both Mike and I in the form of a very slobbery, wet, open mouth on the cheek and a "muuuuuuuuuh" sound)

Anyway, the leggies are great because it's a little cool here some mornings and so I can throw them on her with a short sleeved onesie and know her little legs are warm. They also have been wonderful for her sweet little knees since she's trying to crawl and on them quite a bit AND they are incredible during diaper changes--no more pulling pants off to get that diaper done!

Mommy Creations

I've been crafting like crazy the past few weeks in effort to:

1. Save some money on L's accessories/clothing

2. Get ready for some big things: a consignment sale that is selling my bows and a craft fair in November and I'm getting ready to re-vamp my etsy site so that I can start really selling my stuff there.

So, the other morning L and I headed out for a morning of watching flag football. We have so much fun playing outside, BUT, Lo has very very fair skin--more fair than her Danish grandmother--and so we have to do several things to keep her from burning. One of the easiest, of course, is to stick a floppy hat on her. Unfortunately (or fortunately for my crafty desires), floppy hats don't come with bows on them, so we had to fix that.

I present to you exhibit A: mommy made bow.

And what the little bow does for her hat just tickles me:


Logan was excited too!I meant to get pictures at the game but forgot my camera so our little porch had to do.

Hello world!

Onto craft #2! I've been working on some different patterns for Logan. I mastered the pillowcase dress and had been working to make the pillowcase shirt work and finally got it down last week. Here's L in her mommy created designer outfit (please pardon the open drawer in the background):

Getting a 7 month old to look at the camera when you want her to is a daunting task.

But we got it!

Taggie Ball

This is Logan's taggie ball:

I got it in hopes that it would encourage Logan to crawl.

My logic was that if it rolled away, she'd have to go and get it. Unfortunately, this is how she keeps it from rolling away:

Yeah...she lays her head on it so that it doesn't move away from her. While it's cute, it totally defeats the purpose of the ball!

Oh, well. We tried, right?

Update Long Overdue

It's really been a while...hasn't it? Things here have been wildy busy for us as Mike is in full swing with school and work and L and I have gotten into a nice routine. Usually when I have "down time" I'm rushing around the house to get things clean, laundry done, dinner prepared, etc, so I don't think to sit down and write. I realize that there are those out there (cough...grandparents...cough) who are restless to see some new pictures and hear some sweet Logan stories. :)

So, our new morning routine includes L playing in her pac-n-play while I make the bed and either fold laundry or pick up/vacuum the bedroom. She loves to sit, watch and sing to me as I work.

Logan outgrew her newborn carseat about 2 months ago and was in desperate need of a new one. Every time we put her in her seat it was a five minute fiasco trying to fit the buckle around her sweet little thighs and so her Nana Kathy and Gradpa Don were very sweet and got her the new carseat that we had been eying for a while. I think we'll probably go with this seat for all of our subsequent children--it has a newborn insert and they fit in it until they are about 40lbs so it's a great convertible seat and it's so comfy. L hated riding in the car after about 6pm in the old seat but since we've had the new one (knock on wood), she has been fine all the time.
We're starting to notice L's personality coming out more and more. Sunday before church she and daddy played for quite a while. She's in that "find something that I think is funny and I'll laugh on command for hours...and then never will think it's funny again after that" phase.
I don't really remember what was so funny that morning, but she was in stitches.
Now, we mustn't forget that the best time of year is here- college football season! We've been counting down the days until we could watch Buckeye and Seminole football with L and it's finally here. Now, I must say, we're quite disappointed with the 'noles after their performance on Monday night but are looking forward to seeing them redeem themselves throughout the season. Here's Logan's gameday outfit (we have plenty more on the way throughout the season):
And we're about to hit a new milestone. Prior to the last week, I could leave L sitting like this and walk out of the room to grab something so long as I didn't take more than about 2 minutes:

I can no longer do this because:
Yes, Logan has reached the stage where she is rearing to crawl. She can actually get a few inches every time she gets into this position and so I can no longer look away without hearing her get into something that was nowhere near her when I set her down. It's exciting, she's growing up, but very bittersweet because I can't just leave her for a minute anymore and she's becoming more and more independent. :)