Almost forgot!

I almost forgot to give an honorable blog mention to Logan's Uncle John! It's his 23 birthday today and Logan is SO excited! Happy Birthday!

Whew!

Oh my stars, we have had quite a day here today! Logan was up about every 30 minutes last night with her croupy cough so we decided to take her in to the dr. this morning to make sure that it wasn't affecting her lungs. It isn't. Which is great, but gives me no solution for the coughing, wheezing, and phlegmy vomiting (other than the humidifier, nose aspirator, tylenol, steamy shower, head in freezer stuff that I'm already doing). Needless to say I am absolutely and utterly exhausted and am praying to get a little more than an hour at a time tonight...but if not, it's ok, I know God will give me the strength I need to get through every trying moment--He hasn't failed me yet!

As if to compound the fact that she's got this nasty cold that isn't giving her much sleep and is leaving her severely uncomfortable, Logan's first tooth is finally popping through! I know, I've posted several times about her teething but through all of the fussing, the drool, the runny nose and the swollen gums, it has taken MONTHS for this one to pop. Yesterday Logan was doing really funny things with her tongue inside her mouth and I mentioned to Mike that her tooth must be coming through because I had never see her do anything quite like that and sure enough as I was feeling around in her mouth after she had a crying fit and was pulling at her gums, there it was. I promptly LOOKED in her mouth because I've felt sharp stuff in there before only to realize that it wasn't the tooth--and it is a little tooth bud in there. I told Mike that it's just in time for Halloween and that we have a ready made costume- we'll just paint her face orange, get her to smile and call her a jack-o-logan. :)

So, keep us in your prayers. She's been as grumpy and fussy as she's ever been in her life and it's tiring. In fact, she and I are going to bed right now. That's right. It's 7:30. Yes, we're going to bed for the night and I'm looking forward to it.

This is what we've been doing for the last few days trying to get rid of the yuckies:

Watching Little Einsteins and snuggling with mommy is the cure for anything, isn't it?

Sweet Little Pumpkin

It is a beautiful fall day here in North Carolina. 65 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. An absolutely perfect day for going to the pumpkin patch! So we packed up our stuff and headed on over there. Logan had a great time playing in the pumpkins and was such a trooper as we snapped a billion pictures of her! She's sleeping it off now. We couldn't pick our favorite pictures so we posted most of the ones we took.

Let's Go Seminoles!

It's another lonely Saturday night here in our household as Mike headed off to work at 7:30pm (he'll be off around 12am) so Logan and I are hanging out here getting ready for the Florida State game. Logan will be sleeping through most of it so she's in her FSU jammies hoping that they give us some luck against Georgia Tech.

We've been working on teaching her the war chant and the chop and she's starting to get the chop--though, right now it's looking lack spastic arm movements! As for the war chant, we'll hum it and she'll just do a long straight hum/scream through it. :) Once she gets them down I'll get a good video and post it.

Right now Logan says: F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E, Florida State, Florida State, Florida State WOOOO!

This is the face she made after I told her what they've been doing to her friend Bobby Bowden all week. She says, "I love Bobby, leave him alone or I'll come and get you!"
Let's go Seminoles!

Lower My Crib Please

We hit another developmental milestone yesterday-- Logan has learned how to sit up on her own. Not stay sitting on her own, mind you, she hit that one several months ago, she actually can go from laying on her back to sitting up on her own now. She hasn't been as crazy opposed to her crib lately, so we decided to try it out. We kept hearing frustrated grunts coming from the room and they eventually turned into excited squeals and I went in to check on her and found her sitting straight up and as soon as I came in she headed for the crib bars and stood herself up. Needless to say, she didn't stay in there last night and we lowered her all the way down this morning.

And She's Off!

Well, it's finally happened. Logan is mobile! She's been getting around for a while, but it's never been purposeful. She never moved to actually get somewhere, it usually happened gradually that she's move herself around the room. Last night, I left her in our room to go grab something from the kitchen and was on my way back to her when I discovered her halfway down our hallway on her way to me. I proceeded to coax her the rest of the way and she got there! So, here's Logan's version of the crawling thing. Enjoy!

Road to recovery

After being up literally ALL NIGHT on Wednesday night with Logan screaming and banging/pulling on her ears most of it, I decided to take her to the Dr. yesterday. Since she can't tell me what's wrong, I worried that she might have an ear infection and I didn't want to leave that untreated (better safe than sorry, right?). We love the new practice we've been going to, so far we've enjoyed all of the Dr.'s that we've seen...which is good, because they aren't all there all the time- so in cases like yesterday, we needed to see a Dr. we hadn't seen before.

They did a good once over of L. No ear infection, but the Dr. could see a lot of drainage and thinks that may have been the cause of the ear pulling (possibly along with some teething). Since there was no infection and she hadn't had a fever in 24 hrs, they went ahead and gave her her flu shot. Nothing like going to the Dr. feeling poopy and having to get a shot that makes you feel more poopy, right? The Dr. just didn't see any sense in having us come back in a week and pay another copay to do something that they could do yesterday. She also reasoned that she already felt bad, so adding a little fever/soreness wouldn't affect her as much now as it would if she was feeling great. She was a champ! A little crying in the office but other than that you really couldn't tell she'd gotten one until later in the evening when she got fussy and pulled at her leg a little.

When Logan is well she has been trying successfully to pull up on things now for a few weeks. We had to move the coffee table out of the way because she pulls up on it, gets to standing and then falls--sometimes hitting her chin. So, until she's strong enough to pull up and stay up on that one, it's out. Yesterday, when she wasn't wanting to be held (which was a total of about 20 minutes), she spent her time pulling up on her jumper--you'd never know she felt so bad when you look at these pictures:

She seems better today. She slept almost a full night last night, so that may play a big part. It at least plays a big part in my health and sanity because I got more than 2 hours last night and it's the first night in about 3 that it's happened. I prayed last night that Logan would at least sleep until four, and what do you know, 4am on the dot she woke up. She was only awake a minute or two, though, and ate and went back down until 8:30. We're looking forward to a restful day trying to finish up Logan's recovery from this nasty cold so we can have fun this weekend. Happy Friday!