Lazy Saturdays

We are having a very lazy Saturday today. Logan and I woke up and it was 46 degrees outside so we decided we'd stay in and let daddy go play football without us. We don't use the heat at night yet so when we got up it was FREEZING! Luckily, Logan was wearing her cute thermal jammies from Target and we threw on her little ugg boots to keep her feeties warm. I thought the combo was too cute so I did a little photo shoot with her! I've been playing around with some photo editing software and the last two pictures are a product of that :) we're hoping that I'll get good enough with it that we won't need to get too many professional photos taken. (also, please pardon the mess in the background, we've been working all day to get that sorted out)

Miss Mischevious

And here's what the little missy was doing while I wrote out the last blog post. She crawled (yes, she's actually crawling now--no more gimpy scoot--I'll get a video of it when she's not quite as cranky) under her bouncer and pulled out all of her books from the bookshelf to create a little fort for herself. At least she's interested in reading, right?

Just When You Think It's Better....

...and you start to think, man, I think I could have another one (because the first few months with all of the sleep deprivation you can't imagine ever doing it again), WHAM! You get hit again. (no, I'm not pregnant, nor are we planning to have another one in the very near future for those of you who read too much into the first sentence ;) )

Before Logan got her everlasting cold three weeks ago she had FINALLY started to sleep consistently through the night and had FINALLY started taking good, consistent naps during the day (two, two hour naps) and then she was hit. And since then we've been lucky if we get one good one hour nap and we're lucky if we sleep halfway through the night. It's not been too horrible (other than being dead during the day) but last night was a beast! Tuesday night Logan slept straight through the night (mind you, she couldn't get to sleep due to the barking cough until after midnight, but once she was asleep, she slept) and she had a great nap day yesterday where we were almost back on track with our two long naps and she went to bed at 8pm.

We got hit again at 3:45am with the teething and the coughing and our sweetie was not back down until almost 6am. I tell you what, those nights are way worse when you have a teaser night like Tuesday night in your back burner. Of course, she doesn't ever sleep in, either, she's like an alarm clock promptly at 9am no matter how late or how much she was up. So, she's been awake for a awhile now and is a bit of a grump because of her lack of sleep. Oh, well. Such is life, right? I STILL love being a mom and wouldn't trade this new job for anything in the world (especially now when she has these crazy nights--I don't know how I'd get up for school after that)!

Anyway, this little creation is what has kept me sane the last few days when all Logan wants is to be held for several hours at a time:

At 20lbs, she's no tiny tomato anymore. The person who invented this is absolutely genius--I mean, cut 5 yards of jersey fabric, stick a tag with the name moby on it and a booklet of directions on different holds, price it at around $60 (I got mine at the consignment fair for 10) and you're rolling in dough ! It's one of those, "If only I had thought of that..." products. Now that I've got one, I won't go back to the sling or the bjorn. I can hold her like this, I can hold her facing in, I can hold her on my hip, and I can hold her on my back and the weight distribution it provides makes it feel like I don't have anything on me at all. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Here are a few more pictures of Logan in her big girl jammies! I found some really cute leopard print thermals at Walmart yesterday for a great price, and since we've been hitting the low 40's at night it was a great night to try them out...the only problem was they only had 18 month pj's in that pattern- they didn't dwarf her, that's for sure!



Here's hoping for a better day and night!

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!