I "said" no!

Logan has learned to say "no." Though, she doesn't really know the difference between how to answer for no and how to answer for yes, it's pretty entertaining to watch.

Everybody Clap Your Hands

Logan surprised us last night when she, out of nowhere, started to clap her hands in response to us doing something she liked. At first, I thought that maybe she had done it on accident, but she kept doing it over and over. I know it seems like something so little, but to see developments like this is so much fun as her parents. She also learned how to give high fives, but she's still a little hesitant to do that (as you'll see in the video).

Now, she's clapping her hands all the time. She claps them when she's happy, she claps them when someone else claps, she claps things together, she claps when she sees people on tv clapping and, most importantly, now she's able to clap along with the Little Einsteins to help Rocket fly! (it's her favorite tv show and to get the rocket they fly to go the characters clap their hands)

Reunited!

Ana and Patty are my best friends from high school. We did everything together when we all lived in Miami. We played in the orchestra together, took all of our trips together and even got up at 5:30am every Thursday to go to breakfast together before we headed to our first class of the morning (which was also together). Patty went off to Furman for college and Ana and I stayed together at Florida State where we did everything short of rooming together. Now I live 5 minutes away from Patty but we're missing Ana (who we keep trying to convince to move here but we haven't gotten very far with that one). They were both in my wedding, Ana and I drove up together to good old South Carolina for Patty's wedding and now we're waiting for Ana to get married in February! We haven't all been together since Patty's wedding, but Ana drove up this weekend so we could all hang out. It's been so much fun to be all together, again!

This picture is so fun on so many levels but mostly because it shows us all in our different life stages: Patty being pregnant with baby girl Tolbert, Ana engaged and getting married in February and me, the new mommy!

This is a better picture of Logan (though the quality is poor because we had to use the iphone):

We went out to dinner last night with Patty and then headed to Chapel Hill for the UNC vs. FSU game. What a GREAT game! We actually considered leaving after the first quarter because we felt like it was going to be a blowout and we didn't want to keep Logan up so far past her bedtime to get crushed to death. We are SO glad that we ended up staying, though, and getting to see the Seminoles bring such a great comeback.

Logan had such a great time at the game. She screamed along with everyone when they screamed and looked around confusedly when everyone stopped yelling. Though this caused her to cheer for the wrong team, it was still a lot of fun to watch. We had a hard time getting a good picture with her because she was so intrigued by everything going on around us.

Finally got one of all of us looking at the camera, again, poor quality because it was on the iphone instead of our normal camera (our batteries died on our way to the game).
Logan spent the entire second half in the moby cuddled up to me. It was the best! She is such a sweet little baby.

Let me out!

This afternoon I was out on the deck working on a project while Logan sat inside with Mike. After a couple of seconds, she realized where I was and wanted to join me! What she didn't realize was that I was not within reach, that there actually was a glass door separating us.

Hey mom, let me out of here!

I'm making you laugh, this is fun.

Enough, already! Let me OUT!

Logan has been doing some very fun things lately. One of our favorite new developments is her ability to "drink" out of her teacups. She makes a fun slurping noise when she puts it to her mouth. We're not quite sure where she learned that as neither Mike or I slurp when we drink, but it's adorable! I'd also like to mention that the shirt she's wearing is my first attempt at doing applique work and I love the way it turned out, I can't wait to do more projects like that in the future!

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!