How's That Working For Ya?

A few posts ago, I mentioned that we had moved L's crib mattress onto the ground to see if we could get her to sleep a little bit better. I was a little skeptical that she may be too young for it, but we didn't have a whole lot of choices since she's getting just a bit big for the pack and play and she absolutely refuses to sleep in her crib. Anyway, how's it working for us? Well, take a look for yourself:

She's slept through the last two nights consistently from about 8:30pm-7:30am without waking up. She hasn't done this since she was in the womb, people, so I'd say it's working pretty darn well for us. She's also waking up a lot happier in the mornings!

This is Logan doing her new dance in her chair. She's kind of just bounces up and down and fails her arms around aimlessly while (check it out mom and dad) squeezing her lips together, which is something my dad does when he dances! Anyway, we'll be working on her rhythm in the coming months, but for now we just laugh for very long periods of time when she starts this move.

And here she is when she realizes we've been snapping pictures of the event:

Really guys? Do you have nothing better to do?

So, now that she's sleeping on the mattress we're looking at getting her a frame (or this one) for it, to match the furniture in her room. And then we're looking at this bedding for it. What do you think?

New Play Thing

That saying: "A child is more content with the box the toy comes in than the toy itself" really hasn't proven true with Logan. She's usually a lot more interested in what's actually inside the box. Last night, though, we got a package and we needed to keep Logan occupied for a few minutes so I stuck her inside of the package.

At first, she was confused.

Then, of course, she had to taste it.

Which allowed her to give her "drool" of approval.

And this is one of her many new faces that she's started making since the appearance of her top tooth:

It's amazing what a few teeth can do to change the look of a baby!

Brush, Brush, Brush Your Teeth!

She may not have too many teeth, but we brush the ones she's got. We recently graduated from a newborn finger scrubber to a real toddler toothbrush and Logan was so excited! She even knows how to brush her own teeth:

She looks forward to this the second we get her PJ's on because she knows its coming and then cries when we're done because she loves it so much. We'll be scheduling a pediatric dentist appointment as soon as her second top tooth pops through so we can start on that dental hygiene early.

Roll Tide Roll!

I grew up watching the University of Alabama football. I mean, I was kind of destined to since my father and all of his brothers went there. I broke the mold a bit and headed toward the money for college by attending Florida State University on a near full scholarship...Alabama just couldn't beat the savings for me. I loved my time at FSU and was happy to see my brother and sister get to attend the university that we'd all watched growing up, and I can now live vicariously through them as national champions!

Anyway, it's no small secret anymore that anytime Logan gets dressed up in some team's colors that they win a football game. So, we got a package in the mail last Wednesday from her grandaddy and it contained a very sweet little cheerleader's outfit for her to wear during the national championship game...which she actually did not wear during the game as she was asleep (shhhh...don't tell). I, of course, had to make the matching houndstooth bow to complete the outfit--she didn't keep that on for long which is why we (I) threw her hair into the piggies with the white bow as the day went on.

Logan says, "roll tide roll!"

"What are you looking at?"

"Yes, mommy, they'll win the game tonight. You just can't beat my cuteness."

And they did win, so the tradition continues! We'll need a lot more outfits come next football season if you want your teams to win. *wink*

Never Too Young

So, it's no secret...I'm a bit of a neat freak. I get small panic attacks when things aren't just so in my home. It's been a crazy ride since I had a child because I can no longer leave a room clean and expect it to look the same when I come back to it. My days consist of playing with Logan, putting her down for a nap, cleaning up Logan's mess, getting her up, playing with her toys some more, putting her down, cleaning up her mess....you get the picture. Anyway, I have to say, I believe it's never too young to teach your children the value in cleanliness, and my child seems to be picking up on it just by my example. This afternoon I locked the two of us in my bedroom and spent 2 1/2 hours doing a deep clean and purge. I finished dusting, gave Logan a paper towel (because she loves to tear them up into tiny pieces that are hard to pick up) and when I turned back around I found her doing this:

Oh yes, the child is dusting the dresser.

No, I absolutely did not prompt her to do this.

I have truly died and gone to heaven.

Mike and I got Logan a vacuum for Christmas to kind of help promote the cleanliness and she's in love with the thing. She loves to vacuum up her little messes and just giggles away while the vacuum cleaner and dust hose talk to each other.

I can't lie, it warms my heart to see my child pretending to clean.

Catch Up

With the recent addition of a "borrowed baby" during the day, thing here have been mighty hectic and I've been sorely neglecting my blog...but I'm going to try to be better with it. Anyway, what's been going on in our household the last week or so?

Well, Logan has really begun liking the soft seat that we got her for Christmas, for one! We were a little apprehensive at first because she just seemed to ignore it and get mildly irritated if we tried to sit her in it ourselves. However, this last week she's really gotten into it! I think she uses it mostly to climb other furniture and get to things that she wants but can't otherwise reach (see proof below):

But we're glad she's finally using it! She'll sit in it now with her sippy cup and watch her Playhouse Disney shows, too, so we're making progress. :)

As mentioned above, we took on another baby this week to help make some extra money while we're in seminary. I would say I took in the baby and am watching him, but Mike does a whole lot to help me out so I can't discredit him at all. Logan helps out a lot, too! I was a little worried with how she'd react but she's done fabulously. She loves to help bounce him when he's in the bouncey seat:

She also will sit next to it and just talk to him when he's fussing.

She's done really well with sharing her toys. She constantly goes back and forth from her toy box in the living room to wherever he is sitting and tries to give the toys to him. I left the room the other day to grab something in the kitchen and came back to find his chair filled with Logan's toys with just a little room left for him! I thanked her and kindly removed the toys so he could have some personal space back.

She's also helping out a whole lot with him. Like I said above, she bounces him in his bouncey seat. She also will rock his carseat when he's in it like she sees Mike and I doing to help get him to sleep. I was shocked the other day when I asked Mike to run and get me one of his diapers and she crawled to a pile of folded cloth diapers, grabbed one of hers and brought it to me. I would have never guessed that she'd understand me, but she surely did! She also likes to hand me things that I've dropped, like his bottle or his blankie. She's going to be a wonderful big sister one day!

Just a couple of days ago, she started to go sit outside of the door when she hears him wake up and cry. While she's sitting there she speaks quite loudly to get my attention after he's woken up to get me to come and get him out:
She's been such a happy, sweet, sweet girl the last week with him around. She only gets clingy once he's left and she's got us to herself again.
Another new (HUGE) development this week is that we've moved Logan's crib mattress onto the ground for her to sleep on. She's never been a fan of her crib and just screams bloody murder when she's in it, but she's starting to get a little big for her pack and play so we decided to give this a try. We're trying to save up money to get her a toddler bed but until then this works just fine. So far, so good, she slept an entire night in it last night and only woke up disoriented once! Now, I, on the other hand, was another story and was up most of the night making sure that she hadn't gotten up and crawled off somewhere...

New Year's Day=College Football

Our world seemingly stopped yesterday because both the Florida State bowl game and the Ohio State bowl game were played. Luckily, there was no conflict with the timing because about an hour after the Florida State game the OSU game was played. So, what's a baby to do when BOTH mommy and daddy's teams are playing? Bust out two outfits, of course!

Yes, she wore her little cheerleading outfit for half the day and then changed into her buckeye onesie for the other half.

We were so sad to watch Bobby's last game. I seriously was in tears when he planted the spear at the opening. I'm so excited to have gone to school during his time at Florida State and look forward to telling our kids about him the way that my dad talks about Bear Bryant when he was in school.

Then we flipped gears and switched her into her scarlet and grey so she could cheer on the Buckeyes with her daddy.
I promise, by the time she's two she's going to know the ins and outs of college football better than some men do with how her daddy talks to her during the games. He's already got her doing the touchdown sign when someone scores!