Easter Egg Hunt

Well, I don't have a whole lot to say because we are home from our egg hunt/picnic and are absolutely exhausted, but I wanted to share the bazillion pictures I took with you all! Logan did "participate" in an egg hunt last year (I picked up an egg for her and that was the extent of it) but this year she really was able to get into it. Here you go:

"But mom, I reach in and there's nothing in here!"

We had the eggs we brought for the hunt in her bucket at first and she had so much fun pulling them out and putting them back in.

Cutie Bootie.

When I started taking pictures before the hunt, the camera was on the wrong setting and I captured the shot above...we really like it, though, it's sweet, isn't it?

"Let's GO!"

They're off!

"I want to eat the egg, daddy, I'm not dropping it in that bucket"

"Fine."

This is my absolute FAVORITE! I love how it looks like she's marching right through the grass.

Sweet baby.

Happy Easter, everyone!

Easter Morning

Happy Easter! I decided I'd split my Easter post so as to not overload any given post with pictures, so, here's the Easter morning post and this evening I'll put up a post with the Egg hunt/dinner we're having with our neighbors.

This morning Logan woke up to a treat from the Easter Bunny!

She and I made her Easter bucket together (a girl must have a monogrammed bucket, you know)

I think I mentioned this before, but the Easter Bunny got most of Logan's goodies with giftcards from swagbucks so he didn't pay much for it at all!

Logan was very eager this year to dig right in! It's so fun to see the difference in her attitude from one year to the next--I'm sure next year she'll be even more into it all.

She loves to shake up her bath dye!

And the Bunny knew we didn't want chocolate for her this year and so he got her some blueberry puffs. He also got her her very first pair of spring shoes for this year:

(we love sperry's!)

After church we went on campus and took some pictures. We have such wonderful choices of outdoor areas to take pictures in here!

Logan stuck really close to daddy and mommy while we were there.

We got this sweet smocked dress at a consignment sale and think it'll be in the family for a long time because we love it so much.

The spring colors are SO beautiful and make for such a nice backdrop for pictures, don't they?

And here we are Easter of 2009:

Easter 2010:

I love to look back just a year ago and see how much has changed in that short time.

Play Dates

Logan and I headed to a local park today with some other mom's with toddlers and we had a great time!

Logan ran around a TON! She was so happy to have such a nice, wide open space to roam in:

She played with the ball (yes, that is a ponytail! I've been throwing it up like that to keep her from getting too sweaty):

We ate some snacks outside:

And Logan got to pop some bubbles with her little girlfriends Kate and Julianna:

Then we headed back to the pediatrician to have L's iron levels checked again. We're a measly 10th of a point away from having it on the normal side so she'll have to get it checked one more time when we go back for her 15 month appointment. We were bummed, but since it's been going up and not staying the same or going down they are no longer concerned with it, they're just going to go ahead and check it again since we'll already be there for her appointment. Since she now remembers the finger pricks and has such a hard time being at the Dr.'s office, we promised her an apple juice slushy afterwards and she enjoyed that very much!

Changes

Today, I got hit smack dab in the face with the reality that I need to put away my "mommy of a baby" mentality and pull out the "mommy of a toddler" one.

Look at this monkey:

After stubbing my toe for the umpteenth time (but the last one) on a pot that logan had pulled out of our kitchen cabinets, I decided it was time to rearrange a few things. I know, you all are thinking that I could put child proof locks on those cabinets...and you're right- I COULD, but you have to understand the freedom that the cabinets give me while I'm cooking/cleaning in the kitchen. Logan really could spend hours pulling things out and putting things back in them. So, I unloaded the pots and pans and threw in all of her sippies and any plastic tupperware that I could find and it was a wild success! After her nap I took her into the kitchen to show her my little surprise. She loved it so much that I didn't even have a second to capture the cabinets cleaned and organized before she disheveled things!

She can now also fit in the cabinets! This alone provided a solid 30 minutes of entertainment.

Peek-a-boo!

Now if only I could find room in the kitchen for all of my pots and pans...

Spaghetti Monster

She's not one who usually gets into eating food with her hands, it's not sophisticated enough for her, you know. She actually has taken very well to mommy putting food on a spoon and then she takes the spoon and feeds herself to keep the mess off of her. However, when spaghetti night rolls around, all bets are off and she becomes a little spaghetti monster! She got very into it tonight and seemed to just DIVE into her spaghetti. She wanted to be cleaned as soon as she was finished, so she wasn't too far out of character. :)

Um...seriously? I almost died when I got this shot. We could eat her with a spoon!

...and she looks like a unicorn in our attempts to keep the spaghetti sauce out of her hair--yes, it usually works.

Monkey See Monkey Do

I can't tell you how much I L-O-V-E this age and all of the imitating that Logan is doing--it's so much fun to watch her put things together in her head! Logan hates it when the front door closes because it means she can no longer be outside and totally free (as if the porch isn't enough for her) and I guess today she decided she had seen mommy get the door open with the keys enough times that maybe it would work for her, too! If only she was on the other side of the door...