Little Watermelon

Here are a few snapshots from our day so far.

We got this sweet watermelon dress from our seminary sharing community, she's worn it several times already this summer.

It was already a blazing 92 degrees by 9:30am this morning, so we opted for some more indoor activities. I'm starting to run out, so she's watching Tigger and Pooh on daddy's iphone.

Mike has the day off today and Logan is soaking up the daddy attention. Here they are reading together. Mike would read and turn a page, Logan would "repeat" and turn her page.

Ransom

Dear Uncle John Hey Mister,

I have your hat.

If you ever want to see it again follow my instructions very closely.

Deposit 100 goldfish, 3 cheese sticks, 2 juice boxes and a Pooh video in an account of my choosing.

I'll deliver your precious hat safe and sound in two weeks given my directions are followed.

Love you!

Today

Sorry for the lack of creativity with the post, the sun has completely wiped me of all energy and it's taking everything I've got to post even the pictures. Logan and I got up early this morning (5:45am to be exact--when she decided it was time to potty) and she was a bit cranky. I didn't want her to wake J & L up so after eating breakfast and watching some Tigger and Pooh (and Darby, too!), we headed out and walked for about an hour. It was a beautiful 67 degrees and sunny and was just perfect for a good work out...much nicer than the 99 it is right now with the heat index close to 110. Yuck.

John and Lindsey hung out until about 4:30 today, so we had a really nice visit. It's great when they're here because Logan sleeps SO much better. She takes longer naps and usually goes to bed early and sleeps later. It's magical. We're going to head up to VA in a couple of weeks to celebrate both Mike and Lindsey's birthdays (he's the 18th and she's the 22nd).

Love. This. Picture.

In other news, Logan's been asking to sit on the big potty, where she either:

A. falls in

B. needs someone to hold her there for 10 minutes at a time

So, today we made the jump and got her a potty shrinker (or whatever they're called). We took her to target and let her pick one out. One step closer to being out of diapers!

Happy Fourth!!

We haven't been super busy today, but I can't believe it's already almost 7:30! We got up early this morning and headed off to church. There weren't enough 1 year olds in Logan's classroom, so they sent her to the 2 year old class and she did fabulously. If it weren't for her size, you wouldn't have even known she didn't belong--when I went to pick her up she was participating in one of their big activities and came home with all kinds of crafty goodies. I can't believe how grown up she is!

Logan was given several outfits for this holiday, but when we tried them on this morning only one of them fit. Most were too small and a couple were too big--maybe they'll fit her next year? This morning I threw on this dress that used to be mine, I figured it was a fun, summer dress and had red and white in it, so I threw a blue bow in her hair and she was patriotic for church.

When we came home we changed her into this outfit that Tita got her. She was quite a character in it!

This afternoon, Logan's Uncle John and Aunt Lindsey drove down from VA to have dinner and a sleepover with us and she has been playing with them like crazy. She won't give them a second to rest before she's got a new activity to do with them!

Happy Independence Day!!

Dizzy

This seems to be Logan's new favorite past time. *fingers crossed* that it has worn her out for a nice, long nap so that maybe I can get one in this afternoon, too!

Little Monster

Mike and I went out for "dinner" tonight, only, the restaurant that we went to had a power outage. We sat there and ate some chips and salsa hoping that maybe the power would start back up, but after an hour we tipped the waitress and headed out. Mike stopped on the way home to pick up a burger and some fries for himself and sat in the living room to eat so we could play with Logan. Logan took a liking to the fries as Mike generously shared them and when he got up off the couch to answer the phone she quickly climbed up onto it, pulled the fries from the bag (two boxes, mind you), said "ha ha" and started to chow down. Needless to say Mike did not get the fries back and she's still walking around with both boxes in her hands victoriously.

Something Worth Blogging About

This morning we were supposed to head back to the pool. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. Just when we thought it was sunny enough to head out the door, we'd get a nasty 30 minute cloud cover and we decided to nix our pool plans and opt for something indoors. Only problem with promising a pool day to two little girls who understand is trying to convince them it's ok not to go (Logan kept asking for the "wa-wa" all morning). So, we took the kiddos to a little indoor play place at the mall. It's full of all kinds of foam climbing things and is in a nice enclosed space so we let the girls loose and watched them really enjoy themselves (while also wincing constantly as some very large incredibly crazy and uncontrolled boys ran around with no regard to the little ones--where were there parents, again?). I took a bunch of pictures since I know I've been lacking lately.

Logan's been so into climbing lately that this place was perfect for her!

I'm trying to capture L on video doing some of her newer things but it seems like I can never grab the camera at the right time or when she IS willing to do things, the camera is out of juice. We need more rechargable batteries. She recently took an interest in reading to the baby boy we spend our days with. She'll pick out a book, scoot next to him and as she turns the pages she lists a ton of words that she knows. Example:

"Bubba (what she calls him), book" Opens the book, points to the pictures. "Two, outside, hot" turns the page, "Elmo, juice, num nums, book, hi" turns page...you get the scenario. Only it's much funnier to listen to the random words she picks. I'll continue trying to catch that for you guys!

As far as new words go, her vocabulary is truly growing daily. It's a challenge to keep up with how many she's got down. From my last count, I'd guess she's knows somewhere from 85-95 words, but I'm just so tickled to hear her say anything new that I've stopped keeping count.

We should have some pictures to post of the fourth, so look out for those!