I Mama!

Logan is so big on playing mommy now. She loves to strap her dolls into her stroller and help them sip out of her sippy cup and she'll even grab some of her diapers and try to put them on the stuffed animals. She's always loved helping clean up but she's really getting more into it now...as we speak she's "vacuuming" my room up with her play vacuum. If only it really worked I'd be able to forego that chores today! She's also really taken to using my accessories to act like mommy. I posted a couple of days ago about it, but today she walked into the room while I was cleaning in this pose:

Repeating over and over again, "I mama, I mama!"

Sweet Cowgirl

It's no secret that I'm pretty tight with our budget. I buy a ton of our food just with coupons/sales, I rarely buy clothing for myself, and most of our toiletries and cleaning products I get free with coupon deals. Logan, however, is my achilles heal. It's SO hard to say no to some of the girly things they have out. I've gotten pretty good at it, but when I saw these boots at Target, I knew I was going to fall. It's ok, I got them one size up and while they fit her a little loose now, they'll be perfect for that crisp fall weather!

She calls them her "boos" and she didn't want to take them off yesterday. I had to secretly slip them off before her nap.

She looked so grown up when we went to church yesterday. All of the kiddos in her little class were just over a year and so she looked like a giant in there! Next week they're splitting that class so she'll be in the older 1's that are closer to 2.

Love.

Little Mommy

Logan's been taking a huge interest in pretend play/helping out with mommy chores around the house lately. The other day, she put my flip flops on, grabbed one of my old purses and paraded around the house saying, "I mama, I mama."

She's also become really interested in my clothing. She pulls out shirts/skirts and tries to put them on. Yesterday, I humored her and let her walk around the house in one of my t-shirts. She watched an entire episode of Little Einstein's in it until she realized at the end that she couldn't "blast off" with rocket because the shirt was a little restrictive--then she wanted it off immediately.

Logan has been helping out when I unload the dishwasher, too! She unloads all of the silverware, and then hands it to me so I can put it away. It's actually really nice to not have to bend down and get it all out myself.

She also likes to pull out her plasticware and help put it away.

Sometimes she gets really "helpful" and starts putting every item she pulls out of the dishwasher into the silverware drawer. Every once and a while you'll see the drawer open with sippy cups, big spatulas and all kinds of tupperware piled in there.

Getting Ready For Disney

We'll be headed down to Florida in about a week and we've been trying hard to get Logan ready to see all of her favorite Disney characters by playing our Handy Manny, Little Einstein, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Tigger and Pooh videos. She just dies with excitement when one of them comes on and is even more excited when we talk about seeing them. We're going to a character lunch with all of the Playhouse Disney characters, so, provided she's not completely terrified by them, we should get some fun pictures. This was Logan's reaction today when I reminded her that we're going to see Pooh in about a week:

(I've already mentally kicked myself for not having a bow in her hair.) :)

After our Disney trip we'll be headed down to Miami to spend a few days with my parents. We're excited to get back down there after a little over a year of being away and catch up with the church and family. Logan's excited about getting to spend time with her grandparents and to have full access to a pool 24 hours a day!

18 Months Old

Our sweet baby big girl is 18 months old today!

Logan is growing like a weed! She weighs in at close to 24lbs and is about 32 inches long right now. These are just measurements taken from us here at home, we'll see the Dr. next week and things will be more official then.

Here are a few of her favorites-

Favorite Toy: Elmo and her stacking blocks.

Favorite TV Show: Tigger and Pooh. Though, she's ver into the other playhouse dinsey shows- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (mo-mo), Handy Manny (hammo) and Little Einsteins (I-Nines).

Favorite Movie(s): Cars (tars) and Finding Nemo (she-shes).

Favorite Books: I Love You More Than Rainbows, Counting Numbers and Tigger and Pooh All Year Long.

Favorite Food: PB&J sandwiches, she likes to open the bread, lick out the insides and then eat the bread.

Favorite Drink: Apple Juice.

Favorite Activity: Playing fake night-night. She piles pillows and blankets and then lays on them and repeats "night-night" over and over. If only bedtime were that easy.

Logan is such an easy going, sweet little girl. While she does throw fits like any normal toddler, she is overall a very happy child. She loves to laugh and to make people laugh. She gets upset when she sees other people upset and she'll smile a mile wide when she knows she's made you happy. She loves to snuggle up, but she's also very independent and is so excited when she figures things out on her own.

It's hard to believe that she's already a year and a half old! It amazes me that just a year ago she couldn't talk, couldn't walk, couldn't crawl and now we can't stop her.

We love each passing second with her and I have to admit that at the end of every day, I'm a little sad that it's over and that she'll be a day older tomorrow.

Here are the comparison pictures:

Weekend Ramblings

Just a few pictures to share with everyone.

Here is L after naptime on Friday afternoon.

She really loves it when we leave her in her diaper and let her run around semi-nude.

It's fun to notice subtle differences in the length of L's hair now. It seems like every few days it grows just a little bit more. Friday afternoon, I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to throw them up into piggies without any tugging or pulling to get enough hair!

Mike's been doing a lot of push ups lately and Logan, being in her imitator phase of life, loves to get down on the ground with him and do some herself. I think sometimes Mike pushes out a few extra just to see her do it too.

Today I'm working on getting closets cleared out. I had to pull out three different shirts for L yesterday as she seems to have grown an inch in the last two days and those shirts are now a little short on her. It's ok, they were her 9-12 month shirts so it's not like they needed to fit anymore, anyway! She's fitting into her 18 month clothing right on time, as she'll be 18 months this coming week! She's keeping plenty entertained while I'm cleaning by putting on some of my shoes and prancing around the house in them.

That's about all that's going on up here!

Counting Baby

Logan has a little number puzzle book that she's recently been obsessing over. As in, we take it to the bathroom, we take it to bed, we take it in the car, we take it pretty much everywhere. When she wants it read she says "Two! Two!" Because she's been so interested in it, I've been working on getting her to actually count to five. We count EVERYTHING and for a while she could say both two and five (eye-f) but lately she's been putting both of those numbers in order when we count together. Here it is caught on video: