Water Baby

I thought we had taken more pool pictures and then I looked through the camera and realized that this was all we had! We were very busy with all of the swimming, so, it doesn't surprise me that the camera got a little ignored. Logan really loved the full time access to the "wa-wa" and was constantly asking to get in. We eventually decided to split up the shifts and took turns taking her in so that none of us would get tired of the pool. It made for some wonderful sleep on her part, though!

We took what we thought was our little baby floaty down, but realized we had only brought the sunshade...so, Logan would like to say, "Thank you, Aunt Carolyn, for sharing your float with me!"

Logan had no lack of disney swim suits. When we arrived in Miami, Logan was greeted with an entire Disney swim wardrobe from her grandparents and she definitely got good use out of every one of them.

Unfortunately, this was the only suit I got a picture of.

New Park

My parents have a big park across the street from the house. Up until now, it was just a big grassy area with a poor excuse for a playground. I always thought it was due for an update, especially with the amount of kids it had on it daily, but didn't see one come up before we left. Thankfully, since we moved, they DID re-do the playground! It's quite a beautiful little area, now, and has plenty for little ones to do. Unfortunately for us, it rained for a few days before we arrived, and as you can see, the playground was a little flooded. Logan did get to enjoy the slides because they were on turf...maybe next time we head down there L will get to use the rest of the equipment.

Post 300

This is my 300th post! We're still on vacation in Miami where we are spending a TON of time in the pool. In fact, all I have are pictures and videos of Logan enjoying the water. We spend a good 2-3 hours out there a day! It's made for some wonderful naps and she's had really great nights because she's so exhausted at the end of the day. It's nice that we don't even have to leave the house for entertainment. I'm going to throw up a video of Logan in the pool for this post and then I'll try and upload the pictures sometime later.

Disney 2010

On our way down to Miami, we took a quick detour in Orlando and made our way to Disney. The last time we were there was for Mike's birthday last year and I think that it's the longest time we've been away from Disney since we've been married! Of course, it'll now only get longer since we no longer live in FL and their prices jumped up a considerable amount. We scored some free tickets this time around making it easy to say yes to the chance to go there.



We spent a good part of the morning just wandering around Hollywood studios. Logan got to meet Mickey there for the second time around. We had a hard time holding her back to wait her turn to see him because she was so excited that he was actually there in front of her. She wanted to touch his nose, his eyes, his hands, but did NOT want him to touch her! She kept her distance when she wasn't the one exploring. Then we went and saw the Playhouse Disney live show and you wouldn't know it by looking at the pictures, but she loved it. She was just very intensely focused on her "friends" and couldn't figure out how they had come out of the TV and onto the stage.





We played with the ducks for a while and sat outside while Mike rode some of the roller coasters. Then we went to our character lunch with her Playhouse Disney friends. We thought we were off to a good start with Mickey. Then she met June, who she loved. Again, she wanted to touch her hands, her eyes, her nose--basically identify all of the body parts she knows (I really need to work on keeping her from doing this with strangers--some people don't appreciate it). Then Handy Manny stopped by and everything went down hill. She was ok until he started invading her space and wanting to play with her. This caused a huge fit and then she wanted NOTHING to do with any of the other characters. This is why there are not a bazillion Disney pictures this time around. We had looked forward to getting her to meet with Pooh and Tigger later in the day, but after the Manny incident, Logan wouldn't get near any other characters.






Then we headed to EPCOT. We rode the Nemo ride, which I think she would have gladly ridden several more times had we not headed out into the aquarium. Then she was hooked on the real "she-shes" I thought we'd never get out of there with how much she loved just staring!


Logan took a good two hour stroller nap and we walked around the park some more. Mike rode some rides and we were able to look around a bit. Then we headed to Magic Kingdom when she woke up. I had epic plans for our stay there...but just about every one of them failed. It really has turned into a "classy" fair grounds. So crowded you can barely move, it smelled funny because of the amount of people around and the lines were SO long that riding two of the more popular rides may have taken us the rest of our day. We rode the carousel and the tea cups and then we ate dinner and headed out. It was a GREAT day...it was so much fun to see Logan understand a little more of what was going on this time around. We look forward to getting back there sometime in the future!

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.