A Taste

Here's a taste of what we woke up to this morning. We've got a little over 5.5 inches right now and it's still coming down strong! While I think it's really pretty and it'll be fun to play in with Logan later...all I can think about is that we probably won't get to go out to dinner tonight (and I won't get my coldstone cake)! I've been dreaming about my Chili's birthday dinner all week so it is quite a disappointment for this pregnant lady but I'll look forward to having those things later on in the week, I guess. I'll post more pictures after I've taken Logan out to play!

Tag Jr. and A White Christmas!

Another fun gift Logan got today was her Tag Jr.! It allows her to sit and read books to herself (and the pages have all kinds of fun special effects too) with a little Tag Pal who she presses to the pages. She was calling her Tag Pal gummy bear for a while but I think she changed it to marshmallow tonight, which is more what he looks like. She got all kinds of Tag books to go with it and spent a good portion of time that she was away from her kitchen reading to herself and her babies.

She also got a nice little carrying case to go with it! Perfect for this over organized mommy.

We'd been telling Logan all day that it was supposed to snow. She went several times to the door and asked if we could go "pay" in the "no" but it didn't happen until she was in her PJ's getting ready for bed. We threw routine out the window (gasp, I know, it killed me, too) and threw a hat, a coat, some mittens and her uggs on and let her run outside for a little before bed. When we finally got her into her bed and she said her prayers, she thanked God for the snow and for baby Jesus. Have I mentioned how much I love this age?

And are you noticing the picture quality difference in my pictures?! (I know you probably aren't...but I certainly am!) My fabulous family got me a beautiful new camera for Christmas that has been taking just stunning pictures all afternoon! I LOVE it and am more picture obsessed than ever...poor Logan! (but good for you, right?) I'll dive into the manual tomorrow to figure out some more fun features, right now it's just on auto and it's impressing me so I look forward to seeing what else this thing can do.

Here are the links to my Christmas posts from today so you don't have to search for them:

http://babykayle.blogspot.com/2010/12/kitchenpretend-play-toys.html

http://babykayle.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-eve-pjsstocking.html

http://babykayle.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-videos.html

Kitchen/Pretend Play Toys

Logan has spent most of her day "cooking" in her new kitchen with all of her cooking tools/food and "shopping" with her shopping cart. So, a lot of our pictures have been in her room while she's been playing with her stuff. Enjoy!

Mike's all ready for his commissioning now, come early spring!

Christmas Eve PJ's/Stocking

Here's the picture of Logan in her dress last night that I couldn't get to flip. Forgive me, I was way, way tired. Logan slept in this morning and so we got to stay in bed until almost 8:30, at which point she demanded breakfast. Mike and I laughed at the table this morning that this would probably be the last Christmas that we'll be able to get up and enjoy breakfast and coffee before opening a mountain of presents. :) The present she got last night were the PJ's you'll see in several of the pictures...she did get a pair from Aunt Carolyn this morning, though, and insisted on wearing them on top of her Christmas PJ's so a lot of the pictures from later in the morning have them over top.

She's been going crazy over Disney princesses the last several weeks so a lot of her stocking stuffers related. She got a new toothbrush, a new shirt (mind you, I am NOT a character clothing kind of girl...but I knew it'd bring a huge smile to her face so I let it go), some chapstick, some big girl panties and some band-aids all in the princess theme.

She also got a nice, pint sized mop to use in the kitchen while I clean. It's got an actual sponge on the end of it so we can put water on it and she can really "help" mommy. We're hoping this prevents any more bumps on my head from Logan swinging around the big mop in effort to help clean!

And some fun jewelry to play with so she can be just like mommy.

Christmas Videos

I'm going to split the Christmas post into three or four entries today because there was SO much that went on and there are so many pictures that it would be easier to split. Here are a few videos we took this morning. The first two are Logan with her new, pink, retro kitchen that we surprised her with this morning (along with a shopping cart full of goodies for her kitchen) and the third is L opening her special talking pot that she's been using obsessively in the kitchen.

30 Weeks and Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve! I'm also 30 weeks pregnant today! We had a Dr.'s appt. on Weds. and everything is looking right on track. He's laying really low which is so different from Logan who was always really, really high. It's hard to say whether it's nicer to have a baby smashing your bladder or one swinging from your rib cage. I feel great, still have a ton of energy, still am sleeping great and have had just a wonderful pregnancy with this little guy so far (minus the awful first trimester). Can't wait to meet him in about 10 weeks!

We spent the day doing a lot of family traditions from both sides. Most involved food. I think I will gain 10lbs this weekend--in fact, be careful, you might gain weight just looking at the pictures. Mike worked the 2-10:30p shift last night and then was out the door again this morning around 7, so Logan and I really hadn't seen him in almost 24 hours when we picked him up for church this afternoon. This made my cookie baking adventure a bit of a challenge. Logan did great helping with the cookie dough but things got messy/sticky when we went to roll the dough and I ended up having to change her onesie twice....and I wouldn't be surprised if she has a belly ache from the dough she kept sneaking.

I frosted the cookies while she was sleeping but she "conveniently" woke up as I was finishing the last few. She came in and was babbling away about daddy's cookies (they're a wonderful recipe from his side of the family) and keeping me distracted. As I was placing the cookies onto their plate she snatched one and tried to be really quiet about it until she started to eat it and then she couldn't help but scream, "MMMMMMMMMMMMMM good!" Thankfully, I had the camera near and caught her with her hand in the cookie jar so everyone could see:

Here's how the conversation after went:

mommy: LOGAN! Those are daddy's cookies!

Logan: cheese mommy!

Then for dinner we had our traditional Danish pancake balls. Logan loved them but I think she loved the syrup more. (um, yes, she is running her hands through the syrup and then licking it)

I have a few other pictures from tonight but can't get them to rotate so that they're vertical and it's late and we just spent 3 hours putting together presents for Logan so I'll figure it out in the morning. :)

Shopping and Silly Bands

Yesterday we went to one of the malls in Raleigh because we were out in the area and we needed to pick up a few last minute Christmas things. We popped into one of their maternity stores to pick up a few pregnancy necessities and I just had to share how wonderful the experience was for all THREE of us. Mike does not enjoy shopping very much, and while Logan enjoys picking out things for herself and pulling random clothing off of racks, she does make it difficult to shop when I need things for myself. This is what we found when we walked into this store:

They do indeed have an entirely closed off space full of fun activities for toddlers (mine chose to climb the table instead of playing with anything else) and a nice TV playing cartoons. What you can't see is on the other side of this TV is another TV playing sports center and two leather man chairs. So yes, I was able to shop and find everything I needed and not worry about boring the life out of my family! We need more places like this. (say, the grocery store? ;))

When Carolyn was here last week, she shared some silly bands with Logan. If you don't know what they are, look them up....they're just as crazy of an obsession as Furbies were when I was 13. (yes, I just dated myself like I used to make fun of older people for doing. let's just leave it at that, it depresses me a little.) Anyway, Logan loved Carolyn's and when we walked into a store yesterday that had some (on major clearance, mind you), she went nuts and wanted to be "like An Tare!" So we picked up a box and she's been playing with them NON-STOP since we brought them home. (She woke up this morning and asked where they were)

Showing them all off:

Please don't take this as a hint that we might need more of them...I'm already finding them in places like my pillowcase, my purse and Mike's socks. :)