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!

Stuck Indoors

As mentioned in the previous post, the heat here is pretty unbearable during the day. We play on the porch every evening (after 6) for about 30-40 minutes so that Logan can have some time outdoors, but that's about all we can bear. I learned my lesson when I took her out earlier one afternoon and after 20 minutes brought in a different child who then did not want to do anything but sit on my lap for the rest of the day (and consequently did NOT want to go to bed that night as she had restored energy at about 8pm). So, we've been doing a lot indoors.

We've been getting up and making breakfast together in the mornings to help pass the time. Here's Logan eating her alphabet pancakes from yesterday:

Logan has been taking a great interest in coloring but when I caught her doing it on the door the other day, I went out and picked up a color wonder book for her. She can color all she wants, but the color only shows up on the coloring pages. It's magical. And wonderful. And mess free.

Would you check out this ponytail?

I love that her hair is getting long enough to really have fun with, now!

And of course, when we do go out for walks (or anything, really), we make sure to put up our hair and are armed with two (sometimes three) sippy cups filled to the brim with water.

Happy summer!

(and I posted twice today, so don't forget to read the post below this one for more pictures!)

HOT HOT HOT

I know, I've got standards to uphold here and I've taken way too long to post something new about this sweet girl. Unfortunately, with temperatures reaching the high 90's and a heat index over 100 every day...we are working fervently to find indoor activities, and many of them involve me stepping from behind the camera and being a one (w0)man circus. So, there's just not a whole lot to take pictures of. I'll work a little harder for you all.

Today, though, we slathered on the sunscreen and braved the high temps so we could make it to the pool with the rest of our playgroup. I'd like to make mention that it was 91 degrees when we left the house this morning at 8:45am...my sentiments, exactly.

Logan had so much fun with playmates her size to run around with in the splash park. Here she is with "tate" (she can't pronounce that hard K sound yet)

This next picture is classic Kate and Logan.

Logan is getting quite fearless in the water now, she likes to be dunked and to jump in and you pretty much have to watch her nonstop. I'm just glad that with heat like this she's not afraid of the water, or we'd be in big trouble.

Summer is so much sweeter because I can do fun things like this with Logan.

Little Climber

Well, she can climb just about any piece of furniture now. Oh boy.

Happy Father's Day #2!

Father's Day 2009

Father's Day 2010. I love looking at the comparison photos from a year ago because she has changed SO much! (and Mike looks more tired...and a year ago we were still waking up 2-3 times a night. hmmm.)

Mike worked until midnight last night so we let him "sleep in" this morning while L and I got up and made pancakes and bacon for him and then got him up after an extra hour. After church we headed to the seminary and ran around a bit. Logan loves it when Mike has Sundays off because she gets so much undivided attention from him.

We had the hardest time getting Logan to look at the camera. She gave us a lot of this smug look ("I'm not going to do what you want me to do. What do you think I am? A trained monkey?"):

She loved the fountain we found, though, and was really, really upset when we had to leave it.

Mike went and played volleyball this afternoon and while he was gone Logan and I worked on a little treat for him. It's so fun that Logan can "help" me now!

Stir, stir, stir.

I'd love to say that Logan actually helped me frost the cupcakes:

But she spent more time eating the frosting.

And diving head first into the cupcake I gave her to work on. She kept her hands firmly by her side, though, to avoid getting icing on them and having them be dirty. I cringe when she gets anything on her hands that's sticky or messy because I know that I will soon get the "I cannot stand this gunk on me" screech.

Oh, well.

This was the finished product, anyway:

And we made him a dinner fit for a king:

It was such a treat because we haven't had steak in a long, long time! Happy father's day, Mike, Logan loves you!!