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.

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: