Cookies!

Logan and I made cookies together today! We made some last year in October but she was still so little she mostly sat and watched. This time, she was a kind of big help. AND we kept the kitchen relatively clean! I collaged some of the pictures because there are so many and some of them are just slightly different.

We started off by naming all of the ingredients and repeating sounds that she knew (like the "b" in butter):

She got to throw in most of the dry ingredients:

She was entirely fascinated by my pink kitchen aide hand mixer...and who wouldn't be? It's pink!

She even got to take several turns holding the mixer (just don't tell her it was off when she was doing it on her own):

I think she felt like a big girl because she kept repeating, "I mama, I mama" while she was doing it.

She had SO much fun!

We, indeed, waited by the oven the entire time the cookies were baking by request of the princess (who wouldn't leave the kitchen if I told her that her favorite show was on TV).

Then, after they cooled, she spent 30 minutes frosting and decorating her cookie! Well, mostly she ate frosting... so she may be up all night (anyone want to come wrangle a sugared up toddler tonight?), but it was so nice to see her so engaged that I don't even care.

When I told her she could actually eat the cookie she wasn't quite sure what to think, so she tried to hand it to me first. No thanks, honey, I don't need a drooled on, over frosted piece of sugar right now. :)

She really enjoyed it, though!

I think she only took about two bites before realizing that the frosting was getting everywhere and then she asked to be cleaned up so that she could go play outside. Oh, the joys of having an overly clean child, it does make life a little easier. Little boy is destined to be a little bit of a slob because Logan is such the opposite. Maybe lighting will strike twice for me, though?

Go Seminoles!

Let's GO!

When you tell Logan you're getting ready to go somewhere, she has quite a checklist to go through before she's ready to walk out the door. She asks for her shoes (even if they're on), finds a pair of sunglasses, grabs a purse (which she doesn't have in the picture yet) and won't even let you near the door unless she's got her bow--hence the second picture. However, as soon as her little checklist is complete, you had better be ready to walk right out the door or you hear, "les GO, les GO, les GO" five thousand times until the door is opened for her. She's definitely a woman who knows what she wants.

Halfway There!

We've reached the halfway mark! Hard to believe that in 20 weeks or less (or maybe more...I'm hoping we won't have a late delivery, but you never know) we'll have our sweet baby boy in our arms. Right now we're really focusing on enjoying every second with his big sister knowing that life is going to change quite dramatically when we add another baby to the mix. In fact, the last few days, Logan's been napping for an hour and a half in her bed and then wants to spend the last half hour of her nap sleeping with me on the couch which I LOVE. It's the sweetest time together and it really forces me to stop, enjoy the quiet moments with my oldest and rest.

The baby is definitely, noticeably bigger. I'm able to feel exactly where he's sitting now and he's kicking up quite a storm. Thankfully, unlike his big sister, he kicks and rolls around during the day but is a lot less active at night, so as of now, I'm still sleeping quite well. We're looking forward to meeting this little guy, though!

Nesting

I was close to 7 months pregnant with Logan when I started nesting. I wanted everything organized, cleaned, all her clothes washed and the nursery done. I thought I was quick on the uptake with her, but this little boy has me going c-r-a-z-y with the nesting bug. In the past two days I've taken apart the entire refrigerator, cleaned every little piece and put it back together, I've organized and re-organized our coat closet twice, and I've vacuumed the house at least three times...that may be because I have a slight love for my vacuum and a huge love for watching my child try and do it herself. Today, I put away my pre-pregnancy clothes and pulled out all of my old maternity wear; I destashed things I haven't used in years, color and print coded all of the clothes and made a little space for baby boy's stuff in my closet (it'll eventually get into the kids' room).

While I was doing all of this, Logan was doing some of her own nesting. When there was finally space in my closet, Logan went and got several pillows, blankets, books and baby dolls and played in the bottom of the closet for quite some time. The pictures I took are after her nap, so a lot of it had been put away...these were the things she managed to get back in there. I think she thinks it's her new room--she keeps asking to go "night-night" in there...fat chance, kiddo.

My next project is Logan's closet...I need to get in there and destash a lot of her stuff so we can make room for her little brud (that's what she calls my belly). Right now the princess inhabits that entire closet and then some. Oh, if we had all of the storage in the world, right? :)

Warm Fall Days

We've had a spell of warm days here lately hitting the upper 80's! We were really loving the upper 60's/lower 70's and are ready to get those back, but in the meantime, we headed over to one of our local parks to enjoy the sunny weather today. Logan's naps are just not as great when she doesn't get time to go run off steam (go figure, right?), so it's really nice when I can just say go and let her run wild with her friends outside.

The last time we were at this park, she wasn't too crazy about the slides, but she's recently developed quite an affinity for them and did NOT want to leave this one alone.

Of course, being the non-traditionalist that she is, she's decided going down the slide the correct way is just not going to happen for her.

So, she's chosen another method.

She also loves to climb, and gets very concentrated when she's doing it:

She's getting to the age where she really, really enjoys playmates. Kate and Logan play so well together, it's such a blessing to have them right around the corner.

We had a nice, picnic lunch while we were there.

Logan and Noah.

Noah wanted to feed Logan (she didn't chop his finger off, despite the fact that she looks a little like a shark in this picture):

And then they played together for a while!

We would down the morning with some pictures, some more sliding and a nice walk home.

And she's dead asleep right now...maybe we'll stay that way for a few hours and I can get the pantry re-organized!

I Scream, You Scream

With our gender reveal ultrasound and a huge consignment sale (which I volunteered at) last week, we didn't have a whole lot of time to celebrate finding out about our sweet little boy! We really wanted to do something simple and special for Logan so we went out Saturday night and got her a big sister treat we knew wouldn't disappoint:

She ate that cone up in no time! She's already talking about her little "brud" that's in mommy's belly and we just know she's going to be a wonderful big sister.