Friday, June 27, 2008

A cute plea for help

Morgan had asked to go to Chick Fil A so off we went yesterday after going to Target. She loves to go to the one with the play area even though she has a hard time climbing up one or two of the levels. When we have gone before, there have been older kids who help her up, even had one help her down once when she started crying way up in the far off reachs of the play area. So yesterday, she got as far as she could without help. I could hear her saying something and could not figure it out at first since I was feeding Logan and was not able to get up closer. It was the cutest thing though once I did figure out. She was standing there saying "help, help, help" and every time an older child climbed up past her, she would say that plus "I need help please". Oh it was so darn cute. Finally one of the girls stopped and helped her. She stuck with her for awhile and even helped her up a second time.

If you remember from a few weeks ago, I cut Morgan's hair for the first time. I decided to get some inexpensive shears at the beauty supply store so I have something better to do this with and as a result, Morgan got another hair cut this week. Here are a few pictures the day after. I cut her bangs a bit more this time around also.

She looks so different in these three pictures.



Morgan loves her baby brother. :)

These two pictures are of Logan in the same outfit, but 2 months apart. The first is right before we left the hospital to come home. The second is from when he turned two months. Kind of shows how he has grown.






Thursday, June 26, 2008

Monkey boy

Just a quick post with a few pictures since the two are still napping. I could not resist the silly monkey t-shirt for our little monkey when I saw it. Morgan has taken to picking out her own clothes and dressing herself (undressing herself much to my dismay as well). As a result, this week, she has worn a Halloween spider shirt, a Bucs jersey and was sporting quite the retro 70's look today. I will try to post more tonight or tomorrow.







Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Time flies when you are...

sleep deprived. Yeah, the saying is having fun and yeah, we do have fun, but more than that, we have sleep deprivation right now. It has been a bit since I posted last. Not sure what happened, but here I am again.

Logan had a good 2 month check up last Tuesday. Little guy came in at 12 lbs 8 oz and 24 inches. He was 9 lbs 6 oz and 20 1/2 inches at 3 1/2 weeks so he has definitely grown. I said something to his doctor about colic and the doctor laughed. He said he disagreed since Logan went from being in the 50 percentile at his last visit to 75 percentile this time. Logan had his first shots and did not like them at all. He scrunched up his face so hard that it turned beet red except for between his eyes where it turned white. Let out the loudest screams and cries I have heard out of a baby! We go back in 2 months again.

Things have been going well otherwise. He is becoming so alert and interacts with everyone. I watched him batting at a toy on the bouncy seat the other day. He has the cutest smile that he loves to share and is starting to try and "talk". He is still eating like crazy. I have had no luck in getting him to take a bigger bottle which would in turn mean going longer between feedings and possilbly more sleep for mommy. He is eating something like every 3 hours or so...sometimes it is 2 1/2 hours! I so look forward to when he starts sleeping longer at night and does not need to be held so long to get to sleep initially.

We toured a preschool for Morgan last week. There is a wait list of one other child for the class she would be in so I will get her paperwork in with the hopes that they will add two more slots once school starts. It is a Montessori school about 10 minutes from the house that uses a Christian curriculum. She does not have to be potty trained, which is a bonus for us as while she will go occasionally on the potty, we are no where near her being trained. I think that being around other kids who are would help.

Not much else going on. Had a low key Father's Day with Troy. He is back to traveling a lot...North Carolina last week, Atlanta this week. Morgan had her purses and was off to Atlanta yesterday afternoon to see her daddy. She definitely is developing a great imagination to go along with her constantly expanding vocabulary. Very cute.

Have to comment quickly on Tim Russert's passing and his son. I saw an interview with his son yesterday morning on the Today Show and if my children can grow up to be even half as well spoken and, just in general, a seemingly great kid, then I will be happy. I was very impressed with what he had to say, how he said it and how he handled the interview in what is undoubtly a very difficult time. While I will admit to fast forwarding often thru that part of the Nightly News, it was sad to hear that Tim Russert had passed away.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Another weekend is almost gone

Another weekend has almost come and gone. They go so quickly. We spent Saturday running around to Gymboree, mom's house and Neeva's First birthday party. Troy is off to North Carolina for a few days. He will be back on Wednesday so we have scheduled a preschool tour for Thursday morning. I can not believe we are going to look at preschools for Morgan! It seems like she was just Logan's age. I have heard good things about the preschool. It is a Montessori school about 15 to 20 minutes from our house and we do not have to go on 75 to get there which is a good thing with the tanker explosion that happened last week making travel on 75, and in the area in general, a mess.

Little guy is growing and changing so much. He is ready to move in to 3-6 month clothes and his personality is starting to show. Here are a few pictures that Troy took today. Shows little guy's smile. He has really started smiling in the past few days. His two month doctor's appointment is on Tuesday so I will update everyone then as to how much he "official" has gained!

Logan's cute smile

Showing off how much his face has really filled out.


Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Snow White came for a visit


Snow White came to our house for a visit thanks to a certain little girl's daddy being unable to say no. Troy and Morgan went to Target on Saturday after Gymboree and came home with a Snow White dress. The story is that she would not leave with out it...hmm, okay, if you say so. Anyway, here are a few pictures of her dressed as Snow White. I suppose I should not say much as I am the one who bought her the Sleeping Beauty heels and did promise a princess crown if she uses the potty 15 times.

I have all this baby stuff out at the house now and it seems like there are others in it more often than the actual baby. If it is not one of Morgan's dolls...


it is a cat


or a toddler who out grew it a long time ago, but do not try and tell her that. :)


I guess it is a downfall of being a second child, but I find myself not having as many pictures of Logan. I suppose part of it is trying to juggle the two of them. We are half way thru our first real week of Troy being back to commuting out of state. We are doing okay. Logan is still getting up every 3 hours to eat at night so that is tiring and then today, he did not really nap for long during the day and took a while to finally get to sleep at night. Morgan was really testing me this evening and ended up getting put in her room. I really gotta find time to read some discipline books!!! Anyway, back to Logan and pictures. Here is one from last Sunday right before we left for church. So glad that he did not cry like this during church. He has done really well for us at church and has slept thru every service so far. Hmm, I don't think that is his reflection on Pastor Randy's preaching.