Logan's update

Finally a little more time to do the previously promised second update regarding Logan. Nick came to visit for almost 2 weeks so we have been extra busy with him. Logan is doing well. He had his 4 month (wow! 4 months already) doctor's appointment on Monday. He weighed in at 15 lbs 10 oz and was 26 1/4 inches long. So that is the 75% for weight and 95% for height. Morgan was the same height at her 4 month visit. Not sure how I got tall kids! He had 3 shots and shrieked like a girl...at least that is what his father says it is. He seems to be getting better at sleeping thru the night, but I do not want to say he definitely is because then I will jinx it. He is rolling over from his back to his stomach and talks like crazy some times. We started him on rice cereal yesterday. He seems to like it well enough.

Whew, that was a lot in one paragraph!! What else has been going on with little bug...he is spitting up more again. Not sure why that is happening. Hopefully it is not something that will be around for awhile. We are not scheduled to go back to the doctor until October. Here are a few recent pictures of Logan.

Troy was trying to get his hands free ear piece on Logan's ear. Did not fit, but we got a cute picture from it. :)

Getting ready for football season by showing his true college affinity.

This is a cute picture of Morgan playing with Logan. He sat in his Bumpo and she showed him the toys.

Morgan update first

Okay, so it has been forever, AGAIN, since I last was on here. Time for me to update the things going on with my babies. I figure the easiest was to do it without a long as heck post is to do them each separately. Morgan is oldest so she is first up...

I can not believe my little girl is starting preschool next week. Albeit only going two mornings a week, but just the same, she is going. We are in the midst potty training. The bribery is in full swing and we are trying to be creative. Today was our first outing in big girl panties and she made it thru a trip to Walmart without an accident...even went pee when we went in the bathroom at Walmart. Make a momma proud. The pride, excitement and dancing that took place before church on Sunday was crazy when she actually went poo in the potty without us even asking if she needed to. Yeah, I know, getting excited about poo, but hey, that is what parenting is all about.

So here are a few pictures of our princess crazed girl in her princess jewelry that she got after making it all day with only one accident at home.

The full royal regalia including princess jammies

I think this picture is cute even if it focused on her shoulder. She was trying to get as close as she could.

No, Morgan did not get a black eye. They are working on a huge mall/commercial complex about 20 minutes from our house. The first part is a shopping center anchored by SuperTarget (wahoo). The just opened another store in the center last weekend called Ulta (another wahoo). It is a make up, hair, etc store that we had in Maryland and I really like it. I took the kids for the grand opening on Friday. We got our "free" stuff, including eye shadow. I let Morgan have at it with it before bath time that night. Here are two pictures of her creation on herself.

Troy is using an ear piece with his cell phone when working in the house. Someone got ahold of it and had to try it out today. That is the first picture. The second is of her "working". She got all over me earlier today because I was sitting at the computer doing something and she needed to work. Go figure. Wonder what she gets paid for her work...

I love the expression in her face. I am sure we have all had that look when at work. :)

Morgan loves to try on Troy's glasses. Unfortunately for her, glasses are probably in her future as her father and I both have bad eyesight.

Logan's professional 3 months pictures

I took Logan to Penney's last Saturday for his first in studio professional pictures. He did such a good job smiling and is so darn cute. I can not wait to see the actual photos when they come in! Here are a few of the pictures. You gotta love the hair! The photographer tried to push it down and told her not to as that is the way his hair is. :)

My weekly post

So I am starting to feel like posting on my blog is going to be a once a week thing even though I really would rather it not be. Seems like trying to find time to do it is getting harder and harder. Oh well, I suppose I should be happy that I get a little time. :)

We do not have much new to report even though it feels like we are always on the go. That is partially due to Troy working from home so much and me trying to get out of the house and thus stay out of his way. Morgan wants to be around her daddy when he is home so it makes it a little hard.

Here are some new pictures from the past few weeks. I did take Logan for his 3 month pictures at Penney's on Saturday. He did really well and gave lots of good smiles. So different from Morgan at that age. We took her in twice to try and get her to smile for the camera at 3 months and she never did.

These first two pictures are comparision pictures. The first is Morgan at 2 months in the baby swing and the second is Logan around the same age in the same swing...almost in the same outfit. Yes, if you come to my house at bedtime, you will probably find my son in a pink sleepsack. He is wearing some of his sister's hand me downs around the house. Anyway, these two are so you compare my kids and tell me if you think they look alike??

Morgan

Logan

One of the groups of moms and kids that we do things with had an outing to go bowling last week. I took Morgan and she had a nice time. It was a little crowded with 8 kids per lane. They had the bumpers up and then had a metal ramp thing the kids could put the ball on top of so it would get some momentum without them having to try and roll it down the lane. She did really well carrying the ball. I would like to take her back again some time.

She looked so darn cute in the shoes.

This kind of shows the metal ramp the put the ball on.

Morgan and Logan's cousin, Ty, turned 3 a few weeks ago so off to his party we all went. The kids always have a nice time when they get together. July is a busy birthday month for our kids' cousins with Ty (3), Jacob (3) and Nick (10) all celebrating one with in a week.

Ethan and Ty on the John Deere. Ethan was not too sure about the whole thing. There was a fire truck that the kids got to check out.
Morgan, Lynn (Scott's sister) and Ty
Mary and Ethan

Just a few of the pictures from the party. We have several "events" coming up in August that I am sure will produce more pictures. Troy's 20 year high school reunion is this weekend. Mine was last year so it is his turn this year, then Pam's next year. Nick will be coming to visit for almost 2 weeks in the middle of August. We will probably take him and Morgan to Busch Gardens. Morgan starts preschool on August 19. I can not believe it!

Lastly, happy thoughts and prayers for a good delivery to my friend, Kristin, in Wisconsin as she is scheduled to have her second daughter tomorrow. Can't wait to see pictures!!!

Wow, I can even put video on here...

that is, if we remember to get the camera out and it is charged! Well, lo and behold, all that happened this afternoon. I put together some video of Logan and Morgan. A little grainy, but hey, I am not looking for an Academy Award here. Just trying to show off my babies. :)

Random pictures from the past few weeks

I got a little time to upload pictures that were on the camera so here are some random ones.

Little man's room-kind of went for a surf/Hawaii theme

Morgan loves to play in our closet. This day, her choice was Troy's Navy hat.

These few are fingerpainting pictures from today. I had forgotten that I had finger paints for her until we were painting earlier this week. Tonight, Troy was hanging out with her while she painted. She had to come in and show me her masterpiece...herself!! :) Also, note that she has "big girl" panties on. We are working on getting her potty trained. Let me tell you, she definitely knows what it is all about, but only wants to do it on her terms.

This picture is not the clearest, but she is showing her "funky" face. I crack up every time she does this.

My cousin, Melanie, her daughters and her parents came over from the East coast for a few days. Melanie lives in Texas and they come to Florida every summer. We all went out to the beach for a cook out. This is Ty, Morgan and Amanda in the water.

Gotta have a picture of the little man. Here he is hanging out in his Bumbo.

Wow...a few minutes for blogging!

Okay, so I have been MIA. Busy as heck and Troy has been working from home so my computer time has been limited. I will try to do a quick update and then some thing more later in the week.

• Morgan went to the dentist and has two lower molars coming in. Everything looks great.


• While looking this past Sunday to see if Morgan's upper molars were coming in, I noticed some red spots on her upper mouth. Took her to the doctor yesterday and she has hand, foot, mouth disease. Apparently it is a common childhood aliment that tends to show up in the summer. I have to keep an eye on her around Logan so she does not pass it on to him.


• Logan went to the doctor at the same time as Morgan as he has an infected ingrown toe nail. He is on an antibiotic and we have to soak his toe, wash it with special soap and keep it dry. He has a follow up visit in two weeks.


• Logan started rolling over from back to stomach a few weeks ago. He gets a little mad some times, but is doing really well holding up his head when he gets on his tummy.


• We had a three day moving sale at mom's house and it went really well. Sold a lot of stuff including her washer and dryer that were not even up for sale. It was really funny. We had not really gone thru the garage and on the first day in the first hour, someone asked if we had another trunk. We had a few in the garage, but told them that we had not gone thru the garage. Well, that started three days of people going thur the messy garage and finding stuff. We were amazed at what they were finding and buying. That was one way to get the garage cleaned out. :) Big thanks to Aunt Carolyn for spending those three days out in the hot, steamy garage as people went thru things.
• Morgan got in to preschool. A spot opened up and she will start in the fall. She will go on Tuesday and Thursday morning. I think this will be a great opportunity for us all and am very excited about it.
• We had to cancel our trip to Maryland. Hopefully we will get to head up there some time before the end of the year. Nick will be here in August for a little over a week so we will get to see him then.

That about wraps it up for now. Need to get ready for the day...I am taking Morgan to her first movie in a movie theater this morning. One of the theaters does free movies for the kids in the summer so we are going to Happy Feet this morning.