10 Months

Yup, pretty sure this is in fact my new favorite age.  He is SUPER cute.  He has learned his new tricks.  He's quite proficient at clapping at everything.  He's started pointing at everything he seems to find cool.  He attempts to say words like, "kitty"  "doggie"  "fishy".  He wants to eat EVERYTHING you are eating and he shares anything he is eating/half eaten.  He comes and gives you these wonderful hugs snuggling into your neck.  I think he is the most darling thing ever...then suddenly a big ole chomp is taken.  He has discovered his teeth and he has not quite understood everywhere is not appreciated to be bitten :)  He's quite charming and I am in love with this little man.

One of our early morning walks he clearly enjoys!

Haha...we're promoting sugar intake.
Life is always better with chocolate chip cookies!

We had a neat little mini-vacation to Silver Falls National Park and the Oregon Gardens.  It was super fun even for an overnight adventure.

The Hobbit door

Logan attempting to grab all the greenery.

LOVES water.

Our hike...

I will mention I thought this hike was 6.8 miles, turns out I was dislexic (sp?) it was 8.6 miles and was a killer.  Jimmy ended up doing that heavy lifting with the babe.  I forgot to pack a bottle and we knew it early on enough, but too late to turn around...meaning we were left booking it back in time to avoid a cranky child.  It all turned out well despite our absentmindedness :)

A fellow passerby offering to take a family photo.

The waterfalls are super neat because you get to see them at EVERY angle...amazing!  So...if you look close you can see the people able to hike behind the waterfall and obviously we are in front, but you come out initially from on top of it.  I forgot how amazing this hike was.   Love mini vacations!!

On of the waterfalls.

Proof that this little guy is crawling.

Yup...baby proofed the house and learning quickly what is not baby proofed, but needs to be.  Had our first call into Poison Control.  This little guy was at my feet while putting make up on.  The next moment I look down he managed to grab a can of powdered Comet and tilting it back as though he was chugging it.  When I took it away he of course cried and then proceeded to lick his lips like it was the best stuff ever.  He faired just fine...amazing babies make it out alive really.  They seem to be a magnet for anything that in a room that would be the worst thing for them to get into.  It gets us learning that part of our parenting role QUICKLY.

Mud Masks and Crawling

We've been LOVING the nice weather outside.  We get to be outside an lot and have no complaints about that.  Life is good!  Enjoy the pics.

Me with a mud mask, kinda creepy...

Whitney with a mud mask, looks kinda like a zombie

Logan and I reading books

Splashing in the water

One of Logan's classic faces

Loving the new pool

Bath time

Eating grass

Utah & Easter

Here are all our fun photos from our trip to Grandpa & Grandma's.  It was a super quick trip, but absolutely fun.  It was so fun to see the grandparents.  Grandpa Chris taught Logan how to high 5, now he does it all the time.  

Side note:  it's funny hitting this age, it seems you treat your child in a sense like a dog.  You teach them a trick (such as high 5-ing) and you get all excited when they remotely do it right (much like giving a treat).  Now it has progressed to working on patty-cake and waving.  We love our little dog...uh, I mean child :)

Taking a bath with Grandma

Getting ready to figure out what chickens are

Do you recognize where we are at?

Yup, if you couldn't figure out that lovely carpet...the airport.  It sometimes seems you've spent so much time staring at that ground at times the memory could never leave your mind :)  He was an absolute joy (wink, wink) hence the hanging upside down.  Anything to peak interest to keep his mouth from jabbering on about everything new around him surely.  Honestly though, we could not have asked for a better plane trip baby.  He was perfect.  Although our trip home the guy sitting next to us had two mini bottles of Gin...so maybe not that perfect.

Ahh...meeting Naomi again

They last saw each other when Logan was 2 weeks old.  Logan new something exciting was happening, but I don't think he knew quite what.  Naomi seemed quite skeptical of him and all Logan would do is smile away at her.  Scared the poor thing :)

and a big reason we went to Utah

How lucky was I to be able to see this wonderful lady get married.  It was priceless.  She was beautiful, the weather was gorgeous.  It could not have been a better day!

soaking in this wonderful weather, tongue and all

the long awaited intro to Aunt Janae...they're friends :)

And Easter weekend....

We dug out the bike trailer...he looks like he's done this forever!

This was a first for us, biking all together.  I have yet to try out a road bike until this moment.  It felt like a mini vacation.  It was just so wonderful outside with the beautiful weather.  Logan was soaking in every moment and life was just perfect in that moment.  We have the best cutest perfect little family and have no desire to change a moment together.  If only we were never required to work and could just have constant vacation time together :)  Life is good!

Coloring Easter Eggs together

A rare family photo, compliments of my mom

Taking Pictures

No one tells you how hard it is to take pictures of a baby until you are trying to get pictures of your own.  I kept seeing all these darling photos of others children and thought I definitely wanted some of my own.  SO...I went to etsy and bought this cute lion outfit and could not wait to bring out the camera and have my husband help in the process.  What a process it was...

Jimmy had to take the back drop (the sheet from out bed and hold it up high in the background.  Then magically I was in charge of getting the said cute picture.  You focus on one concept then you lose another.

A good start

Look!  He held still...and he clearly is thinking about smiling.  I was so proud and knew this was going to go real good.

Haha and downhill we go

He got the smile, but apparently smiling does not mean he's going to be still enough for our camera to get the shot.  Then the background got messed up with all that moving.  It COULD have been real cute :)  I just needed all the planets to align.

Yup, and eating the tail.

Creeping up to grab that camera to eat it.

Needless to say after this photo shoot I went straight to the internet and scheduled him for a photo shoot with JCPenney.  We did it this past Friday and it was worth every penny.  He could not get him to smile like we could, but hey I am not upset we are his parents after all.  Who wouldn't laugh at our goofy faces?  I guess from now on I know to leave the photo shoots to my dad or those paid to do it.

6 Months

Time flies when we're having fun.  I didn't get around to taking many pictures with the camera this past month.  However here are some fun ones.  He's gotten to be a bit bigger.  He had his 6 month appointment a couple weeks ago.  He's weighing in at 19 lbs (73%-ile) and 28" (88%-ile).  He has gotten to be quite boisterous...especially today being no exception.  Today was slightly unusual.  He would be cranky, cranky, cranky...then out of the blue he'd be laughing.  There seemed to be no rhyme or reason...no teething, he doesn't seem to be getting any symptoms of being sick.  It's a mystery.  It is not exactly making me day dream about our next child :)  We adore him however his personality.  Just wish the weather would cooperate a little more so we could go out more to counteract such fun moments.  Onto the next month before long...we're excited for this one as our trip to Utah is around the corner.  I just got all the wedding gifts making it all that much more real that the time is quickly approaching.  

Bath Time...

He loves bath time...he spends it splashing
 and is busy busy with his fish and net.

He's gotten to grabbing that faucet which is
as far out of the way as possible.

Clearly loving it....one of those times he
ignored the camera in his face.

Logan at grandma's farm.  He mostly just
loves eating all the animals.

He thought this was funny putting pants on his head.   

Yup...and the face most of the times with that outfit upside down.

 He's funny if you do anything out of the ordinary, he loves it.  Another constant enjoyment is being tossed into the air.  Jimmy will take him and toss him in the air doing a 180, so one moment he's facing Jimmy and the next out.  His laughter is priceless.  Someday I'll have to take video of it.  6 months is officially my favorite age.  It's perfect...you can take them and plop them down wherever you are at.  He can't crawl yet to get into mischief, however he is great at entertaining himself...most of the time.  He seems to be using more vowels in his babbling which is fun.  It sometimes seems like you're hearing "da da" or "ma ma" of course it does not seem to have any correlation.  Regardless, he is growing way too fast...it's constant change.  We just got him out of our room again.  It's such a relief to not worry about making the slightest creak in the bed.  Logan still seems to be adjusting to the change (last night he did end up back in our room in his swing).  We'll get there.

Growing More and More...if only we could slow it down :)

Finally now that we're to February I am updating the blog.  Let's face it I am not really going to update it because then it would be the boring details of how life can be stressful day to day.  In between our crazy lives is this little guy to make it all better.  Logan has continued to be a joy.  Most times he is just so easy to please...if he's not happy.  We've learned the instant gratification is a short jaunt outside.  He LOVES the outdoors.

Short story: I was a terrible mom the other day when giving Logan a bath.  One of the worst parts is that it is a rare occasion I get to do bath time with him.  Well, needless to say I had just taken a second off of him.  He was up on the counter and must have swung his legs.  The next moment after hearing something had fallen he was face down on the floor.  I was every emotion you could think of, however I held it together to help him the best I could or at least could think of.  He had a bloody nose as it was basically a cement floor and started swelling.  NOTHING would satisfy him.  Why am I telling this not so fun story?  Well, Jimmy and I learned a really great lesson (aside from never taking your eyes off them...even for a second) is that he can be the most terrible kind of cranky, cool wash cloths, singing, playing, feeding, tylenol...etc.  None of it worked...Jimmy just decided to take a shot and walk outside within two steps he was dead silent gazing up at the sky.  So...now...we go on walks quite regularly outside and it seems good for the both of us.  Rain rarely stops us (my lack of sleep does time to time).

Did you know?  We're coming to Utah in March.  I'm super excited.  One of my best friends is getting married and I really didn't want to miss it.  We were able to swing it to get us both plane tickets, so the whole lot of us are going.  It'll be so good to see all the people we love there.  Utah still feels like home in a lot of ways.  

His first time at the playground on the swing. 

Love the face...

It seems whenever the camera comes out and we're taking a picture.  We tend to get the face above or the face below...so either this blank stare or shocked sort of face.  There are SO many photos we delete, etc in hopes of getting a normal everyday face that we get when the camera is not out :)

Dancing with Dad

What a nice mess!

Ah yes, he has taken to persistently grabbing at the food bowl he's being fed.  Those hands are fast!  I kind of threw my hands up in the air and let him go crazy this night.  It gets exhausting fighting off those arms that so desperately want to feel every substance going to his mouth.

The next 4 photos should be easily deciphered as not our kind of handy-work.  Grandpa, aka my dad took these.  Aren't they terribly cute!  It makes you not believe my hub bub of him giving these hard to work with faces....however, Jimmy and I never claimed to be pros :)

my favorite

This is our black and white, that has yet to have been edited.

Smiles

Yeah, this kid...our photo shoot was a challenge initially getting smile out.  My dad came up with the idea of the lamb rug and getting him naked (+diaper).  Suddenly we didn't have to work so hard.  Logan loves to be naked & loves to grab his feet.  Pretty proud that he can make those feet touch his face.

More cuteness

A bit younger (early October), however unable to get due to
it being my dad's camera.  It was a fun halloween to have someone
dress up!

Our December Happenings

Life seems to be going at super sonic speed and we can't seem to slow it down to save out lives :)  Life is good though.  Seeing these two faces makes everything better!  Well...haha, until Logan has hit a cranky stage, although the pictures seen would not make it seem that ever happens.  Regardless, he makes up for all that crankiness.  I'm working a lot a lot...the other day was 17 hours straight.  This week will be around 57 hours.  It's crazy...but I guess we need the money.  It just makes me miss these two a ton.  I guess the plus is it makes me really appreciate the times we do get.

It's been a wonderful Christmas season and we have been so blessed.  All those answers we've been seeking as to why for all the changes are slowly coming up with answers and we are starting to see the bigger pictures it seems.  

Just prior to church decked out in a bow tie...what a stud, right?!

The face..."what, me?  why are you looking at me like that?
  I never make a fuss.

Good old daddy time...their little love fest.

Logan has continued adoring his dad.  The moment he is with him...Logan can be cranky all day and suddenly dad is home and the world is right again.  It's actually quite cute.  They never stop talking with one another.  Jimmy is the best with him.

Aren't we just how you pictured the manger seen

Haven't we told you...our church ward asked us to be Mary & Joseph.  Well...and of course, the star of the show Logan as baby Jesus.  He did PERFECT on stage.  We moaned and groaned a bit about being the center of attention, but in the end it was great...and actually fun for us.  When will we ever get such an opportunity again.  Jimmy even grew out his beard for this moment.  As can be seen moreso in the picture above.

Him in his snow suit...I just want to squeeze him.  

It's funny this suit is like the one on Christmas story.  You push the arm down at his side and it just pops right back up.  Logan thought it was pretty goofy.  Worked well for the times we've needed him to stay warm and just a cheap garage sale find.

The cutest!

So...I had NO intentions of going and seeing Santa.  In fact we weren't ever going to go to the mall.  We were supposed to see the zoo lights this night.  Did it work out for our good though.  We were not in the mood to be out in the bad weather, so we changed our plans to venture into Portland.  We go into the Macy's and want to check out all the Christmas-y items.  As we're enjoying our walk through suddenly Santa came up to us.  Being as wonderful as he is, he said he would love for us to come and even take a picture with our own camera.  Before long we suckered into the whole shin dig.  How can you not fall in love with such an adorable couple for the season.  It was perfect!  Hard to see this small, if you click on the actual picture I do believe it enlarges.  Enjoy!!