baby shower

a couple of weeks ago my sweet friends anna and mindy threw me a wonderful baby shower. the night was full of yummy food (chocolate fondue...i could go for some right now), great friends and family and super cute (and generous) gifts. now that it's over i realize that i didn't even get a picture with the 2 sweet hostesses who made the whole thing happen. i guess i was too busy visiting and eating (no surprise there). i got some of the cutest presents...and soo much pink! it just makes me giddy. now we just need the baby girl (although there is still so much to do i'm not feeling too rushed).

this must be what heaven is like for a 20 month old

(at least a 20 month old named logan)

a trampoline full of balls
(logan is a huge fan of jumping on the tramp and any kind of ball)

a room full of balloons

logan got to enjoy a little piece of heaven thanks to his cousin myles' 7th birthday party!
also making a (surprise) appearance at myles' party...
a snow trooper, as seen in the star wars movie, "the empire strikes back" (more to come on the costume)


he was a big hit with the boys, although logan kept his distance and kept saying "scary." he didn't want anything to do with the "snow trooper" (aka dave) until the costume was completely off.

turban twins

dave and i have had harry potter on the mind. we recently finished reading book 7 and it was a bittersweet moment for us. sweet to finally reach the last book and see how it all ended after almost 4 months of reading. and bitter because it was over. we looked forward to reading together every night. a couple of days after we finished dave said he wanted to start the books over again. a tempting thought. we also managed to catch part 1 of movie 7 in the cheap theaters before it was gone. we almost missed it (by days) which would have been a tragedy.

so with harry potter on the mind, when dave gave logan a little purple turban recently i immediately thought of...

professor quirrell

of course we think logan is much cuter, pulls off the turban with a little more flair and luckily isn't hiding "he-who-must-not-be-named" underneath it.

one month

i am due one month from today!
yikes...and yea!
i am currently 2 cm dilated and 70% effaced.
i know that doesn't necessarily mean she's coming any time soon,
but it is more progressed than i was with logan when i was 3 days overdue so i'll take it!

melts my heart

i took logan and his friend finn to the zoo. i heard logan saying "hands" and turned around to see this.he will still randomly say "finn" and "hands" together and smile. i think it really made him happy to hold hands with finn!
in case you're wondering, logan is not still in a rear facing carseat. i just didn't have 2 big car seats to get us to the zoo so we improvised!

logan has never been very cuddly or affectionate. but as he has gotten older he has become a little more affectionate (we take every little bit we can). this particular morning logan asked for me to get "bear" out of his bed and he walked around giving him a hug. it's a start. his hugs have recently extended from bear to his dad. if logan is awake when dave leaves for work he will walk dave to the door, say "hug" and allow dave to hug him (he doesn't quite get how to wrap his arms around and give a hug quite yet) and then will say "kiss" and give dave a kiss (or let dave kiss him).

logan wasn't feeling well and i got a rare 5-10 minutes of snuggling (that was a sure sign he wasn't feeling well. otherwise he is usually too busy running around to snuggle). i must say i was in heaven (even though i was sad he wasn't feeling well).

a typical morning

our day usually starts at 7:30 am
we'll "snuggle" in my bed and read books for awhile
until logan's need for a cup of milk overcomes his love of reading books
we have cereal for breakfast
after breakfast he requests to dance and we turn on the music (usually my running mix) to shake it
i get logan dressed
he plays with cars (or begs to read and i convince him to play with cars) while i get dressed
3 mornings a week we head to the gym and logan can't wait to play at the kids club. he asks for it every morning.

logan is totally into tunnels right now. he turns anything he can into a tunnel. under the kitchen table and chairs or the computer chair in our bedroom are currently his favorite tunnels to play cars in. he has mastered the army crawl to get under the bars of the chairs.

he recently discovered a tub of girl clothes. he thought this bathing suit bottom made a perfect hat! he brought it to me and asked me to put it on. he played around while wearing it for at least 30 minutes. i think it makes him look kinda girly.

if we're lucky aunt kari will come by for a visit and read books with logan

baby bumps (weeks 32-34)

i have only taken one baby bump picture this whole pregnancy, so a few weeks ago i finally had dave take another. and then i didn't get around to posting it. so the next week i had him take another. same story. i was determined it would happen the following week, so now you get 3 weeks in a row (although the last picture was taken last week, so i'm a little behind again. at the end of this week i will be 35 weeks!)

this pregnancy has flown by! a couple of weeks ago i wrote a list of things i wanted to accomplish before the baby comes and when i finished writing i thought, "well, i better get my booty in gear because time is dwindling and this list is long!" of course they are things that don't really have to happen before the baby comes (i doubt she cares if under my bed is organized or the kitchen cupboards have been wiped out...i'm in full nesting mode), but i work well under pressure so we'll see what i can accomplish. hopefully things like painting her room and finding her a bed will happen before she comes though ;) we can now officially say that we will have a baby next month! yikes...and yipee!!