Sunday, November 7, 2010

Do You Think He Likes It?

This weekend, Jas, Logan and I ventured out to Babies R Us to get Logan a fabulous new toy! I've been waiting and waiting for him to turn 4 months old so that we could get him a bouncy seat to hang in the doorway...but the more research I did, the more I questioned those toys...so I thought that maybe we would try out a bouncy/activity center/exersaucer combo thing....and i think that was the definite way to go! Take a look at our smiling boy!

Thanks Mom and Dad for this great toy!



An engineers child...always MORE interested in how the toy works than actually playing with the toy!


So sweet


I love that smile!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Logan's a Movie Star

Can you see the resemblance?


The Blue Guy is from the new animated movie "Megamind"...I saw a billboard of him on my way to work and I immediately thought "Woah! Why is my son blue...on a billboard....holding a lazer?" haha :)

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Pumpkin Patch 2010

On Saturday we met our friends at the Tapia Bro's pumpkin patch in Encino (Randall's Uncle is one of the Tapia Bro's!). It was a lot of fun and we got some great shots of Logan! Enjoy!

Someday we'll get Logan to smile on cue to the camera and not look so crazy!


Lots of Pumpkins, and ONE Punkin!


Randall and Ford


Mommy and Logan doing "SUPER Baby"


I think he like this one!


Have you ever seen a Laubster Pumpkin? well, now you have!

Can You Believe It?

Logan is 4 months old today!!!

It's amazing how the time has flown! But yup, little mr is 1/3 of a full year today- 4 months! Crazy! Each month gets better and better, and I think he just keeps getting cuter...which I never think is possible as I take these photos each month :) I think this session is my favorite...of course, I've said that every time!

At our last Dr. appointment (this past Friday) Logan weighed in at 15lbs 7oz...oddly enough, that's the EXACT same weight that Earl was today when we took him to the vet...not sure what that means...though the vet DID say Earl needed to lose some weight...but I think Logan is juuuust right (60% thank you very much!). He's still growing UP as well...the string bean is 25.5" long too (75%)! YOWZA! Oh and his noggin holds its own in the 95th percentile...good grief!

His new doctor is ok...definitely different than Dr. Phillips. There were some things i liked about the office ($10 copay is nice, the room is decorated much more like a kids doctor's office- a mural of monkeys, toys everywhere, the equipment seemed a bit newer, and the staff was very nice), and there were some things I didn't like about the office (There must have been 20+ kids waiting to see the doctor that morning...90% of which were coughing, the Doctor had about 15 other patients it seemed, we saw the doctor for maybe 5 seconds and she was very rushed with Logan's exam...made me feel like she would NOT remember us at our next visit)...oh well...thus is the life of having an HMO I guess....hopefully it all works out and we end up really liking Dr. Brown. One thing struck me as odd...they had tissue paper on the exam table, which is standard practice at a doctor's office, but Logan HATES the sound of tissue paper. When she laid him down on the table, directly on the tissue paper without any clothes on, he screamed bloody murder and the Doctor said "Oh, it's the paper! It's always the paper! the little ones just hate this stuff" Umm...ok, then maybe we do something ABOUT the paper the the little ones hate so much! Why not have like 2 designated exam rooms for babies/newborns, and in those rooms you DON'T use tissue paper! A vinyl pad or something easy to clean...kind of weird.

The doctor said that now that Logan is 4 months old, we can start feeding him rice cereal (This also seemed like a very generic piece of advice that she would give EVERY parent of a 4 month old- she didn't ask how Logan is doing with feedings (though given his weight, she probably assumed he's doing just fine!), didn't ask if he seems interested in food etc...)). I think we're going to hold off a little longer on this, just because I don't know that he's totally ready to jump to solid foods...apparently once you start with the rice, 3 weeks later you introduce veggies and then every 5 days you introduce a new veggie and BAM your baby is eating solids...I dunno, for some reason I had in my mind at 6 months Logan would start eating solids, so 4 months seems pretty young, especially since he's just tarted noticing that we're eating food...once he starts trying to grab mine and Jason's food,THAT's when I think we'll know he's ready...but what do I know! Maybe 4 months is the new 6 months and I'm behind the times!

Anyway, on to the photos!!!


Thanks Iris for the awesome design!

Someone is sitting up...well, kind of...the pillows are helping a LOT!



My favorite!

What can I say? He weighs the same as Earl so he wants to sit in the sink like Earl.

Little nugget was tuckered out after a long day! It's tough being 4 months old!

Friday, October 22, 2010

HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY UNCLE BOB!!!


A few days overdue...but here's to you Uncle Bob! Hope you had a great Birthday on Wednesday! WE LOVE YOU!!










Sorry we forgot to call Uncle Bob! We love you!!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

365 Days Later...

1 year ago today I flew home from a weekend in Vegas with my Mom.

1 year ago today I was extremely tired for no apparent reason.

1 year ago today our lives were about to change forever.

1 year ago today Jason and I found out we were pregnant...

...and it started the best days of our lives :)

Love you Logan!!!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

A Day for New Experiences...

Like pumping in the bathroom!

Normally while at work (I like that i say NORMALLY as though I've been doing this for awhile, we're surviving on day 4 here people!), I pump when needed in an associates office because that person is rarely in the main office...well, today he's here! Yikes! I'd heard that mom's in the past had pumped in the women's restroom we have in the office so I just figured that that's what I would do as well rather than try to pump privately in my non-tinted window car! So promptly at 9:30 I headed in to the restroom, went into the last stall, the ADA stall mind you, and did my thing...2 people came and went as I sat there pumping for my 15 minutes...neither of them saying anything to me or just out in the open about that odd sound they had to have been hearing. I wonder what they were thinking! Granted, it's a small office and the women in it are mostly all Mom's who have most likely sat in that same stall, or one like it, doing exactly what I was doing- so it was probably just more weird to me than it was them.

Today is my Friday and I am absolutely ECSTATIC about it! The week has gone really well...I've been busy (Disregard the 5 minutes I'm using here to type this- I have to use 1/2 of my lunch break to pump so I'm using the other 1/2 to write this!!), and Lisette has been an absolute dream! From caring for Logan, to sending me pictures and texts of his daily going-ons, to cleaning up etc I couldn't be happier with the situation we're in. I honestly don't think I would be adjusting this well if Logan was in daycare- just my personal preference, I think I would be a nervous wreck wondering if someone was looking after him, if the other babies were playing well with him etc...knowing that Lisette is giving her full attention to him puts me at such ease, and the way he smiles at her when she comes in lets me know that he adores her just as much as we do, and also that he's getting familiar with someone apart from Jason and i which I see as such a healthy thing!

So all in all, this week is ending on a great note....and it will just keep getting better as tomorrow my Mom flies in for a Birthday Weekend visit with us!!

xo