Logan has discovered...

His big boy tray! He used it for the first time yesterday and loved it - he ate banana pieces and gerber snacks off of it. A little big for him, but he will grow into it :)

The hallway and the guest bedroom - when doors are open he must go in search for whats inside!

Soph giving him sugars

Aunt Michelle and his cousins gave him this precious hat before he was born - it finally fits and I must admit he is stylin' and profilin' :)

All Attitude...

Whud up dawg?

He can play by himself- we are working on that every day. He was so good about it until he realized I exist when I am not in the room so now he cries/whines when he sees me leave or come back in the room from being gone. It also depends on his moods I realize, if he is cranky or teething he won't play by himself very long. But if hes in a good mood he will be in there for 30+ minutes!

Look who discovered the video monitor that sits on his crib?

Ahhhhh yes. Fun times.

He pulls up as far as he can then bats the monitor with his little hands until it falls off the back of the crib onto the floor.

It is actually so cute to see his little face in the monitor trying to figure it out because it has a tiny blue light that glows (designers need to seriously rethink this since it attracts baby's attention!) He has been staring at this blue light since he got into his crib and is finally able to do something about it. I knew it was only a matter of time...

What's NOT cute is him knocking it off 8 times before nap time today. Oh yes people. Count that. EIGHT times. He learned when he knocked it off mommy would come in and put it back. He would just smile every time I walked back into the room. There is literally no other place I can put it to see inside his crib since its lowered until we mount it which we are clearly doing tonight, cause mama ain't playing round 2 of his little game no matter how cute that innocent face is :)

Go Away Spring and Sickies!

I am so so so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I have felt crummy for a week and finally went to the doctor today to get a steroid shot, zpack, and cough medicine. I am one happy mama now that I have had a couple of doses! Not fully back, but the coughing has gone WAY down!!

Poor Logan had a ROUGH day, to say the least, yesterday. We went to his 9 month appointment but before we left his fever jumped up to 103.2! I freaked out and gave him advil and stripped him down to a diaper. He took a 3 hours nap - should have known there was something wrong. He was FUSSY through the doc appt which was understandable. Everything looked clear. Throat, chest, ears. UGH. I am thankful, but almost wish something would have shown up so we could know how to treat it. He has had a fever for a few days on and off and this is driving me crazy. His doc said she wanted to do an xray of his chest to make sure no fluids or anything like pneumonia was developing. Well I had NO idea what an infant xray looked like.....holy crow. Unbelievable. I can't even explain it - you just have to see for yourself...



Yep. A complete medieval torture device. And the baby above (borrowed from google) seems eerily calm. Logan (as most babies do which is why they use it) screamed bloody murder the entire time.This makes their chest move when they breathe in so they can get an acurate reading. Trey had to help the lab tech get him in it and he wouldn't raise his arms so Trey had to force them which I am sure hurt and that darn plastic cover that wraps around his body was so tight he was turning a little red. They turned him around to do the xray so he couldn't see us - thank goodness because I was a complete hot mess - tears and all. As soon as that mean lab tech was done Trey rescued our baby boy. He immediately stopped crying. Daddy love :)

And that was clear too. Geez. Yet again, thankful - but still doesn't explain these fevers/cold symptoms. So, we just have to treat the fever with tylenol/advil combo. And he still has a mild fever today. Poor guy. He had a miserable day today and I did too until I got some drugs in me. I am officially on the mend ;)

But, on the positive side of the appt he is 19 lbs 9 oz (32 percentile) 29 1/4 inches (79%) and head is 17 1/2 (24%). She said his weight was on the low side since he has usually been in alignment with the length. She thought it was because he has been on the move burning calories. He definitely likes his bottles and food so I guess that is it. She wasn't concerned just something she noted. Definitely blessed with a healthy little boy.

We had an awful night last night. Sorry this post is kinda of a debbie downer - but I want to record this for his memory book and also I am just being honest since its my blog and I want to remember these firsts for Logan. Not every minute of our life is milk and cookies. (would be so yummy if it were!) But we have been having awful Spring weather and I am ready to say buh bye crazy scary weather! We had severe strong storms last night that knocked power out early - like at 7:30 pm. Poor Logan - he was so exhausted from the doc appt that day and being sick that we had to wake him up and pull him into the bathroom 2 different times due to the sirens. He was so confused and weirded out by everything that when I put him back down he screamed his sad sniffly congested screams for 30+ minutes. Broke. My. Heart. I usually don't have a problem with the cry it out if he is in his normal routine and I know he just needs to go to sleep. But it was our fault. (actually the darn storms fault - thanks mother nature!) But I felt so bad because of course it was harder for him to fall asleep when we kept pulling him out of bed and putting him in the bathtub! I was super stressed because power was out - no way to tell what the weather was doing the freaking tornado could have been right over our heads for all we knew. Screaming baby in the next room and I couldn't see him bc of the power (no video monitor) and I felt like pure crap from being sick - trying to muffle my coughs so he couldn't hear as he was settling down, and my phone was dying. Oh, and no fan. My little guilty pleasure that I use to fall asleep - love love love my ceiling fan and yet again, no power. No Bueno, folks, no bueno.

Power came on at 1 am and thankfully he slept through the rest of the night. So, wanna hear the best part??? Its supposed to happen ALL OVER AGAIN tonight. Hooray for us! (can you hear the sarcasm oozing out?) Good. Thought so :)

Stay safe bloggy world - adios until tomorrow...

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! We had a nice relaxing day at home and our families came over to celebrate. I am sick with a cold of some sort which results in snot, a cough that sounds something like The Black Lung, and just feeling like poop - yuck I know - so I took it easy. We decided to order Whole Hog since we are kind of tired of the classic "holiday" food and it was DELISH!

Here is my little bunny...

Logan took a really long 2 hour nap which is not like him and we discovered he had a fever when he woke up. Poor guy - a little Advil later and it was all gone. We have his 9 month appt tomorrow so luckily they can check him out while we are there.

Pulling up - standing up - practicing walking with help - STOP GROWING!!! :)

loving on daddy

Grammy and Logan

Gi Gi and Logan

our little family

Logan pulling up on Grammy's crib

big boy!

Irene and Luke came into town with baby Cole and we got to see them! I was so sad I was sick but at least I got to see his sweet face and how much he has grown - he is such a cutie patootie!

Trying to get the boys in a pic... it is so much harder when they are mobile!!

sweet baby cole!

Logan watching baby einstein at Lauren's before his nap - he was loving their plush bouncy seat. He just lounged back and enjoyed - too funny!

Wish the Adams lived closer - miss them like crazy! That just means we will have to plan a visit to fayetteville soon :)

Happy Easter y'all! I am off to an early sleep to get rid of this sickness. I told Trey so far one of the hardest things being a mom is being sick with a baby. Of course all you momma's know this - but I sooo miss just laying on the couch snoozing the day away while being sick. Not now - there are bottles to be washed, food to be eaten, playing to be had, and diapers to be changed. Thank goodness for The Hubs!!!