7 month monster

My little baby is not so little anymore! He is so sweet and we just love him to pieces! On the 25th he turned 7 months old...how did this happen??

*This little boy is all over the place these days, literally!  He crawls EVERYWHERE, and will now follow us into whatever room we are in the house
*He is baby Kruser ;)  He is cruising along the furniture
*He is a climber, already yes, he is climbing.
*He now wakes up 2 or more times at night, due to teething, but no teeth yet. He also has been surprising Mommy and Daddy with some "middle of the night" play dates.
*He has entered the separation anxiety phase now, where all he wants is Mommy...and oh, how good it is to feel loved right?
*He sticks anything and everything is his mouth. Daddy was sleeping on the couch and was waken to someone gnawing on his toe <-----it was Ethan.
*He bounces up and down when he is excited
*He crouches to his little bum softly when he wants to get down from a standing position.
*I'm pretty sure he is doing the sign for "eat"
*We are working on the "mama" babble noises
*He turns and looks when we call him by his name
*He LOVES playing with Logan's train table
*He loves to eat, we have been trying more and more combo foods. He likes oatmeal mixes and we just started him on barely.

Logan just turned 3 this past month, so he already had a special birthday post but he is also so wonderful and is growing in leaps and bounds.  Everyday he says something hilarious and new, I need to be better at writing all his cute funny things down.  We are still working on the potty training, he is getting better but we aren't there yet. I'm trying to work with him on learning letters, the sounds they make, and numbers. He is pretty good at recognizing all the letters, and knows a number of their sounds.

Logan David turns 3!!!

It's August 11th, and the next morning will mark the day 3 years ago that I became a Mother. Logan changed my life for the better, forever.

The night before Logan's birthday each year he wakes up to a room full of balloons! Here he is asleep with his spiderman birthday banner and balloons waiting for him to wake up. 

 The next morning he comes to my room to wake me up, he very excitedly says, "Mama....theres BALLOONS in my room! And birthday things!!" (meaning the banner)

 Practicing holding up "3" fingers

We did Brownie Sundaes for his Birthday celebration at home on his actual birthday. We had a few of his best buddies over to join us for dessert. The following Friday we had his Spiderman Party at The Jungle, its a really fun kids place in our local mall with a Jungle to play in, art studio, dress up, karaoke, air hokey, and a bounce house.

 The Food - I had lots of fun making kid friendly theme-food to go along with Spiderman, I kept it simple but all the kids seemed to enjoy it.

 (yes - i did make these!)

  the POP-corn was a huge hit for the kids, who doesn't love popcorn right?

 The Birthday boy with his Spiderweb cake

 Caught in a web!

We had so much fun seeing Logan enjoy his birthday with all his little buddies and cousins. In 3 years Logan has grown so much, and we enjoy seeing the new things he does and says each day!

6 months...and very very late

Wow! I can't believe I am almost a month late, and for my 6 month mile stones! Ethan had changed so much from 5 to 6 months!

At his 6 month well baby check up, Ethan is 17.4lbs in the 50th %ile, is in the 75th %ile for height and has an average head circumference. All is normal and healthy.

Here are the things Ethan was up to:

* Crawling...yes...my child was crawling before the 6 month mark!
*Sitting unassisted, he skipped the whole "just sitting" step, he was scooting before he could sit
*He could sit, crawl, then go back to a sitting position. He would sit from crawling to change directions.
*Going strong on the solids, he was eating about 3-4 oz once a day. So far he loved peas, apples and would tolerate green beans and broccoli if they were mixed with apples.
*He entered the Mommy phase...where if he saw me, he wanted me (but who doesn't, right??)