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??)

New Monthly Update

Ethan is 5 months!

This little guys just keep on growing so fast, it's making Mama sad!
This past month:
-Solids! Yes, he is eating solids now. I wanted to wait until 6 months  but this little boy just seemed so hungry. So far he loves peas the most, broccoli the least.
-He can now roll from back to tummy, and tummy to back.
-He scoots all over the place and in every direction. He is starting to lift himself up from the floor with his arms. Crawling is just around the corner.
-He full out laughs, and laughs at silly things we do.
-He is so alert! He is already after any phone and remote he can get his hands on.
-He pinches when he grabs....and it hurts.
-He had his first trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and camping, he loved them both

Logan

Logan will be 3 in a little over a month, we cant believe how fast the time has gone by! We have been teaching him the proper way to pray, he loves to pray and asks to pray to heavenly father before each  meal.

Prayer Lesson:

Daddy: "Logan, when we pray to Heavenly Father, we can thank him for things. What is something you want to thank Heavenly Father for?"

Logan: "Hmmmmmm....chocolate cake!"

Daddy: "Okay, yes, you can thank him for chocolate cake. But you can also thank him for things like, keeping us safe and healthy. Now, we can also ask Heavenly Father for things, what is something you'd like to ask Heavenly Father for?"

Logan: "Hmmmmmm...BLUE chocolate cake!"

He did great for his first lesson, and he keeps practicing on saying prayers on his own. :)

Ethan is 4 months!

Logan is growing and changing so much! Whenever he runs he begins his step with any sort of flying sound effect. He has just begun to not  be too shy to say prayers now....he still mumbles through them but its so precious.  He now lets us brush his teeth willingly because we got this book called Sugar Bug Doug. So now we brush and kill the sugar bugs each night before bed time.

Here is a picture of Logan and David getting ready to go on their first Father & Sons camping trip. Logan had a blast!

Here are a couple of his new stories from this past month:

I was giving both him and Ethan a bath and I got Ethan out and dressed. I came back to sit with Logan, and he was trying to suck on the used wash towel.

Me: "Logan! No! That's yucky, I washed Ethan's butt with that towel!"

Logan: " "Mommy...turn around!" with the funny grin across his face.

I turned with one eye open and he went to suck on it anyway! I took it away before he did...but i thought this was pretty hilarious

David is installing a whole house fan system in our house. He was fishing wires from the attic to make a control plate in the hall way. This is done by using a "snake" tool. Logan runs into the front room to tell me

Logan : "Mommy!!! Daddy is catching snakes!! Come on Mom, Come see!!"

He's also began to say:

Oh my goodness!

Mommy, you crazy!

What the heck!

WOW! My little Ethan baby is growing so fast! He is now 4 months old and is up to so many new things! 

We had his 4 month well baby check and here are the stats:
-95th percentile for height - 26 inches
-75th percentile for weight - 15 pounds 13 ounces
-50th percentile for head circumference

Here is what he is up to:
-Mr. Grabbers is his new name, he grabs at everything so we now have to be careful when holding him at a table because he goes for just about anything.
-Grabs and picks up toys and they go straight to his mouth, with lots of chewing and chomping....and drool.
-He has discovered his feet this last month, and loves to reach & eat them.
-He stared at our food when we are eating, the Dr. says he is ready for solids now...but I don't think I am ready for him to be ready ;)
-He loves to hear himself chatter and squeal....and so does Mommy!
-He scoots around a lot, I put him down on his play mat and he scoots in circles...he sure can't wait to start moving.
-He is ticklish for sure, and loves it!

The Power of Pinterest

So I've decided to make a bigger effort to do more fun sensory things with Logan. So instead of just pinning all these awesome ideas I've found on Pinterest, I've decided I need to actually DO them with Logan.  In turn, I am spending more time with him doing fun things while Ethan is napping instead of being on the computer or cleaning my house while Logan plays by himself or watches TV.

This is Oobleck. Its Cornstarch and Water and its a solid and a liquid! I'd never done this before and it was pretty cool. I saw a video that if you pour it on a cookie sheet and put it over a sub it will respond to the bass. This we couldn't get to work but will try again.

We had Sofia come over, she loved the "goo" but Logan didn't so much.  He hates getting stuff on him, so it didn't go over well.

I made Moon Sand, and Logan liked this much better. I told him an astronaut brought it back from the moon for me...he thought that was pretty awesome.

My goal is to do 2-3 fun things like these each week we can do together while Ethan is sleeping. In turn, I am hoping he will be happier getting some one on one attention with Mommy and the whining will decrease a bit. ;)

Mother's Day

How blessed am I to be a Mother to two wonderful boys! I just love them to  pieces and am in awe of them each day that passes! They are both so amazing and I love watching them grow, change and learn every day.   Logan blossoms a little more and is saying so many new things. He went outside with me and let me take some pictures of him on Mother's Day -- this was his present to me to be able to get some good shots of him.

Ethan is such a special baby, he is so easy and laid back and has such a sweet spirit to him. Here he is getting his first haircut, and me GIVING my first haircut! I have to say it turned out pretty good, I was tired of him looking crazy with his hair heading in every direction. He is 15 weeks here.