10/16/2012

Aggie Game, 10 year reunion and Logan's new toy!

I have been at my job for almost 2 years (next week will mark 2 years!) and my building is right across from Kyle Field.  Growing up, my Dad was always an Aggie fan and we watched the football games and rooted for A&M.  I have always wanted to go to a football game, but with a little one, it is hard (and not to mention expensive!) Last year, Student Life put together a bucket list at one of our retreats.  I had 3 items: 

Attend a Silver Taps  Done! I went last year with my friend and it was an amazing experience. 

Go to the Messina Hof Winery (still not done, maybe my birthday this year?!)

Attend an Aggie football game Done! Thanks to the awesome Dean of Student Life! She knew I wanted to go to a game and had 2 extra tickets to the Arkansas game last month and asked if I wanted to go. Ummm YES!  I was so excited (and so was my hubby!) Our wonderful friends agreed to watch Logan and we stayed the whole time! Now,  I am not a football fanatic or anything, but it was a great game, our first SEC home win! The game day experience was all I could have imagined and more.  Gig 'Em!


My FREE tickets!

Before the game started!

10 years?  Has it been that long since I graduated high school? No, it can't be....I am only 28 years young! Alas, my high school reunion was in Brenham 2 weeks ago and I decided I was going to go.  It might be strange, but I have lots of close friends that I went to high school with.  Like, we still hang out on a regular basis.  So this was a perfect opportunity for us to all get together! And see people from high school too of course.   Our graduating class was big...well big for Brenham.  364 in our graduating class of 2002.  So I figured there would at least be 100 or so at the reunion.  Nope, like 50 tops.  Oh well.  We were there and they had free food and drinks, can't pass that up! It was a fun "adult" night with our friends and great to see lots of old friends too (however, most of them I can see on facebook!)


Some of the old crew

Yea, we might be older but ain't DEAD! We still have FUN :) My drill team girls and my BFFs still after all these years!

Me and my bestie Mark

For the past few weeks, everytime we come home and I attempt to make dinner, Logan has been very clingy.  We try to get him to play in his room but he either clings to me or clings to the doorknob saying "Ou-side" over and over.  We have a very large backyard with nothing in it for him to play with.  Bryan is going to build him a nice swingset when he is older, but he is too little for that right now.  Thanks to my boss, I found a page on facebook (it is like Craigslist...but better!) for local moms to post gently used items for sale.  I had been on the lookout for a toddler climber.  Those things are like $300 new and no way was I paying that! The other week I found one on that page and thought for sure someone had claimed it, but no offers! She was asking $100 OBO so we decided to go look at it and maybe we could talk her down to $75.  Logan loved it and it was in great condition so I offered her $85 and she took it! We loaded it up and took it home.  The next day it rained so Logan could not play on it.  On Friday we let him see it and he was so excited! Now everyday he wants to go play "Ou-side" on his big boy toy.  And that makes this momma VERY happy that I can now cook dinner without a crabby toddler hanging on my leg :)


 

10/09/2012

A year and a half!

My baby is 18 months old......that is a year and a half! So in 6 months he will be 2.  Whhhhaaaaattt? I will probably say this on every "Logan" post, he is getting too big too fast!

We went to the doctor last Friday and he is doing great!
Height:  34 inches (91%, tall boy!)
Weight: 26 pounds (still on the lean side in the 52%)
And he had a meltdown as soon as we walked in of course.  But no more shots until he is 4! (Ummm I don't want to think about my baby being 4.)

Talking: Ma-ma, Da-da, outside, dog, uh-oh, look, Matt (funny story about that...) He is not saying much, but he knows what we are asking.  We will say Logan where is your (body parts..hair, toes, nose...) and he will point to it and smile! Then he loves to also point out mommy and daddy's body parts too.  He will just come by and lift up our shirts to find our belly buttons.  Its ok at home, but sometimes he wants to do this in public.  Not so much ok then.  We ask him to go get his cup and he will search all around, or we say things like go take this to daddy and he will.  So he is a boy of few words, but understands what we are saying and that is more important to me, he will talk when he wants to.  Remember he didn't walk until he was 15 months....he is just a late bloomer!

He is a little silly boy that will "dance" on cue.  He also will spin and spin until he falls and he thinks that is hilarious.  (He does not dance until the last part of the video...)


Eating-this boy will have second helpings one night and another night eat a cracker.  Not kidding.  But for the most part anything we put in front of him he will eat.  He loves, beans, cheese, yogurt, pudding, chicken, beef.  We made chili last night and he was an oinker! We are still trying for him to eat more veggies but not going to force him.  He likes green beans and will eat some peas.  I will take what I can get. 

This was his attempt at pudding.  He ate most of it, then just wanted to play with it on his tray.  Daddy had fun cleaning it up. 

Doing: He loves to go outside and play.  Little does he know that it will be getting cold soon (well maybe) and those days are getting shorter and shorter.  I am going to have to come up with some creative inside play for those winter months.  But heck, we are in Texas.  Winter here is from December-February!
For his birthday we are really looking into buying a nice swing set for him.  Bryan also wants to build him a treehouse so we will see. 
He loves animals.  We take him for a ride in the wagon and anytime he sees doggies or cats, he giggles and points.  I would really love to take him to my uncle's farm that has goats, pigs, cows and horses.  He would love that. 
Dancing and spinning. 
Chasing the dog around.
Squealing.  Like loud.  He thinks it is so funny.  He will just run around the house squealing as loud as he can.  Whatever keeps him happy right? 
Being silly. 
Giving hugs and kisses and oooohhhhh do I soak those in. 
Pushing things (chairs, toys, his stroller...)
He thinks every door leads to outside.  He will be in his room and close his door and pull on the doorknob and say outside, it is pretty funny. 
Makes vroom vroom noises when he playing with a car or truck.
Climbing.  This scares me.  I am crossing my fingers and toes that he will not learn how to crawl out of his crib....not ready for that yet. 
He likes "reading" his books by himself.  At night, I try to hold them and read them to him and he wants to do it.  He likes turning the pages and then putting the book back on the shelf. 
He brushes his own teeth now also (well more like biting the toothbrush, we have to help him). 
He is doing so many things on his own, but also clings on to me at times and when I am busy and cannot pick him up....oh he throws a tantrum...yep he does at 18 months.  Fun times ahead ;)

Clothes-He for the most part is in 18 and 24 month shirts, 24 month pants and 24 month/2T (I am not sure the difference, isn't 24 months 2T??) jammies.  He skipped over 18 month pants.  They fit him in the belly but wayyy too short.  So we got the pants that can be adjusted since he is skinny.  We went to Target and bought him some 2T jammies for the first time the other night. Looking more and more like a little boy.


The funny story about him saying Matt.  He has a gloworm and the other night I was putting him to bed and reached for it and clearly said Matt and pointed to it.  Matt, Matt, Matt! He kept saying over and over.  I was really racking my brain trying to think of why he was calling this thing Matt.  All we can come up with is that Bryan's cousin's name is Matt and we were over at their house (months ago!) and their son has a gloworm just like his.  But he calls that thing Matt now and we just crack up.  We say where is Matt and he will go get it, it is too funny. 

Yes, I am already planning Logan's 2nd birthday party and I already have the theme and the invitation in my mind.  My husband thinks I am crazy (maybe I am) but hello 6 months is going to go by fast! It is a really cute monkey see monkey do theme.  Everything yellow and brown and a build your own banana split bar, how fun right?  We are probably going to rent a bouncy house for the kiddos.  I am excited to start planning it. 

Logan, my sweetness, you are my world, my sunshine, my everything and I love you more and more everyday.  It is so fun watching you grow and learn new things every single day.  Always something new or funny and keep us on our toes but we love it!