Sweet Potato Boy

He really adores his big sis and seen in the photos. Funny though, i think they look nothing alike.

I found out that Logan really likes the sweet potatoes, in fact, his lips and mouth start going when he gets a taste of them. Olivia wanted to take some pics the other day so I left her and she took some of me and Logan!I think I am the only wife that let's her husband put mounted deer in the living room!

Figured I'd better start doing some planning for Olivia's b-day party next Sat. Don't know what in the world to get her, she wants everything. Sometimes she thinks she's older than what she is and now is on the kick about a Nintendo DS..........please! I'm thinking more on the lines of a drum set that can only be played at Grandma and Grand pap house!!! Just kidding.

If I were to guess what Logan is thinking in this pic below it would be, "someday I will get your hair and I'm going to pull really hard and laugh at the same time!"

New Look

This little guy is growing like crazy. He plays peek-a-boo and buries his head in your shirt and looks up at you and laughs! It's so funny. He is doing "ok" with a spoon. I say that very gingerly. He's ok with eating the baby food (no choking or spitting up) he would just rather eat his hands or burp cloth instead! and he thinks that's funny! I am not giving up, he's going to have to give in. Logan hasn't gotten much sleep this week with sister being here all day. All he wants to do is watch her and laugh at her. I have this funny feeling when he gets mobile he's going to be up her butt!

I finally made the decision to take Olivia and get her hair cut. I was so tired of the crying when we combed her hair and not wanting it combed or done anything with. She was all for it, she could seriously care less about her hair. She has that beautiful hair that can be cut anyway and still look good and can wear it any which way and still look wonderful! I actually got some "real" smiles from her!

Happy Be-lated Easter

Happy Easter to everyone! Hope the bunny brought lots of sweets. I don't have any pics of our holiday.....let me explain. First, Olivia got this darn stuffy nose cold and therefore passed it on to me for a few days, well in turn Logan got it. Worse thing that can happen to baby is a stuffy nose! Thursday, Rich started coughing and didn't quit, that then turned into some kind of flu that is going around (I called it "Asian flu'), he was really bad. So I didn't want to have the kids here with him while he was fighting that, so i decided we would go to Pa. anyway. Yes, I left my very sick husband at home to fend for himself. I was trying to desperately get everything packed up in the car Friday morning and Logan wanted me for everything (go figure), Olivia was making all kind of projects (go figure) and then I realized my van is on E. Should I just give up and stay at home? No, not me, that would have been the easy thing to do. So i tell Rich I will keep calling him and checking and off we go. Now this is after about 3hrs. worth of trying to load the car. So I did make the stop at the gas station and got really depressed when I put over $40.00 of gas in the car. So finally around 1pm we were headed East! I didn't get any pics only b/c I held Logan almost the entire holiday until Monday when we came back home. He wouldn't sleep too well with a stuffy nose and as soon as i laid him down he would wake up crying. I completely forgot about the camera in my suitcase. I even to make up for being a bad mom and not taking any pics, brought the vaporizer along with me (see why it took so long to get out of here), that worked at night only, but at least i got some sleep there.

All is well now, the Easter bunny came, Logan's stuffy nose is gone, Rich is getting back to normal and soon Olivia's spring break week will be over! She's bored and her friends are suppose to call this week to come over and play (let's hope that happens). She seems to get really bored when I make her come home from Pa. She would live there if she could! Logan is making growling sounds and it's really funny. He will just sit and growl his little head off. I said he sounds like a monster, but Olivia insist he sounds like a dinosaur. I think he's getting used to her being home cause he's always looking for her and when she comes around he just laughs and smiles at her. It's really cute, I think he thinks she's the best entertainment in the world right now. Olivia is getting her hair cut tomorrow and I vow it's all coming off. I'm tired of the long hair and fighting about combing it and doing "something" with it to keep it out of her eyes. I will have pics for that!

Not much new has been happening here. Logan, as of today, weighs 14lbs.2oz! Oh by the way, he's 7mos. old today also. Once again, where has the time gone? I've seen him "getting excited" when you show him a toy that he hasn't seen in awhile and that's pretty funny to see some emotion. I convinced him last night that he did not have to eat at 1am. I got up and stuck the binky in his mouth and turned his aquarium on (ok, if anything, trying to get 10 more minutes sleep) and he feel back asleep until 6:30am!!!!!!! Whatever a girl has to do! He's so easy, he rubs his eyes you put him in bed, he goes to sleep, I mean seriously, what more could you ask for.

Olivia has been sick with a stuffy cold causing her to be really nasty and make her wear her "drama queen crown". Last night I stuck Vick's on her chest, ran the vaporizer, and gave her Tylenol all day........She only got up once for a drink....well twice, as the second time she said "I asked you for a drink once", as now she stands there and waits for me to get out of bed. She catching on to the fact that when she comes in the first time, I fall back asleep. Apparently someone thinks we should belong to the "neighborhood watch group" cause no one ever sleeps all night in this house! She used to wake me up by tapping me on the forehead and standing there over top me like someone out of a horror movie, it really is scary to wake up to that out of a dead sleep and see this grouchy face staring at you, i thought one day there would be a knife involved!!!!!! LOL CAUSE i DIDN'T GET THE DRINK THE FIRST TIME!! Now she just simply pinches my nose shut, so no air enters my lungs!!!!! Oh children, they are God's gift!! Ponder that.

I'm catching on to Logan and getting more smiles for the camera!

Proud big sister and he loves every minute of it.

Some leftover snow pictures.

So Goes the Snow

Love this picture! I have many more pics, but it won't let me download them right now. The Internet hasn't been working the greatest here this weekend. The snow came in like a lion and by Sunday it was already starting to melt. We probably got 13-14 inches of it. Olivia thought it was pretty cool and almost couldn't believe it. Poor Rich was out plowing for over 24hrs. straight. I keep thinking "Spring is just around the corner!" Would love to get back to Pa. to visit, but every weekend it snows!

Logan is getting better with the spoon. He is opening his mouth a little when he sees the spoon. Still doesn't care for the cereal though. Practice, practice, practice. It takes me back to watching him learning to drink from the bottle. He catches on quick. I taught him to stick out his tongue and he thinks it's funny. Olivia thought it was a crack up and now insists, he is doing it on purpose to her! Olivia helped me spoon feed Logan on Sunday and gave him the rest of his bottle and she thought that was the cat's meow. I never thought of letting her feed him again, she wanted to do this when he first came home and it was almost impossible for her, but now she does very well with him and feels included! AMEN

Need I Say More!

Momnesia

If this picture doesn't SCREAM Uncle Jimmy, I don't know what does!

I started going thru the USA today newspaper and came across this huge article about "momnesia", so I dove right in! I really thought I was going nuts, losing my mind lately. I have always been a person who knows what is going on, when it is going on, for who, and what time, etc. Well since childbirth, it's all gone out the window. I wondered if they had got bored and performed some brain surgery on me while I was asleep! I was (am) still forgetting everything. I mean, come on, the Dr's. office asked me a month ago how much Logan weighed and I said "8lbs.", he weighed 11lbs.!! That's major when their asking for a injection amount! Someone asked me how old I was, i proudly told them "33", yeah sister,last year! I know even Rich will look at me sometimes like, "are you kidding me", apparently he's not used to the "new me". So there's this article about having a child and how you forget so much because your mind programs itself to taking care of this baby and not weight, age, inches and so forth. I mean, I couldn't drive the grocery cart at the store without running into every corner of the aisle, it was (is) bad! So i read this article to find it is actually normal to do these things and i felt good for the day, like it was ok, that I wanted to feel a year younger for the day!! It was also on the Today Show!!

We had beautiful ice hung trees for 2 days. I missed the perfect opportunity to get awesome pictures. It sounded like a hard rain today when all of it melted and it pelted your car as you drove down the road. I hear there is another storm on the horizon...........

Olivia is doing soooooo much better these days. I call her my little Junie B. We get along like we are supposed too and it's great. Homework has become so much better. We sit down at night when Logan goes to bed and read Junie B. books and she loves it!!!!

Just a Tease

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous outside. Just mother nature teasing us that if we lived in the south, we would experience this weather year'round. I took Logan to the store with me and we went visiting also. Funny though, the outside light is almost too much for his little eyes yet and he didn't like going for the mail with me. All the excitement must have tired him out, he took a awesome afternoon nap and was sleeping on the way home last night (in the car!) and I dressed him for bed and he went right back to sleep and slept until 6am! I really think I am on to something here. Now today the weather is a whole different story, but we will deal with it!

As you can see by the pics Logan is feeling like a big boy in the saucer. He's a little small yet for it, but he loves it. Gotta be the little bit of freedom to move being upright and having a different view. Found out also that he loves falling asleep to music. Now Olivia never did this.......go figure, how different they are. I have a fisher price aquarium on his crib and recently started playing it when he goes to sleep not figuring he would do what he's suppose to do with it. I was figuring on 5 extra minutes to go get laundry or something while he was listening to it, but he falls asleep. He's so easy.

Olivia has gotten better in the past couple days. I have given her much undivided attention and it seems to help. Thanks so much to my cousins wonderful advice! Olivia mentioned to me over the weekend that everybody talks to Logan nicer, and everyone wants to see Logan all the time. It struck a nerve with me, cause she is right. So I've thought before I spoke, and made her the center of attention. Seems to be working. I was seriously thinking the child needed diagnosed with ADD!!!!! Maybe it was all the tv she watched when she was younger.....Bad mommy!

I know he's thinking "Someday i will get you little butterfly"

Ok, Olivia is going thru this jealously stage right now and it's driving me nuts to say the least. She tells me how we talk to Logan better than her, everybody wants to see Logan and not her........etc. So, I am not perfect, but I dearly love both my children the same. It's hard to talk to Olivia the same way you talk to Logan, after all, he's not making messes, writing on my walls!!, and talking back to me. So i have tried to watch how i say things and what they sound like when they fly out of my mouth. She is right on some words, they don't sound very nice when i say them. I have tried to explain to her how I was the first born too and it's hard when your the oldest, but brother's are cool to have around. Well it seemed to work a little, hearing me and Rich both are first born's also. I don't remember being jealous of Jimmy, but then, I think I was so happy to have a brother, it didn't matter.

Olivia has constantly been visiting the nurse at school for everything........I hear voices in my head, my throat hurts, to I can't see nothing!! Yea, this is my kid. She has even tried to convince me she is seeing double!! So i got thinking on how this HAS to be a attention getter. So i am going to try to repair this, not like I don't spend time with Olivia, just Logan wants to hang on his mother's hip now and I'm sure that's not going well with her!!

So, if anyone has any suggestions, I am more than willing to listen!! I know this is normal for a older sibling, but it drives me nuts!!!!!!!!