Logan 23 months

I'm so sad that Logan is about to turn two in a little less than a month. He is getting so very big and doing more and more cute things each and every day! His latest thing is to play with his guitar. He sees a guitar on tv and takes off running for the playroom to get his so he can dance and "play" with the tv. That is how it started, but now if he even hears the radio playing in the kitchen, he'll go get it and dance in there while we're cooking or cleaning or whatever. It is so adorable to watch him. You'll see in the pictures that he usually has his guitar with him when I manage to take some pictures! Of course I am biased, but Logan is so smart. He is already doing so much more than I ever expected of him. He:

• Can spell his name off the letters on his wall (just started this in the last week)
• Can sing "Happy Birthday," "Jingle Bells," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and has started "Jesus Loves Me," but that is a little longer and he almost has it so I can't say he knows the whole thing
• Says his own prayers and night and at the table
• Is learning his colors and knows Blue right now and we will be moving on the next color soon
• Knows his ABC's
• Can count to 10

Logan is still a very finicky eater. He will eat oatmeal for breakfast every morning and sometimes will eat a fruit with it. I guess it depends on his mood. He asks for oatmeal for dinner a lot too, but we don't do that because we still try to get him to eat from more food groups than just the one. It doesn't always work, but we still try. There are many nights he goes to bed with only having eaten a couple of bites or nothing at all. It is frustrating, but he knows the drill and doesn't seem to be bothered by it.

One of my favorite times during the week is when just Logan and I go to My Gym for his class. We usually go Tuesday mornings and then afterwards go to Chick-fil-a for lunch. We have to bring it home because I usually need to feed the baby about that time, but Logan knows that after the gym we are going to get "bauck-bauck" and "apple juice." He loves it and I love the one on one time I get to spend with him at the gym. It is "our time."

One of the quirky things Logan has decided is that he is going to be very particular about who does what for him. For instance, he only wants daddy to feed him his oatmeal in the morning. Mommy can get the milk, but daddy has to prepare and feed Logan the oatmeal. But when he goes to bed at night, he runs from daddy and wants mommy to do it. He will tell us "daddy feed Ogi" or "mommy take Ogi." ("Ogi" is what Logan calls himself. He still can't quite say "Logan.")It is pretty funny, but can be difficult if Patrick or I are in the middle of something and don't have the time to do what he needs at that moment.

Logan is still very good about going to bed. His bed time is now at 7:30 with an occasional 8:00 in there - especially on Sunday nights when he doesn't get home from church until almost 8. He has a good little routine...he and Hampton take a bath together and then once Hampton gets out, Logan says, "daddy out" as he is lifting Hampton's bath seat for daddy to get it out for him. Never mind that daddy is trying to help me bundle the baby in his bath towel - Logan wants that thing out of there and right away!

After he gets out of the tub, Logan (barely dried off) runs to the hallway and stands up on the banister, looking through the rails and hollers for me to look at him (we are just waiting for the day that he pees off of there). Then, he and daddy go get him dressed and hair combed then it is time for his big phone call. He comes down and gets the phone so he can call Mimi and G-daddy (Logan now calls I-dada, G-daddy. The "g" is as in goat.) He talks all about big trucks usually and when he is done, he waves at the phone to tell them bye-bye and either gives the phone to one of us or just lays it down somewhere - where we have to go find it. It's super cute!

Logan got up on the Rubbermaid to use it as a stage

Logan loves to watch "Go Diego Go," "Backyardigans," and has just started watching "Mickey's Clubhouse." He begs to watch all of them every day - it is a good bribing tool. I don't like him to watch too much tv, but sometimes you do what you've got to do! It is cute that he even sings the songs with them and will say the words that the shows ask him to say.

One thing we are working on with Logan is sharing. I think every child goes through this, but it is a difficult thing to teach them to do! I heard Logan screaming in the bathtub the other night and couldn't figure out what was going on. Then I heard Patrick telling Logan that he needed to share with daddy. It was so funny. Logan will take all the toys in the tub and hoard them so that no one can reach them. And, if you try to play with anything he is playing with - even if he isn't holding it, he will take it from you and squeal. We are definitely working on that, but since he doesn't really play with other children too often, he doesn't know any better.

On a side note...this week and next I have several appointments to go with Logan to look at preschool programs for the fall. I have tried to get him in to a couple of places, but since it is the middle of the year and I didn't do it in September, he is on a waiting list. I don't mind it though - I just wasn't ready to put him in a program back in September. But, I am ready now and will definitely be ready this September! I know it seems early, but registrations begin in February, so I have to figure out where to put him now.

Logan is so very sweet and really is such a good little boy. My favorite thing to hear him do is in the mornings when he has awaken, he will play in his bed for a little while and then when he is ready to get up, he'll yell for one of us to come get him. He usually says, "daddy, daddy" or "mommy, mommy." He pretty much sings it and it is just so sweet. We LOVE it.

Logan, we are so grateful to have you in our lives. You are such an awesome little boy and you always make us laugh and smile. We love you so very much and look forward to all the new things you are going to be doing in the near future!!

Lots and lots of love,

Mommy and Daddy and all your brothers