Dylan and his Puppetry

Dylan applied and was accepted to a Puppetry program through the drama program at his school back in March. He was so excited and has absolutely LOVED it! They had practice for 4 weeks after school two days a week. Dylan would look forward to it and has even gone to two performances at the Marionette Theater already. We also found out last week that he is getting an award for the Most Outstanding Drama student for this year. So, Dylan has found his niche.

Dylan's particular part with the performance was a henchman. There were three different plays and his was Hazel and Gretel. Each child had to create a character, design it, assemble it, and learn to "operate" it. Then, they had to learn the script for the performance. It was very impressive!

Tonight Dylan performed at the Spring Festival at his school. He did so well and we were all very impressed (Patrick, Logan, Aunt Patty, Grams, Aunt Chappell, Sara Grace, Aunt Sara, Aunt Katherine, Karin, Ashley, and I were all able to come support him). There were two other performances that were also very cute. They were Snow White and Rapunzel.

Dylan during his performance
Dylan had the most intriguing voice for his character. He did such a great job. If I can ever figure out how to upload some video, I will do that so you can hear. But in case I can't, just take my word for it :).
Here are the Seven Dwarfs. I thought they were so cute. The puppets the children made were absolutely amazing! I was so impressed!
Sara Grace appreciating the performance!
Dylan being introduced

Oh yeah - they also made their own scenes and these two are the ones Dylan painted.

Dylan and the henchman
Didn't he do a great job? (Notice the cookie in his left hand)
A side view.

A visit with Sara Grace and Aunt Chappell

Friday Chappell and I went shopping at Babies R Us and Doodlebugs with Sara Grace (Logan was at home napping with Daddy). We had a lot of fun and spent way too much money at both places. Logan and Sara Grace now have a couple of matching outfits and we can hardly wait to get their pictures made in them. They also have matching swim suits that are sooo cute!

After our shopping spree, we came back to our house for lunch. I got some really cute pictures of Sara Grace hanging out with us. Logan was so excited to see his cousin when he got up from his nap. He went right to talking about it with us. Here is the little princess in one of my favorite outfits she has.

It has smocked little sail boats on it.
Logan loves to kiss his cousin. He did this over and over until we had to get him to stop so she could breathe. He doesn't really know what else to do with her.
Aunt Chappell read a book with Logan to distract him. Logan loves all his books and still likes to read the same ones over and over - despite my efforts in buying him new ones!
She was kind of smiling at me in this picture. Sara Grace will coo at you when you talk to her now. It is one of the sweetest phases a baby goes through in my opinion.
Aunt Traci loving on her neice!
I have to say that I have always thought SG looked like Marty, but these are definitely her momma's eyes. She is a great combination of both her parents.! Just perfect!
Getting some lovin's from my neice!
This is the 2nd time Logan had decided he doesn't want SG wearing any socks. The first time we were shopping at a fabric store for Hampton and Logan just reached into the stroller and pulled her socks off. We caught pictures this time because it was so funny.
Look how high he is pulling her foot and she doesn't even care! After he gets the socks, he just carries them around with him all over the place. Does he have a sock fettish?
Then we played with her sweet toes!

All of this was right before Patrick and I left for Myrtle Beach for the weekend. Aunt Sara and Aunt Kat came over and spent the weekend with Dylan and Logan. Aunt Chappell even came over on Saturday to take Dylan to the Marionette Theater. We can't thank them enough for helping us get some alone time!!!
Patrick and I had a wonderful time just relaxing poolside, shopping, and going out to eat. That is definitely the life.
Thanks to the Aunts for their help with the boys!!!

Dylan Tests for Brown Belt

Dylan tested for his Brown Belt Saturday. He did such a great job! He was awarded the belt Tuesday night (I forgot the camera that night). He now only has high brown, low and high red, and then he will test for Black. He loves Tae Kwon Do and we are so proud of how well he has done and continues to do. He is absolutely amazing at it and I got some video of it, but I can't figure out how to get it uploaded to the blog. As soon as I do, I will do that. Waititng for his turn. He just loves when I take his picture!
On one of the board that he breaks, he has to write down a bad habit that he is going to break. This time it was cleaning his room - we'll see how that goes! Last time it was forgetting to feed the dogs and that worked out well, so maybe this one will too. I certainly would love that!
Dylan during his forms.

Congratulations on your accomplishments, Dylan. We love you and are so proud of you!!!

Love,

Mom, Patrick, and Logi

A day at Church

We had not been to church in a couple of weeks and finally got back yesterday. Two weeks ago, I had to take Blake back to Georgia and last week we were all deathly ill with our virus - so, it felt good to be back into the swing of things. Logan was so good both times we dropped him off yesterday (for big church and for small group at night). We ran a little late at small group and were late picking him up so by the time we got there, Logan was crying and did not stop until we were half way home. It was 45 minutes past his bedtime too, so that didn't help.

We got home and he had his milk and then he went right to sleep.
I thought he looked so cute at church yesterday, so I got the best pictures I could of him before we had to change him to go play outside!

Peek-a-Boo!

Logan loves to crawl under and through things. The other day he was playing under the dining room table and I caught some cute little pictures of him. Sometimes it can be hard to find him, though!

Names

I thought I would post this because a lot of people have asked me about Patrick's name because of Hampton having Patrick as his middle name. Patrick's full name is Patrick Logan Suber, so both boys are going to be named after him. I think it is pretty neat and in the past week several people I have spoken with had no idea that Patrick's middle name was Logan. Anyway, thought I would share!

My Gym

We are members at My Gym (which I have mentioned in some other posts) and Logan and I usually go twice a week. He loves it there and I finally remembered my camera to get some pictures. I know it doesn't look like it in all of the pictures, but he really does have a great time.Logan stood here and danced with this ring to the music so straight-faced. He is always so serious.

For the record - the shirt says, My Dad Rocks!"
Logan likes to put all the balls in his mouth which is a constant battle. I constantly tell him "no" and take them from him. He then will pick up another one very quickly and put it back to his mouth and look at me - just trying me. He gets three chances and then he has to get out of the balls.

Logan used to hate the balls because of the uneasiness of them, but now he actually enjoys them - especially when he has a friend with him. Notice the little boy buried to the left in the picture.
Logan thought Edward was so funny rolling around in the balls. This is actually the first time he has been able to stay in them for a long period of time since he usually gets in trouble for putting them in his mouth.
Logan's friend, Jackson, with him playing. Jackson goes to church with Logan.
Our favorite thing ever - the swing!
Jackson enjoying one of the activities of the day - the Rocket.

Logan trying the rocket - he liked it but wouldn't smile like Jack Jack.
More of the swings before they got put away.
The swing of the day - the see-saw. Logan kept wanting up there, but then would want right back down. I am not sure what that was about, but I managed to catch a not-so-happy picture of him with Jackson.
Another favorite of Logan's - separation time.
Here the parents sit out in the lobby so the kids can have some separation time. Logan loves the little turtle that he can climb in and all the balls that are in it. He always does very well during this time. I do too - in case you were wondering :)

Silly Boy!

Sunday and Monday were very lazy days for us since none of us were feeling well. Logan was in his pj's all day both days because there was no reason for him to get dressed - especially since I didn't really have the energy to even bother. So needless to say, Logan got a little bored. He loves to stand on his head, so I finally caught some funny pictures of him doing so.
Looks like he may actually be getting some hair on that head, huh?

Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles

Thursday we got out Logan's new bubble machine and he absolutely loved it. When the bubbles come out at My Gym, Logan gets so excited and laughs and screams.




Such a happy baby!

Right after all this fun, Logan got terribly sick. He got the stomach bug that has been going around and it started on the driveway. We initially thought he was just coughing and had gagged himself, but after the 3rd time of his getting sick, we realized that it was more than that. It was a VERY long night. The rest of us eventually got it as well. Dylan and I got it Saturday night and Patrick had it Monday night. We are all feeling better now and hopefully, that is the end of it!
This is why there haven't been any recent posts!

Breakfast at IHOP

Yesterday Logan and I met some of our friends at IHOP for breakfast. Logan had a rough morning but he did much better once we got to the restaurant. We ordered him a Happy Face pancake that came with strawberries as the eyes and bananas as the mouth. Then you got a tube of yogurt to design the hair - which we did not do. Logan loved the yogurt (probably because it was the kind with lots of sugar) and at a good amount of the rest of his breakfast. The problem was with the strawberries. They weren't really fresh - they were the ones that had some syrup on it and that was a mess! I had strawberry syrup all over me and Logan had it all over him by the time we left. But we had a great time with all our friends, and that is all that matters!Tricia and Caleb
Jennifer and Cooper
Logi and me
Jennifer and Landree

I am sure the restaurant was so ready for us to leave - especially Logan and me! We had a pile of napkins and an absolute mess going on. It was kind of crazy!