Logan and Ice cream...

... a match truly made in heaven.
Now, for those of you who aren't around Logan a whole lot... you need to understand. Ice cream to Logan is like chocolate to Mommy. It's just a necessity. Might as well make it a food group. He L-O-V-E-S ice cream. We'll drive by any ice cream store (somehow he figured out that McDonalds has icecream too... Pops, do I have you to blame for that???) and he's literally yelling in the back ICE CREAM! MAMA! ICE CREAM?! lol. At least he understands that just because we're passing the store, doesn't mean we're getting it right then. He's ok with "not today sweetie, another day we'll get ice cream." Here's hoping that suffices for a while...
Now, you need to also understand that Logan shares his love for Ice Cream with his Maimou (pronounced Ma-moo by Logan, means Grandma in Gaelic) and she keeps her house stocked. I mean, "what kind of a grandma would she be if she didn't have ice cream in her freezer!" (??? don't ask me! She said it!) So, literally EVERY time we go over to Maimou and Daido's (don't know if I spelled that right, but pronounced Da-doo by Logan and means Grandpa in Gaelic) house he is asking for ice cream. What he really means is an ice cream sandwich, which is always waiting in the bottom freezer for him so that he can pick it out himself (with help to open the freezer, thank goodness...). And of course, being a toddler and having no concept of time, when we're over at Maimou's for breakfast (which we do once a week to catch up and such) he's asking for it at 7:30am! Sheesh! He wastes no time.



Here's a picture of Logan and Daido eating an ice cream sandwich. I think we were laughing about Logan and his love for ice cream at the time, so he has this look of "what? what did I do??" lol. He's a bit stunned, but you should see his eyes light up when we open up the ice cream. I'll try and get a picture of that sometime.... :)

Jen

Logan's trip to the Beach

We got a call bright and early this morning from our friends Hal and Melissa saying that they were taking Kaedyn to the beach, and do we want to come? Ross unfourtunately had to work, but Logan and I went with them and we had a great time. :) (Daddy was ok with it, don't worry. haha!)

Logan was very intrigued that we were going to see water and very annoyed that we had to stop at the grocery store first. He almost fell asleep in the car (which is very unusual for Logan) but he managed to stay awake. This made me relatively confident and relieved that he would sleep on the way home.

Once we got there, Logan was amazed at the HUGE amount of water. He immediately wanted to go in and was ready to go as soon as his swim diaper and trunks were on. Both he and Kaedyn toddled off to the water and were very excited. He was a bit anxious once he got in, thinking that he couldn't walk anymore because of the wet sand, but with both of Mommy's hands and a lot of encouragement he realized that he could keep walking and that we were going swimming. He had a BLAST! He loves water any day of the week, and today was no exception. He loved walking up to his shoulders and being submersed from the shoulders down in water. A relatively new experience for him as he is used to kid pools at the gym and wading pools in the summer. We then played in the sand, which he also loved but flat out refused to stand in the sand without his watershoes on. Thank goodness for those shoes or today would have been a LONG day. As long as those shoes were on, he was good to go (irregardless of if the shoes were filled with sand, go figure).

He lasted till about 2:30pm which is pretty good for Logan considering he's used to going for a nap around 1. The boys both had a great time and managed not to get sun burnt. Which is more than we can say for the poor Mommies, who both have pretty decent sun burns right now. Ah well, we'll survive.

We will definitely be doing the beach again sometime soon, we all had a great time, but I am not doing it alone again. That was a LOT of work, and not something I really want to experience again. Lugging around all the gear AND a toddler by yourself, not easy. Especially when toddlers move slower than the average snail...

And yes, he did fall asleep about 10 minutes into the trip home, slept for about half an hour in the car and then another hour and a half at home. Gotta love the sun for inducing a great sleep. I'm just about ready for one myself...

Jen

Post-weekend update

Wow has it ever been a crazy week!!! But, we survived and Logan is being somewhat human today so that's good.

First, last week we moved Logan into his big boy bedroom. We made him a Disney Cars bedroom because he LOVES Lightning McQueen and the movie Cars. It's the only thing he'll watch for looong periods of time, but he could probably make it through the whole movie if he wanted to. Crazy! He just loves cars that much. So, when we showed him his new bedroom he was PUMPED. He ran around the house for the rest of the evening yelling "Mommy! New BED!" and made sure about 50 zillion times that this new bed was a good bed for jumping on. It passed the test apparently. The tranisition to actually SLEEPING in this room was a LOT smoother than we thought it would be. He was awake for about an hour and a half the first bedtime - which we kinda expected so we put him down a touch earlier to give him time to soak in the room before he fell asleep. The next day he fell asleep for his nap almost instantly and bedtime went much smoother. All in all it was a great transition. The only complaint he has (and he voices it at least once a day) is that his "chair" (our rocker glider from the nursery) isn't in his room. We told him that there was no chair in his new room and that it had to stay in the baby room for when the baby comes. He wasn't happy about this. Once he figured out though that we could still snuggle sitting on the bed, and that his new bed was big enough for Mommy to lie down beside him for a bit, it was ok. He still asks for the chair, but will settle for snuggles on the bed instead most times - some times involve more tears than others. All in all he's adjusting VERY well and hasn't looked back.

This weekend was Father's day and we had a BUSY weekend. It was a great weekend all in all, but we were all ready for an early bedtime by Sunday night. Saturday was Ross's Father's day celebrations (so that he gets a day all to himself with Logan and I). Logan and Mommy made breakfast in bed and Logan brought Daddy his card that he made for him. Then we got up and got ready to go to the zoo. Unfourtunately Logan woke up with a pretty bad cold on Saturday morning, so he was a bit more mellow than usual, but he did enjoy the zoo... he just enjoyed it from the comfort of his stroller with a blankie and a waterbottle. We spent a couple hours at the zoo and checked out as many animals as we could, then went home for lunch. As we were driving home, we noticed that one of the small food stores that we go to was having a free BBQ at the time, so we stopped and had burgers and hotdogs for lunch! It was a very nice surprise. We also picked up some burgers and loaves of bread on a great sale! Double surprise.

While Logan had a much-needed nap, Daddy went out to wash the car (which he'd been wanting to do for quite a while) while I got ready for the meals on Sunday. Then we ordered chinese food for dinner and Ross and I rented a movie for after Logan went to bed. All in all it was a very nice day and we all enjoyed ourselves very much.

Sunday was a very busy day. Father's day at Church of the Rock was 80's style (always a theme with our church... we're a bit crazy sometimes...) and they really outdid themselves. It was hilarious and awesome. Very well done. We then went home and Hal, Melissa and Kaedyn came over to join us and Ross's family for lunch, since they didn't have any plans with their family. We all stuffed ourselves far too much with Quiche, croissants, breakfast sausages, and strawberries. Then to top it off I made Ross's favourite - pie. An apple pie and a strawberry rhubarb pie. They turned out really well, which is great because I was VERY nervous as I don't make pie often. but it seemed to go well. :)

Logan had his nap and then we went over to my parents place for dinner. We had a great steak dinner over there and Dairy Queen Ice Cream Pie for dessert. Needless to say Ross and I were ready to undo our belt buckles a notch after dinner. We had eaten well that day. It was great to see all of our families and spend some time with them celebrating the dad's.

Logan is slowly getting better. His cold has moved to his chest and he now has a cough, but he's doing pretty good. Aside from being REALLY grouchy because of lack of sleep (due to the coughing at night) he's doing ok. Just gotta keep him busy until naptime.

So, today we rest. Enjoy the quietness of the day and the rain falling outside (we needed rain sooooo badly!!!). It's nice and refreshing and it's taking the humidity out of the hot air, so that is a HUGE God-send to me... humidity and a pregnant-me do not generally get along. So hopefully today will be a good day... with nice long naps. :)

Till the next adventure,
Jen

I will update all these posts with pictures as soon as I have time to sit here and upload them all.

Summer is here!

Finally! It's a gorgeous day out today and we have been playing in the sprinkler with Melissa and Kaedyn all morning! It's a sunny 28 degrees right now and the water was definitely refreshing. Logan is just napping now, and then it's off to great-grandma's to do some tomatoe planting :)

You'll have to forgive the lack of pictures... blogspot is being a bit stupid right now and it takes AGES to upload pictures (still!) and to top that off, my internet is being weird as well. So all that combined... it's just not working. I will put pictures up soon, and if you want some now email me and I can send you some! :) ***Edited to add - I'm adding pictures now! ***

So... we've been up to all sorts of mischief and fun these days. Logan went to the Zoo with Nana and Pops (Ross's parents) and had a blast. He enjoyed the monkeys best, I'm told, and he rode the train there as well. For those of you who know Logan, this is like the BEST THING IN THE WORLD to be able to actually GO on the train. He talked about it for days. Lots of animation and sounds to go with the story, it was hilarious! (sorry, I have pictures of the train and zoo, but they're not loading. Maybe something to do with the fact that Pops has a REALLY nice camera??? I have no idea. Email me if you want them, I send them via email to you!)


We have also had many days outside, picking dandilions (ie: flowers) out of the yard, mowing the lawn with Daddy, driving Uncle Matty's car in the driveway, lots of fun. :) It's is finally warming up and I am looking forward to when the wading pools open so that we can get out swimming. For now the sprinkler is working great though!













The baby is doing good. I am having a bit of anxiety around the whole pregnancy thing, as most of you know, but I am doing alright. The baby is still safe and snug as far as I know. :) I am starting to feel better as well. The nausea is starting to taper off and is not nearly as bad anymore, and I am having a little bit more energy. I can actually get through most of the day without a nap, although I could sleep for a LONG time at night. haha! I think I am having some trouble sleeping, with all the anxiety and everything. Hopefully that resolves soon.

Ross is anxious to start school of course, he is so excited to be going back. But he's plugging away at work for the rest of the days that he's there and we're looking forward to some camping and such this summer. :)

Jen

Nope, I haven't forgotten...

Sorry for the delay in posting guys! Blogspot has been having a few technical errors in which it takes me HOURS to load up photos onto posts and well, I don't have that much time. ;) I will be back and I promise I will update with lots of pictures of Logan. I have tons, so there will be pictures to come. :)
Cheers for now!

What the heck happened to May???

So apparently it's June already... or so they tell me. Bah. Time is FLYING! I honestly thought that with this pregnancy and being so sick that time would pass ever so slowly... but nope! I'm already 8 weeks pregnant! Yipee! Only 5 more weeks of 1st trimester and I then get to start enjoying my pregnancy instead of worrying about how clean my toilets are... *sigh* I am thankful to be pregnant, don't get me wrong... but I'm far too well acquainted with the inside of the toilet bowl.

Oh what have we been up to these days... seriously, I'm trying to remember. We're currently in full swing of "Love Winnipeg" so that is keeping me busy. For those who don't know what it is, it's a 2 week event that many churches band together and do, where we are pretty much ALL over the city doing random acts of kindness. Things like yard work, area clean up, free garage sales in the inner city, carnivals, visits to the elderly, that kind of stuff. So we've been doing tons of stuff this past week for the Love Winnipeg events and that has been keeping us VERY busy.

Logan is growing FAR too fast. This kid now speaks in 3-4 word sentences, and non-stop. He's constantly talking about something, asking about something, telling me about something... I'm always amazed when I watch him sleep at night, that something with so much energy, that is so active can lie so still. haha! He's a handful and a half, but he is so much fun. I wouldnt trade him for the world.

So... I think I will be off to bed now. Logan is fast asleep for his nap and I am thinking I will be doing the same. Adios amigos and I will check back in soon... with pictures! Just waiting on a CD from my dad that contains all the recent pictures that are on his camera. :)