Logan turned 2.5 years old on September 7th.  We were thinking that he would start leveling off with his height and weight stats by now, but as you can see, he’s still topping the charts!

Let’s start things off by acknowledging that Logan is a fantastic big brother. He hasn’t shown much jealousy toward Gavin since he joined our family in May, and has started turning into quite the helper.  He’s even mastered the baby talk, and will often be seen leaning over Gavin saying “A boo boo”, a baby phrase he’s heard from mom a lot.  When Gavin starts crying Logan will say “Baby’s crying”, I’ve even heard him say, “It’s okay baby Gavin, Logan’s here”.  Logan likes to help baby Gavin take off his socks, cover him with blankets, and recently started giving him kisses.  He’s still learning that Gavin is too little to play ball with him, but we haven’t had any incidents yet!

Logan still has an interest in television and movies.  Some of his favorite movies include the following:

• Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue
• Mater’s Tall Tales
• Monsters Inc.
• Finding Nemo
• Toy Story (1, 2, and 3)
• Bugs Life

He’s learned how to put dvds into the player now, and likes to put movies in and out.  But as much as he likes these movies, his absolute favorite thing to watch on TV is himself!  We starting taking a lot more home video recently, and Logan absolutely loves to watch himself.  We’ve downloaded the videos on to our tablet and he is thrilled to be able to sit on the couch and pick and choose which ones he watches.

Logan is now quite a good little bike/trike rider!  He loves to get on his bike and just ride it down the street and back, a trip that takes about 30 minutes from start to finish!  He also loves going to the the big park.  He enjoys climbing on the play equipment, going down all the different slides, and getting pushed on the swings.  The park is completely shaded by large oak trees, so even in the heat of the FL sun, we’re able to go and have a good time, but we can’t wait until summer is over!

Logan has become a bit of a chatterbox.  He is constantly chit chatting about something, even if we can’t fully understand him.  He’s started singing his ABC’s, Old McDonald, and Happy Birthday, and we will often wake up in the morning with him serenading us from his bedroom.  He’s also started learning his numbers, although he doesn’t always get them in order yet.  When he is picking up his toys, he sings the Barney clean up song, but it comes out like this, “Clean up…everybody..share.”  It’s adorable.  His speech is definitely improving, and he repeats a lot of what we say now…thankfully that hasn’t gotten us into trouble yet!    Here are some of his most quotable phrases:

• “Yes, okay”
• “I liiike it”
• “Yucky bugs”
• “Pick one”
• “I no see it”
• “Quiet Woof”

He is still a fantastic sleeper and routinely goes to bed by 7:30pm every night, he also will take a 2-3 hour nap on the weekend.  He’s become a picky eater though, it’s hard to know what he will eat from day to day.  Something he will eat on Monday, may move to the “No List” on Tuesday.  Pretty much the only things he’s guaranteed to eat at any given time, aside from the typical cookies, chips, and ice cream, are vitamins, fruit snacks, french fries, and gold fish crackers.  His favorite (but not necessarily guaranteed) meals include Lasagna and Shake and Bake (or Fried) Chicken.  He absolutely refuses to eat any vegetable, but will eat bananas and mandarin oranges.  I’m hoping this picky eating is just a phase!

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Logan's Second Birthday!

Logan turned 2 on March 7th!!  A lot has happened in the last six months since my last update, but here’s a quick look at his most recent stats:

We are still shocked at how tall this boy is!

I will admit, this update is coming a bit late.  You’re probably thinking Logan turned 2 nearly three and a half  months ago, but I figure better late than never.  I’m going to write this from the perspective that I did do it on time.  So when I say he’s doing this or doing that, I mean at age 2.  In a few months I will publish his 2.5 year update and include the things he’s doing now, but since this is a 2 year update it’s just going to mention accomplishments that occurred as of 2 years old.

By 2 years old Logan is into his fair share of movies and tv shows.  Some of his favorites include:

• Trains – Chuggington and Thomas the Train
• Cars – Disney Cars
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• Handy Manny
• Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Bike

He also graduated to quite a few new firsts over the last six months.  He got his first bike and has been learning how to use the peddles.  Currently he just scoots around with his feet on the ground since he can’t quite reach the peddles yet, but that will come soon.  He’s gotten quite a bit better at using a spoon and can now drink from a straw, although he still thinks he needs to tip the cup upside down like it’s a sippy cup.  We’ve had our fair share of messes, but it’s all part of the learning experience!  Logan had his first ice cream cone at Mc Donald’s and loved it.  Granted it was a mess all over the place, but he wasn’t ready to be done with it once it was gone.  He’s now associated the phone with ringing.

First Ice Cream Cone

When he hears it ring he picks up the nearest phone and says “Hello”.  He hasn’t quite figured out that he needs to turn the phone on, but that’s probably a good thing at this point.  He has also entered the early stages of potty training.  He has gone on the potty at home a few times, but really it’s daycare that is giving him the potty training crash course.  They put him on the potty several times a day, and he’s starting to get the hang of it, but has a long ways to go.  He is pretty obsessed with light switches now.  He loves to turn them on and off and gets quite upset if you turn on a light switch that he could do.  He’s figured out how to move steps (or a bathroom scale) over to the light switch so he can reach it.

Logan’s speech is improving every day.  At 2 years old he can say 20-50 words and has mastered 2 word phrases.  This is continuing to increase every day, however we have found if we don’t encourage him to speak, he simply will not do it.  He is content to allow you to anticipate what he needs or to use body gestures to get you to give him what he wants.  He occasionally gets frustrated having to verbalize what he wants, but in the end it is for the best.

Halloween

In the last 6 months we’ve had a few holidays.  He celebrated Halloween dressed as Handy Manny.  They went around to the local shops nears his daycare to show off their costumes and collect candy and goodies.  We spent Thanksgiving with the Belt side of the family and Logan got to see his Great Granddad Belt and meet his great Uncles for the first time.  We spent Christmas with Grandma Jeannie and Grandpa Skip, and were lucky to also see Great Grandma and Grandpa Gilbert while we were there.  Logan was adorable as he passed out the Christmas presents.

Logan celebrated his second birthday with Grandma Jeannie, Grandpa Skip, Great Grandma Barbie, and Mommy and Daddy.  We took a trip to the Glazer Museum and enjoyed Thomas the Train themed party decorations and cake.  He really had a great time at all the exhibits and loved his Choo Choo Train cake!

Last but not least, Logan moved out of the nursery and into his big boy room as part of his big brother training.

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Logan turned 18 months on September 7th!  A lot has happened in the last three months that I need to catch you up on, but here’s a quick look at his most recent stats:

It’s hard to believe he is still topping off the charts!  He’s such a big boy!!

Alright, I just read through the last update and I can’t believe how far he has come since then.  Where to begin…

Gardening

In June Logan took his first airplane ride to visit his grandparents!  He did excellent on the 3-hour trip.  On the way there he slept about 2 hours and then insisted on walking up and down the aisles while he was awake.  On the way back, he slept the entire 3 hours!  It was great not to have to worry about him making a fuss, but having an extra 26lbs on those airplane seats put me in a bit of pain.  All in all, the trip was a success.  He got to meet four of his cousins for the first time, and his two uncles and aunt as well!  While we were there he enjoyed gardening, playing with his toys on the deck, and eating grandma’s yummy food .

Mmmm....pudding

Logan is eating pretty much everything and anything now, I think all of his teeth have come in.  He’s a regular at IHop on the weekends for breakfast and can pretty much eat an entire kids meal consisting of 1 scramble egg, 2 sausage links, and a pancake.  Wes taught him how to dip things in sauces this last month and now he thinks that is the coolest thing.  He dips his pancakes in syrup, french fries in ketchup, and chicken nuggets in barbecue sauce.  He snacks on all sorts of things during the day, but surprisingly one of his favorites is still the Baby Mum Mums, he actually asks for these!  He’s starting to use a fork now.  He can get the fork to his mouth with ease, but still has problems scooping things up on it.  He seems to enjoy doing it, so I’m sure he’ll get it soon.  I’ve started taking the stopper out of his sippy cups, which requires him to control the flow of liquid coming out of the cup.  He’s doing really well with that.  He also figured out how to use a straw last week to drink water at a restaurant, and now looks for opportunities to practice this newly acquired skill.

Finger Painting

Since my last update, Logan has moved up to the NEXT toddler room.  His schedule has shifted slightly, but he’s still doing the same kinds of things.  He’s bringing home art projects from daycare weekly now, and he is still continuing to do at home art projects as well.  He enjoys coloring with markers and crayons, but really loves finger painting.  The only problem is, that he also loves to suck his thumb, which doesn’t work all that well when his hands are covered in that paint!  Today he tried out the Mess Free Crayola Wonder Magic Light Brush, he gets to dip the brush in the paints, so he thought this was a pretty neat toy.

Tunnel

Our little climber is still the same monkey he was at 15 months.  This week he figured out how to climb onto the couch.  He can climb up the stairs and scoot down them pretty much on his own now, but now he prefers to walk, or at least try to.  He’s getting really good at holding one of my hands, and then putting his other hand on the wall while he steps up each stair.  When he gets to the landing in the middle of the stairs he always stops and calls for Wrigley, just to make sure she’s coming.  Although, it doesn’t exactly sound like “Wrigley”, but that’s definitely what he’s saying.  He’s still enjoying the park and the swimming in the pool, but one of his new activities is to climb through a tunnel.  It doesn’t sound like much, but he laughs and giggles the whole time!

His communication continues to progress.  As of his 18 month appointment I think we figured he could say about 20 words, but every day he seems to add another to the list.  Some of those include up, down, more, mommy, daddy, ball, banana, nice, hot, Manny, Elmo, kitty, bubble, uh-oh, and water.  His favorite word is more, he uses it for everything.  Whether he wants to eat, or wants you to throw him up in the air, you’ll hear him say more.  He doesn’t just say more, he also points to his mouth while he says it.  You’d have to see it, but it is definitely cute.  Some of the other adorable things he is doing now include, climbing into the laundry basket and saying vroom vroom.  Even when you’re exhausted you can’t help but pull him around!  He will also pet your head (or Wrigley) and say nice.  He kisses now, and will blow kisses.  He will grab Wes’s shoes and bring them to him when he wants to take Wrigley outside.  He also loves putting on and taking off his own shoes.

He’s getting more and more interested in TV.  He can turn the TV on with the remote now.  His favorite show is still Handy Manny, but he will watch Mickey Mouse Club House as well.  He is really interested in books.  He will sit on the floor with you and ask you to read every book he has (using “more”).  He definitely has his favorites, and at times will make you shut a book just as you’re starting it and then start clapping to signify that book is over.

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Logan

Logan is over a year now and it getting into all sorts of stuff.  He’s graduated to an expert level crawler, and I would say he’s at the intermediate level with walking.  It’s amazing how fast he progresses, one week he’ll be stumbling about going from the wall to the next solid object, then the next week he’ll be walking clear across the room and even stop to pick up toys on the way!  It’s wonderful to watch him grow, and it’s so obvious how proud he is of his accomplishments.

Logan’s new interest is interior design.  He thinks everything is, or should be, a push toy now.  That includes, laundry baskets, stationary toys, his high chair, the kitchen chairs, the cribs on wheels at daycare, and pretty much anything else he can move.  And believe me…this kid is STRONG!   As he pushes items from one end of the room to the other, we simply say he’s redecorating and he’s pretty much always on the job!

If redecorating is his new day job, he’s taken to moonlighting as a bell hop.  Whether it’s a diaper bag or my purse, Logan is constantly trying to carry bags around.  It’s really quite amusing to watch, since those diaper bags are often as big as he is!

Logan met his Uncle Justin, Aunt Nicole, and three cousins Kaitlyn, Kalei, and Andrew for the first time over Easter week.  Andrew was such a little helper, picking up Logan’s sippy cup after he threw it off his high chair, and just generally trying to help Logan.  Kalei had fun pushing Logan around in their stroller, and even assisted me a few times with diaper changes!  Kaitlyn was great at just entertaining and playing with Logan.  All in all, I think Logan had a great time meeting and spending time with family.

Easter Egg Hunt

Logan got to spend Easter with grandparents, great grandparents, uncles, aunts, great uncles, great aunts, cousins and second cousins this year.  We got to take part in the traditional family egg hunt, which involves a clue based search for eggs for the older kids.  The clues are designed for each child, and the older the child is, the harder the clues get.  It was so fun watching the chaos of the kids running around desperately trying find their next egg.  Logan got to participate in his first egg hunt as well, but his egg hunt was more about running (or crawling) around picking up eggs in clear view.  For Logan…he was just content to find two eggs and bang them together while he let Andrew collect the rest. 

Logan got his first haircut!!  He was long over due and had crazy hair.  You couldn’t even see his ears!  We took him to Regis at our local mall and he did fantastic, until the clippers came out!  His hair stylist was great, she made it a good experience for Logan and gave him a decent haircut despite the fact that he wouldn’t let her finish it!  I think we will definitely be going there again!

Peek-a-Boo

Peek-a-Boo

Even with all these clear advancements in his behavior, he’s still the same Logan.  He still loves to play peek-a-boo, he’s still grabbing everyone’s hair and glasses, terrorizing and entertaining Wrigley, and just generally getting into anything and everything!  We look forward to seeing what he is getting into next month!

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Logan

On Sunday, March 7th, Logan turned one year old!  It’s so hard to believe that the first year has already passed us by.  It seems like only yesterday we were on our way to the hospital 8 weeks early, assuming at that time they would call us noobs and prompty send us home.  Even then, Logan had his own plans…

Today (March 15th) Logan had his 12 month baby well appointment and this kid is off the charts!  Well, just the height growth chart but even that seems pretty impressive!  From his 9 month well appointment, his weight has increased 3 lbs 6oz, height increased 3 inches, and head circumference increased 0.5 inches.

Here’s a look at some of the new things he’s been getting into over the last month.

Holding His Bottle

Logan is now officially on table food.  Those baby food days are done and gone and he has moved on to real solid food.  He still eats some Gerber toddler foods, but mostly is enjoying things like grilled cheese sandwiches, macaroni & cheese, burgers, nuggets, canned veggies, fruit cups, waffles, pancakes, french toast sticks, and things like that.  He’s officially been introduced to table food at daycare as well, which means he gets a hot lunch and afternoon snack each day.  He’s started trying to use the sippy cup, and can hold his own bottle.  He is really enjoying the new textures and tastes he gets to experience, and still prefers to feed himself.  Occasionally he will get frustrated trying to pick up a slippery peach or something like that, but all in all, he is doing fantastic!

Crawling Position

Logan seems to be only a few weeks away from walking.  We’ve been saying that for a while, but now I really think its true.  He’s still cruising on everything, but is getting more and more adventurous.  He will walk while only holding one hand, and he even has moments where he stands on his own.  He’s definitely got the balance down, now I think he’s just lacking the confidence and motivation.  He is now an expert crawler.  I can’t believe how fast he is now and I certainly can’t seem to keep this kid still.  Changing his diaper is a challenge and he’s even started to crawl around the bath tub!

Waving

He’s learned how to turn the light switch on and off.  He thinks it is amazing, and every time he is on the changing table, he can’t wait to get over to that switch for some on and off practice.  He’s also figured out how to not only offer a toy to you, but also let it go.  This skill has allowed him to start dropping toys in a box, with any luck he’ll be able to start cleaning up after himself soon!  He seems to understand what “No” means, and at least for now, he will listen when you say it.  He hasn’t said any words yet, but I’m thinking “No” will be among the first that he says.  He’s learned to wave, and is working on pointing.

Logan is finally healthy again!  Over the last month he’s suffered from his first ear infection, and wouldn’t you know it, it was a double ear infection!  He also has been on a nebulizer for the last few weeks.  Thankfully all the medications are done now, and he just gets to be a kid again.

–edit: I should note that as of March 12th Logan took his first three steps at daycare.  He has yet to show off this new skill for mommy and daddy, but I’m sure we’ll see it soon!!

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Of course, Logan also had his first birthday party this month.  He did fantastic!  He napped from 8:30-11:00 the morning of the party, had lunch at 11:00, and guests arrived at 12:00.  He was a happy little kid for the full two hours, which included lots of new faces, present opening, and his first bite of cake, which he did not like.  The party turned out great!  Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and help celebrate Logan turning 1!

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Logan is already 11 months old!  Time is flying, but I’m guessing all new parents say the same thing.  Logan has had quite a few new accomplishments in the year 2010…let’s take a peak.

Logan Cruising

Logan has provided new meaning to the word mobile this month.  In our 10 month update, I mentioned that life as we knew it was over…well, that didn’t happen until this last month!  He is into EVERYTHING!  He loves to open cabinets and drawers, even if that means opening them into his own head!  He thinks holding, pulling, and chewing on electrical cords is awesome and makes a b-line for any cord in sight.  He has a new found love for tv remotes and xbox controllers, and has turned into quite the little con man with his daddy, acting like he just wants to sit with dad on the couch, when really he’s eying up those controllers!  He’s crawling like crazy and man is he fast.  Although it seems like crawling is just a means to get him to his true desire…standing.  He pulls up and cruises on everything now and has even tried to cruise on an empty laundry basket, which ended with both Logan and the basket tipped over on the floor and a few tears.  His 24 lbs was just too much for that empty basket to carry!  He’s getting better and better at bending over to pick up toys while standing, and on his actual 11 month birthday he figured out how to walk behind his push toy!  Thankfully he’s not too confident at steering it yet, but once he’s got it down Wes is convinced he’s going to start using it as a battering ram!  We shall see…

Logan Clapping

Logan is continuing to try new foods, although he probably has not had his fair share of table food yet.  He’s still eating Gerber 2nd foods and has tried chicken noodle, turkey and rice, chicken and turkey meat sticks, diced apples, diced carrots, banana and mixed berries, and apricot with mixed fruit.  He’s also quite the little snacker and enjoys colby/jack cheese, Graduates apple wagon wheels, and yogurt melts.  He’s getting to the stage now where he prefers to feed himself.  He learned to clap this month, and has found if he claps while I’m bringing a spoon of food to his mouth, he can splash the food everywhere.

Putting a Ball in a Hole

Wrigley is becoming his best friend, not only for all the splashed and left over food, but she has found he wants to play with her.  Logan thinks it’s hilarious to offer her a toy and then take it from her, and Wrigley just seems to be happy to get some attention.  Although, even Wrigley has found that you can get too much of a good thing, thankfully when she’s had enough she simply licks him and moves.

Logan has learned to put a ball in a hole this month!  It sounds so insignificant when I say it, but it is really quite an accomplishment.

Wheres Logan?

He’s started getting more and more interested in books, and still loves those touch and feel books.  He’s at the point now where he thinks every book is touch and feel, so you can see him touch each page and move his finger to try to “feel” something.  It’s so cute.  He loves the Itsy Bitsy Spider song with the hand movements…the song is so powerful it has been known to stop him in his tracks when he’s headed for mischief.  He just stares at you with a big grin as you sing it…it sort of makes you feel like YOU could be the next American Idol.  He’s also still into playing peak a boo, which we have renamed “Where’s Logan?”  He will hold something up over his face, just to hear you ask “Where’s Logan?”, then he’ll drop the cloth to hear you say “There he is!”  It’s sooo cute!

Logan Reading

Logan has been out to a few more restaurants.  He’s been to iHop for breakfast twice and even had a lunch at Chilis after visiting his daddy’s office.  He was so well behaved during all the trips.  All this out and about could have contributed to Logan catching Croup this month, although the pediatrician seemed convinced he got it from daycare.  It was not a fun experience at all.  He was home from daycare for 4 days straight, and had a cough like a barking seal.  Thankfully he’s recovered from that now!

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It’s the end of life as we know it…Logan is now mobile.  He started out just doing the army crawl on his belly over the Christmas holiday, but now he is crawling like a champ.  He’s also much better at getting from the crawling position back to sitting.  He still LOVES Wrigley and now that he can move, he often crawls after her and tries to grab her fur.  Wrigley has been being a great sport and typically will either just lick Logan, or get up and walk away.

Christmas Weekend

Logan enjoyed his first Christmas at his grandparents house in Jacksonville, he even got to meet his Great Grandma and Grandpa from Indiana as well!  He didn’t really understand the whole presents concept, but he was a very good boy while we all opened gifts.  He has really enjoyed playing with all his new toys!

I don’t have any official weight or height statistics this month, but he’s now wearing 18 month sized clothes.  Some 12 month clothes will fit him, but I’m finding more and more 12 month clothes are either too short or just too tight.  This cold streak has put us in long sleeved shirts, sweaters, pants/jeans, and jackets.  We’re very thankful to our family in Chicago and Minneapolis who have sent us boxes of hand me down clothes!  Us, Floridians, don’t really know what to do once you can see your breath!

Another tooth popped up this month on the bottom left, so now he has 4 on top and 4 on bottom.  He’s been trying all sorts of new foods this month as well.  Some of the new varieties include gerber 2nd foods apple/cherry, apple/blueberry, garden vegetable, sweet potato/corn, mango smoothie, chicken, beef, turkey, and mac & cheese.  I’ve also started him on Gerber 3rd foods, which really just seems to be more per container and a bit thicker consistency, but I have yet to see any actual chunks or anything like that.  His first experience with Baby Mum Mums was sort of comical.  I gave him the Mum Mum and he immediately put it into his mouth and took a bite.  Then he just held the Mum Mum in his hand and sat there crying.  I tried it again the next day, but that time he didn’t even attempt to put it in his mouth, instead he just held on to it and cried.  After that I let him try the Graduates Lil’ Crunchies, and he loves those.  At first he couldn’t figure out how to eat the part of the snack that he was holding in his hand, so he just sort of put his whole hand in his mouth, but now he’s got it down.  I was so happy to find that he seemed to know what to do with the crunchy snacks.  He bit them and then chewed them like a big boy, no choking!

Drinking From a Glass

I started weaning Logan this last month, so he’s now transitioning onto formula.  He seems to be taking it without issue and I don’t think there will be any problem once he is 100% on formula.  He still is very interested in drinking out of a glass, so we started offering him a sippy cup between meals.  He really likes it and has figured out where he needs to put his mouth, but hasn’t figured out that he needs to tilt the cup back to actually get anything out of it.  He’ll get it.

I noticed that this month he is very interested in touch and feel books.  He actually touches and feels the book.  His favorite is Touch and Feel PETS, I’m not sure why, but he’s not as interested in the other ones we have.  His sounds and noises are getting more and more complex.  He’s also practicing his noise volume.  He likes to whisper “HOTA HOTA”, I have no idea what it means, but it must be very profound.  He started performing his early morning sing song routine earlier and earlier, so we have now adjusted his bedtime from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.  Even though it’s just an hour, it’s quite a change in our home routine.  Now we all eat dinner together around 6:00 instead of Wes and I eating after Logan goes to bed.

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Logan in Daddy's Chair

On December 7th, Logan turned 9 months old.  He had his baby well visit today and here are his current statistics.  His weight and height percentiles have stayed consistent since his 6 month appointment but his head circumference has increased from 7% to 25%!

Baby Cruiser

Looking back on his 8 month update it amazing how many new things he’s into now.  He’s still eating the gerber second foods but has now started some more complex combinations.  The new foods he’s tried this month include pineapple/pear, garden vegetables, and prune/apples.  We were also just given the ok to start him on meat combinations.  The doctor recommended we start introducing teething biscuits for his 7 teeth!!  Four on the top and three on the bottom.  He’s really intrigued with drinking from a glass.  Whenever I am drinking a glass of water in his presence he always reaches out for it.  When I try to give him some he typically either chokes on it, or just sits there and lets the water touch his lips.  Either way, he’s always really proud of himself after he’s done.  It’s quite cute.

Logan - Crawling Position

Logan is not quite mobile yet, although he is still cruising on the couch if you stand him up next to it.  He is sitting on his own very well now, and can even go from a seated position to rocking back and forth on all fours, until he eventually collapses onto his tummy.  The doctor said crawling shouldn’t be too far behind.  He is getting better and better at assisted walking.  He’s really starting to get the balance thing down, and seems to think that he can do it all by himself.  He’ll often try to let go of your hands so he can reach down for various items he sees while walking around the room.  He still rolls onto his tummy EVERY time he is placed on his back.  He’s getting pretty strong now, and sometimes it actually takes two of us just to get his diaper changed!

He is laughing and talking now more then ever.  His “words” recently went from moans and squeals to more sophisticated da da ga do ga da.  He’ll actually look at you (or Wrigley) and starting talking…it almost seems like he’s trying to tell you something now.

Big Boy Bath

He’s graduated to the big boy bath tub now and is doing really well.  He just plays with his bath toys while I scrub away.  He’s so focused on trying to pick up those little toys, it seems like he doesn’t even notice I’m there!  He’s also graduated to the next room at daycare!  We’ll be sad to leave our current teacher, but moving to the new room means more stimulating toys and other kids who are mobile.  Hopefully watching other kids moving around will inspire Logan to try to do the same!

His favorite toy is still his giraffe, but he’s also found a new appreciation for his infantino sound and light safari.  He’s now figured out how to open and close the shape sorter, push the piano keys, spin the animals, and push all the other buttons.  He always looks so intense when he is playing with it and is definitely drawn to it whenever it is nearby.

Shape Sorter

This is Fun!!

Playing with Shapes

On November7th, Logan turned 8 months old.  He’s been pretty busy over the last month, here’s a peak at what he’s up to now.

Logan in his highchair

He has now outgrown his infant car seat.  Not in weight, but definitely in height.  We purchased the Evenflo Triumph Advanced Convetible Car Seat from Walmart as his replacement, it should be arriving this week.  We won’t have his official weight and height check from the pediatrician’s office until his 9-month baby well visit in December, but we estimate that he is about 21 lbs now.  He is really enjoying solid foods, and he’s moved on to Gerber 2nd foods this month.  He eats about four 2nd foods per day, and each one is about 3.5oz.  He’s still eating rice cereal mixed in with his food, and is getting a large majority of his nutrition from breast milk.  I would guess he drinks about 25-30 oz of breast milk per day.  We haven’t started him on complex combinations of baby food or big people food yet, but imagine that will probably start sometime next month.  I think that he’ll be ready to start chomping on food now that’s his THIRD tooth is coming in!!  His second bottom middle tooth came in just after I wrote his 7 month update, but I just noticed number three yesterday, it’s on the top left.   Such a big boy!

Sitting Unassisted - You can see my teeth!!

Speaking of a big boy…he is now a rolling machine!  It seems like when ever I put him on his back, the first thing he does is try to roll over.  Which includes putting him on his back to change his diaper!  He still prefers rolling to his right, and I rarely see him roll from front to back, but I know it will all come in time.  He even prefers to sleep on his stomach now.  It doesn’t seem to matter what I do to encourage him to sleep on his back, he always finds his way back to his tummy, so now I just put him to bed on his back, and whatever he does from there is up to him.  He still hasn’t started crawling yet, but he has figured out he can pivot/turn his body while on his belly.  I’m thinking it’s only a matter of time until he figures out he can use his legs and actually go places.

He’s sitting up unassisted pretty well now.  He’s even learned how to use his hands to rebalance himself if he shifts his weight too much to one side.  He still topples over occasionally, but that is happening less and less often now.  He has also learned to pull himself up from a reclined position, which I learned the hard way.  He has a reclined rocking chair with toys that dangle over his head (see chair).  One day while making breakfast, he was playing in that chair.  I feel like I had turned my back for one second, and when I turned around he was leaning WAY forward, he had gotten his body on the other side of the hanging toys and the rocking chair looked like it was about to topple over and land with Logan doing a face plant into the floor.  THANKFULLY, I saw him in time to grab him.  To make a long story short…no more rocking chair for him!

Standing like a Big Boy!

Logan is still the happy, mild mannered baby he’s been from the start.  Although, I think he had his first episode of stranger anxiety this weekend.   He seems so easily entertained these days, and really loves to laugh.  He enjoys laughing at his daddy’s funny faces.  Every time he sees Wes in the room, he stares at him as if to say “Dance Clown”.  He’s sooo entertained by his daddy doing little dances, singing, or just jiggling his head around like a bobble head toy.  Logan still loves Wrigley.  He seems to be constantly laughing at her.  Whenever she comes by him to lick his face, Logan seems to open his mouth.  What a goof ball!  He really likes to stand up, and enjoys walking from one end of the room to the other while holding someones hands.  Peek-A-Boo is now one of his favorite games…just saying the words will make him smile.

Make sure to check out the photos for this month.  He had some professional pictures taken at daycare that are included in this months photo gallery.

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