Logan's First Birthday

We had a simple get together for Logan's first birthday. Sarah and her kids were in town so we had more cousins to play with. Here's almost all the kids on the couch together.

Logan was not really interested in opening presents. But the other kids were very excited and willing to open them for him.

 He got his own water bottle and wanted to drink out of it right away.

 Here he is trying to figure out the drum.

Then we had cake and ice cream. Logan was not super impressed with his cake at first, but he figured it out after a while.

Happy first birthday Logan!

One Year!!

This one year mark didn't feel like as huge a deal to me as it did when Lucas or Paige turned one. I think it's because Logan has been mobile since 5 months, and walking for a couple months now too. I also weaned him a while ago, so I think we just hit most of those milestones already. Logan is at a really fun stage right now, though, and we all love him so much. He's sleeping great and eating great, and he loves playing with his brother and sister, or on his own. He's still such a mamma's boy, which I'm totally okay with. He just started clapping and waving the week of his birthday, and we love getting him to clap all day long.

His favorite things to play with right now are the hand mixer and my hair dryer. He likes to just carry them around the house all day long. He knows where we keep them and he goes right for them.  It's pretty funny.

Logan is a really great eater! One of his favorites is strawberries. He loves broccoli, chicken nuggets, and goldfish too.

Logan loves to be outside. We spend a lot of time at the park and letting the kids ride their bikes in the driveway. Logan usually is content just watching the other kids or wandering around and following them. He's such a happy little boy. We just love him so much!

Logan One Year Pictures

I finally got around to taking Logan's one year pictures! I'm in love with how they turned out.  He's so cute!

 Look at this handsome little man!

Love his smile!

Comparison Pictures

I was going through old pictures the other day to see if Logan looked more like Paige or Lucas. I can't decide which one he looks more like.  He has some of the same features as Paige and some the same as Lucas. I think Lucas and Logan have the same chin and cheeks, but Logan and Paige have the same nose and Lucas's is different. I think they definitely all have their own look, but at the same time could totally be triplets.

One thing is for sure, though, Logan definitely looks more like me than Ryan.  Maybe it's just me, but I think he's like a little copy of me.

Another thing I found when going through Lucas baby pictures is that he totally made the same face that Logan does.  I had completely forgotten that Lucas used to do this, and now Logan does it all the time too.  It must be genetic or something.  Or maybe just a baby thing.

So fun to look back and all the fun pictures I've taken. I love pictures!

11 Months

Logan has been sleeping through the night for a couple weeks now.  It is amazing!  He is my worst sleeper of the three, but we finally got him to make it though the night.  I think he just wasn't eating enough before, but now that I've weaned him and I'm feeding him more solid foods, he can go longer at night. He pretty much loves everything he eats, and eats the same amount or more than Paige does right now. We've started giving him milk in a bottle since I weaned him, and he LOVES it!  He gets so excited when he sees the bottle, and he gets mad when the milk is gone and tries to hold onto it with a death grip.  It's kinda funny.

Logan still loves playing outside.  He's walking so much better now than he was a month ago.  He doesn't put his hands out like he used to, which I'm a little sad about. He still loves playing on slides, and he knows how to go down them backwards and on his tummy.

We've been trying to work with him and get him to say words, but the only thing he has said is "dada".  He's been saying it for a few weeks now, but I think he's starting to really understand what it actually means. I just need to keep working on getting him to say mama.

He's been so much fun lately.  I love this stage!

10 Months

I'm getting this month post up a little late because we were too busy having fun in Hawaii.  Logan did SO well on the trip.  He was an angel on both flights, took naps in the car really well, and even slept through the night most nights.  In fact, on this trip Logan slept through the night for the first time.  He was just so tired from not getting regular naps during the day that he slept through the night no problem.  The few nights he did wake up in the middle of the night, I just had to give him his pacifier and he went right back to sleep.  Before I would have to rock him (and nurse him) to get him to go back to sleep. Here he is on the plane.

Logan has always loved baths and playing in the water, but on this trip we discovered that he likes swimming in the warm ocean just as much. He kept trying to push away from me and just head out on his own. Silly boy!

Logan is getting so much more mobile.  He walks more than crawls now.  It's still a slow walk and I seriously can't get enough of how adorable and ridiculous he looks.  I take videos of him walking almost every day because it cracks me up and makes me so happy to see him walking.

He has also figured out how to crawl down the stairs and get off of the couch.  I love watching babies back up to go down the stairs.  They always start like 2 feet away so they have to back up for a while till they get there.

The other big milestone is that I weaned Logan.  He has just never been a very good nurser and then his teeth came in and I just decided he was done!  He weaned really easily, since he didn't really care too much for it anyway.  He loves solid foods so I think he's happier just having more of those anyway.  I told myself I'd nurse him till 18 months when he was first born, and he weaned the earliest of all the kids. Oh well, it just goes to show you that kids have a mind of their own.

9 Months

Logan is such a little stud!  I love his cute little smiling face. When I take these month photos it's so fun trying to decide which of his current outfits or pajamas is my favorite.  Sometimes I can't pick just one, and then I have an even harder time picking which picture to use.  It's like when magazine's have different cover photos - I feel like I should make different options for his month photo cause I can't narrow it down.

He's really a very happy baby.  He's so smiley in the mornings when I get him from his crib.  He loves playing with Paige and Lucas and giggles when they chase and tickle him.  He plays on his own really well too, which is nice.  He's still such a finicky nurser, but it bothers me more than it does him.  He has gotten on a really good nap schedule which I'm really happy about.  He still doesn't sleep through the night, but he wakes up once to eat and goes right back to sleep, which is a whole lot easier for me than listening to him cry it out 2-3 times in the middle of the night.  I think maybe he's a bad eater during the day so he has to make up for it in the middle of the night.  Oh well. I feel like things go much more smoothly with Logan when I don't stress out about what I think he should be doing.  If I just let him do his thing he's so much happier.

He is SO close to walking.  He loves to walk around while I'm holding his hands, or holding on to whatever he can.  He walks with the Mater, the shopping cart, Paige's tricycle, the bathroom step stool - yesterday he was trying to walk with one of the kitchen chairs and it just wasn't moving as fast as he wanted but he was grunting and pushing so hard, he was determined!  He will stand really well without holding on to anything for long stretches of time now, he has good balance.

He's so proud of himself here.  He has taken steps lots of times before, but he just doesn't trust himself yet so he takes steps and then sits down, or just sits down right away and won't even try.  Last Sunday he was walking a bunch and showing off for my parents, and every time since then that I've tried to get it on camera, he refuses to perform. I'm thinking he'll be walking more than just a few steps in another week.  In the mean time he can just keep using whatever he can find to push, or hold onto my hands, which is his preference.


Logan's balance is a little better now, but when we took this video, if ever he would lose his grip on one of my hands, he would just fall like that. Silly baby. Also when he first started walking around with the Mater, he wasn't very good at steering so he would be super happy pushing in a straight line, but as soon as he got stuck he would scream.  I feel a little bad watching this video and hearing us all laughing at him, but we couldn't help it, it's just too funny!



Logan also really loves climbing up the slide.  He has gotten pretty good.  He climbs up to the top and then sits there and waits for me to help him slide down.  Sometimes he'll climb up there when I'm not watching and then I'll look over and he's just sitting there waiting patiently.  He's so silly.

We are having so much fun with this little guy.

8 Months

Logan has been loving eating anything he can get his hands on.  He's tried mashed potatoes, bananas, avocados, bread, cereal, oatmeal, smoothie... pretty much everything we give him he loves.  His favorite are apple slices.  He doesn't really eat it, so much as chew on it and get little pieces of apple everywhere, but it makes him so happy so I have a hard time saying no.

I just love his fat little tummy in these jammies.  Lucas loves matching Logan.

And both Lucas and Paige love to help Logan walk.  Logan much prefers to have me help him walk, but he'll take Lucas in a pinch. Paige not so much, but she does try.

He's getting to a fun stage where he likes to play and be silly.  Lucas and Paige are both still obsessed with him and fight over who gets to play with him. He's still a terrible nurser, but now that he's starting to eat more solid foods it isn't so much of an issue.  Now if we can just get him to start sleeping through the night...

7 Months

I thought this onesie was especially appropriate for this month picture, because he has been really getting around this month, like a little turtle except much faster. He was a slow crawler last month, but this month he has gotten fast, and has figured out what he's not supposed to be getting into, and crawls to it as quickly as he can.  The stairs are his favorite and he will make a bee line for them if I don't put the gate up.  He will do the same with the top of the stairs, but does not know how to climb down them, so that really isn't as much fun for him and I don't know why he's determined to keep going for them. Good thing he's cute! As smiley as ever.

He also does this funny crawling thing where he'll crawl on his hands and feet, not his hands and knees.  He does it when he's not wearing pants and he's on the cold floor.  It's hilarious and it makes me laugh every time.

We've been doing more solid foods this month, including smoothies because he has already figured out how to work a straw.  I love being able to get my kids to eat fruits and veggies so easily, and now Logan has joined in.  It's great! He loves everything he has tries and is always grabbing at my food. His first tooth also broke through just a few days ago.  He has been working on that one for a while.  Soon he'll be eating much more exciting foods, and he can't wait!

Logan's 6 Month Photos

I realized the other day that Logan is almost 7 months old and I haven't gotten his 6 months photos taken yet.  With both Lucas and Paige I got their pictures taken at JC penny, and I didn't want Logan to feel left out, but we've all been so sick these last few weeks, and I just wasn't sure when we'd be able to get over there to do it, so I just decided to take them myself yesterday.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  Lucas wore this outfit for his 6 month photos, so I decided to have Logan wear it too so I could see how much alike they are.

I need to do a side by side with Paige too and see who he looks more like.  I think he has a lot of similarities to both of them.  In some pictures he look just like Lucas and in some he looks just like Paige. It's funny because when I was looking at old pictures of Lucas the other day, Lucas came over and asked, "Is that Logan, where am I?"  He didn't believe me when I told him they were pictures of him.

Anyway, back to Logan.  He's adorable! And he can read too; he's so smart.  :-P

I love him in this shirt and tie.  By this point he was getting tired, though, so he didn't cooperate for long.  Here he is chewing on his fingers.  I sure hope those teeth pop through soon, cause I'm done with teething.

 He pulls on his ears when he's tired.  Lucas did this too.

 And one more smile and I called it a day.

6 Months

I know I'm like 2 weeks late with this post.  I didn't have time to take pictures before we left for Christmas, and then we were too busy to take pictures on Christmas eve which was his actual 6 month mark, and then after that he got sick and his eyes have been so red and puffy for the last two weeks I felt bad taking a picture of him.  Oh well.  He was such a sweet, smiley baby while he was sick, but I'm glad that he's finally starting to get better. It's been rough nursing a stuffy baby.  He was having a really hard time with nursing a few months ago but has gotten a lot better in the last month and a half.  We also discovered that he hates being cold.  He was not super impressed by the chilly temperatures over Christmas.

He has been crawling for almost 2 months now and has stayed pretty slow and didn't get in to too much until this last week or so.  Now he's fast and has started getting in to everything.  He also couldn't ever climb the stairs because his legs were too short to get up over the stair, but just yesterday he realized he's tall enough now and he makes a bee line for the stairs every chance he gets.  He's fast getting up the stairs too.  Luckily I have a Lucas that is obsessed with Logan and will sit behind him and watch him while he's playing on the stairs.
I'm pretty sure that Logan is teething because he has been chewing and drooling on everything.  The teeth haven't come through yet but they look close.  He also loves to drink cold water from cups, and just chew on the cup too.  He always tries to grab food from us and seems very interested in eating.  I haven't done a ton of solid foods with him yet, but will probably start trying them on a regular basis in the next week or so.  He has had oatmeal, bananas, bread, and mashed potatoes, and he seems to love everything he tries.

The other thing I love about Logan right now is the fluffy hair he has growing in.  It's getting long enough that you really notice it now, but it's still short enough that it sticks straight up.  I love it.  I tried to get pictures of it but he wouldn't hold still long enough for me to take any, so I had to just take some while he was asleep.  He's so cute!  I just love his fluffy hair!

5 Months

Logan has grown so much this last month!  Seriously!  Not only did he start crawling and sitting up, (in that order-weirdo baby), but he gained 2 lbs and grew 2 inches.  He's getting so big.  He's still super shaky on his crawling and sitting so hopefully he can work on getting better at that in the next month instead of just moving on to walking which is what I swear he wants to do.  He's always trying to stand up on stuff and sometimes when he's crawling he'll put his feet down on the ground instead of his knees and act like he's trying to stand up.

Logan has not been a great nurser for the last few months.  It's been very frustrating.  I never know if it's my supply, or if it's just that he doesn't want to eat, but it has been a real struggle.  Normally I wait until 6 months to start solid foods, but I decided to start earlier with Logan because I wanted something else to be able to give him if he wouldn't nurse or if I didn't have any milk.  He LOVES food!  He has taken to solid foods better than either Paige or Lucas.  I don't feed him rice cereal every day but when I do he gobbles it right up.  I fed him some mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving and he was pretty excited about it.  He kept grabbing the fork and trying to shove it in his mouth.  He can even eat little pieces of bread.  Here's the video I took of his eating mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving.

 He's really started to develop a cute little personality, and with his new found mobility really likes to get into stuff and terrorize his siblings.  I just love this little guy.

Logan Crawling

Logan is crawling! I can't even believe it! He's only 4 months old. He's been getting up onto all fours and moving one hand or knee and lunging forward for a couple weeks now.  But last night he took multiple "steps" and went from trying to crawl to crawling.  He's obviously still a little shaky, but holy crap, he's only 4 months!  He can even almost go from the crawling position to a sitting position.  And he can't even sit up yet.  What a crazy baby!  I love his little thing he does with his feet in the beginning of the video.

4 months

4 months feels like a big milestone to me.  I feel like Logan has really transitioned from the newborn phase where they just lay there and don't do anything and cry all the time, to being an older baby that spends a majority of his day playing either with us or on his own and has started to develop a cute little personality  He loves to be on his stomach.  It's hard to keep him on his back sometimes; he's always rolling.  He's been sleeping on his stomach for a while now too.

He loves to gobble up his hands and will sometimes jam them so far in that he chokes on them.  He will gobble pretty much anything he can get into his mouth and loves to munch on his blankets.  He also just grabs anything he can get his hands on, so when I'm shopping with him in the baby Bjorn I sometimes end up with more than I intended because he grabs stuff and pulls it off the shelf.  He loves to pull hair too.  One of my favorites is when babies discover their feet, and Logan just found his.  He needs help getting them into his mouth, but he loves gobbling those too when he can.

He got sick for the first time just this weekend.  He just has a little cold, so not too bad, but the poor little guy is having a hard time eating and sleeping.  He seems totally normal other than that, though, and plays all day long with his siblings.

Logan surprisingly loves his brother and sister, despite the fact that they keep stepping on him and Paige just terrorizes him half the time.  He especially loves Lucas and lights up when he sees him.  Lucas really loves Logan too.  He has been obsessed with him from day one and will just sit and tickle and play with Logan for forever.  He really has a special bond with Logan and it's so cute to see.

I took this video yesterday and Logan is still sick so he's not quite as giggly as he normally is, but it's still cute to see them playing.  Lucas will often say to me, "Mom, he's SO cute!" or "Do you see how cute this baby is?"  I love it!

Sometimes when Logan is grumpy and I'm busy with something, I have Lucas walk around with him for me.  Logan loves getting carried around by his big brother.

I just love this picture!