Logan,
This month has been huge for you developmentally. You’re doing so many new things all the time and trying to catch up to big brother. You caught your first cold this month that resulted in a runny nose and cough, but you handled it well and it passed fairly quickly.
You celebrated your first Thanksgiving at our house with Papa Jeff, Nama Debbie and Papa Scott. You enjoyed eating all of the yummy food and speaking of food, you’re pretty much eating everything we’re eating these days. The only time you eat a purée is from a pouch. You love feeding yourself and are very good at letting us know when you’ve had enough. You will swat and push things away with your hands.
We went to Legoland in Carlsbad with cousins Jolie, Phill, Chloe, Lucas and Emma. You had a little stranger anxiety in the beginning with your cousins, but warmed up after an hour. You were able to go on some rides, but you mostly hung out in your stroller or in the Ergo. Dad was able to get you to fall asleep for a little nap while wearing you, which helped with the long day. After Legoland, we had pizza at a delicious pizza shop in Carlsbad but by the time dinner came, you and Emma were done and completely exhausted.
This month you learned to push yourself into the siting position and just as you learned that, you started trying to crawl. You started with an army crawl and within a week or two you were full on crawling. Now you’re crawling all over the house and love exploring everything. We’ve set up the baby gate to try and contain you, but when you notice it’s open you make a break for it and go down the hallway. You love to play with the carbon monoxide detector that’s plugged into the wall and shake the dogs gate to the office. You also love going into the pantry/laundry room and playing with our shoes and getting into anything and everything. You love untying shoe laces! You try to catch up to big brother and crawling under the kitchen table with him. You two have so much fun together and I just know as you get older you’ll have so much fun together. I think you’ll be the mischievous one and Caleb will be the one watching out for you and telling you that you shouldn’t do certain things. You also started sitting up on your knees and I know before long you’ll be pulling yourself into standing and cruising along furniture.
You like to play with your expressions and fluctuations in your voice. Man can you give some looks, boy. You definitely get that from your momma, but you get your hot head from your dad. You are still as feisty as ever and don’t like when we take something away from you that you shouldn’t have. You get so upset!! You scratch the back of your head when you’re tired and frustrated
You learned how to clap this month and shake your head no, although I don’t know if you really mean to tell us no. You’ve become quite the flirt and love getting attention from strangers- especially in church! You will do everything you can to get a look at someone and wait for their reaction. You love when people pay attention to you.
On December 7th you had laparoscopic surgery to find your left testicle that never descended. It didn’t come up on the ultrasound, but your urologist said she needed to go in to confirm it wasn’t there or drop it or remove it if it was not viable. We are so very blessed we had her as your urologist and her colleague did the surgery because they did find it in your abdomen. However, it was not viable and has no blood vessels going down into your scrotum to save it. It needed to be removed to reduce the risk of cancer later in life. You handled the surgery and pre-op well. You couldn’t nurse for 6 hours prior to the surgery which ended up being closer to 7 1/2, but you weren’t phased by it. It was definitely harder on me to not be able to feed you. The surgery lasted about an hour and you came out of anesthesia really fast and you were not happy! It took nearly 2 1/2 hours to get you to calm down enough to nurse and come to. When you finally nursed it was such a relief and we were sent home. You healed great and your incisions are so tiny! You are such a strong, brave boy and I’m so glad this is all behind us now.
Logan, you are such a joy and have a huge personality. You are the greatest addition to our family and complete us. I’m so looking forward to your first Christmas sweet boy. I love you so much I could just eat you!!
Momma
