Logan 12 Months

Logan, 

You surprised us with an unexpected natural pregnancy that we didn’t think was possible and gave me the opportunity to experience an amazing labor and delivery that I wouldn’t have changed for the world....except maybe making it to the hospital more than 40 minutes before you were born!  At exactly 9 pm on February 11, 2018, you came into this world and completed our family. You made Caleb a big brother and me and your dad parents again for the second time. You are such a strong, feisty, stubborn, sweet boy that keeps us on our toes. Your expressive personality makes us laugh all the time and watching you play with your brother melts our hearts.  I can’t believe my baby is a year old already and you’ll be entering toddlerhood soon. 

You are becoming such a little boy and losing your babyness every day.  You love pushing toy cars around the house and trying to keep up with your brother.  You have four teeth, weigh 29lbs and are 21 inches long.  You’re right in the 50th percentile for height and weight and 90th for your head.  You love watermelon, stroganoff, screaming, throwing food and your sippy cup on the floor, playing with remote controls & your brother, your lovey “Foxey” and bath time.  We love getting you naked and watching your naked butt b line it to the bath tub.  You have the cutest butt and strong, muscular thighs.  I love your gap toothed smile and your expressive personality.  You enjoy eating, but have a weird thing with textures.  If something doesn’t feel right in your hands, you won’t eat it.  Your sleep is still unpredictable; you wake anywhere from once to three times at night and you still take two naps a day.  

Your first birthday theme was “Wild One” in buffalo plaid.  It was a cold, rainy day but we made the most of it.  We had a lot of family and friends join us at our home to celebrate your first year of life.  You loved your smash cake and we all enjoyed watching you eat it.  Your dad and I made you a “busy board” full of your favorite things and some locks/hinges to spark your curiosity.  You had fun playing and were so tired by the time your party was over.  

Shortly after your 1st birthday, you started cruising along furniture, using a push walker to walk, standing up on your knees, saying Mom and Momma, and we started the weaning process.  I think you’re more ready than I am;  I’m trying to cling on to my baby a little bit longer.  I know the time is coming and it makes me so incredibly sad at how fast this journey went.  You have never been a comfort nurser or loved it, but I’ve enjoyed our bond and looking down at your sweet face while you nurse.  There was a time that we were so in sync and within a few seconds of me feeling a let down, you would start to fuss because you were hungry.  Now days you’re just too busy to nurse and only do it to go to sleep and when you first wake up in the morning.  

I am so excited to watch you grow and become the rough and tumble boy that I know you’ll be. You have made me a stronger mom and every day I am so grateful God blessed me with you. Thank you for choosing me to be your mom, my little meatball. I love you more than you’ll ever know!

Momma

 

Logan 11 Months

11 Months

Logan,

In one short month you’ll be a year old and that’s so incredibly hard to believe.  We had lots of firsts this month and I’ll try to summarize all of the many things you’re now doing.

You started the month with another cold, being a momma’s boy and having some separation anxiety when I walked out of the room.  You seem to have grown out of it for the most part and love the sense of freedom you get from crawling around the house.  You started waving hi and bye much more this month and you now shake your head no when we say no.  When we take something away from you that you’re not supposed to have or redirect you, you get soooo upset and throw little tantrums! You’ll stiffen out your back, kick your legs and scream. You’ve got quite the ‘tude little man.  

You’re officially pulling yourself up to standing on everything; but you first started in the bath tub. You love the different view of things around you now and with this comes new things to explore!  You absolutely love crawling to the play room and playing with your brother.  You are our little tornado and enjoy throwing everything out of the toy bins, playing with the toilet paper and pulling all of the DVDs out of the entertainment center.  You even inspired us to get rid of the majority of our DVDs just so we didn’t have to keep cleaning up the mess! You love pulling on chords, and playing with the carbon monoxide detector- that ended up moving out of your reach because you were totally drawn to it.  

When you are tired or want to be picked up, you will crawl over to me and head butt my legs.  You also love to head butt your brother and snuggle with stuffed animals.  You like to crawl under the coffee table, kitchen chairs and end tables and you end up bumping your head almost every single time in the exact same spot! You had a permanent bruise on the top right of your forehead for weeks.

You still love to feed yourself and have started spitting water out after you take a drink from your sippy cup.  You get soaked! You also like to throw your cup or pouch on the ground when you don’t want them anymore, but we’re working on you handing them to us when you no longer want them. So far, it works about 30% of the time.  You’re going much longer in between nursing sessions and don’t really want to nurse unless it’s first thing in the morning, going to sleep or in the middle of the night.  

You officially have both top teeth in and have the cutest gap that totally changes the way you look. You started grinding your teeth after both teeth came through and it’s the most awful sound ever!  I can’t wait until this phase is over.  

We celebrated your first Christmas at home with Nama Desiree, Papa Jim, Nama Debbie, Papa Scott, Papa Jeff and Titi Cole.  You got a lot of cute clothes and we got you a push car to ride in when we go for walks.  You love it! You met Santa for the first time and you were indifferent about him.  You didn’t cry, but you weren’t happy about it either.  

You say “Dada” all of the time and are trying to say dog.  Your version of dog is “dahg dahg”.  When you see our cats you will attempt to say cat, but it still sounds a lot like dog.  You have yet to say Mama, but that’s okay. It’ll come in time.  You’re understanding much more now and when we ask you where the dogs, cats, your cup, light, dad, mom and brother are you will look in the right direction. You’re not that into sitting still to read books and I’m hoping that’ll change in the coming months.  

Logan, you are such a busy body and the sweetest soul. While you’re not much of a cuddler, you love to be held and be a part of everything.  You’re growing up so fast and I’m trying to soak in every moment since I know we won’t get to experience them again in another baby of our own.  Thank you for being mine.  I love you sassy pants!

Momma 

Logan 10 Months

10 months 

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 

Logan 9 Months

Logan, 

It has been another busy month for you! You are changing and learning something new every day.  You cut your second tooth this month and are eating purées and little bites of food three times a day.  You love feeding yourself and have mastered the pincher grasp. We’re introducing new foods to you all the time and so far there isn’t a food you don’t like.  You also use a sippy cup more efficiently now, but still like to use it as a teether more than anything.

Your sleeping patterns are still rough and you’re consistently inconsistent with your sleep.  For the first week or so of this month you were constantly up at night anywhere from 5-6 times and just wanted to nurse and be held. When you’re tired and trying to fall asleep, you’ll hit your head with a hammer fist.  You love to sleep on your side and belly- when you do sleep! Twice this month you didn’t want to be nursed or rocked to sleep so I laid you down in your crib and you fell asleep all on your own within 10 minutes! You still nap twice a day and your morning nap is usually your longest one.  

You love being held and carried.  You’re babbling so much mores and are saying “dadadadada” and “bababababa” all the time.  Most of the time though, you scream and screech to communicate.  You and your brother go back and forth yelling at each other.  You’ve also started doing a scrunchy face and being more expressive.

You’re trying so hard to crawl and so far you’ve just scooted forward doing a modified army crawl.  You’ve gotten into the plank and crawling position but haven’t figured out how to move your arms and legs at the same time. You’ve tried to pull yourself up a few times too! 

We celebrated your first Halloween and you dressed up as a monkey.  We took your brother around the neighborhood to go trick or treating while you watched in the stroller.  If I haven’t mentioned it yet, you’re taking the majority of your baths in the big bathtub with your brother at night.  You love splashing and chewing on any toy that fits in your mouth.  You absolutely hate when we take things away from you and you’ll throw a fit.

Logan, you are my little firecracker and growing up way too fast.  You’re in the 50th percentile for weight (19.14 lbs) and height (28.5 inches).  You’re perfectly proportioned and doing amazing.  You’re flirting more and more each day with strangers and doing anything to get their attention.  You love when we’re out and about and watching things around you.  We can just see your little brain working and processing everything.  I love you so much Logan!

Momma 

Logan 8 Months

8 months

Logan,

My feisty, sassy boy! You have found your voice this month and you LOVE screaming and yelling.  You’re quick to let us know when we need to pay attention to you that’s for sure.  You said dada this month, but I’m not too sure you are intending on saying dada for your Dada.  You like playing with your tongue and all the cool sounds it can make- your favorite it clicking it. You also love to make raspberries and doing it right in our face.  

You’ve found more interest in food this month and are eating more solids.  Your favorite foods are sweet potatoes and butternut squash.  You’re starting to enjoy nursing more and hit my chest when you want to nurse.  You’re still pretty distracted when we’re anywhere other than home and it can be a challenge getting a full feeding in. 

At the beginning of the month, you slept for 7 solid hours at night.  But that was a one time deal and then you started fighting going down at night and nap time.  You didn’t want to nurse to sleep, so I would have to stand up with you and sing while rocking you to calm down and go to sleep.  Thankfully that has passed for the most part.  I haven’t been ready to sleep train you, but I think that time is near because I haven’t been getting much sleep at night.  On average you wake up at least 4 times at night and I long for the days when I would get a 3 hour stretch of sleep.  I don’t know how I’m surviving, but somehow I am. 

You started developing a little separation anxiety this month and went through a phase where you didn’t like us putting you down and/or walking away from you.  Your brother is a great distraction though and if he is around, all is right in the world.  You also waved this month for the first time and it’s so sweet.  You get your whole arm into it.  

 

You’re still not crawling but are rolling around like crazy.  You’re so hard to get dressed and a diaper change because you’re so squirmy.  You still don’t like getting dressed.  A day before you turned 8 months your first tooth cut through! The bottom left central incisor finally made its appearance and I really though it would’ve cut through long before now, but what do I know?

We went to The Great Wolf Lodge which is an indoor water park and hotel for one night as a belated birthday present for your brother.  We all had so much fun and you enjoyed sitting in the water watching all of the kids play.  You’re the happiest in the mornings and at bath time.  You’ve taken a bath in the big tub a few times with your brother, but the small tub is just easier most of the time- although you try to pull yourself out all the time. You love seeing water trickle down out of the washcloth as we hold it above your head.  

You are as ticklish as ever and tend to double over when being tickled while laughing.  You love being lifted into the air and going up and down too.  When you’re sleepy or over something, you’ll scratch the back of your neck and leave red marks.  

Logan, you are somethin else.  You’re feisty, sassy, squishy, lovable, want to be a part of everything and are so determined.  You are going to be our outspoken, testy and mischievous boy I just know it.  And if I’m wrong, that’s okay! As long as you sleep at night I’ll be happy : ) 

I love you cranky pants

Momma 

Logan 7 Months

Logan, 

7 months have come and gone.  The months are flying by and before we know it we’ll be planning and celebrating your first birthday.  At 7 months, you’ve mastered rolling in every direction and we can’t leave you up on elevated surfaces and walk away any more.  You’re sitting up unassisted but haven’t figured out how to get into sitting up on your own yet.  You’re still not into food much despite having tried sweet potatoes, avocado, peas, carrots, butternut squash, applesauce, mango, pears and prunes and you’re trying to figure out a sippy cup.

You’re sleeping better at night this month, waking twice and occasionally you’ll only wake up once.  Your morning naps continue to be your best naps of the day since you don’t fight them, but your afternoon naps have been rough.  I think you’re starting to go longer periods in between naps and I’ve been trying to put you down too soon.  You’re still breastfed and nothing has changed with that as far as frequency, but you sure do get distracted when nursing now and sometimes it’s really hard for me to get you to finish nursing.  

You had your first trip to Arizona this month to visit Nama Desiree and Papa Jim. You got in the pool for the firs time and enjoyed relaxing in the water.  Overall, you did great on the trip but had a hard time sleeping at night- which was to be expected.  

This month you had your kidney check up as well as a follow up appointment with your urologist for your testicle.  Your initial lab work came back concerning, but we found out it was due to the awful blood draw and that was the reason your results were off.  When we had your labs done again, everything came back perfect and your kidney function is totally normal.  Your ultrasound was normal as well and your kidney continues to grow just as it should.  We’re in the process of switching to a different nephrologist because we don’t like the one you currently have.  Unfortunately your left testicle, if it’s there, has not descended and we’re awaiting a surgery appointment for your urologist to see if it’s there and take the necessary steps to bring it into the right position if you do have it.  Your urologist doesn’t think you do because your right testicle is a bit larger than normal and just like your one kidney, if you only have one testicle it will over compensate for the missing one and grow larger.  I’m not looking forward to you having surgery and it scares me to put you under, but it is what will be best for you in the long run.  

You’re much more into toys now that you can sit up and still love watching big brother act silly.  It certainly is not easy having two young boys, but I adore you and your brother and look forward to all of the fun adventures we will have as a family.  

Logan, you’re my little firecracker.  You’ve got spunk, sassiness, attitude, charm and the sweetest little face.  I adore the way you grab my face when you’re tired and open mouth kiss my cheek, the way you move your legs when I’m holding you on my hip and you get excited and how you’re always quick to let us know what’s on your mind.  Always speak your mind and don’t hold back, but please be respectful when doing so ; ) 

I love you,

Momma 

Logan 6 Months

Logan,

My little sugar plum, how are you already 6 months old?! I feel like it was just yesterday we were rushing to the hospital in disbelief at how fast you were making your appearance into the world.  At your 6 month check up you weighed 17.3 pounds (50th percentile) and were 27.5 inches long (85th percentile).  You’re a solid baby and even though you’re in the 50th percentile for weight, you feel so much heavier.  Your check up went well and you handled your shots amazingly.  You have an ultrasound for your kidneys, appointment with your urologist and nephrologist coming up and I’ll include those details in your 7 month update.  

Your sweet personality is coming out more and more each day.  You are an easy baby, but also quite opinionated and if it’s possible at this age, stubborn.  You have the sweetest smile and are so expressive.  When you smile, your whole face lights up. You absolutely adore your big brother and still think he’s hilarious.  He’s pretty fond of you too and is always kissing you and telling you he loves you.  You’ve become much more “talkative” this month and love blowing raspberries.  You’re also quite ticklish on your feet and the sides of your belly. 

This month has been an exciting one. You’ve finally mastered rolling over from back to belly but are struggling to remember how to go from belly to back.  You start to fuss when you can’t figure it out and we have to roll you onto your back.  You went to the beach for the first time this month and got to put your feet in the sand and water.  You didn’t mind it at all.  You met your Great Uncle Pat who lives in Utah and we hope we get to see him again soon before you get too big.  

I had an overnight trip planned to Las Vegas to celebrate cousin Catherine’s 21st birthday this month and Nama Desiree planned to watch you for me while dad went to work.  Earlier in the week we made sure you would take a bottle of pumped breast milk and you did! No problem at all.  The day I left, I was quite anxious and really didn’t want to leave you.  You must have picked up on my anxiousness because you refused the bottle and didn’t eat for nearly 10 hours.  However, you seemed okay and only cried when Nama or dad offered you the bottle. I was a mess and decided to leave Las Vegas after being there for only 2 hours to come home and nurse you.  Your dad and I were concerned about your hydration and your kidney though, so your dad ended up leaving work early to come home.  He loaded you up in the truck and met me in Barstow so I could feed you sooner.  

The week after that, your sleep got really rough.  You were waking up 6-7 times at night and I was exhausted.  After a week or so of that, you started sleeping better and are only waking up about 3 times at night.  On average, you’re taking 2 naps a day but will take more if we’re in the car.  

You’re nursing about every 2 hours still and I could probably stretch out your feedings longer, but every time I offer to nurse you, you don’t turn it down.  You’ve become very interested in what we’re eating and drinking and if we have something in our hands, you’ll try to grab it.  The day you turned 6 months, you had you’re first solid food- sweet potatoes.  You liked them, but weren’t overly excited about eating.  You’re still trying to figure it out and that’s okay.  

You’ve started paying more attention to our dogs and cats this month and will try to grab the cats if they get close enough to you.  You have two birthmarks on your left thigh that I keep forgetting to mention in your monthly updates.  You love when I wash and rub lotion on your feet.  You’re not a fan of getting dressed and get impatient when it takes me longer to get you dressed.  You’ve become quite squirmy when I change your diaper now.

Logan, you are just the sweetest baby. I love the way you look up at me and the bond we have.  I’m so thankful you chose me to be your mommy.  You have blessed our family more than we could have ever imagined. I adore the heck out of you.

Love, 

Mommy