Logan (7 months)

Here's our baby boy. 

 Crawling as fast as his little legs will take him.

Pulling himself to standing. 

Smiling up a storm.

Growing so fast. 

Logan seems to be growing leaps and bounds these days. It seems as though he gets stronger and sweeter each day.

 He crawls super fast, and those little legs move quickly around the house. He likes to explore in the kitchen(fridge and pantry), bathrooms, and in the bedrooms. If you start to walk somewhere without him, he's right behind you. 

 We were both surprised, and not, when he pulled to standing for the first time just the other night. Just shy of 8 months old! He was watching the bathtub fill with water and decided it would be a better view standing beside it. The bathtub has taken on a new level of fun for him, as he graduated to taking a bath with big sis! He loves it! 

 Logan is eating 3 meals of his baby food a day, and continuing to nurse well. I think I can say his favorite is bananas (or a combo containing bananas) and his least favorite is...well, I haven't given those a try yet again. Peas...yikes. He also has a sippy cup he is trying to figure out. Right now, it mostly gets gnawed on, but he holds it well. 

 As of late, Logan has being making strides in the sleep department. With a little encourgaement, he is going to sleep so well, and sleeping longer too. We're proud of him! He takes a morning nap about 2 hours after he wakes up and then an afternoon nap around 1:00. He has also moved from napping in his swing to napping in his crib. 

 Logan's a good sport so far when it comes to learning the ropes of playing with Makenah. Ha! There is a lot for a big sister to learn when it comes to sharing toys that hadn't had to be shared previously. We are encouraging Makenah to get Logan things to play with, telling her about why he wants to play with things...its all around teaching mode here. 

Logan loves to watch what she is doing, and wants to be included more and more each day. He plays so well with toys already, so I hope they develop into great playmates. 

 One special bond that has continued is the excitement that Makenah has with helping to feed Logan. She enjoys that SO much, and Logan does really well taking spoonfuls from her. She tells him, "It's not hot, Wogan. You can eat it." 

She also likes to get him "cold teethers" from the fridge, cover him with his blanket, peek at him after he wakes in his crib, and hold him in the rocking chair. He's so big now though, he just sits beside her. 

 These days Logan much prefers to be on the move on the ground, but will still play for a bit in his jumper. The swing has pretty much been retired, as he doesn't sit still much anymore. We've got several baskets of toys that he likes to dig in, and plays so cutely with them. 

I literally only got this one shot of him laying down. He's automatically on all 4s and crawling away. 

Then he decided to just try and stand where he was.

He found the chair to help. 

We're awaiting his first tooth that seems to be trying to make its way through his swollen bottom gums. And, you can bet I'm saying Ma-ma all the time, trying to get the infamous first word! He's got the cutest babbles and hollers going on right now, and he can have a whole conversation in fake coughs. 

Logan Kent is a daily gift to our family.
We love his wide grin, sweet spirit, and tough boy personality! 

iMonday

Photos from my iPhone...

Heading out to church

 Alphabet stampers

 Playing together

 Having "espresso" with Daddy. This is totally sweet, and Bryan especially loves this cute little after dinner time. He makes Makenah a little 'kid friendly' warm drink in one of his espresso cups and she daintily sips and visits with him. So cute!!

 Visiting one of Papa's new homes he built. It's all done and its amazing and beautiful! 

 Logan!!!

 I could chew on this...

 Or on this, haha! Every time I open the fridge he makes a bee-line for the bottom shelf and will start to gnaw on one of these bottles. 

 Making Halloween cookies

 Upside down naps feel just as good. 

 Sampling her candy after trick-or-treating. 

 Story time on Thursday was costume day. 

 We always have to stick around out front at the library for awhile to climb on something or look at the flowers, statue, or trees.

 Decorating her cookies. 

 Making birthday cakes in the sand with Grandma. 

 K-State party at Mimi and Papa's! Go Cats!!

 "Wrestling" with Logan. She asked if he wanted to wrestle her, and she was a good sport. Logan is already very into climbing, tackling, and trying to be tough! Ha. 

A couple things I missed

I was looking for some pictures on the computer today and saw that I had a couple of things to add to the happenings of October, even though it is now in the record book.

Makenah continues to enjoy painting projects, and I'm always on the look out for something cute she would like to paint. She picked out this birdhouse at the store and had a great time painting it. She used much of the same technique she perfected with the pumpkins. Lots of mixing, lots of fun!

 And, mid-October we carved one of the pumpkins we had picked out. This was totally new, and Makenah took a little warming up to the idea. She did not want to touch much of the pumpkin with her hands, but she decided to help scoop with a spoon. 

Halloween 2012

If you have been looking for a precious lion and a beautiful butterfly ballerina fairy princess, you have come to the right place. 

I present to you, Logan the Lion and Makenah the butterfly (or princess or fairy or ballerina!)

It's getting hard to get "smiles on command" from Makenah. Usually, unless something funny is going on, she looks at me like this...

 We visited a few houses in the neighborhood and then took off to go see grandparents.

Trick or treat Grandma! We got our bags filled and watched in awe at how busy my parents neighborhood is! Wow!

 Grandpa was gone working hard, but we enjoyed seeing Grandma.

 We went over to Mimi and Papa's and were greeted by a pink gorilla!

Logan snuggled right in, but Makenah was pretty concerned about the gorilla costume.

 Granna and Grandad even came over to hand out candy!

 Uh oh Mimi, your feet are backwards! Haha!

 All was well once the costume was put away.

 We wrapped up the night with some candy eating at their house and then headed home for bed. Makenah really enjoyed herself! She liked to ring the doorbell and would say "trick or treat" in the sweetest voice. And then "thank you..." Logan was a trooper and didn't mind his costume at all and let us carry him around all night!
Can you believe it's November now!
Happy Friday everyone!