Family Matters

Logan and his cousin Emmy are 10-months apart in age. They love getting together and have started playing together too, rather than just side-by-side. Sometimes they call each other on the phone and one talks about something and the other one is having a completely different conversation. It's so cute.

Of course, they are still very much a pair of toddlers who have their moments when playing together. Yesterday, we were visiting Emmy and Mer, and I was sitting on the couch nursing Luke while Logan and Emmy were playing. They were getting all the toys out and playing nicely, and I was just enjoying watching them play and wondering where does the time go and when did they grow up?

Then Logan found a shopping cart with lots of toy food and groceries in it. Emmy came over and took an ice cream cone from the cart. Logan flipped out. Emmy only found this funny and ran away with it giggling (these were her toys after all). Then Logan went over to her and gave her his little speech about how it's not nice to just take toys away, and that you have to ask blah blah blah...(I wonder where he heard that from).

Emmy just looked at him with a mischevious face and eventually they worked it out and she felt bad for Logan and gave the toy back. But then she must have taken something else out of the cart, because I see Logan get this scanner/phone looking thing that was attached to the shopping cart and pretend to make a phone call: "Hello? Yeah, ok, Emmy keeps taking toys away...yeah...ok...ok...bye". Then he calmly looks at her and says: "I called the police".

Later that night, when Rick got home, I was telling him this story and then I went over and asked Logan..."Why did you call the police?" And he goes: "Because I wanted them to come over and take Emmy in their car."

Oh my gosh...the things that he comes up with. I wonder how many imaginary calls he has made to the police when he's been unhappy with something I've done? Or how many imaginary calls to the police we will have when Luke starts moving around and getting into Logan's toys?

This needed to be recorded for posterity's sake.

Logan's Thoughts

We were having dinner with the missionaries tonight, and this was part of our conversation:

Logan: I have a great idea, why don't the missionaires sleep over?

Rick: Missionaries have a lot of rules, one of them is that they can't sleep over at anybody's house.

Logan: Do they have their own house?

Rick: Yes, they do. And they sleep in the same room, like you and Luke.

Logan: Wow!!! And do they have a spaceship bed?

Lots of laughs....

By the way, neither Logan nor Luke have a spaceship bed...so not sure where that idea came from.

Happy Halloween!

Love,

Han, Leia, Yoda, little Darth, and the Force.

Halloween preparations

Last night we carved pumpkins. Logan was really looking forward to it, except he didn't want anything to do with cleaning the inside of the pumpkins. He clearly told us "I don't want to squeeze the pumpkin's guts out"....ok...no problem, Mama and Papa took care of it.

Logan supervising the process

Logan guiding Papa's arm in this difficult task

And...the finished product.

I think they look pretty good.

First Field Trip

Logan's pre-school group had their first field trip this week. We went to the DeCordova Museum, Sculpture Garden. It was a really neat place, the only problem being that the day turned out to be super cold. So, we didn't stay long, but we still enjoyed the outing and looking at some of the cool sculptures.

Here is Logan saying hello to the giant head

There were 2 giant hearts

And an oversized xylophone that the kids could actually play with some sticks

Maybe we'll go back in the summer time and run around some more.

Peek-a-boo

I love how it takes almost no effort to amuse a baby at this age.

And he's THREE!

Our little boy turned 3 last Wednesday, WOW. I still have a hard time believing he is so big. We love him so much, he is so much fun and such good entertainment. He is obsessed with baseball and is getting really good at it. His new thing now is that when we offer to help with something, he tells us "It's ok, I've got it under control". Oh my goodness, so independent. The other day before nap time, I went to cover him up with the blankets and he said "don't worry mama, I can do it" (snif).

We celebrated his birthday with a lot of events. First, that morning in preschool with cupcakes and a happy birthday song. Then, we went out to dinner that night to one of Logan's favorite restaurants (the one with the moose that talks, as he calls it). And then on Saturday we had a little party for him. We had a baseball theme and I made a baseball cake. He had been anticipating his birthday for months because we've been to a lot of birthday parties in the past few months and every time he was a little dissapointed that it wasn't his birthday.

Here is Logan enjoying his birthday dinner

And here is the anticipated birthday dessert


He liked it.

And here is us, with our 3-year old.

WE LOVE YOU LOGAN!!!

Steps to achieve happiness...

...according to Logan.

How about them apples?

Yep, we went apple picking this morning, it was great. We love apples, we love them by themselves and we love them in a pie or in apple crisp. Mmmmm...the possibilities.

Logan was in charge today, he went up to the lady and asked for a bag, and then a stick, then he kept telling us "Come on guys, this way". Ok sir, we followed his lead. He was not letting go of his apple bag, not even when it started getting heavy.

Logan ate A LOT of apples, the best part is that he kept getting the apples from the bag and eating them, instead of getting new ones to eat. Oh, well...we picked more to refill the bag.

Luke got an apple too, sadly with no teeth and no clue how to eat solids yet, he only got to hold it.

Mama ate some apples too.

At least half of our familly is smiling in this family picture

Looking for the biggest one.

Logan is a handy helper when it comes to reaching those apples up high.

Taste test results...thumbs up!

Did I mention we love the fall?

Best friends!

They started sharing rooms not too long ago, but it looks like they are ready to share Logan's toddler bed...not sure who would end up on the ground first.