Exersaucer

So Logan went crazy in his exersaucer today. He absolutely loves it. And as you can tell from the last two posts, he loves to jump. If you hold him in your lap he jumps as well. Anyway, just a quick post to show off my little guy! Hope everyone is doing well. Keep in touch.!

Johnny Jumper

So my little man loves his johnny jumper so much. In fact, he spends hours/day between that and his exersaucer. The day of the pig roast, he was outside in his exersaucer playing nearly all day while we got stuff ready for the party. Whoever invented those are my hero. Here is a video today of him jumping in his johnny jumper this afternoon.

Then the little man got just a little to excited to be in his jumper, and bonked his head on the wall. I knew he'd gotten excited and was jumping and hugging the wall, but I didn't realize he'd banged his head until about 10 minutes later in the bath, and he had a huge knot on the right side of his forehead. Bad mom I know. But he didn't seem to mind. So now Logan is asleep in bed (which is great considering what I said in my last post that he wasn't sleeping anymore) with a little goose egg on his forehead. After I put him to bed I cried. Poor baby. But I'm sure it wont be his last bump or bang. I mean after all, he is a boy! Needless to say I moved the jumper about 2 feet farther away from the wall so that doesn't happen again.

Mark's out of town for the week which stinks, but the baby is asleep as I mentioned before. Maybe there is too much comotion with mommy and daddy here. Mark doesn't quite get the "quiet hour" before bedtime. He thinks every hour is playtime hour. I think keeping him up late for the pig roast and stuff was throwing him off. Not to mention the teething and separation anxiety we're going through right now. Hopefully things get better. I again only got 45 minutes at the gym until they called me because they couldn't take his screaming anymore. Poor baby! There are more toys at the daycare there then he could ever dream about having at home, but all he wants is his mommy! I do have to remember I am blessed with a wonderful, healthy baby who couldn't be more perfect no matter how many times he keeps me up at night or cuts my workout short. I love him more than life itself!

Pig Roast and Mark's birthday

Okay, so our camera skills are lacking for this post, but it's information that belongs in a family blog. So yesterday we held our annual pig roast and bonfire. We had an excellent turnout with TONS of food as always. People are always so generous when it comes to doing the "pot luck" format that we do for it. We had some of the best pasta salads ever, and apparently the cheesy potatoes from Mark's brother Steve were a hit because they were gone before I got to them.

It also happened to be Mark and Jeff's birthday so we had a cake and all sang happy birthday to him around nine pm. It turned out really nice. I went to sleep around 1am and there were still people here. Mark came to bed around 2:30 or 3. Cleanup wasn't too bad this am either. People helped out a lot last night and made everything really easy for today. Our back garage is full of chairs and table and lots of other stuff, but overall, it was a great night.

Now, the biggere issue, since we went to Niagara falls with Logan, he absolutely refuses to go to sleep on his own. It's torturous. We do his regular bedtime routine, and put him in bed and he screams bloody murder for a long time. After about 30-45 minutes we've been picking him up. Occasionally we're able to get him back down, but twice now he's refused and we've given up around 1 or 2 am and let him sleep with us. This is a cry for help. Anyone with parenting advice please let me know what you think. What is going on with my baby?

Also, gym daycre. I join this really nice gym and Logan screams the whole time I'm gone at daycare? I'm thinking this is stranger anxiety but I'm not 100% on this one.

I kind of want to be done breastfeeding too, but Logan is so attached to it especially before bedtime. GRRRRRR!

Overall, this parenting thing is hard. But we're surviving.

I will get some pictures that my dad took from our little event up shortly.

He's getting so big! A random assortment of pictures. I can't belive my little man is 7 mo old already. Where in the world does time go? I can't believe it! Here is a random assortment of photos. More to come later. Busy getting ready for the big pig roast this weekend. If you're in town, you should come!














"Yum, I like to put things in my mouth because my teeth are in the process of coming in." Give me that I'll eat it."

Niagara Falls

So we just got home from Niagara Falls. We met our friends from Philadelphia and their two children out there. Mark had never been there before but he wasn't prepared for all the walking. We had a blast. Here are a few pictures from our trip. Here is Rob, Katie and Santino in front of the Canadian Falls.



Italia was asleep in the stroller...

Here's Me and Logan and our family picture in front of the fallsOkay, okay, so Logan didn't cooperate, but it's okay. We got a ton of pictures of him on this trip. We went on Maid of the Mist and took Logan. Our plan was to take cover when the real mist came, but he ended up really liking it. So Mark kept him out in all the action.

Here are a few pictures from the view from our hotel room window and one of Logan getting bathed. You've gotta do what you've gotta do at a hotel.

Here are a few other random ones! We had a good time. Lots of walking but that was partially because the boys didn't arrange hotels correctly.

Swimming

Today we went to the life center plus pool for about an hour after my workout. Logan seemed to enjoy it but got a little cold. We saw a few friends from high school there with their babies and really enjoyed ourselves.



Also, Logan has figured out how to get his butt up in the air. He's going to be on the move here shortly. I have a video on the camera but just need to figure out how to upload actual video onto here, and not from the camera. As soon as I do, I will update it. It's pretty cute. He hasn't quite figured out how to get his hands under him too though at the same time, so he just falls over, usually on his face. Anyway, just a quick blog for tonight. Hope all is going well. I work tomorrow night, then it's off to Niagara falls for a few days.

This is a picture of Logan about to go in the pool on GOBA. He really enjoyed it then because it was so hot out.

Bath Time!

As promised, a blog about bath time. It has certainly become an adventure. Logan gets a bath every night. Originally we were doing it just to relax him and calm him down and use it as sort of a "sleep trigger" however now, since he started consuming solids, he usually needs a bath at night. I knew it was time to buy toys when Logan started splashing like crazy in the water. I bought him some foam letters and numbers, and he loves them to death. Or at least loves to eat them. Also, he has learned to splash like crazy. There is usually water all over the place when he's done and mommy is soaking wet. Then when he's done he puts his arms up to be picked up. Then he gets his baby massage, then to bed. The following is a few pictures of him in the bath with his letters. I can put this on the internet because all the important parts are covered by his gut:)

Just an update on his crawling, he is still just scooting around. He is working hard to get his butt up in the air, and occasionally does, but hasn't quite figured out the cordination of crawling. Pretty soon we'll be posting videos of him tearing up the house though.

Playtime with Logan

So I joined a gym today but it's not just any gym. It's the cadillac of gyms. It's called life center plus and it's in Hudson, but its the closest thing around. We belonged to Macedonia rec center for the past year, and there was no babysitting for Logan's age group so it made working out rather difficult. So this one gives me two hours to do a workout (which is more than enough time), then I can take Logan to the pool with me. For the next month and a half the outdoor pool is still open. They have everything I want including classes for me and Logan like mommy and me swim lessons and mommy and me yoga, and baby massage, etc, etc, etc. I was getting bored in the house and needed something to do on my days off. This should work out perfectly.
Logan has really started to enjoy his johnny jumper and his excersaucer. He jumps for hours at a time. Tonight Mark and I were able to prepare an entire meal while he jumped around. He loves it.

The other thing Logan loves is putting things in his mouth. He is really exploring his world. He eats like a pig and this shirt that he's in in this picture is now a belly shirt, because his tummy is getting so round. My lactation consultant tells me that's good because when he starts crawling he'll get nice and thin and have plenty of energy to burn off. Hopefully she's right.

Logan is starting to be more alert every day. He's grabbing at things and really working on that pincher grasp. He sits up in the bathtub(I will post more on baths later, they have turned into more of a playtime), and is really starting to work on sitting up. He sits for about a minute before he kicks his legs and ends up falling back if nothing is supporting him from behind. If the boppy or something else is there, he usually does just fine.

This was a cute elmo outfit that some friends of ours gave him. It was adorable. I especially love the little baseball cap. He looks so adorable in it. He didn't even mess with it either. The only thing is it kept falling off when he'd go to give you kisses or put something in his mouth and he'd bump it. Still cute though. Little boys clothes are very adorable at this age. Anyway, I hope all is going well, I'm not sure how many people are actually reading my blog, so if you are, shoot me a line, otherwise I'm going to have to do some "readvertising." Take care of yourselves :)

Too big too fast!

Logan is getting to big for his car seat. This car seat only goes up to 22lbs. He is 20lbs 6 oz at his last weight check. I havn't been able to carry him around in his carrier for the last couple months or so anyway. So we have to get an "inbetween" car seat. I bought one the other day that I really like, but gee whiz is it big. It takes up the entire seat of our little black car. It's a little bit better in the accord and the van but still. All well, Guess you got to do what you got to do. Here are a few final pictures of Logan in his old little baby carrier. These were from about two months ago so he's even bigger than this in it now.