Testing out the Beach

We took Logan to the Beach again this weekend. I figured we should take her as much as we can so we can get her to like it more. She didn't cry, but she still didn't like when her shoes and feet got sandy. She did really well though. She even walked out to the water with us. I was proud of her. Here are a few pics of us with her at the beach.

Logan walking back up to her towel

Daddy and Logan hanging out together.

Mommy and Logan's turn....I know Mommy needs a tan. You would think I'd have one living so close to the beach. :)

A FULL Spring Break Week!!!

I'm so sad that today is the last day of Spring Break. I really enjoyed the vacation. I guess it's a really great taste of what summer has in store for me.

The first day of spring break, Saturday, was a VERY rainy, wet day, but Adam and I HAD to get the sod laid down in our yard. Yes, we tore out all those plants in our front yard and put grass in. It was such a difficult chore and it took a few hours, but through all the wet and mud Adam and I got it all down and I can't believe the huge difference it makes to our house. It really opens it up and makes it more inviting. I wish I had before and after pics of what we did, but unfortunately I don't have either. Lets just all keep our fingers crossed that it takes. We've been doing lots of watering to it.

Sunday, March 15th, Adam and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary. It seems so odd to say it was our one year anniversary because we've been together for so long, but it was. WOW!!! I am so blessed to have a wonderful husband. Here is a picture of that wonderful spring day last year.

I had a few things I wanted to do during the week of spring break. I wanted to read a book and I wanted to do something with Logan away from the house everyday. And I can actually say that I accomplished both those goals. I read a fabulous book called, The Reader. Some of you may have seen the movie, but I had not, so I did not know what the book was about. It was a really great book and I really don't have any intentions on watching the movie. I don't want take anything away from the book. I suggest to anyone who has not watched the movie to read the book.

Logan and I also did something everyday during spring break. On Monday, Logan, Honey, and I went to the Texas State Aquarium...which happens to be in Corpus. Adam was able to meet up with us later on during the day. We had a blast there. We walked around and looked at all the different sea creatures. We watched the dolphin show, had lunch, and played in the playground area. Here are a few pics of that great adventure.

Logan checking out the otters. She kept calling them Ki-Ki's for Kitty

Honey and Logan looking at the colorful fish!!!

Mom and Logan going down the slide together. What things we do for our kids.

Daddy's turn on the slide....

Logan, Honey, Mommy and Daddy on our way out. What a great time!

On Tuesday, St. Patricks Day, Logan, Honey and I went to watch, "Elmo Goes Green" at the American Bank Center. We had excellent seats. Logan really seemed to enjoy herself. Here are a few pics from that wonderful experience.

We were VERY close up. In fact we actually moved to sit further back.

Logan checking out the show

Honey and Logan enjoying Elmo

And this part shocks me. This balloon cost $10. Yes, can you believe that they get away with selling that thing for $10. Poor Logan, she didn't get a balloon that day.



Elmo and Logan together!!!

On Wednesday I decided to take Logan up to the pool that her and I would be starting swim lessons at next week. They had an "open swim" time, so I thought it would be perfect. I was SOOOOOO wrong. There were about 300 kids too many there. The pool was extremely crowded and Logan did not get quite the experience I was hoping she'd get. We stayed for about 10 minutes and left. I forgot we weren't the only ones on spring break.

On Thursday Logan, Honey and I went to the beach. Logan has not been to the beach in a VERY long time. I was bummed to see that she didn't enjoy it that much. She wasn't very fond of the sand...that's not something that she needs to dislike at the beach. I've never heard of a beach without sand. I guess Adam and I need to take her there more often so she will learn to appreciate it. Here are the few pics we were able to catch there.

Mom and Logan playing together. I'm trying to do whatever I can, so she'll have fun.
Taking a walk together...
Honey and Logan together...

On Friday it was my 30th Birthday. WOW!!! I can't believe I'm out of my 20's. I don't feel 30, not that I really know what 30 is suppose to feel like. I feel like people might take me more seriously. I'm not just a young child anymore, I'm 3o. :) I'm old enough to have had some "experiences" in my life. Adam and I went to dinner in Rockport that night. It was very delicious. It was a really nice dinner with just the two of us.

Saturday morning, we got up early and Adam, Logan, Honey and I headed out for San Antonio to go to the Zoo. There were soooooo many people there. Last year, we were at the San Diego Zoo and I believe there were just as many people at the San Antonio Zoo as there was the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo is much larger than San Antonio Zoo. Logan seemed to enjoy herself for the most part. We had our difficult moments...especially when she was hungry and I think we waited in like for like 30 minutes just to get our food. We saw LOTS of animals and she got a chance to walk around a bit. Here are a few pics of that wonderful occasion.

Logan and Dad checking things out...

Logan and Dad by the reptiles...that was not my favorite part

I think we all felt this way after the zoo. Everyone needed their nap, but Logan definitely got hers. :)

And today is Sunday and I am getting back into the swing of things, ready...well not REALLY ready, to start work back up again. I'm lucky to have had such a wonderful break. It' s going to make the summer that much more enjoyable. Logan starts tippi toes back up on Monday and Tuesdays and Thursdays we are starting swim lessons. I hope all of you, who had the week off, had just as enjoyable of a week as I did. Thank you Honey for going with Logan and I on all these wonderul adventures....we sort of filled up your Spring Break week also. And Thank you Corpus Christi weather for being good to us!!

Logan says "Thank you" too!!!

First Hair Cut

Logan finally got her first hair cut this weekend. I was told that if you just trim her hair a little it will start to grow more and get thicker, so that's what we did. This weekend I had a hair appointment for myself, so Adam brought Logan up while I was getting my hair done. When Logan and Adam arrived I was getting my hair washed. This is a picture of Logan sitting on me while my hair is getting washed.

We did a very little trim on Logan's hair. We cut a little bit in the front and very little in the back. I still want to be able to put it in those pig tails. Logan sat on my lap during the process. They were actually blow drying my hair while they were cutting her hair. I think the blow dryer was a good distraction because this could have been the perfect opportunity for Logan to lose it and throw a fit, but she didn't. She was wonderful. Here are more pictures of the process.

And here is an extra picture just for fun...she took Adam's hat away and put it on her head. ADORABLE!!! Her "Honey" or "Grandma" (whatever Logan decides to call her) is trying to give her some glasses she bought her.

Tippi Toes and Pig Tails

For the past 3 Mondays Logan and I have been going to tippi-toes. It's a mommy and me class for girls 18 months - 3 years to do ballet. Here are a couple pictures of Logan on her second day of the class. I was so happy she let me put the outfit on her.




I think I'm carrying her along here...she doesn't seem to want to walk. :)

Here are pics from this past Monday in class. I was REALLY surprised she let me put this outfit on. She's not one for tights, but she had no problem. Not a tear was shed when I changed her.

This is at the end of class and Logan just got a sticker for doing such a GREAT job!!!


She's trying out one of her moves here. So cute, right?

The class is about 45 minutes long and all the jumping and moving around gets me pretty tired also, but I am having a great time with her. Each time she stays engaged longer and longer and she participates better. She especially loves when the turtles come out. I especially love any time where she actually tries to do some of the movements they ask. It's so darn cute.

This week I was also able to put Logans hair in pig tails for the first time. It's so cute. She actually kept them in her hair the whole day. I usually just put one pony tail on the top of her head, but this particular morning I felt adventerous and decided to go for 2. To my surprise she was okay with it. That evening around 5:30....she went to take the pony tails out, but she is so used to having just one in there, that that was all she took out. She just took one side out. It was too funny. I wish I would have gotten a good picture of it, but she kept running away from me.

Check out those pig tails.

20 months and counting

Here are some wonderful new things that Logan is learning to do. From my previous blog I told you that Logan got a new bed. Well the new bed did not go over so well. She learned how to get out of it and pretty much refused to go to sleep in it when Adam or I put her down. However, when our babysitter put her down, she'd fall fast asleep in her bed. We didn't push the bed thing and I figured whenever she was ready she'd do it on her own. Well one night she would not go to sleep in her crib...she wanted to stay awake with mom and dad. We were not going to have that, so we told her she had to stay in her bed. About 30 minutes later we went back to check on her and this is what we found...

She fell asleep in her bed alright...she was just halfway out. We picked her up though and put her in her crib. I think that may have been the last night she slept in her crib. She doesn't use it at all anymore. We are officially in a big girl bed. YEAH!!! When we tell her it's time to go to bed, she will even walk herself in the room and get in bed on her own. Of course we follow to get all the last minute kisses we can get before she falls asleep.

I've been realizing more and more that she completely understands A LOT of what I am saying. Some how she has learned to put her dishes in the sink when she is done with them and she throws trash away when I ask her to. If you remember pictures from my previous blog about our messy living room...

...yes remember that. Well if you are hoping that she has learned to clean that up yet, the answer is NO. It's her playroom and Adam and I just use it. :)

She does have a couple of Elmo dolls though and one time I told her that Elmo needs to go "night, night." And do you know that she took him back to her room and put him in her bed. About 30 minutes later I went in there to see if she REALLY did do that and this is what I found....

Yes Elmo needed a snack too. He was tired, but he still needed an apple slice.

Do you see how absolutely wonderful all this cuteness is? It's really great. She very entertaining and the more her vocabulary grows the more that personality of hers comes out also.

Here is a picture of the three of us this weekend at the Rise and Shine School 1K walk. The 1K ended up being the walk from our car to the registration table and then back....it started to rain really hard. But we got a chance to talk to our friends for a while before we headed back to our car.

Catch up time

It's been a while since I last posted a blog about what's been going on with us. I've been pretty busy. Basketball season (I am the JV coach) is almost over and I'm so thankful. It has been a little tiring going from Volleyball right into Basketball. I miss being able to pick Logan up after work, but that's all about to change in a month. I can't wait because then I'm taking Logan back to swimming lessons and I'm also thinking of doing "tippy-toes." Which is ballet for little ones. It should be adorable!!!


As most of you know Adam moved his gym to closer location to our home. Well, just recently they decided to shut down the street in front of his gym and do road construction. The time frame as to when this will all be finished is up in the air. We never know what plans the city may have for us. Luckily though it has currently not slowed business down for Adam too much...it just really interferes with the visibility of people driving by...now this is what Adam gets to look at each day.




Logan seems to change and change on a daily basis. Every day is a learning lesson for me as a mom. How to handle certain situations and then sometimes feeling like..."does anyone else's child do this." By no means are any of these things TERRIBLE, but I just keep wondering when is she going to learn things. For instance, when is she going to learn the enjoyment of "clean-up?" She has SOOOO much fun playing with her toys, but she is not at all interested in cleaning them up. She can handle picking one or two things up, but after that she is done and back to pulling more out. I've tried to get her to play in her room, but if Adam or I are not in there she is not interested and will bring whatever is in her room to the living room. So we are left with a living room that looks like this.

Does anyone else have this same problem? I've just recently packed up a few of her toys. It probably doesn't help that she seems to have SO MUCH STUFF!!!

Today Logan got her first "big girl" bed. YIKES!!! We are starting off with a mattress and although it may be a bit "unconventional," we are putting the mattress on the floor, so that she is low to the ground...in case she rolls off. This afternoon when she woke up from her nap, I brought the mattress into her room and set it all up. We got her Dora sheets because she loves Dora so much and I thought it would make the bed more inviting for her. She still has her crib in the bedroom and we will slowly begin the transition. Actually we slowly began the transition tonight. Instead of putting her in her crib tonight, I laid her in her bed. I turned the light off and walked out. We never heard a peep from her. About 30 minutes later Adam and I are sitting in the living room talking and I say to Adam, "Wow, I can't believe that she fell asleep her in bed that easily." Then I turn around and there she is, wide awake. I guess the difference between a crib and a bed is that she can get out of the bed NO PROBLEM!!! It was still pretty funny. Perfect timing on her part.

Here are a few pics of the bed and Adam and I testing it out with her.

And here is one of her just for fun!!

Do you like the pony tail on top?? We can finally do it....well when she lets us and doesn't pull it out. :)

Christmas 2008

What a GREAT time we had. On Christmas Eve we went to Mass. Cosmo (Logan's grandpa) got Logan this adorable dress for Christmas. We put the dress on Logan for church and she did not find it so adorable. She did NOT want to wear the dress. I guess she didn't like the material because she kept her arms raised up about 3 inches when she had it on. It was pretty funny watching her walk around like that. Althouth this picutre is a bit blurry you can still see how cute she was.

After church we headed off to Adam's parents house for Christmas gifts with them. Check Logan out by the tree with Honey...notice the dress is off and we are HAPPY!!! YEAH GIFTS!!!

She had a blast opening up all her gifts. It was really fun watching her get so excited with them. I know she doesn't understand the concept of "santa" yet, but to watch her get so happy and rip at the paper, it made it very enjoyable.

Christmas morning Logan woke up to a tree full of MORE gifts. She was instantly drawn to her Dora chair which she immediately pulled out and sat in.

After that she went for all the presents wrapped in Dora paper. If only I would have been thinking and wrapped all her gifts in Dora paper.

After opening a few of her gifts we got to one gift in particular...It was a "Yo Gabba Gabba" DVD. I had never heard of "Yo Gabba Gabba" before, but her daycare told us that she LOVES it. I thought more than Dora or Elmo...well we found out that she does love it more than Dora or Elmo. Once she unwrapped that DVD, she was done. She did not need to unwrap anymore....of course we still had her unwrap more, but she had to have the DVD right next to her. I guess that was her favorite gift. Thank you Daycare.

After the gift "ceremony" we had a lovely lunch later that day. Adam's parents, sister, our good friends Laura and Jerry, and Laura's parents all came over for lunch. This was officially Adam's and my second time cooking a turkey and all the fixing. I believe we got good reviews. It was a fabulous Christmas and I can't wait till next year with Logan. It should be very exciting. For now though, Logan needs her rest!!!