Holy Toledo, I can't believe it's really been 3 months already that we've been here. I guess some days it seems like we've always been here and other times it feels like we just moved. It's crazy how we humans interpret time. Well, on to the good stories. This week was a major break-through in solid feeding, my boy LOVES Peaches. We've tried several different fruits and vegetables and he does okay, pulls some weird faces, and sometimes won't even open his mouth (he really hates green beans right now). The other day I let Morgan pick the next food to try and he's been wanting to give peaches to him since the beginning, but I wanted to start with veggies...I should have listened to Morgan, Logan ate the entire serving of peaches, a task that usually takes at least two days and 2-3 feedings. Then later that evening I was trying to get him to eat his rice cereal..wasn't interested, so I mixed in a little bit of the peaches, and he ate it all, and then continued to eat 3/4 of the rest of the peaches serving...in one day!! It was great. He has since slowed the pace down, but I hope he approaches the rest of the solid foods with as much excitement. We have yet to try pears, peas, & squash, but the only thing I can truly say he likes are peaches. He tolerates the applesauce and bananas and I'm sure he'll eventually come around to the green beans and carrots.
Another funny story that happened this week was when I was finishing up work and Morgan was done studying for a while. He needed a break because he was getting tired, so I asked him to play with Logan for a bit. Well, I guess Daddy must have been really tired, because he fell asleep. Haha, man's idea of watching the baby.
In all reality though, Morgan is the best dad in the whole world and loves his little Buddy. They have a lot of fun playing together and Morgan can't wait until he can play catch, go hiking, and teach him everything about being a kid, who knows better than the young at heart. :)
I don't know how many are familiar with the Hungry Little Caterpillar, but it was one of my favorite books growing up, so I was so excited when Logan finally fit into his caterpillar outfit that his Grandma gave him. Logan is really starting to grow up, I can't believe he's 6 1/2 months now. He really loves to stand up and he can almost sit by himself. It's fun to watch him learn new things, I can't wait until he starts crawling and walking, although it has been nice to be able to put him down on a blanket to play and not have to worry about him crawling into a big mess, we're still in the process of baby-proofing the entire house.
I guess I can say something now because it is official: I got called to be the Primary Chorister. How fun! I'm excited. This will be an interesting challenge, it's very intimidating to think that next week I'll be teaching the primary kids (there are only about 8) the primary songs and I will have to get up there and sing in front of them. I'm nervous, but excited, so if any of you who have ever served in this calling...or primary...or just have some create ideas on how to teach the songs, please send them my way. I am very excited that we are getting into the Christmas season though, because those are my favorite primary songs of all. It will be fun to teach them my favorite songs. I think that pretty much sums up the noteworthy events of this week. Life is still good and fun and we love being parents. Logan is daddy's little puppet, and he's my little dress up doll. The other day I was experimenting with what hair he does have. We'll end with a few of those pictures of "Spike" That was his nickname for the day after I loaded his hair with my mousse. :) Have a great week and we'll try to have some great adventures this week to write about next time.
We love The Buddy more than anything in the world, but for you parents out there, it's really nice to have an adult conversation without talking about poop, or "this little piggy" :) Logan is our joy and happiness in the world and his smile can melt away the worst day. We were playing around the other day with the buddy. He grabbed his feet and pulled his socks of and they just looked like perfect ear warmers for daddy.
The Buddy wanted to play too. It took us a couple tries with the camera to snap it fast enough that both socks were on his ears. Logan is also starting to roll over like a champ now. He gets as far as his tummy and then sort of gets stuck there, but we're working on it.
This weekend was quite an eventful one. Morgan went to Salt Lake on Friday because his friend Justin was getting married on Saturday. Logan and I stayed home since we already had one flying adventure, and we probably wouldn't have all made it over and back together anyway. Here are a few cute pictures of the wedding.
While Morgan was away at the wedding I got to spend two nights by myself in Oklahoma. It took me a really long time to fall asleep the first, because of course I heard every little sound and was worried about my little baby. Good news: we're all safe and sound :) On Saturday I went to a Relief Society Craft Activity and we made these really cool tile decorations. Basically it's a vinyl type sticker that gets put on the tile. I used the quote at the beginning of the blog. It's really cool and someday when we're in a more permanent establishment I'd like to do some more decorating to that effect.
Just look at that cute little tush. Logan looks forward to his bedtime baths, we can't wait until he's sitting up more on his own and have him splish splash in the big tub with bathtime toys. Logan loves to give his mommy and daddy kisses. They are a little slobbery, but still bring a smile to your face...
...or he might have just been really hungry. We've started feeding Logan solid foods now...very slowly. He's starting to understand a little bit better what he's supposed to do with them. This was one of our attempts at rice cereal.
I think he prefers just milk. This next week is sure to be a colorful mess when we give him some other fruits and veggies too. Speaking of fruits and veggies...well mostly fruit, we had some extra bananas that were really ripe and we wouldn't have been able to eat them soon enough, so I thought to myself, hmm, I should try making some banana bread, so I did. The best part was that it actually tasted like banana bread, perhaps all is not lost in baking for me! And now that Logan takes a 2 hour nap in the morning (YAY) I can actually start trying some more cooking/baking/craft experiments.
So, in other news, the bishop of our ward pulled Morgan aside today and gave him a calling and we ended up sustaining him and he got set apart today too. He's the second counselor in the Young Men's Presidency. We're excited, it will be a good opportunity to serve....then the bishop said he would need to probably meet with me next week, so we'll see what else he has up his sleeve.
I guess it's my (Morgan's) turn to write. Annie needs to get a serving of fruit for the day via Kelloggs fruity strawberry fruit snacks. Annie loves candy. With Halloween approaching I'm not sure whether the candy we buy is for trick-or-treaters or for her. Well, they're all kids it's all the same. Those that know me know that I love cookies and brownies, but I don't really care too much for candy. Hopefully our children will land somewhere in between where they will occasionally enjoy a treat, but not require the 12 step program to relinquish their addictions to sweets. We're on the "pre-12 steps" with Annie's candy cravings, and step -1 for Morgan's cookies.
Logan is starting to get the hang of his binky. He is able to grab on to it, pull it out of his mouth, and put it back in again. Well...most of the time anyway.
On occasion when he doesn't get it quite right, he doesn't want help from his momma.
He's really going for independence now. Logan will have the binky the way he likes it.
Even if the binky is turned sideways and upside down. Sometimes he just puts the entire thing in his mouth.
This photo was taken after Logan's first official 360 degree roll-over all by himself.
This is Nicki, she's sort of taken my old position at the office, so we work pretty closely on things.
This is Augest and The Buddy. I shared an office with her in Sandy. She was the first person at work that kept my pregnancy secret. I figured it would be hard to keep it a secret when I was sharing an office with her. :)
And, this is my boss Bob. Even he held Logan for a while when we came in to work. I worked as his personal assistant for two years until I had Logan and we moved away, now I'm sort of supervising the position while working on the training program that he has been developing over the past couple years. This has probably been the best job I've ever had, even though it is still filled with a lot of stress and everything that comes with working, it's nice to have a boss that realizes the importance of family and is willing to work around that with me.
The hardest part about having a baby at the office with you is finding a place to put the sleeping baby. I didn't really bring any big toys with me since we flew over and were already packed to the limit, so we improvised. There was a little extra room on my desk, so we shared. I had all sorts of good intentions to visit friends while I was out there, but after three lllooooonnnngggg days of work I was exhausted every day that I came home. I usually put in about 5 hours over the course of the day, but when I was here I ended up working close to 9 hours a day. So, to all of you that I had tentative plans with, I apologize. I did get a chance to visit some family though, that was a little easier since most of them just came over to the house and I didn't have to go anywhere, except to visit Great Grandma Hadlock.
This is Logan's Great Grandma Hadlock. We went to visit her and Logan was so happy to see her.
This is Logan's cousin Derek. Derek is just a little over two now, so when Logan gets bigger he'll have some cousins close to his age.
This is Logan's cousin, Audrey..Derek's sister. She came over to get some fabric for a school project, which was perfect timing while I was there so I got to see everyone.
This is Logan's Grandma Hadlock and Great Grandma White holding him. Grandma Hadlock is holding Brayden. Nola and Brayden flew into Salt Lake on Wednesday and came over to visit Thursday morning just before we headed to the airport.
Great Grandma & Grandpa White wanted to come see Logan again before he flew back to Oklahoma.
Since we can't really watch the BYU Football games on TV, we have also been cheering for Morgan's new school. Go Sooners! OU beat Texas in the notorious Red River Shoot-Out. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the rivalry, the Shoot-out is the equivalent of our "HOLY WAR" between BYU & UTAH. At least that's what I am told; however, I still feel the BYU / Utah rivalry is more intense.
So, while I was hardly working..ahem, I mean working hard in Salt Lake for three days, I obviously had the camera with me so Morgan couldn't take pictures, but he was hard at work putting the FINAL touches on the kitchen. A little touch up piant here, some minor fixes there. He also had a big test in one of his classes that he got a 97.5% on!! (He doesn't really want me to broadcast that, but I'm really proud of him!) The time here is flying by so quickly and Logan is growing so fast. We are having a wonderful experience here and hope this adventure continues. However, we could do without some of the things that go with living in Oklahoma. All the oversized bugs, critters, and spiders is really getting old. In addition, we captured our first mouse in the garage yesterday. We put out the traditional mouse traps all around our garage one evening. The next morning we had already captured the one mouse that we saw. We don't know for sure if there are others involved. Our next "home-improvement" is to replace the entrance to the garage. We have two doors, a traditional one-car garage door, and an additional door on the side. That additional door is old, and is really an interior door and not an exterior door. There is a huge gap on the bottom making it easy for mice to enter our sure to be warmer than outside garage. All these random little things give us more to write about in our blog. At least the traps work well.
