Go Logan Go!!!!!!!

Well, he is up and crawling now!!!!! It happened on Friday. We knew he was close and then it just happened. He is still pretty slow and unsure of himself, but I am sure that will be a thing of the past in the next day or so. Stephen and I were both home to witness the big event so that was really nice. We had our video camera on hand so we grabbed it and caught a tiny bit on video too. It is so nice being home so that I can see these big milestones. Stephen just happened to have a late shift Friday.

Logan has also learned to pull himself up to standing in his crib. Now when he wakes up he stands up and yells for us while watching the door for us to come in. What happened to my little baby? Everything has changed so much in the last few weeks.

Logan's little tooth has grown so fast. It is almost all the way in already. The one next to it is so close to popping through. Stephen and Grandpa Larry say it is in, but it isn't.

We all got up and went fishing on Saturday morning. Stephen caught 1 fish, Zack caught none and Mom caught 2. Mom only fished for about 10 minutes during the 2 hours we were there and caught the most fish. Stephen says I cheated because I caught them both right at the shore line and basically just dipped my line and pulled out a fish. Whatever, a fish on a line is a fish on a line if you ask me.

We took the boys and stayed the night at Grandma and Grandpa Hanna's this weekend. Their pool was finished last week so we had to go break it in. The boys has a lot of fun swimming in the pool. Logan is such a water baby. Zack has learned to squat dive and get rings from the bottom of the pool.

We actually stayed at there house to get Logan used to staying there for next weekend. Stephen and I are taking a weekend trip to Las Vegas and Logan is staying with Grandma and Grandpa for the weekend. This will be his first time away from Mommy. I am not sure who is going to have a harder time with it.

First Tooth!!!

Logan got his first tooth finally!!! It is on the bottom right. He has two more in line trying to pop through still. Let me tell you how much fun he has been lately, NONE AT ALL! Cranky, cranky, cranky, that is all I have to say. These pictures are my sad attempt at getting a picture of it. If you blow it up and look really closely you can sorta see it. I can only see it when he is crying or laughing really hard. He is very quick to pick up on what I am doing though and pintches his lips tightly closed to forbid me. Doesn't he look happy?

He is also very close to crawling now. Everyday I think it will be the day. Just about the time he just about has it he gets mad and gives up. He is getting so frustrated because he really wants to move.

He is able to scoot over to things on his but and pull him self up to standing. Some days is seems he may walk before he crawls. Once he does crawl I don't think he will do it long before he decides to walk. He loves to hold hands and walk. He moves fast now. He just needs to work on his balance a little.

He learned how to sit himself up earlier this week. If he is on his back he basically does a sit up with a slight one handed assist to sitting. So many milestones in one week!!!!! I am so proud yet so sad.


Zack made his first FAILED attempt to forge his parents signature this week (actually our initials). He has a paper that we have to initial daily to show that he is reading every night. It has to be turned in with all of his homework on Fridays. I had remembered that I forgot to sign for Monday and Tuesday. Monday he didn't read so I made him read double the time on Tuesday so I fully intended to initial his sheet for both days. Well when I got in his bag to do so I saw what at first glance looked like Stephens initials. That is until I noticed it said "SMT", in PENCIL. I immediately started to laugh and showed Stephen who was also floored by this. We had a talk with Zack and called his dad so that he could also tell him how important it is to be honest. At least he didn't get caught by his teacher (which he so would have). Here is a picture of the attempt, see if you can pick out Zack's two attempts. What a little shit!!

I just had to add this picture of Zack getting busted playing with a Little Mermaid toy that one of my daycare girls brought one day. Notice the Bionicle toy laying next to him. He is changing the mermaids clothes in this picture. He claims the little girl asked for his help. Sure she did Zack!!!!!!!!!!1

Logan's 9 Month Pictures

Here are some of Logan's 9 month pictures that we got taken at JCPenny's a week or so ago. If you would like to see all of the pictures on smilesbywire.com call me or shoot me an email and I will give you my pass code. I don't want to publish on here for reasons I am sure I don't need to say.

I know he is my son, but seriously, could he be any more cute????!!!!! We had a really hard time picking the best ones. I don't think he knows how to not be cute in front of a camera.

One is Off and the Other is Trying Hard to Follow

Well, we have our video camera near us at all times these days. We just know that Logan will be crawling or pulling himself up any moment now. He actually has pulled himself up already on Daddy. He wasn't able to grab the camera due to the fact that he was being used as an anchor.

Logan is now getting himself from sitting down onto is tummy. He then rolls which ever way he needs to go to be closer to his destination. He has this butt up and down thing that he has been doing for the last week or so that is obvious to be an attempt to move forward. There are just so many little things he is doing that tell us it will be very soon.

We had to take Logan to the Dr. due to a rash and what we thought was an ear infection. She told us his ear is fine and the rash is dermatitis. Anyhow, the big thing she told us was that he has 3 teeth that are about to pop through. I knew about one on the bottom, but three all at once!!! No wonder he is fussy lately.

Zack started back to school this morning. He did not get his best friend in his class (which the moms aren't sad about by any means). He was knocking on my door at 6 a.m. completely dressed and teeth brushed. I don't know how he got himself up, his alarm was set for 6:00. What a dork. Who is excited for summer to be over? He was trying to go to the bus stop 20 minutes before it was time.

Due to the fact that school was starting today Zack got his head shaved! Well maybe not completely "shaved" but close enough. I have to say it looks much better that with the Mohawk though.

Stephen started his new job yesterday and was excited. He said that it went really well and likes the position. There is a full time spot opening up soon and he sorta wants to apply for it. I however do not want him to. It would be 5 varying days of 8 hour shifts in the evening (3-11:30 p.m.). Yea, I don't think so. This would almost totally eliminate any possibility of overtime for him since he would be working the same amount of hours in 5 days that he currently works in 4. He used to work that many hours in 3 days. I just don't think that the shift and the hours are that great. Not to mention that instead of paying for gas for 4 days it would be gas for 5 days for the same amount of pay.

I added another child to my childcare last week. She is working out really well so far. She is 3 1/2 and hasn't given me any troubles as of yet.

My friends had there babies!!!! I got a call last Thursday from Shannon Hoyle saying that her baby girl was born on that previous Monday. She was kept in the hospital due to jaundice.
Ronda then called me Friday at about 9:00 p.m. saying that her water broke. I rushed over and picked up Hunter so that they could go to the hospital. She had her baby boy just a few hours later. He was pretty healthy, a little jaundice too, but they let him go him with one of the UV lights.

Tanner Anthony Hall and Rebecca Angelynn Hoyle

Well that was a big update so I think I will stop there. Hope all is well with you and yours.