Logan is 5 Months Old

 

At 5 months, Logan is my smallest baby weighing in at only 14.4 pounds (his brothers were weighing 2-3 lbs. more at this age). He is a very happy, go-with-the-flow baby. He loves going new places and meeting new people. He loves watching his brothers, other kids, or actually, anything that's going on around him. The other day I took the 3 boys outside to take a picture and I couldn't get Logan to look at the camera because he was too focused on the grass. He's getting stronger everyday but still can't quite sit on his own and chooses not to roll from back to front. He loves playing in his exersaucer and is enjoying tummy time more. He's grabbing at toys to put in his mouth and scoots on his tummy to get to things out of his reach. He has started eating solid foods. He is not the biggest fan of rice cereal and sometimes completely rejects it. But he seems to like oatmeal and I'm excited to start him on fruits and veggies in a few weeks. Logan has been enjoying the beautiful weather as much as the rest of us. He loves to be outside, going for walks, and riding in his Baby Bjorn while I run errands.

 

 

After watching his cradle cap and eczema come back while we were in Florida, despite continuing to omit dairy from my diet, I was happy to see that it did not get worse when I started eating milk-products again, and I'm thrilled to say that it has almost completely cleared up with our Spring-y weather.

 

The only complaint I have is that his sleep schedule is a little wacky. He's still waking up at night to eat once and sometimes wakes up additional times and needs help falling back to sleep. His naps are not on a strict schedule yet either because if he sleeps through the night he'll wake up for the day earlier than if he wakes at night to eat. However, I'm trying to let the sleep scheduling go a little bit until he's ready for sleep training and then, hopefully we'll be able to figure out a good sleep schedule for him. In the meantime, I'll just enjoy that he's happy when I'm not trying to get him to sleep.

Is it Really Winter?

To say this winter has been mild would be putting it lightly. Especially after the last couple winters we've had with sub-zero temps and mountains of snow. I think it's snowed maybe three times this year and it usually melted before we got a chance to play in it. I kept thinking, I just want one good snow so the boys and I can make snowmen and maybe go sledding. Now, don't get me wrong. I've really enjoyed these mild temps, especially with a baby in tow, and anyone who's ever driven with me in the winter knows my nerves and blood pressure have really appreciated the lack of wintry percipitation. I literally wanted just one good day of snow, even just a partial day, and that's what we got earlier this week. It snowed Sunday night and Monday morning I took Colin to school. I knew it was going to be sunny and starting to warm up in the afternoon, but I thought that would work to my advantage to make snowmen. You know, wet snow = good packing snow, right? Well, the boys were excited about my afternoon plans to build a snowman until it was afternoon and they started arguing over who the snowman should be. At first I thought I'd put a Star Wars twist on it and say we were building the Wampa. But that made Eli sad and scared so then I said we'd build Frosty. Well, that wasn't cool enough for Colin and they started arguing. Eventually Colin talked Eli into agreeing to build Anakin, Obi Wan, and Asohka Tano. All I could think of was, I'm not sure if we'll even get one snowman built, let alone three, but I didn't argue and we headed out. Of course, as soon as we got outside, the boys abandoned me in my snowman building project to go under-cover and secretly hunt me down with their "light sabers".

I guess it was good they weren't that interested in building snowmen because despite the wetness of the snow, it really wasn't snowman-building material. I barely was able to throw these two little guys together and if anything touched them, they instantly started to crumble. 

Of course the snowmen were dubbed bad guys so Colin asked to attack them.

Colin was proud of his light saber skills.

Eli was sad - maybe all my talk of love, peace, and harmony has been rubbing off.

Here he is, placated, after I put the head back on the snowman.

The boys were both all smiles when I offered to pull them around in a sled.

And who wouldn't pass up an opportunity to throw snowballs at their mama?

I'm glad we got in our one afternoon of playing in the snow. Maybe we'll have another chance yet this year to try our hand at snowman building. It wouldn't be that shocking if we even got some snow in April. But until then, I'm taking advantage of the 60 degree days, like the one that melted all this snow less than 24 hours later.

Florida 2012

We had a great time in Florida this year! The weather was gorgeous and despite my concerns about Logan not traveling well or sleeping well in a room with all 5 of us, he did awesome.

While we were down there, we celebrated Colin's 5th birthday. I can't believe he's almost 5!

We attended a character breakfast at the Beach Club. We saw Goofy, Minnie, and Donald. Eli was slightly terrified by the characters, but he tolerated them as long as he was being held.

After breakfast, we went to downtown Disney and the boys made light sabers.

Eli and I went swimming one evening at the resort. Thankfully we went early in the week because the poor guy got a stomach bug half-way through the trip.

The boys and I visited an orange grove one day and got to go on a tour and pick oranges. We also got to taste some of their fresh-squeezed juice sample some of their crop.

One day we went to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. It was beautiful! We saw a birds of prey show, went on an African safari tour, and saw lots of other cool animals.

Of course, we had to hit a Disney park while we were down there. This year we went to Magic Kingdom. Here's Chris and Colin on the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Nana, Papa, & Logan on Buzz Lightyear.

Eli on Buzz Lightyear.

 Riding on the Jungle Cruise.

Colin and his cousin Josh got to drive the ship for a few minutes.

Logan took a nap on It's a Small World.

Colin and Eli on Peter Pan.

Chris and Eli on Winnie the Pooh.

Logan's first castle shot.

Eli at Mickey's Philharmagic.

Waiting in line for Pirates of the Caribbean.

Completely captivated while watching Captain Jack Sparrow.

Mickey Ears!

Tired and wet from a downpour at dinner time, but at least we got a family shot in front of the castle.

On Friday we headed back to Downtown Disney to walk around and enjoy the weather, Legos, and stores.

Colin finally got in the pool on our last day there. He chose not to swim with Eli and I earlier in the week because he thought it would be too cold. I'm glad he decided to go swimming at least once. The swim lessons are paying off - he swam like a fish with his arm floaties and was really comfortable in the water.

It was a fun week but it's always nice to return to home sweet home.