18 Months

Logan is now 18 months old. First off, here are his stats:

24 lbs 8 oz--25th percentile

32.75"--50th percentile

I don't remember his head measurement but it was around the

50th percentile as well.

Logan passed all of the developmental questions--can he stack 4 blocks, can he eat with a spoon, etc.--except one. They asked us if Logan knew if he was a boy or girl. Ben and I just looked at eachother and the nurse said, "If you asked him if he was a boy or girl, will he tell you he is a boy?" We responded with, "we have never asked him that question!" It caught both of us so off guard. I don't think we have even thought about teaching him if he is a boy or girl. I mean of course we tell him he is a good boy but not sure he has caught on to his gender yet. Guess we will have to work on that.

Logan now has 10 teeth and still getting some more. I keep wondering when all of this teething stops. Here are some of his favorite things at this age:

Watching Finding Nemo--he just loves this show. He will watch him almost all the way through if he is tired. It never fails though that he asks to watch it at least once a day. If you ask him where Nemo lives he will say "in an-a-nen-no-o-me" . I think it is so cute.

Driving his Little Tikes car--we were able to aquire this classic toy from a coworker who was looking to get rid of it as her kids are older now. We couldn't have been happier to take it. Logan just loves this car and takes all of this toys for rides in it.

Playing in the water--we have a little swimming pool that we often fill up for Logan to play in during the day. He gets a kick out of splashing you with the water. I won't complain though when it is 95 degrees. We also took him the South Ogden splash park awhile back with his cousins that live out of state. We had a lot of fun.

Dancing in the living room--he loves to turn on Ben's iPod and dance in the living room. His dancing usually consists of rocking back and forth between his left and right left with an added spin here and there. Classic moves.

Seeing his friends at daycare--everyday that Logan goes to daycare he recites the names of the kids in his class in the car (Jacob, Kiera, Jada, Abby). I love that he has so much fun there and knows all the kids by name.

Helping his dad--Logan tries to immitate just about everything his dad does. We have been doing quite a few yard projects this summer and Logan loves this trailer of my dads. He spent about an hour just walking up and down it one afternoon throwing lava rocks off the top. Needless to say, this is what he looked like afterwards--nice look, don't you think?
Playing with bubbles--what kid doesn't love to do this? He is now able to actually blow bubbles on his own though which makes it that much more exciting. When he gives up on that though we usually go to just spreading the bubble stuff on his legs like lotion--just stickier.

Here are some words Logan knows (I don't think I could write them all down but wanted to have a list of some of them): Mommy, Daddy, Nanan (Cayman), Papa, Grandma, Grandpa, bubbles, doggie (which often sounds like daddy), kitty, door, teeth, tummy, potty, bum, duck, hot dog, applesauce, cheese, watch, park, golf, football, Nemo, Dory, Jeff, Oscar, tummy, hair, cute, nose, eyes, ears, mouth, shoes, shorts shirt, jacket, fish, cracker, cookie, treat, snack, craisens (yes this is one of his favorite snacks), walk, drive, go, car, please, thank you, nap, no, Roo (his nickname for his Aunt Rachel), duck, giraffe, elephant, hippo, juice, milk, up, sit down, pick up, dirty, and many more I am sure I am forgetting.

A much needed vacation

To celebrate Ben's graduation I planned a little suprise trip to Moab. I needed his help with all the packing and what not so I have him some clues as to where we were going and then told him our final desitnation a few days before we left. Here are a few highlights of our trip.

1. Ben forgot to pack our tent. We checked into our campsight, pulled into our spot and discovered we had no tent. I just laughed. Ben at the time did NOT think it was very funny. We decided it would be cheapest (since we are very cheap right now) to go in to town and buy a new tent. So we packed everything back up and went and bought us another tent (we already own two--so if someone is in need of a new tent let me know.) Logan of course loved the tent and loved playing in it.
2. Logan slept through the first night without a peep. We were both just amazed at how well he did. Such a good little sleeper.
3. Hiking to Partitian Arch. This is one of my favorites. I love that you can sit on the other side of the arch and just overlook the park. Since we had a mobile child this time, however, we didn't opt to go sit on the other side of this arch. It was still beautiful though. Here we are at Partitian Arch and the view behind us is what you see through the arch (it is hard to get the arch and everything into the picture). We also encountered Landscape arch on the way up which is always a favorite. Wall Arch had recently collapsed so the trial is redirected around the fall. You basically climb straight up this rock wall. It was steep for a few minutes but not too bad. You can kind of tell in this picture how steep it was.
4. Finding cheese. On our hike to Partitian Arch, Logan saw this wall and said "cheese." It does look like cheese but it made us laugh.

5. Swimming at the camp site. After our hiking the first day we came back to camp and utilitized the swimming pool. Logan was a bit hesitant this time of the swimming experience. The water was pretty chilly though so once he got used to it he enjoyed himself. I was amazed at how white his hair and skin looked in the pool. He is very much a toehead. 6. Hiking to Delicate Arch. No matter how many pictures you see of this arch it just isn't the same as seeing it in person. I was proud we made it up this hike. Ben carried Logan the whole trip and we were both suprised at how well Logan did. He loved to say hi to all the passing hikers. We met a nice couple from Michigan at the top who took our picture and we hiked all the way down with them. Logan loved being a ham with them. Isn't this just a wonderful photo of all of us?

The nice lady who volunteered to take our picture at Delicate arch didn't get the arch in the background so I was attempting to do so and prove that we did it.

7. Playing in the car. Logan loved to play in the car while we were packing and what not. I was amazed at some of things he was trying to do like put the car into drive--thankfully he never succeeded and we were always watching him. We found a few new buttons after he played in there and things didn't work as they usually did but we fixed them all.

8. Matching hiking shoes. I found these cute shoes for Logan and just had to get them as they remind me of Ben's. They are wonderful at protecting his feet which is often needed at this age. 9. Just having some family bonding time. Ben was pretty nervous about this trip and how Logan would do but, as always, Logan suprised us and was such a trooper. We were able to just stay flexible and relaxed. I am always amazed at how fast vacations go by and how quickly I want another one to come.