First (non gassy) Smile

During his 7th week of life Logan gave me his first real smile!  I can't even explain how much joy that little smile put into my heart....I almost cried!!  I was talking to him and he let out several smiles that were so cute.  Ronnie was home and was able to capture the moment:

Since that day he has given me more and more smiles every day and it makes me so happy.   He smiles when I talk to him and sing the goofy Gymboree songs to him and he often smiles just when I look at him.  How nice it would be to be able to be so happy at simple things like this...we can learn a lot from our infants!

Keep on Rolling!

"OMG-Logan rolled over!!" I scream as I am sitting on the floor watching my son roll from his tummy to his back. 'I am by myself and Ronnie is on his way home....no one will believe me when I tell them that he rolled over' . I put him back onto his tummy and he does it again! 'Oh wow...ok, Ronnie's going to be home soon.....maybe he'll do it again." Ronnie walks through the door and I tell him to come over quickly because Logan rolled over. I put Logan on his tummy and he rolls over again! Yes!! We grab the camcorder and try to capture it on video but Logan is frustrated and done with tricks. Later that night, however we were able to capture it on video:

Logan rolls over almost every tummy time now and it is quite amazing. In Gymboree they do tummy time while we talk about the latest happenings with our tots. My turn and I say that Logan rolled over....and he's 6 weeks. I see the 'yeah right' looks on faces and as if on cue Logan rolls over and everyone sees. They are all so amazed and tell me that he's going to be an early mover. Oh great...I am not ready for this!! :(

Flexibility and Family

Logan LOVES his cousins Kelsey and Cole!!  The Montoya family (Ronnie's older sister Amanda, her husband Chad, and their two kiddos: Kelsey 4 and Cole 2) came to visit at the beginning of October and we had such a great time.  Kelsey and Cole are the cutest and they are at the age where they like to be moving and going all of the time.  I vowed when I had Logan to be as flexible as possible and to not be afraid to take him places, so this was going to be the true test.  I had been out for the babies class at Evergreen and to church and bible talk, but this week we had lots of plans for places to go every day.  We went to downtown Seattle twice (Pikes Place and the Aquarium), Pacific Science Center, Pumpkin Patch, Ballard Locks, and Gig Harbor (first overnight away from home).  Logan is on somewhat of a schedule (feed, wake for an hour, and sleep) so I think that he did really well.  As long as I had somewhere to feed him we were good to go!   I think that I did a pretty good job of being flexible (except for the day at the park when I wasn't feeling good and I was quite grumpy (sorry Amanda and Chad...and my husband!).   This week also gave me a lot of confidence that I could indeed take my son out places and have a life.  Next scary step is going to be taking him on an airplane to Phoenix for Thanksgiving....scary!

We had so much fun with the family.  Highlight:  Cole sat next to Logan in the car everywhere we went and while Logan sleeps he grunts a lot.  Every time Logan would grunt, Cole would put his pointer finger in Logan's face and say "SHHHH".   He was not trying to get him to be quiet, he was doing what he saw us do to calm the baby down (you know, that "shhhh" white noise sound).  It was so cute!!

Here are some pics from the awesome week: 



Cousin Kelsey loves to hold Logan



This is Cole soothing Logan

Aunt Amanda

Three Pumpkins!

Logan looking at his beautiful aunt

Uncle Chad and Logan