Ok, I’m getting better. I said at the end of the last blog that I was going to get better… and this will make 2 blogs in one week– which I think is outstanding progress! 😉

Last time was pretty much all about Atticus, so now we will talk all about Logan. He is now 2.5 yrs old and is every bit of 2 years old… if you get my drift. He’s loud. Messy. Active. Very inquisitive. His favorite phrase right now is “What’s that, Momma?” and he asks it about everything… even things that he knows. I think he just likes to hear me talk. His language has really exploded over the last few months. He knows his colors, shapes, some letters, and can count to 10 and sometimes to 15. Of course, he doesn’t do any of this when you ask him to, cause he’s 2 and that’s what 2 year olds do.

Logan loves to run and jump, climb, swim, and tumble. He is a very active child and needs to be running and playing all the time. He is currently taking gymnastics and absolutely loves it.

He’s also a very emotional kid. He has big feelings and isn’t afraid to express them, whenever and wherever he might be when he feels them. We talk a lot about our emotions and how we are feeling at any given time. This week, he’s been walking around the house exclaiming, “I’m SO fwustated!” … and it’s been super hard for me to not laugh at him because it’s so cute. When Logan gets upset, we go sit on his ‘calm down couch’ in his bedroom and read “Calm Down Time” to help him calm down. The book talks about different ways to calm yourself down when you get upset. He was about 18 months old when I bought that book and added it to our reading rotation… and now he asks for it when he feels himself getting upset. <3

Logan’s imagination has really taken off in the last couple of months. So much so that he’s now scared of the dark and scared to go to sleep at night. 🙁 He tells me he’s scared of the dinosaurs or of shadows.. and we talk about how it’s okay to feel scared, but dinosaurs are extinct and can’t hurt him. It breaks my heart because I remember being scared at night when I was a kid…. so he gets lots of mommy snuggles at nighttime, which is just fine… because soon enough he will be too big and too old for mommy snuggles.

Here are a few photos I took of him playing at the park the other day. This first photo makes me SO sad. His face is not in focus because I had my aperture set too low and just wasn’t ready… BUT I love it anyway because his hair is so crazy and his smile is real.

We found a log that had a nest of ants living in it, so we had to stop and watch the ants. And hit them with a stick. (Our hitting stick then became a lawnmower that Logan used to mow the grass with!)

Ugh. Now I’m feeling all sad and sentimental because my baby isn’t a baby anymore. He’s SO big!!!