Rice Cereal

Saturday to mark Logan's 5 month birthday we tried out some rice cereal. He wasn't a huge fan, but did better than Isabel (who just spit it out) did. We fed it to him around 5pm or so and he slept pretty well Saturday night. I remember when we added rice cereal to Isabel's diet it didn't make any difference with her sleeping habit, so I wasn't expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. When we gave Viv rice cereal there wasn't any difference because she was 7 months and was already sleeping through the night. Maybe the rice cereal will help Logan pack on some lbs too.

We had a fun weekend in The Woodlands. Brian and I were able to hit the spa twice and actually got to run together Sunday morning. We checked out the parade of homes in Woodforest and got a few pumpkins. Isabel was having an off day yesterday, so she was a bit fussy at the pumpkin patch. I wanted to get home early since we didn't get to The Woodlands until after 9pm Friday night and Izzy didn't get to bed until after 10pm. I think Sunday she was still recovering from the upset to her schedule. She did great on the ride home and was in bed at 7:15am and woke up at 8am!

Logan screamed for 2 hours on the ride home despite stopping to feed/change him. He just really hates the car. Viv and Izzy were the same way, so hopefully he'll grow out of it. I'll try to post pictures when/if I get them from my dad. We brought our camera but didn't use it this weekend.

Sleep Deprivation

I know why sleep deprivation is used to torture terrorists. Holy crap. We aren't getting any sleep around here and man is it tough. I have no idea how Logan can be up for hours upon hours with just a 20 minute nap or no nap at all. It's insanity. Someone (Allyson) has to hold him almost all the time. He'll tolerate the exersaucer for a few minutes at a time. If Izzy is hanging out with him he'll watch her on the floor, but she likes to try to roll him around, so we have to be very careful. Anyway, it's tiring. I do love the Ergo though. It's allowed me to get out of the house.

Yesterday was a particularly tough day since I had a doctor appointment way up North and Isabel is sick, so I couldn't send her to school. I had to call Brian for help. What was supposed to be a quick appointment turned into a 2 hour ordeal with unexpected testing. Having a mammogram while breastfeeding is not that much fun. Everything is A-OK though. Isabel started running a fever yesterday and has a gross nose, but other than that she seems ok. Tylenol and lukewarm baths make her feel better. She's been sick for 8 days, so hopefully she'll be better today and tomorrow before we head to Houston. Logan was running a fever a couple of days ago, but has been fine otherwise.

Isabel is really trying to say new words now. She says 'brofer' for brother, mama, dad, bird, ball, da (dog), mill (milk), and yesterday she said 'yellow' clear as day when Brian asked her what color her ball was. She says uh-oh all.the.time. Whoever taught her that one needs to be shot. EVERYTHING is 'uh oh.'

I think I might pull out the doorway jumper for Logan and see if he'll sit in that today. For some reason I think it might end up with Izzy trying to launch him in the air like a slingshot. Watching her rock Logan in the swing is pretty entertaining. Logan's eyes get huge and he goes a little white until I rescue him from almost doing a full circle around the bar. Kidding.

Big Bug and Tiny Bug's Doctor visits

Today Isabel had her 18 month appointment (right on time) and Logan had his 4 month appointment (3 weeks late). Both are doing great. Isabel weighed in on the big girl scale, so no more undressing her! She's 28lbs which puts her up in the 90 percentile for weight and 32 inches long which is about 60th percentile. Isabel's hemangioma (benign blood vessel tumor) is shrinking, but the doctor will have us see a dermatologist when she's 2 if it's not gone. He said they can inject steroid shots to shrink it. Ew. That does not sound pleasant. We'll have to think about if we really want to do that seemingly cosmetic procedure. I'm sure she would thank me when she's 13 and wearing her hair in a ponytail if we decide to have it done. I'm getting a little fond of the spot myself, so we'll see. We have at least 6 months to think it over.

Logan weighed in on the baby scale at a whopping 14lbs. Yes, you read that correct, 14lbs. That makes him in about the 10th percentile for weight. His length was 25 inches which is about the 25th percentile. What happened to our humongous baby?! I guess his 'gooch' nickname isn't appropriate anymore. He might be an attacking mid or striker now instead of a sweeper or stopper. :) Izzy is still solid defense! We got a prescription for 1.5% cortisone cream and some more eye drops. Hopefully his little tear duct will open up before his 6 month check otherwise we get to see a baby ophthalmologist

Isabel had to sit in the 'principal's office' and think over why it's not ok to bite friends. I guess she was hugging her friend and decided to chomp on his cheek. Great. Let's hope she doesn't get kicked out of preschool.

I won't bore you with stories about how Logan isn't sleeping. We'll just say he's not a good sleeper. At all. And leave it at that.

October 1st already

Wow, I can't believe it's October. Less than 3 months until Christmas! If it were up to me I would decorate for Halloween and then just skip over the whole Thanksgiving business and go straight to decorating for Christmas. Oh, how I love Christmas decorations. There's just something about the twinkling of colored LED lights that makes me smile. I even bought 2 packages of the C9's that we need to finish off the outlining of our flower beds at Costco a couple of weeks ago. As we learned last year after going to about 38 stores in search of the elusive C9 LED's, you have to get 'em when you see 'em! Our search for a new Christmas tree on clearance after Christmas failed last year, so we're getting one EARLY this year. I wanted to get one last weekend and put it up, but Brian said no. What a humbug.

In kid news Isabel is still super cute, but had a little pinching incident at school on Wednesday. Apparently she went around pinching kids and I guess got someone near the eye pretty good. Oops. She was probably trying to get more pizza as it was pizza day. Other than that she's doing great. She does love her sleep and gets super cranky if she's up before 8am. Yesterday she was up at 7:30 and it threw the entire day off.

Logan is sleeping a little better at night without the swaddle, but still kicking my ass during the day with his no-tiny naps. It's not a break if you only sleep for 20 minutes at a time kid! He's getting up 2-3 times at night, but Brian and I are still dragging out butts out of bed to workout in the terrible 5am hour.

I have a little project I'm working on that I'll post a picture of later on or this weekend. I'm going to take a picture of Logan and Isabel next to a sign and possibly a stuffed animal of some sort each month and send it to Aunt Jenn in Africa. I think it'll be neat to see how they grow each month. I really want this to take the pictures with:

It's a pastel critter chair from Pottery Barn Kids if certain Grandparents are reading. Christmas...hint hint.