The Yuans visit, Thanksgiving and sitting up

We welcomed Mark, Chelsea and Elizabeth back to Austin for a visit the weekend before Thanksgiving. We had a great time eating BBQ, playing with the babies and catching up. Chelsea and Allyson even got to go out to see a movie! Elizabeth is a super sweet girl. She was getting over a cold, but was still super laid back. She had great hairdos and I tried to comment on her pretty bows hoping that Isabel would want to wear some, but that didn't work out. Here is Izzy giving Elizabeth a kiss and the girls climbing the stairs.





Logan has been sitting up without crashing for longer and longer periods of time. I put the bobby behind him and he'll sit for a long time before falling back or to the side. I wouldn't call him a complete unassisted sitter yet, but he's almost there!

We had a lovely Thanksgiving in Houston with Grandma, Grandpa, Grammy, Papaw, Uncle Greg, and Aunt Jennifer. The drive over wasn't TOO bad. We've been testing out different departure, feeding, nap times, etc hoping that we can get a combination that equals the least amount of screaming by the fewest number of people. So far no matter what we do Logan always seems to scream for at least 1/3 of the trip. Luckily Isabel has become a pretty good passenger. We ate a yummy turkey that took only 2 hours to cook in Grandma's convection oven, mashed potatoes, biscuits, green bean casserole, corn casserole, and lots of other goodies. Isabel really enjoyed the turkey and corn and ate almost everything we gave her. She even reached over and took the corn casserole off of my plate. Logan relaxed and had a little nap while we ate.

Turkey:






Friday morning Brian and I headed out at 5am to do some shopping. We got a LOT. Brian was not a good shopper and got cranky. I think when the lady at Baby Gap raises her eyebrows and gives you a look like 'wow, sorry you have to deal with THAT' it's time to go home. So I took Brian home and picked up Grandma and Grandpa for more shopping around 9am. I got almost all of my shopping done!

Saturday was Vivian's birthday and Brian and I released a few balloons and had spaghetti for dinner. The drive back to Austin was miserable. Logan screamed for 1.5 hours straight. I even crammed in the back seat for the last 2 hours of the trip and even that didn't help. That kid REALLY hates the car. As soon as we got home and he got out of the car her was super happy again.

Oh yeah, we also watched the Aggies BTHO t.u.! Thanks to Grammy and Papaw for the cool new A&M shirts.

My little elf:


Logan riding Fargo:

6 months! China! Grandma! Santa!

Logan is now 6 months old! His appointment isn't for another couple of weeks, so I decided to put his credentials into the growth chart calculator and get his percentiles. He weighs 14lbs 12 ounces by the doctor's office scale) and is 27 inches long (by mom's measurement). This puts him at 5-10th percentile for weight and 50-75th percentile for length. He's long and lean. After losing a bit of weight a couple of weeks ago he put on a pound in 10 days. I started supplementing with formula at night and just got my brand new amazing pump in the mail. Yay! Hopefully I'll be able to pump and give him breast milk at night rather than stinky formula. If not, it's not the end of the world. He just won't be as smart. Just kidding. :) The doctor wasn't concerned about his weight loss and didn't suggest supplementing, but I'm not used to these skinny babies and decided I would feel better if he gained some weight. Logan has seen the doctor for a little abscess on his bottom. If it doesn't get cleared up by next week we're off to see the dermatologist.

Daddy has been in China for the past 9 days. We're anxious for him to come home. Grandma has been here the entire time and has been a HUGE help! I would be committed by now if she wasn't here! I even got my hair done last week. Nice!

Isabel is still chugging along. We attempted to see Santa yesterday. It was pretty funny. I'll try and get the pictures scanned in and posted. Here are a couple before we left.

Jump! and blowouts

Isabel jumped for the first time this week! She's been trying for a long long time, but finally managed to get some air under those feet. It was so cute when she realized that she had done it. She was very proud of herself and was excited that we made such a big deal about it.

We went shopping today and had a nice morning at the mall. Of course I pushed it about 10 minutes too long, but it was fine. We decided to use the infamous G card and went to Waterloo for 1/2 price burgers. After we ordered I noticed a nice odor. Sure enough, Isabel had another one of her more interesting moments in her pants. I picked her up to change her and got a little....wet on my arm. Gross. I had an change of clothes in the diaper bag, so grabbed those and headed to the bathroom. I have never seen so much poop on a little girl in all my life. It was up her back to her neck. No joke. I gave her a bath in the sink and changed her. My shirt was so gross that I had to wash it out in the sink as well. As we were finishing up and washing our hands this lady walks in, turns right around and walks out. I hear her say "let's just go somewhere else." Ha! I don't think she appreciated the awesome smell that my 18 month old produced. Had we not ordered margaritas I think we would have just asked for boxes and headed home, but we weren't about to waste those $3 drinks! Turns out the service was pretty terrible and we couldn't get the check even if we wanted to. Isabel got a nice mid day bath when we got home. :)

Hello again doctor!

Let's see if we can get one week that goes by without seeing the doctor. Not likely anytime soon. We hit up Dr. Frank twice this week, have to go back on Monday and then have to go back the following weekish for Logan's 6 month check up. Monday we had the infamous 'finger incident' and yesterday I noticed some odd looking crap on Logan's booty. He's been especially unhappy this week and was up every 1.5-2 hours last night so I decided to take him in to get the boil checked out and make sure his ears are clear. Ears are fine, but the boil needs antibiotics and got cultured. Nice. I noticed that he's lost a little bit of weight, but the doctor completely dismissed my concern and says he's doing just fine. Part of me thinks maybe he should take my concerns more seriously, but the other part of me says that I worry too much anyway and is glad that he isn't pushing formula. I'm sure I'll bring it up at his 6 month checkup again.

Since Logan isn't sleeping much (hardly at all) during the day the house is an absolute disaster. Getting it thoroughly cleaned is at the very top of the to-do list for the weekend. I ordered the new Christmas tree online, so we don't have to try and hit up all of the stores this weekend in search of the perfect tree. I do have lots of birthday presents to get, so I'm sure we'll spend at least a little bit of the weekend shopping. The Circle C Christmas lights are hung! I can't wait for them to be turned on!

Halloween! and finger drama

It's time for another picture to send to Aunt Jenn!





We had a great time trick-or-treating Sunday night! We spend the day beautiful day in Fredricksburg with Grandma and Grandpa. Brian and Grandpa went to a museum for about 3.5 hours while Grandma and Allyson walked around. Isabel did pretty well until the end of the day when she got very tired. Logan didn't sleep much, but was ok if he was being held. I've decided that it takes at least 3 adults to shop with the kids. You need 1 adult/kid plus one adult for stroller duty. I think Brian appreciated some adult time to look at the war museum. One day Allyson will get her time....one day. Just kidding.....but not really.

When we got home at 6pm there were already kids out trick-or-treating. Since I didn't want to buy candy early and end up eating it I rushed off to HEB to get candy. They were OUT of the bagged candy. I had to spend $$$ on the nice full-sized stuff. We had some very happy trick-or-treaters at our house! Isabel was a very adorable flower. Another great costume by Grandma! She was pretty excited to pick out her candy and put it in her bag. She was really getting into it and was even acting like the super scary house across the street was no big deal until she saw the ghost lady with beady eyes that swayed. I carried her up to the 'witch' to get candy and the witch gave her a lollipop, so she was once again content and was digging Halloween. Logan dressed up in the skunk costume and looked ridiculously cute.







Yesterday at school I got a call from the director. I was thinking 'oh no, she's done it now. I wonder how many times she bit today.' I was wrong. She got her finger pinched in the back side (the side with the hinges) of a door. Apparently it was pretty bad and they had to open the door to get her finger out. I rushed over there to pick her up and found her pretty upset but letting Ms. Nicole put ice on it. I got her in the car and gave her a juice box and she seemed to be doing better, but the finger looked bad so I called and got an appointment to see the doctor. The doctor said he can't really tell by looking at it, but wanted us to get it x-rayed if she was still having a hard time by Wednesday. It still looks pretty bad, but Izzy is moving it and doesn't seem to be too bothered by it, so I'm going to skip the x-ray this time. All of her teachers called to see how she was doing and felt very bad. Brian said it was some form of baptist corporal punishment for her biting. Sometimes Brian is mildly funny.