I'm in my baby T.V.

We were wanting to get out of the house and do something as a family, but in the winter we were having a hard time figuring out what we could do with Logan that a 9 month old would enjoy. Then we thought of the Underwater Adventure at the Mall of America. While we weren't thrilled of trying to brave the crowds on a weekend, we knew that Logan loves to look at the fish at Cabela's and looking at his "baby T.V." in his crib.

So we packed up the all the essentials and headed out to the MOA. While it took us WAY too long to find parking and to get to something to eat, we finally battled our way down to the lines for the Underwater Adventure. Logan got so tired that he fell asleep in the beginning before we even got to the water part!

While we were a little bummed that we had spent all the money to go, we knew that it had taken way to long to get to the actual activity and the poor kid needed to sleep. As Aaron and I continued to make our way through there was a loud scream of CHARK!

Some little boy way very excited to see a "Chark" and this excitment woke up Logan who looked and got the widest eyes that we have ever seen! We wondered if he thought he woke up in a baby dream and got into his "baby T. V." with all of his fishes!

Logan loved that the fish swam all over, especially when they went over his head!

Here is the the big turtle that we saw also, it was HUGE!

Despite the crazy crowds, we had a great family outing and thankfully because of the "CHARKS" everyone got to enjoy it!

Just for Fun

So I thought that I would add two of my favorite pictures of Logan from February. I can't believe how big he is getting! He is getting very close to crawling. He does a few steps on his knees and then drops and does the "army crawl". He has his two bottom teeth, and can now hold the bottle by himself and is working on drinking out of his sippy cup like a big boy! He has his 9 month appointment on Friday and we are excited to see just how big he has gotten....stay tuned!

1st Christmas and 1st Blizzard

So here are some updates as promised! So Logan had a very interesting 1st Christmas...he got to be in his first blizzard. While thankfully everyone was safe, it made for a much smaller family Christmas then had been planned. With all that snow though was the chance to use the sled that he got from grandma and grandpa Van Dyke!


Here is Logan getting pulled in the sled by his cousin Julia.

Logan looking like a little Gnome in his blue snowsuit.

Logan with his cousin Hannah and grandma Van Dyke

Playing with Auntie Britt and Elisha.


Logan and his Dad in his handsome Christmas duds. We still had to get him looking cute even though the crowd was small!

I am horrible

I am horrible at keeping up with my blog! I hear from so many people. "when are you going to update your blog". Well, I have to do this from the downstairs computer, and I am too lazy, tired and it's cold down there. But hold on Logan has something to say!

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Sorry about that but the kid goes CRAZY when he sees me on the computer! So I will make sure to go downstairs (so I can do the photos) and get the blog updated!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

So we decided that we wanted Logan to be a bear for Halloween because many times he sounds like a little bear! I looked everywhere for a costume with no luck! Thankfully my friend Andrea found a costume in a magazine that she gets for her kids! It was a 12-18 month and with the dimensions that it gave thought that it would work out. Once it got to the house we were a little afraid that it wasn't going to fit. It ended up that the lenth was good but the arms were way too long. So doing my first crafty mom project, yesterday I cut the arms and sewed a hem on them and then tore off the paws from the material that I cut off and re-attached them to the sleeves! (turned out better then I thought! Even though I knew he wouldn't put the paws on, we needed the effect!!!)


We headed to Northbranch to go trick or treating Logan's cousin's Julia and Hannah in their neighborhood on a trailer that was rigged up to be pretty warm! Logan wasn't to happy when we first put his costume on..part getting close to bed time and part not wanting to wear it!



Oh, Logan became the cute bear with a pacifer to calm this angry bear down!



Here he is taking pictures with his cousins getting ready for his first trick or treating! Don't they look so cute!


Logan was getting tired while we waited for everyone to get ready to get on the trailer, but we got a few pictures with mom and dad! Sorry you can't see half his face...his hat kept moving everywhere!




Here we go up to our first house!




And here we are after getting our candy! Sorry it was hard to keep up with the young kids who just wanted candy!!

we quickly hit one more house and then he feel asleep the rest of the time on my lap while we sat in the ice house on the trailer....must have been the motion and the hum of the tractor! LOL It was a great first halloween and we had a blast!!!

Yum Yum?

Logan was starting to wake up all the time at night and we thought since he was close to 6 months we would try some rice cereal and maybe he would sleep again (just for the records, he did and still isn't! ghhhh), anyways, we went out and got a highchair (thanks grandma!) and gave it a whirl.

He wasn't the biggest on the idea and didn't really like it too much. We tried to continue for another day or two but he would just fight it. So we stopped and started again in a few days and he is doing better. Likes it a little more, but this hungry baby likes his food to hit his belly LIKE NOW, so you gotta get him when he's not starving! LOL

Family Visit

A few weeks ago, Aaron's side of the family came down to move Jill into her new apartment in Mpls! (side note..We love having her here!!!) It was a busy weekend with lots of stuff going on. The family loved to see how much Logan has changed since the last time we all were together. Here is a picture of Logan with his cousins Gabe and Elana...how cute are they?!?!