Life with Log-zilla: Growing

Well, here I am, sitting at school on a Wednesday morning. I've gotten a ton of work done already today (worked through 4 chapters of the Understanding Computers book). So I figured I'd take a minute to write a quick update.. even though technically I shouldn't be on here! Oh well. Things are going well so far, I am already halfway through this textbook, and it's only been 2 1/2 days! Since Bates is competency based, I don't necessarily have to read everything if I know it already. I just have to take some tests, or in this case, just fill out the review questions at the end of each chapter. I'm really glad that this part is easy, I'm trying to finish as much of the program this year as possible. If I can work through this first book this week only, then I can go ahead and start working through the A+ textbook. That is the basics of PC repair.

I am really enjoying myself this year. This material is way more interesting to me than the electronics was last year. This is what I want to do, and I have so much more motivation this year, so I am really excited.

Logan is doing fairly well with Dad. He watches him for us. I think in the next couple of weeks, Logan will get more used to the routine, and it will be even better for Dad. Right now, Logan goes through spurts of about an hour where he will not calm down and just screams. (Poor Dad!) But it sounded like yesterday (only the 2nd day) he only had one major outburst, and most of the other time he was either sleeping (3 hour nap!) or playing. Dad also took him for a little stroll around the neighborhood, which Logan seemed to enjoy too! Yay! I know that as Logan grows up, he and Dad are going to have a great bond. I am so glad that Dad agreed to help us out. I am so excited that they will be lifelong buddies!

We go pick up Logan's portraits today!! I am SO excited to see how they all turned out.

He is growing like a weed too! He has grown out of some of his newborn clothes, and fits into some three month clothes now too. My little guy is growing up!

Anyway, I should probably stop for now, before I get in trouble, haha!

-Kristin

Wow. Finally a moment to stop and take a breather! This whole week has been a whirlwind of activities, since Nick's cousin Brian was staying with us. We couldn't have him thinking we were just a bunch of lazy people! (Even though we are most of the time!)

Sunday the 1st, Brian flew in from Southern California, and we all went and stayed the night at Nick's parents house. (Nick, me, Pat, Brian, and Logan.) We stayed up and played the Wii and watched this horrible Mormon movie, The Buttercream Gang.

Monday, Dad came over, and the guys (minus Dad) went boating on the lake while Martha, Dad, Logan and I hung out on the beach. It was kind of chilly, but ended up getting nicer towards the end of the afternoon. When we went back to their house, we had a barbeque! We played some more Wii and then headed home late that night.

Tuesday, Pat had to go to work, so Brian got to hang out with us boring people and the screaming baby! Logan wasn't a very happy camper this week unfortunately. We got Frisco Freeze and just hung out and watched TV.

Wednesday, Pat worked again, so Nick and I took Brian on a scenic tour (after eating at Quizno's!) of Point Defiance Park. We went right at dusk. When we were driving through the 5 mile drive, we saw two fox! We stopped the car and they came right up to us. We also saw tons of raccoons.

Thursday, Nick and I just hung out here while Pat and Brian did some stuff.

Friday, Nick took the day off. They all convinced me to let Martha and Doug take Logan overnight. Wow was that hard!! I missed the little guy so much. While they took him, we 4 went up to Seattle. We did the Duck tour that leaves from right across the EMP. It was a nice ride, although the tourguide was really corny, and not that great. It was awesome when we went out on Lake Washington in the car/boat! After the tour, we all went to Safeco Field to the Mariners/Yankees game. We all thought we would be watching a smackdown of the Mariners, but it was actually a really good game and we WON! 3-1! It was cool.

Saturday morning, Nick and I were both really missing Logan. We had had a great night of sleep for the first time in 7 weeks! We met Nick's parents out at American Lake with their boat. The guys all went boating/wakeboarding/innertubing again while Martha, Logan and I hung out on the beach. It turned into a beautiful day! Logan slept most of the time, and was really happy when he was actually awake.

Yesterday, Sunday, all of Nick's family went to the Puyallup Fair. Nick has a cold/flu thing so he ended up staying home. The fair got really crowded pretty quickly, since it's the first weekend. We had a good time, but I could tell Logan was getting extremely hot and tired.

I guess that's about all we did this week. Now for the Logan update.

He had been on Lactose Free formula, but he was getting really constipated from it (poor guy!). He was struggling so hard and would sit and cry and cry. He was barely sleeping again because his tummy hurt so bad. So we tried the Soy formula that Dr. Alleman gave us. We started it Friday night when he was at Doug and Martha's, so we didn't get to see the first night's results. They said he slept for about three hours at a time though, and was having normal bowel movements, yay! So we've kept him on the soy, and it seems like he is liking that a lot better. We were buying the Target brand, but once again, today it made him really constipated. So I went back and bought the real Similac stuff. It is twice as expensive, but I am pretty sure it will keep him regulated, and pain free and that's all that matters.

I just realized tonight that he is turning into a big boy! I had to take out his neck support in the carseat because his head wasn't fitting in it anymore, and he also grew out of the Gerber Newborn onesies. I have so many of those, I'm going to have to go through all of his clothes soon. I can't believe he's getting so big!

I guess that's it for now. I am going to put a bunch of pictures on here so bear with me!