Easter Weekend

Hope everyone had a nice holiday! It was a rainy weekend with my family, but we made the most of it. Here are some of my favorite pics from the weekend...

Priceless

So, we've all been a little grumpy lately, what with feeling lousy and the crummy weather (today included). Trying to find something fun to do indoors, I brought out Logan's coloring books and play-dough to entertain him for a while. I was standing over him, looking at his artwork, while holding the baby. I wasn't really paying attention to what Auden was doing, but he reached over and grabbed a handful of Logan's hair and gave it a good tug. Logan yelped and then yelled at Auden. "Stop that, Baby Auden! We don't pull people's hair! It's not nice!" Then, he looked up at me and said, "Hey, mom, maybe we should get a new baby." I guess he liked Auden more when he was a bit more inert as a newborn. Too funny...

Bowling Firsts

Still sick with colds. Logan has been waking up about three or four times through the night, coughing, whining, sniffling. Last night was particularly memorable, as he woke up crying and screaming, "I can't bweathe! I got boogers in my nose!" He was panting by the time he got to our room. Seriously. He has a flair for the dramatic.

Auden, the one who infected us all, has been much better the past two nights, a trend that I hope continues. Not only is he not waking up hacking his poor little lungs out, but he's actually only waking up a couple of times in the night. I'm not sure if this welcome change is due to his being exhausted from fighting off this little bug, but I'm hoping it's a sign that he's finally learning to fall back asleep once he wakes himself up through the night.

The subject of my last post, which was cut short by Eric, is really what's gotten us down this week, in addition to our health woes. We were so ready for it to be nice outside, and then the Midwestern weather drops another string of lousy on us this weekend. Yesterday was beyond trying to pretend you could even go outside, with it being dark and rainy (and sleety), but we ventured out today for a bit to play with the neighbors. Then we went bowling. Logan's first game! They had these little velcro bowling shoes--how cute! And he did pretty well, thanks to the bumpers. He bowled a 71 on his first game, and even got a strike! Eric was embarrassed because halfway through the game, Logan was actually beating him. But, I was the winner of the game in the end, a rare occurrence, though the bumpers actually helped me big-time in one frame--I got a strike instead of the gutter ball it was bound to be. So, it was a nice family outing...but I'm not sure I'd want to spend Easter there. Yes, they were advertising for $1 games on Easter Day. So, I guess, if the Easter egg hunt is a flop, you can always hit the lanes.

Midwest weather woes

So Auden, Logan, and I are all sick with colds. Mom's in a lousy mood today. I'm really tired of wiping snot off of faces.

Happy Birthday, Logan!

Though it seems unbelievable, my little boy turned 3 the other day. He had a fun-filled day, which began with a small race car-themed party for his friends from the neighborhood, followed by a family get-together over at Grammy Sue and Papa Hill's. It was a beautiful day, and Logan thoroughly enjoyed himself: He had three (yes, three) pieces of cake at his party at our house, and one piece of Portillo's chocolate cake at his grandparents'. He got to spend time with most of his favorite people. He has enough bubbles to last him through summer, methinks, and he added some great Hot Wheels to his ever-growing collection.

Logan's birthday always seems to usher in spring for me, so I've been digging through spring and summer clothes, seeing what he can still wear, what was handed down to him from his cousins, and what he's handed down to his little brother. Auden sure has a beast of a wardrobe. For some reason, 18 months was a very good season for clothes for Logan. I really hope Auden will be into them before the summer is out.

Well, here are some pics from our neighborhood party. They include the cake I made (my first) for Logan's race car birthday and the aftermath of said cake.

Panic!

A while ago, Eric installed all new hardware in our household--and by hardware, here, I mean doorknobs and hinges. Why he felt this had to be done is kind of beyond me, but they do look much better than the old, discolored brass ones we had before. Anyway, all of the bedroom doors--including Logan's--have locks. At first, I thought maybe we should forego the locks, but my worries were assuaged by the fact that Logan knows how to unlock the doors really well. After today, I'm sure I want to forego the locks on the kids' doors.

Today, I put Logan down for his "nap" and started to put the baby down for his nap as well. Logan's naps have ben pretty inconsistent now that he's almost three, but I tell him he has to at least rest for an hour or so in his room, mainly so mommy can maintain her sanity. Well, Auden had just started to drift off, when I heard Logan screaming and crying in his room. Trying to figure out what he could have done, I brought sleepy Auden to the front of Logan's door. Great. It was locked. So, I had to get the little lock-picking thingie, and I wrestled with that for what felt like an eternity, trying to find that teeny little switch inside the door that disengages the lock. Meanwhile, Logan's still screaming his head off, saying, "Mom! I'm stuck!" He definitely wasn't at the door, so I knew he wasn't crying because he was stuck in his room. Besides, he knows how to unlock the door. No, he was certainly stuck somewhere in his room. I told him not to panic and tried to remain as calm as I could, but I was still befuddled as to what he had done to get himself stuck in his own bedroom. Finally, I was able to get the door unlocked, and I found that my son had wedged himself under his dresser. I pulled him out, and he was perfectly fine, but why he had wedged himself under his dresser was beyond me. Then I looked--he had somehow gotten several Hot Wheels cars waaay back there against the wall, and he was trying to reach to them. Anyway, disaster averted. Kid unstuck.

While Auden hasn't gotten himself stuck under anything yet, he is cutting yet another tooth--this time, his right upper incisor. So, he's pretty much continually crabby and will be for some time yet.

Logan says:

After trying to put Logan's shoes on him for about 20 minutes...

Mom: Logan, get over here--pronto--so we can get your shoes on!

Logan: I'll pronto you, mom!

Mom: Clearly, you don't know what "pronto" means.

Logan: Yeah I do. "Pronto" means you're irritated.

Well, true enough, since I usually say it when I am, in fact, irritated with Logan's dilly-dallying.

This has been a nice spring break--we went to the Shedd Aquarium on Wednesday and really lucked out with parking and beating the lunch-time rush. We arrived just when they were feeding the fish in the Caribbean Reef tank, too, which was pretty awesome, as all of the fish are pretty active then. Logan loved looking at all of the fish, but none of them held his attention for a particularly long time. Instead, we looked at one tank for a few seconds, then were prodded to go see more fish. The dolphin show did hold his attention--he clapped like crazy for the dolphins' jumps and the beluga's waving. He also really liked seeing the otters and playing in their yellow submarine and penguin play area. But we were glad to demystify the sharks for him. The last exhibit we saw was the coral reef, which was a pretty impressive display of rays and sharks, and coral, of course. After having seen Finding Nemo several times, Logan had developed a mild phobia of sharks, but he's no longer afraid of them after seeing what they're really like. He thought they were cool, and when we asked him what his favorite thing of the day was, he said he liked the dolphins and the sharks.