Baby Einstein

Ok, so I'm his mommy of course I already think this boy is brilliant. (This is his "Mom, don't bother me, I'm studying the letters on my ball." pose) But someday, he's probably going to want to learn even more than I'm already teaching him. Therefore, someday in the near future he is going to venture off to preschool. (And this mommy is someday going to want a break and is someday going to want to drop him off at preschool.)

Because I'm a planner, I'm already saving for my kiddos preschool fund! Crazy? I know. My sister and I have just launched this little project called, "Little Girl Dresses and Little Boy Messes." Guess what we do? We make and sell Little Girl's Dresses for only $10 each. You can check it out here. I'm saving my money for preschool. Julie (my big sis) is probably using her money to adopt. She already has one little boy from China who is amazing. You can read about him here. Hopefully she (and her husband Ryan) will adopt more kids so Logan can have lots of cousins!!

Twins

My mom drug these two around church Sunday announcing, "Look at my twins!!" Everyone did a double take :)

Pumpkin patch: Part II

I guess I made the pumpkin patch sound really, really fun because on Wed. afternoon my sister called and asked if Logan and I would like to take a second trip to the pumpkin patch with her, Nick (her son), and my mom and dad. Since it's right down the road from our house I agreed!

It was a lot colder on Wednesday but we still had fun. There were only 1-2 other families at the pumpkin patch at the same time as us so we got to do a lot. Here are our two little pumpkins, Nick and Logan, sitting on a gate!

Logan got to slide with Grandpa and Grandma Bradley.

Grandpa also took him through Fort Spooky.

He played on the playground with Nick.

All in all, Nick and Logan had a lot of fun with their mummies!

The Search for the Great Pumpkin

We didn't find it, but we sure had fun looking! Greg's family came on Sunday to go to the pumpkin patch with us. We had chili at our house first and then went to Stuckmeyer's.

Logan ready to go to the pumpkin patch.

Logan with Uncle Brian and Aunt Pam.

Logan with Grandma and Grandpa Higgins and his cousin Jared.

No one in this photo is looking at my camera!

The pumpkin patch was really, really crowded. They had lots of stuff to do. Jared enjoyed the playground a lot. There were lots of photo spots but so many people it was hard to get a picture!!

I think Greg went through the corn maze about 5 times and Greg and Joyce went through "Fort Spooky". Here is a picture of Greg and Joyce coming out of "Fort Spooky".

Logan liked seeing the pumpkins and the animals and hanging out with the guys!

After we played for a while, Brian stole a wagon and we went over to take pictures with the pumpkins.

We didn't buy any pumpkins because they weren't very pretty pumpkins and I want a pretty pumpkin for my new front porch!!

Logan was EXHAUSTED by the end of the trip. He had missed both naps that day because he had been to church and then the pumpkin patch. He never got fussy though he just got slap happy before bedtime and kept laughing at everything. I put him to bed about 6:30 pm and he is still sleeping. (It's 7:10 am, no matter what blogger says.)

Parents as Teachers

Our first parents as teachers visit was last night. Logan did really good. He was very interested in the toys the parent educator, Amy, brought with her and was very happy, which is good because evenings are his fussier times! He did spit up in a bowl all over some toys that Amy brought with her.
Greg behaved too :) And I think the lady was about to give him Daddy of the Year award (which I think he deserves). Apparently not that many dads participate in the program.
It seems to be a great program and will be good for us as a family!

Playtime

I have to say, I'm loving the 5 month old stage. Logan is still in the "sweet baby stage" but he's finally able to play, and he's learning so much every day. Between his naps each day I spend time doing activities with Logan. I read it stimulates him and will help him sleep more when it is nap time. Plus the elementary educator in me has to have the day obsessively planned.

Today we played with a baseball.

We did tummy time.

We did mirror play. He loved this!

Well, for a while.

(Don't know why his ear looks freakish like that. He was so mad at that baby for not playing with him.)

We read books. Although he's at the stage where he mostly wants to eat the books.

We did games and exercises and music time and the fun didn't stop just 'cause daddy came home....

Man, Logan was worn out from all that playtime!

Tonight we have our first Parents as Teachers visit. Hopefully our parent educator will give us more playtime ideas for Logan.

The "other" blog

I recently started another blog. I just wanted to try it out, see if it made sense and then I was going to release it to the world (or my "mom friends").
Here was my idea, each week I spend a lot of time finding coupons to make my grocery shopping cheaper. A lot of my friends have told me they don't use coupons. A lot of my friends aren't stay at home moms and clipping coupons is time consuming. I use a system I found online but it still takes me a lot of time. So I had this idea that I would find one really, really good deal each week and share it with my friends. I was inspired by Ben Muelisneoohonehen's (I never know how to spell that) task of the day and I figured I'd make a deal of the week.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM:
I got this message from blogger that told me that a "robot" read my blog and thought it was spam so now I have to wait for a "human" to read my blog and review it and determine if it is spam or not. I don't even know what spam is but you better believe after this, I'm going to find the best deal on spam in St. Louis and put it on my blog.
So, robots QUIT READING MY BLOG! I hope the "human" who is assigned to read my blog enjoys last weeks deals at the local Shop 'n Save. And anyone interested can check out my "other" blog at stlsavvyshopper.blogspot.com. "They" will tell you it is probably spam, they will tell you to proceed at your own risk, but they will let you read it.

Ashes, ashes we all fall down

Maybe Logan isn't as competent at sitting as I thought.

Ok, I don't think it's necessarily funny that my little boy fell. I just think it's amusing that I got a picture of his first fall.

I'm pretty sure you only document everything with your first child.

He was fine by the way. I picked him up and gave him lots of kisses!

Just think of all he learned by fallling. He probably has a much more complete understanding of the Laws of Gravity now. His science teacher grandpa will be so happy!