Good Hair Day

Not much to say today - just wanted to show off my darling girl.

Bad Hair Day

Such a girl...

Logan is Five!

Logan's 5th birthday was on the 15th. Logan said he wanted a party with only boys, and he really only knows 1 boy, Alex. So, instead of a "party" we decided to go to Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday with Alex and his dad. On his actual birthday, Jon did not get home until very late (he was taking a class for work), so I decided to invite the girls next door (4, 7 and 9) over to have cake and ice cream. Well, for some reason, they also did not get home until after 7. They're usually home by 4, so I had the cake and presents ready by then, and since they weren't home, I made Logan wait. Man, what a mean Mommy I was! He waited for a while, but have the cake and presents just sitting there was driving him crazy. So, I finally let him do the candle thing and open presents.

He's so funny. He wanted to put the candles in himself. I told him to put 5 of them in, and he did this:

First he made a circle in the frosting for his sections of candles. If you look closely, you'll see there are 3 circles with 1 candle, 1 circle with 2 candles, 1 with 3, 1 with 4 and 1 with 5. Why are there 3 circles with 1 candle each? I guess he had extras.

He had a great time opening the presents. Although, the first 2 he opened were silverware, which he wasn't thrilled with. See, he likes using his own utensils - not the regular ones Jon and I use. He has a Thomas the Train fork and spoon that he loves, so I got him a Spiderman and Cars fork/spoon set. I thought he'd love them, but you know what his first reaction was? "I didn't want this, I wanted a toy. Can I throw them away?" What a little turd! He enjoys them now, so all is well. He also got a few Transformers (one of them was a Stars Wars one, how cool!) a puzzle and some games we wanted.

Finally the girls next door came over and we did the candle thing again (this time with only 5 candles) and had cake and ice cream again. Then Jon finally got home and there was nothing left to do. Poor Jon was disappointed that we didn't wait for him, but we tried. Oh well. He got to have his fun with Logan at Chuck E. Cheese.

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When Jon was getting ready to leave for work today, he told me there was snow on his car. I said, "You mean frost, don't you?" No, he meant snow. So I took a look, at there indeed was a tiny little bit of snow on the top of the car.

By the time I took Logan to school an hour and half later, it was actually snowing! Yipee!!! I am so excited, I love living where it snows!













Logan thought it was great and had fun trying to catch snowflakes with his tongue. He was amazed that it turned into water in his mouth.







And now, another hour and a half later, it has stopped snowing and whatever snow was on the ground and melted. Logan was hoping it would snow enough to make a snowman, but, alas, not today.

The Firestation

Back in early October (when David and Laura were visiting) there was an open house at one of the fire stations here. Since Logan has liked fireman related things for a while, we decided to go. They had all kinds of things for kids to do.


There was a little building that kids got to shoot water at with a fire hose.

There was some kind of fire awarness thing (Jon went in with Logan, so I don't know exactly what it was). They taught the kids the correct way of climbing out a window - assuming there is a ladder attached!

The kids also got to sit in the drivers seat of a real, live firetruck! How exciting!

I think this trip helped solidify Logan's choice to be a fireman again for Halloween.

Halloween

I finally got around to downloading our Halloween pictures today. So here's how it went down. I picked up Logan's friend Alex from school to watch him until his dad and Jon got home from work to take them trick-or-treating. I thought I'd do a "mom" thing and let them make cookies.


Here are Logan and Alex using the cookie cutters. Logan made broomsticks, owls and bats and Alex made pumpkins, cats and witches. They both got bored pretty quick, and I ended up cutting out most of the cookies.


By the time the cookies were baked, both dads were home to get the kids dressed. Logan went back and forth a lot about what he wanted to be - but he usually came back to being a skeleton. So we searched and searched and searched, but we could not find a costume in his size. It turned out to be a good thing, because he finally settled on being a fireman again. His costume from last year still fit, so we lucked out on that one.










Alex is a huge dinosaur fan, and he also liked the skeleton idea, so his mom made him a dinosaur skeleton costume. I think it turned out pretty good.







And then there was Lexi, who we had almost forgot about. Side note, while we were searching for a skeleton costume for Logan, we toyed with the idea of all four of us being skeletons. We actually found the cutest skeleton costume for Lexi, but once we got it home and put it on her, we realized it didn't fit. So we took the costume back and promptly forgot to get her another one. Halloween day, I happen to be at Walmart when I remembered we needed something for her. Luckily they still had a lot of costumes left. I decided to go for the bear.












So the dads took the kids trick-or-treating and Lexi went along just to look cute.



By the time the kids returned home, I had finished making and coloring the frosting for their cookies. Logan did pretty good frosting 3 of his cookies (then he got bored). Alex got his dad to frost most of his while he just snuck bites.


All in all, the day was a success. The following day, Logan got to go to Alex's house and play all day. After I picked him up, I decided I didn't want to make anything for dinner, we went through the McD's drive through and headed home. Logan told me he was going to go to sleep and to wake him up when we got home. Well, I tried - with no success. After I carried him in from the truck, I laid him down on the ground, thinking he would wake up, but he didn't. So I went about my business - I ate my dinner, I fed Lexi, I put her to bed, I watched a little TV. Still, Logan just laid there. At one point I took his jacket off, and still, nothing. After an hour of this, I realized he just wasn't going to wake up, so I took him up to bed. Poor kid was so tuckered out he went to sleep without dinner!