Austin turns two & trip to North Platte

Dad's attempt on the jet ski floatie

This is how you lay out with kids.....this explains why mom's are so white:):)

Family photo before the wedding

"I do what papa???"

Austin blowing out his candles

Austin loved his Mickey cake!!

Playing at the children's museum on Austin's birthday

As you can see from the pictures Austin turned two and we went to North Platte to celebrate with some friends and family. We had a wedding in North Platte on the same weekend so it worked out well to celebrate while we were there. We went to the Children's museum on Austin's birthday and then had a little get together the next day with some family for his birthday. It was nice to get to visit with family and we were really glad so many people could make it to celebrate with us. He was so excited when we picked up his Mickey cake, and of course he wanted to eat it right away. Let's just say by the time his party rolled around his cake definitely had some finger holes in it from him sticking his finger in it and eating it, thanks Nina!!! Saturday night the boys had a sleepover at Matt's parents house, it was our first night that we've been without both boys since Austin was born, it was kinda nice to get to sleep in and not be woke up by 7:30am:):) Here is a little rundown of what's going on with Austin at age 2:

• he's potty trained...completely, i cant believe it!!! I definitely credit this to Matt, he had been taking his diaper off at night and letting him run around naked from the waist down and apparently that did the trick. We have had very few accidents, I think only 4 or 5 the entire time and hes been in big boy pants for about a month now. He even wears them to bed at night, thats right no diapers, ever!!!! I figure he knew all the diapers we were buying were really starting to break the bank and he's doing his part to help the family out financially:):)
• Talks up a storm...we don't always understand what he is saying, but he definitely likes to talk, I wonder where he gets that:):)
• Loves his baby brother....this is a relationship that took a while to achieve, it started out at first with a little jealousy and some elbows and knee jabs at Logan, but has no developed in hugs and wanting to hold and feed him, he is quite the little helper when it comes to getting Logan's diapers for us and putting his bink back in his mouth
• Has entered his lightening mcqueen phase...dont get me wrong Mickey is still number 1 but lightening mcqueen has definitely peeked his interest...from what I hear this is quite a long phase and we are in for the long haul with many lightening mcqueen years ahead!!

Logan's 4 months old!!

I can't believe my baby is four months old already, seems like just yesterday we were just bringing him home from the hospital...although it seems like the sleepless nights were a long time ago, thank goodness for that:):) Well, at four months old here is a run down of whats going on with Logan:

• loving to sit up, jump in his jumper, anything that is active....this stage is hard because he's not old enough to sit up on his own, but he hates laying down for the most part
• hating cereal...we have given him cereal in his bottle since he was about 2 months old to get his to sleep through the night, we didnt have to do this with Austin because he slept without it, but Logan was not sleeping through the night without it so we decided to try it and it worked. But when he turned four months old we have been trying to get him to eat cereal off a spoon and he hates it. He makes the worst faces and actually gags he hates it so bad. We have tried both rice and oatmeal cereal, tried flavored cereal, tried adding bananas to it, and so far no luck. I'm not really sure what we are going to do as Austin always loved everything he ate. Guess we'll just keep trying different things every few days, we have to eventually find something he likes!!
• Still a super smiley, happy baby...we dont hear him cry very often and its hard to find a time where he is not happy and smiling
• very laid back, I have said before I don't know how people do it if they have two babies close together and the second ones not laid back. Logan gets put in his bouncer, jumper, etc a lot when we are pushing Austin on his bike, pitching balls to him to hit, playing cars, running with him, etc.....its a good thing Logan is so laid back

4 month and 2 year old check-ups

Hard to believe that my little baby is already 4 months old and Austin already 2 years, time sure does fly!!! We had both boys check-ups last week, let me tell you that was an experience....I don't really know what I was thinking but I scheduled both Austins 2 year check-up and Logan's 4 month checkup for the same day back to back when Matt was working, which meant I had to take both boys by myself. Now normally I take both boys places by myself all the time, but Austin is getting old enough that he knew where we were going and what normally happens there.....shots!!!!! From the minute we pulled into the parking lot he wanted to leave, I'm pretty sure I heard "go mommy" about 300 times in the hour we were there. Trying to keep Austin from having a major melt down and getting both evaluated by the doctor was exhausting to say the least!!! The only thing I thought would save me was the fact that Austin didn't have to get shots, just Logan. Well come to find out they have come out with a new pneumonia vaccine and he had to get his finger poked to get his hemoglobin tested. Thank goodness he was old enough to get the flu mist, which goes up his nose and saved us from one more shot. I had them give Logan his shots first because I knew he would be satisfied with a bottle and would recover from his shots a lot faster then Austin would. Poor Logan had to get two shots, which I guess was better then the 3 he had to get at his two month check-up. Here were their measurements:
Logans:

• Height: 26.5 inches (the exact same as Austin was at this age) which was the 93%
• Weight: 17lbs 5 oz ( 7 oz lighter then Austin was at this age) which was the 88%
• head circumference was the 40% (lets just say this was a LOT smaller then Austins at this age)

Austins:

• Height: 37 inches (the doctor told us if you double their height at age 2, a lot of times this is close to their final height, which in his case would be 6'2"....wow if he is that tall he'll tower over his mom and dad!!!) this was the 95%
  
• Weight: 30 lbs this was the 75%
• head circumference is still in the 90%

So, as you can see both of the boys are right on track developmentally and growing like weeds. Logan has had a little bought of cradle cap that we've been trying to get rid of without much luck so his pediatrician recommended that we use antidandruff shampoo on it, so right now we are trying some selsun blue, we'll see how that works.

three months old!!!

Hard to believe Logan is 3 months old already!!! Seems like just yesterday we were headed to the hospital to find out what our new bundle of joy would be!!! Here is a little run down of what he is up to these days:

• he really wants to sit up these days....he's a little too big for his britches here as he cant quite sit up very well but he still really wants to all the time
• loves his jumper/bouncer thing...we just started putting him in it this week. he doesn't do any jumping yet, but he loves to sit upright in it more and see some new toys!! he must be taller then Austin was at this age because I have pictures of Austin in this toy at the same age and he had to stand on a box and Logan clearly touches the ground
• laughing a ton...he is a super happy smiley baby and has now started giggling too, super cute:):) He definitely smiles a lot more then Austin did as a baby
  
• babbling up a storm, definitely in the o-face stage with some crazy sounds coming out of his mouth...he definitely likes to hear himself "talk"
• still an amazing sleeper, sleeps usually 9pm to 6-8 am, and takes 2 or 3 1-2 hour naps during the day...i was super nervous about his napping during the day as we had gotten into a really bad habit of letting him nap on his stomach during the day and then this week he had to go to daycare where he has to nap on his back, but it was a smooth transition and he is napping just as great on his back at day care
• daycare started this week for him..so far so good, she says he has been a good little boy and only fusses when he is hungry or tired..wasn't nearly as hard sending him to daycare for the first time as it was for Austin..must be because we know Nikki (our sitter) a lot better now and know he is in good hands!!
  
• still being a super laid-back pretty easy little baby..i think i have only heard him get really wound up and cry twice in 3 months and both times were when we were out in public places with lots of people around and he was super tired, so I don't know if he was overwhelmed with all the people or just mad he couldn't be laid down on his stomach to sleep....but other then that he hardly ever fusses

Well, thats a little rundown of Logan's life at 3 months. Next month Austin turns 2 and we will be having a birthday party for him in North Platte, of course a Mickey party, even though the last few days he has been telling me he wants a Minnie party instead, somehow I don't think Matt will go for that:):) Enjoy the pics below!!

loving my new bouncer

a weird colored pic, but super cute of him:)

pretty good pic of the boys

first day in the bouncer...wasn't too sure about it

such a smiley baby:):)