Another Zoo Day

I am sad to say that my zoo membership expires this week. I definitely got our money's worth though because I believe I went 18 times to the zoo this year! I won't renew it until we find out if we are moving to Louisiana or not. For our last trip to the zoo we met up with my friend LeeAnna and her daughter Ashlynn. The weather was perfect and the animals were all pretty active. Logan saw the fish for the first time (even though I have been 18 times this year there are still things that we have not seen!). He loved the fish so much that when we went to leave to go see another animal he cried. I let him stay for a while longer and he just stared forever. I really think he would have been content staying there all day! I am definitely going to have to take him to an aquarium sometime soon!

Poor Aila

Aila was sick for the first time on Saturday. She woke up with a 103 temperature!!! I called her pediatritian and he said to take her into Urgent Care right away. I was panicking because her temperature was so high and I had taken it under her armpit which means that is was actually 104!!! We got to Urgent Care and it was crowded... just our luck because it usually is NEVER crowded! We had to fill out tons of paperwork and wait forever. No one ever asked what was wrong, although I filled it out on the paper. Doug went up to tell them how high her temperature was and they told him that everyone in the room had a temperature. My thought was everyone there was an ADULT and I had a 7 month old baby!!! For an URGENT CARE they sure did not understand the URGENT part. Luckily they called us in before I had a nervous breakdown... Hey it was her first time being sick and Logan never had a temperature that high! It turns out that she has a bad ear infection in her left ear. Her ear drum even has a blister on it. They gave us a perscription and she was feeling better after a few hours. She seems back to normal now although she is a little fussy, but this could also be because she woke up with a new tooth. Yup, she cut her second bottom tooth! Poor baby has an ear infection and is teething!!!

Michael's 13th Birthday

Yesterday we went to my cousins' house for a birthday celebration. My youngest cousin, Michael, turned 13!!! Wow! Kids grow up way too fast! I remember when he was just a little baby! We had fun eating pizza and hanging out with our family. Logan even went in their pool and he got to play on their trampoline (which made his day!). My cousin even brought over the movie "Twilight" so that I could see it. We had such a good time!

Birthday boy:



My Family:





Logan's favorite part of any birthday party...the cake!:




Logan kissing Aila:


Logan loves their dog:


Aila:




My cousin is doing a science fair project and she needed to fingerprint all of us. This is my dad getting printed...hope he's not a suspect for any crimes!!!:





The usual picture of my dad asleep...I swear he could sleep anywhere!:


Logan on the trampoline:

A Car Goes Moo???

Logan loves, loves, loves the movie Cars. There is a scene in the movie where Litghtning and Mader go tractor tipping. All the tracters fall backward and say moo when they are frightened. Logan seems to like this scene because the last few days he has been tipping his cars onto their back wheels and making them say "moo!" instead of his usual vroom vroom noise. It is really funny!

Here is a video of him reinacting the tractor tipping scene:


Here is another video of him just playing around the house:

Chicken Wings

Chicken Wings are Logan's absolute favorite food! They are becomming mine too because Doug makes his own BBQ sauce and it tastes heavenly! Doug has thought about opening a BBQ restaurant and calling it "Sticky Fingers". Doug makes awesome BBQ so I bet if he ever did open it, it would be a huge success! Here is a video of Logan enjoying some wings:

Getting Crafty

I have been trying to learn how to make different things for my kids to save money and also possibly sell some of it to make some extra cash. So far I have learned how to make stretchy headbands, boutique style bows, pinwheel bows, korker bows, and flower clips for little girls. I can pretty much make a bow in any color, combination or size now and can add cute accents like bottle cap centers or little jewels. While my sister was visiting I also learned how to decorate cakes. Here is the first one I have done (it is going to be Logan's bday cake- Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars).

These are the really simple, plain bows:


Pokadot flower:


Black headband with interchangable loop so you can clip on different flowers and bows:


Cake:

Aila is 7 Months Old

It is wierd to think that Aila is now closer to being a 1 year old than she is to being a new born! This month she has started babbling more and changing the tones of her voice. She even was saying mamamamamama one day! I love hearing her squeals of delight! She is STILL army crawling but now she is really fast at it. I took a new video so that you could see her progress below. She is up to eating four jars of stage 2 a day now and sometimes she can even get in a fifth one! I think I might start her on the stage 3 pretty soon. She also had her first taste of Puffs this month (Puffs are like cheerios except they are made to dissolve quickly in a baby's mouth). Today she had a little bit of water from a sippy cup for the first time. She still won't take a bottle, which in a way I am proud of that because she has not had a drop of formula! Although I have tons of frozen breastmilk that keeps expiring! She is starting to experience some separation anxiety when someone else holds her but we are hoping she gets over that quickly. She is completely aware of what her name is and even if you say her name in conversation with someone she will stop what she is doing to look at you. She has gotten really good at picking things up off the floor and putting them in her mouth. I am constantly vaccuming! She is still the best baby in the world (I keep wondering if she is going to change or if she will always be this easy going). She has one tooth and is trying to cut the second bottom tooth but it seems to be taking its time (to my relief because getting bit while your nursing is no fun! Especially once there are top teeth in the picture) Here are her 7 month pictures which were a mess! She had just eaten and she kept grabbing the paper and then Logan kept trying to get in the pictures with her.

Video of Aila crawling:


Video of what Aila kept doing to her 7 Month sign:


Aila after lunch:




7 Months Old:




















Logan trying to get in the pics: