April Tidbits

April was a busy and super fun month for us. A lot of good things happened in our life too! 

Steve took Steven to ComicCon in the beginning of the month. They had a great time! Steve was super excited to show off all his nerdy-ness to Steven, who has really been into super heroes lately. It was perfect timing as SpiderMan has become one of Steven's favorite shows to watch. Dan and Meghan sent Willow's old costume to us for Steven to wear. It comes complete with fake muscles! Steven LOVED it and he still wears it all the time. Here they are getting ready to go.

Trying to do the spiderman web thing. Almost got it!

Who's more excited?

I didn't go with them because of the ticket price but Steve said they had a great time. He said Steven was sort of stunned by all the characters and a little shy. But they found someone his own size and Steven loved that.

We've been having some spring weather FINALLY! So we've been trying to take advantage of that. Like I said in March's post, we have sort of a weird backyard. We live up on a hill which is great but the backyard is on a pretty steep incline. Plus the back of our house goes all the way down to a pretty busy street so we were really worried Steven would take off. Also, the dogs got loose like 1000000 times since we've moved in. So all of this to say, we needed a fence. We ordered one from Home Depot and they put it in this month.

Fence Yay!

We sort of got screwed on the property line too because we have a pie shaped yard where two straight lots meet. Oh well, we didn't know that when we bought the house but it definitely wouldn't have stopped us from buying it.

The guy who came to put in our fence was amazing. We thought it would be an entire crew and stuff, nope, one dude. His name was Clarence and he was extremely nice. He talked to Steven and put up with Steven in his face asking about his tools and stuff. He was also an extremely hard worker. OMG He put up our entire fence on this stupid incline by himself in 2 days. I can't imagine how many times he went up and down that hill. We were so grateful.

Since we had some nice weather, Steve took advantage of it and the big hill we live right next to by teaching Steven to fly a kite over there. We had some pretty windy days. Here are actions shots of them flying kites. Steve got it up super high.

Can't see the kite bc its practically up towards the  moon!

Here's Steven running home because he's mad that he can't touch the kite in the air...lol

So obviously that was a huge success lol

Steve and I had a big date night in April. I was SO excited. We went to see Billy Joel in concert. I have loved his music ever since I was little and have always wanted to see him in concert. He has come quite a few times over the years but I've never gone. This year, I said we should go before he stops touring. So we went! It was great! The tickets were so expensive so we had nose bleed seats. These pictures are horrible but we had a great time.

Spotlight on him playing the piano

Light show

Horrible selfie. 

We've had so much fun this month just hanging around the house with our two goofballs. I put them in matching jammies one night and it was a big hit! They loved it. Steven keeps asking if they can match some more.

How cute are they?

Brotherly love

Here are some other random shots from just hanging out with our kiddos this month:

Me and my big boy

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Two goofballs suuuper early in the morning

Love these goofballs though!

Logan Garrett's Baptism

On March 30th, we had Logan baptized. He's a little older than we would have liked him to be for this but with all the moving craziness we had to push it back a bit. It ended up bring fine though. He still fit into the baptism gown so it's all good.

This baptism gown is so neat. It's the same one that Steve and all of his siblings got baptized in. Willow was the first grand baby to use it and Steven used it as well. I love that special tradition!

We have such a wonderful family. So many people came out to support him and love him on this special day. 

We had him baptized at Mt. Tabor UCC. The same church I was baptized in, Steve and I got married in and where we got Steven baptized. So even though we don't go there every Sunday it's still a really special church to us. 

Logan was a total sweetheart and didn't cry at all. He tried to grab the pastor's face but that was it. He really is suck a good baby.

my boys

Proud god parents, Dan and Meghan Riegerix.

Afterwards we had everyone out to our new house. Most people had seen it already but it was still fun to have everyone over.

Love :)

Our favs!

Julie drove all the way out to play with my boys! Jake was here too...somewhere! lol

Willow loves baby Logan. This was a really sweet moment between them.

We had lots of people and had a great time. It turned out to be a beautiful day so that was great too. 

March Tidbits

I don't have all the dedicated time to blog like I used to anymore but I want to keep up as much as I can. I'm going to try to remember to at least do a monthly post of what's been going on with us that month.

In March we were pretty busy moving, selling our old house and trying to set up the new place. That kept us and is keeping us fairly busy on weekends. We spent a lot of time unpacking and organizing. I spent a lot of time day dreaming about decorating the new space. We have had a lot of trouble with the dogs getting out of the small enclosure we built for them so we went ahead and got quotes for a fence to be put in. That should go in sometime in April. That will be good too because a certain 2 year old likes to take off sprinting down our hill as well...

We did manage to have some fun in March. We had a family dinner at the Riegerixes. Those are always fun. Matt and Ruty are living there for now with Eli and Micah so that's great. Steven just loves Eli and they have a blast running around together. Logan and Micah are only 3 months apart and they love hanging out too. 

We passed a big milestone this month when I signed Steven up for pre-school (tear). Man, he is getting so big! The district we moved to has full day preschool at the elementary school which happens to be RIGHT down the street from our house. So that is really nice. I found out when the sign up was and called to get more info. They let me know that they only had so many spots and they filled up last year so to make sure to get there on time.

I wanted to make sure Steven got in so I got there early. Well that turned out to be a bad decision! They took me to some back conference room to start filling out the paperwork packet. Well by the time I was completely done and had someone checking my info and making a copy of my license, the time had come to open registration. So they said everyone come to the lobby and we will make you go back into the hall to line up. Well, since I was in a back room everyone that came in after me ended up being before me in line! It was a mad dash out the door and into line. I just made it into line and was given the number 21. I was getting really nervous so I asked them and they said they had 23 spots!! OMG. I was about to lose it on someone if we didn't get in! ha ha

But we did, so its all good. I can't believe my baby is starting at a real school this year. Crazy.

When did he get so big?

I had been talking for a long time about changing my hair and in March I decided to go for it. I cut about 5 inches off! I think it looks pretty good. It has taken some getting used to but I think a change is good from time to time to spice things up!

So that's what we've mostly been up to in March. More to come!

Logan at 6 Months

This had been a big month for you Logan! You have been busy growing by leaps and bounds.

You were grabbing everything we would be eating and really reaching out for food. Since it was close to your 6 month make I decided to try giving you some real good. You weren't too impressed with the solid food. I think you were mostly still figuring out exactly how to grip it and hold it to your mouth. That's tricky stuff!

First solid foods!

So I decided to try some rice cereal mixed with breast milk and you've been loving that so far. We do a small serving of that at dinner now and you eat it all up! Steven never cared much for the cereal but you open your mouth right up and fuss a bit if I try to leave while feeding you. Guess you are a growing boy!

You really didn't love the sweet potatoes. LOL

You mastered a big skill this moby, sitting up unassisted. Your daddy worked with you one morning and you finally got it! You had been getting close for a while but couldn't quite get the balance right to keep from falling over. But now you've got it!

So big!

Daddy also took some selfies because he was so excited! ha ha

Selfies with daddy!

It's so fun to see you sitting up like a big boy. You can really interact with your brother better this way too. Which is do great because he just cracks you up like crazy. 

Goofballs

On the subject of your brother you are loving hanging out with him lately. You get really distracted when nursing if he is jumping around like a mad man. You strain your head and neck to watch him. You pretty much follow him around the room by moving your head and neck whenever you can. 

Since you are getting more interactive, Steven is loving it. He requests to play with you and shows you toys (and takes them from you sometimes). You just love attention from your big bro. You will laugh and smile and giggle at him. It's so sweet and melts my heart to see the relationship blooming between you two.

Besides eating some solids and sitting up this month you've pretty much mastered sleeping through the night as well. You have occasional nights where you'll cry but we know something must be off because you usually sleep from when we put you down around 8pm to 6am. I LOVE that. Thank you so much Logan. Mommy really appreciates it.

Happy boy!

All month I just keep pinching myself with how good of a baby you are. You are so chill and roll with the punches. You are content usually to sit in your bouncer or to play near where we are doing something. You don't hardly ever fuss and you do so well putting yourself to sleep. We are so blessed to have you in our lives.