Logan in Feb and Mar 2014

Logan ... that boy is busier and cuter than ever.  He talks all the time.  I think he really knows pretty much all words - I am always surprised what comes out of his mouth, even if it is only 3-5 words at a time.  His favorite things to talk about are nursery & preschool (he loves to tell you what he eats there - mostly goldfish and crackers - and also that he plays trucks and cars with the other kids), about the new baby (how he will take care of it), and about how he wants to eat.  And tattle on the other kids (Andrew did it is heard all the time!).

Speaking of the baby - he is very excited about it.  He loves to rub my tummy.  Basically rubs my tummy all night long because he wants to sleep with me every night, too.  Sleeping with Katsu is just not the same.  But he is so sweet, too.  He is always telling me that he wants to see the baby and that he will take care of the baby.  Sometimes, he likes to rub my tummy and then he pretend that he baby hit him.  "Ouch - baby hit me".  I can only imagine what it will be like with those two already.

Logan loves to play and run around with his brothers, but he also enjoys playing by himself, too.  He play elaborate things with people and cars.  It is so cute to listen to him make them talk.  I love it.  and I love that he can keep himself entertained.  His favorite things to do are run around and read books.  He can read books for hours.  His new favorites are Elephant and Piggie, Froggie, and Arthur books.  I don't know why he loves the Arthur books so much - they are long and seem way above his head, but he will sit still and loves to listen to them.  He can read books for hours.  He also loves to watch screentime when the boys have it.  He asks for TV all the time, but we rarely watch it.  He loves to watch Pete the Pirate and is obsessed with pirates.  He loves to look for them all through town and also is thrilled to pieces with an old pirate ship that a friend gave us.

Logan is really loving preschool.  He is sometimes still a bit hesitant to go, but he seems to genuinely enjoy it and then will spend the next 2 or 3 days telling me about what he did there.  He is excited for the fall when he is in a 2 year old class and he can play on the their playground which looks pretty cool.  He also enjoys nursery and is happy and excited to go each week!  YAY!  He finally is separating from me a little bit.

Logan loves to dig in the garden, is excited about the vegetables and flowers, and just loves life.  He is a bit of a handful, loves to play hide and seek and run away from me, and throws the requisite 2 year old tantrums.  He loves to play with trains at Barnes and Noble, go to story time at the library, and eat donuts together at Krispy Kreme.  He loves to go places and loves to see his brothers.  He is just a fun kid.

Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Logan was pretty scared about the Oni (he is kind of scared on monsters generally now), but loved the idea of throwing jelly beans.
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - Logan was pretty bored, but loved the snacks and picnic.
- Lowes - Andrew was going to go with Katsu, but Logan was furious he didn't go and threw the biggest fit ever.  So, I ended up taking him along and we all made Love note boxes.  Logan enjoyed hammering, but honestly, I mostly put it all together.
- Lots of cold weather and snow days and fun.
- Valentine's Day - Logan enjoyed the candies and tried to not be too jealous of his big brothers' stashes.
- Working on the garden. 

~ March ~
- Tagging along to soccer.  Logan loves to kick the ball around on the sidelines and kicks pretty well.  What a cute leftie.
- Katsu was out of town for a week, but Logan let a friend take him to preschool and went willingly.  Yay!  He sure missed Dad that week though.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town.  Logan drove to Raleigh with me to pick them up. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet.  On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears.  Logan had quite a bit of fun, mostly copying whatever the other boys did.  It was fun, but very cold!  We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum.  Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium.  Logan loved to run around from exhibit to exhibit and especially loved the outside part  The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish.  The boys were mesmerized!  He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him.  They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals.  It was pretty cool.  They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun.  Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much.  On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun - Logan LOVED when the pirate float went by.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding.  The boys loved it.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center -Logan had loads of fun - I am not sure doing what, but he just found it all exciting.  All week long he kept asking to go back to Kids Fest.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival.  It was AMAZING.  They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers.  Each room had like 3 art projects.  Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk.  The boys had SO much fun.  Logan loved to try his hand at projects, but would get bored pretty quickly and kept trying to make a run for it.  He loved getting a pirate skull painted on his face.  We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.