Easter weekend

We spent Easter weekend in San Diego with Rob, Julie and Sam. We headed out to JTree for a couple days, for some hiking, bouldering, and tunneling through rocks.  Our trip included a night camping, during which we all actually slept.  I think that may be our first ever non-miserable night camping with Logan. There are a lot of things like this that finally seem easier, 3 months before I turn back the clock 2.5 years.



Sam, Rob, Mark, and Logan hiking in JTree



Joshua Tree

Logan tunneling

  We headed back to San Diego for the rest of the weekend, where our primary goals were to eat and go to the beach.  We managed to fit in Trader Joe's, fish tacos, In n Out burgers, and frozen yogurt at this magical place that let you serve yourself from 15 different flavors with unlimited re-fills and free samples and a giant toppings bar.  Its times like this, when we're so impressed with a big city concept like self serve frozen yogurt, that I realize we're turning into real country hicks. We also made a couple trips to the beach.  Mark got to surf, I spotted some dolphins, and Logan just spent the whole time trying to avoid the sand. We were at the beach in Florida just a month ago, and Logan loved it-- thought it was the ultimate sandbox.  This time he couldn't stand to have sand on him.  When I took his shoe off, he refused to put his foot down in the sand, and when he got sand on his hand he would hold it out to me with this look of disgust for me to wipe off.  Wierdo. He did like playing frisbee.  He makes a big production of getting in his stance, winding up, and it looks like he's going to just nail you.  The exciting part is you never know which direction its going to go and who its going to hit.  He can throw it a decent distance,though. 

Logan, Rob, Sam, & Julie at the beach

We decided to go to a community Easter Egg hunt, along with the rest of southern California.  There had to be a thousand people there.  I've never been to a community hunt before, so it was kind of fun to see the madness of a million kids running after eggs, and they had all sorts of jumpy castles and face painting and arts and crafts stations.  But you had to wait in line forever to do any of it.  I think in the future we'll stick to the back yard...

Discovering Smarties in his Easter Egg

Logan & Sam with their Easter loot

We headed home early Easter morning, and then we got home we had another Easter egg hunt.  You can never have too many Easter Egg hunts. 

Happy Easter!

Going to the Zoo

Grandma Z came out to visit in March. I'm sure we did many great things, but as I am writing this 2 months later and can't remember them all, we'll concentrate on the event documented in photos: the zoo. Kenny has a season pass for the zoo, and herself loves the zoo, and so the zoo is Logan & Kenny's special activity. They have a song they sing-- Going to the Zoo-- which Logan sings with great gusto. He really likes his trips to the zoo, but perhaps more for pushing the stroller, riding the train, and riding the carousel than the animals themselves.
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Zoo with Kenny & Grandma Z

Logan's usually more interested in pushing the stroller than looking at the animals

Riding the train with Kenny

Riding the carousel with Grandma

Only Logan

Me: "Logan, do you want a sister or a brother?"
Logan: "No sister.  No brother.  Only Logan."

Clear enough.  But like it or not, a sister is coming, and I am so excited!  For me, because she will call me every week and take care of me when I'm old (I'm pretty sure this is a gender-based trait).  For Mark, because he'll have a little girl that adores her Daddy.  And for Logan, because he'll have that person that's known him forever, through all his cute and awkward and proud and embarassing moments, and is always there for you no matter what.

2 years 2 months

At 2 years 2 months, Logan's favorite things are Thomas the train, Super Why, building legos, coloring, and racing around the house-- on foot, car, or bike, and preferably as a jaybird (naked).  His pretend car trips are usually to Costco.  He likes to hammer out the ABCs with his toy hammer like Alpha-Pig.  He likes to watch Grace do her spelling and math homework at daycare.   If you ask him what he wants for dinner, the answer is invariably macaroni and cheese or Thai food.  He likes to dance-- his favorite song, to which he has little moves and knows some of the words, is Stubborn Love by the Lumineers.  He's started talking about friends a lot. When he's playing pretend, I often hear "Will you be my friend?  Yes? Okay."  I guess its that simple when you're two. He says Buddy and Charlie (Kendall's dog and cat) are his best friends.  Some other funny things he says:

"I’m just tooting" (When we ask him if he’s pooping… he is, but he’ll only admit to tooting)

"Oh, man!"  (Said about anything that’s frustrating or not going quite right)

"I’m so excited!" (Mainly referring to everything at the airport)

"I sure am!" (For example, I say "you're so cute." He replies "I sure am!)

"Oh, my life!" (Referring to all the stuff he has to put up with from us or the other kids at daycare.  He got this one from Tammy.)

Random pictures

As long as I'm in blog catch up mode, here are a few random pictures I found on my phone:

Logan and Auntie Kenny on the stairs at her house at Christmas

Logan at a gymnastics birthday party at the local rec center.  He loved it!  I've been wanting to bring him here, but its normally only open to over 3 year olds.

Playing in the dryer.  Nothing wrong with that, right?