A Very Special Ornament

This very special ornament arrived the other day. We just wanted to share it with everyone.


To remember our little angel always.

Adjusting To Mother's Day Out

When I walked in the door to pick up Logan from Mother's Day Out this past Friday, one of his teachers let me know that Logan had a very good day! He still cries when I leave, but she said he stopped pretty soon after I left on Friday. He participated in circle time and sat nice during it (pretty good for a 2 year old!) He participated in the craft and he really enjoyed doing it (they made marble paintings) and he even ate some of his lunch which was a first! We are very excited that Logan is starting to transition to being in a preschool/daycare environment and that he is not totally miserable while there.

Logan has been doing better in all his therapies as well. He is speaking way more and using 2 word phrases more often now, unfortunately at 27 months which is next month he will be pushed a little more behind again since 3 word phases should be happening by then, but he is getting close. He is interacting with his therapists more and staying focused for longer periods of time with them (some of this is just him aging of course, he was pretty young when we started therapy to be focusing for a real long period) Logan is playing more imaginatively now and we are seeing A LOT less of him watching wheels of his cars/trains and for the most part playing with them functionally. He is also following directions a good amount of the time and beginning to take turns which is great! We are very happy with the progress he has made in the past month or so, and it is looking less and less like we will be making a return trip to the neurologist, as the neurologist said the money is in the therapies and that is what is working, since his delays are really very mild in the grand scheme. We of course will re-evaluate at the 6 month point, but he is coming along for sure. As his pediatrician says, "Sometimes boys just take a little longer getting there". He is growing and changing so much right now and he is such a joy to be around, we are very proud of our little man!

Here is the marble painting Logan made on Friday. They have this wooden box and then they put the tree cutout in the box dab paint in various spots and then put a marble in the box and the kids get to shake it around creating the picture, then add glitter and it's done! Logan had a lot of fun doing this his teacher said.

This is the ginger bread ornament Logan made last week, he watched the teachers do the cut outs and he helped put a little glitter on it. It smells yummy and looks wonderful on our tree!

Time To Trim The Tree!

This year marked the first time that Logan really helped us trim our tree, although he only did a few, and re-did his Buzz Lightyear ornament a few times, and later launched two of the glass balls across the room thinking they were in fact "balls", we think it went pretty well. We gave Logan his new ornament early this year so he could hang it on the tree, we went with the talking Buzz since he is such a big fan of Toy Story. After playing with Buzz for awhile we tried to get him to put it on the tree but he wasn't having any of it.

Checking out Buzz.

Trying very hard to get Buzz to come out.

After awhile of watching Mom and Dad hang stuff on the tree, Logan decided it was time to put Buzz up.

Finding the perfect spot

Logan let Mom and Dad finish the rest of the tree, but we made sure to come over and inspect ornament placement ever so often, and make sure Buzz was doing good.

Here is our tree all ready to go, minus the 2 casualty's that didn't survive the terrible two's.

Here are some of our special ornaments:

From our first family Christmas.

This one was given to us by Matt's parents while we were in the hospital after having Logan, so it is officially Logan's 1st ornament.

This one was given to us by Brandi's parents the Christmas after we got married.

This is the first ornament that Matt ever gave Brandi. He got it from Holiday Magic at Brookfield zoo the first time they went to Holiday Magic...hard to believe we have been together this January for 10 years!