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Dear Abigail,

I cannot believe your birthday will be here soon.  It has been such a rollercoaster since finding out you were on your way, but I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.  I cannot wait to meet you, see your sweet face, and hold you close.  You are already such a loved little girl, but I know when you arrive, the love we have for you will grow in such a way that can't be explained or measured.

Just like for your big brother, my hope for you is that God will make Himself known to you, that you will desire to know God more and that you will have a relationship with Him.  I pray that God will help me to guide you in a way that you will know the love of God and desire to do what is pleasing in His eyes.

You are already such a blessing and I am so looking forward to your arrival.  I love you more than you will ever know!

Love,


Dear Logan,

Very soon you will be a big brother!  I am so proud of the big boy you are becoming.  You are sweet, and busy, and funny, and smart, and so much more.  You care when others are sad and hurting and want them to feel better.  I know you will help take good care of your little sister.

I hope you know Mommy & Daddy love you so very much!  I know you can never truly know or understand the full love we have for you, but I hope you feel very loved.  Even though you are such a big boy now, you will always be my baby no matter how big you get.

I worry so much about the change of adding another child to our family, and how that will affect you.  I don't want you to ever feel like you are being replaced, or that you aren't enough because that is not at all the case.  Our love for you will never lessen, it will only grow.

My prayer for you and your sister is that you will love each other and become good friends.  I know there will be times when you may not like each other very much, but I hope you always love each other.

You are such a blessing and I am so thankful God allowed me to be your mother.  I love you sweet boy!!

Love,

Day 168

Just chillin' with Uncle Moose!

Day 167

We went to Austin today to see Uncle Moose & Aunt Mere, and also to meet Logan's new "cousin" Teddy.  He's quite furry and cute!  I think it's safe to say that Logan loves him!  I will do a more detailed post about the whole weekend at the end of the weekend, but here's a couple shots of the 2 cuties.

Day 166

Logan loves his bear.  He takes him on rides and even shares his food with him ;-)

Day 165

We went over to Grandma & Papas today to see Aunt Marmar and Maryellen while they were in town for a little bit.  Grandma is out of town, but Papa took Logan swimming for a little bit.  Logan also got to love on Punky and had lots of kisses to go around :)

Day 164

I finally decided to let go of my need to control the mess of allowing Logan to completely feed himself.  I let him try cheerios with milk today, and he did great!  I was so impressed :)

Day 163

Logan loves to look out the windows whenever Brandon does any kind of yard work.  Just hanging out and watching his Daddy work.

This picture cracks me up!

Day 162

Relaxing with Daddy...

So cute! Daddy had laid down on the floor, so Logan decided to join him.  I'm pretty sure he's going to want to be just like Daddy as he gets older (well, maybe not once he's a teenager, but who knows! Ha!).

Day 161

Logan loves the bear Mimi (Brandon's grandma) gave him .  He plays with it all the time, often has to take it with us when we leave, and sleeps with it every night.

Today, he was pushing him around on his push too.  Too cute!

He even fell asleep holding it!  It's kind of hard to see since I had to take a picture of the monitor, but if you look closely, you can tell he has his arm around it.  He had not been asleep long enough for me to take a picture without waking him otherwise I would have gone in his room to get a better shot.  So sweet!

Day 160

Gigi came this afternoon to help me with Logan because I had a big cookie order.  I think they had a pretty good time.  Logan enjoyed Gigi's i-phone, giving Gigi shots, and stealing her money ;-)

18 months

Logan,

Seriously, how are you 18 months already???  You are such a big boy, but still my sweet baby :)  At your 18 month appointment, you weighed 26 pounds 14 ounces.  You feel much heavier than though. Ha!  That is the 83rd percentile.  You were 33 inches tall and that was the 70th percentile.  Your head size was 19 inches and the 74th percentile.  You are perfectly healthy and we are so thankful for that!

This month you...

- are talking even more now.  Your words are becoming more clear, and it makes communicating with you a little bit easier.  You still use some of your signs, but now verbalize "more" and "please".  We're still working on "thank you" though.

- have learned to say "I love you."  It doesn't sound exactly like it, and we do have to ask you to say, but you have started trying to repeat it.  It melts my heart!

- love pickles!  Those count as a veggie right? 

- have learned to say "Aggies" and can do the Gig'em sign

- fold your hands and say "prayer" and "amen" 

- attempt to repeat most things we say, and your vocabulary is growing.  Your words are sounding more and more like the actual words.

- are very good at kicking a soccer ball (or any ball, really).

- can catch your football when someone throws it to you (we think you're very coordinated!)

- love making silly sounds

- still love, love, love to read.  This makes me so happy.  I love how you often want to snuggle up together and read.  You've really started loving to read in your big chair in your room.

- are not the biggest fan of water, but we are working on it.  You used to love your bath, but hated having water in your face, so washing your hair was rather difficult.  We finally got you to where you would do ok as long as we had a towel to dry your face.  Then, you had a potty accident in the bathtub, and when you saw it, became terrified.  You then would not go back in the bathtub without someone IN the tub with you, and even then, you wouldn't let go of our legs.  Finally, we bought a new duck and you because so fascinated with him, that you were able to overcome your fears.  Woohoo!  However, you still aren't a fan of water in your face, but you're getting better.  You now know you can wipe it away with your hand and that helps.

- had your first swim of the season in Grandma & Papa's pool.  Because of your water fears, you are having to warm up to the idea of "swimming."

- are very into horses and cows right now.  You love animals in general, but talk all the time about horses and cows.

- have finally started to attempt saying your own name.  You have almost always at least tried repeating other peoples' names, but you either wouldn't try or would tell me "no" if I tried to get you to say your name.

- you understand that 2 means more than 1.  Any time you have more than 1 of something you say "two."  It's so cute, but obviously we'll have to work on knowing that it only means 1 more than one :)

I cannot tell you enough how much I love you!  You have been such a blessing to our whole family and I thank God every day for trusting me to be your Mommy!  I love you so much sweet boy!

Day 159

Today we went to see Grandma because she's about to go out of town for almost a month.  He got to play with Pumpkin and go swimming with Grandma.

Logan also sat on the potty for the first time!  He said that he peepee'd, so I asked if he wanted to sit on the potty.  He indicated that he did, so I put him on.  He sat for a good while and "tried" but of course nothing happened since he had just gone, but hey, it's a start!

Day 158

Logan has started saying his prayers (thanks to Papa for helping teach him).  Here is is saying Grace at dinner (technically during dinner).  He often likes to say prayers more than once throughout the course of the meal :)

Day 157

I finally remembered to get some sidewalk chalk out for Logan, and I think he had fun :)