Logan is becoming more and more mobile and vocal by the day. He's going to be a handful really soon!
Stats
Weight:19 lbs. 14 oz. (75th percentile)
Height:29 inches (above the 95th percentile)
Size: 12 months (some pajamas and t-shirts are 18 mos.)
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Blue
Teeth: 2 - bottom front (8/14/10, 8/25/10)
Vocalizations: Squeals, coos, grunts, and laughs/giggles. "goo" "buhbuhbuh", raspberries, "umm", "oak", "gah"
Motor Development: Not moving the way he wants to is the source of approximately 90% of Logan's frustration. These days, he is working on forward locomotion. He can turn 360 degrees by scooting on his butt and when on his tummy. He can also scoot forward on his butt, which is pretty inefficient, but good enough to get him to the toys that RJ thought he couldn't reach. He can also launch himself forwards into a crawling position from sitting. Then he rocks back and forth on his hands and knees. He can sort of army crawl backwards, but it's when he's trying to go forward, so he gets frustrated because he gets farther away from what he wants. Logan can be easily calmed by just putting him into a standing position - he LOVES "dancing" and becomes a super crazy maniac baby in the jumperoo. With the way he keeps practicing, I think forward motion via crawling will occur any day now. He just has to figure out how to move his arms and legs!
Cognitive/Perceptual Development: Logan seems to be very into sensory experiences lately. He LOVES water running over his hands and he likes seeing how his food feels in his hands, testing out its squishy-ness. I'm convinced that he can tell the difference between RJ toys and Logan toys because he gets a devilish look on his face when he goes after one of the RJ toys.
He also seems to have an understanding of object permanence given that he tries to move my hands when we play peek-a-boo!
Relationships: Logan's mommy-favoritism has gotten even stronger. When he gets tired at the end of the day, only mommy will do. He also really enjoys being around other children, especially RJ. When he's fussing because I put him down to make dinner, RJ does a good job at calming him down, usually by playing peek-a-boo or just talking to him . Hearing Logan and RJ laughing together is the best sound in the world. Logan is also quite the trouble-maker already, engaging in such egregious infractions such as drooling on RJ, grabbing RJ's toys (which sometimes makes RJ laugh and sometimes cry), splashing RJ in the tub, and then after each infraction, laughing as though he's done the most hilarious thing ever. My personal favorite was when Logan kept touching (and sliming) RJ's arm when they were sitting in the car cart at the grocery store. Something tells me this is not the end of this! Logan also loves watching RJ's friends and his friends' siblings, but his closest friend is Ethan, who is just 4 months older than him. Ethan and Logan like to pass toys back and forth (which is like the baby version of the spit shake!)
Eating: Breast milk is still his primary source of nutrition (he usually nurses at 6am, 9:30/10am, 11:30/12, 1:30/2, 3:30/4, 5:30, 8:30/9, and once overnight (we cut him off from feeding more than once overnight and will soon cut it out entirely). We're up to three meals of baby food a day (8:30, 12:30, 6:30). He eats 1-2 oz. at a time. He might eat more if he wasn't nursing so much, but at this point, I'm trying to get him nursing a bunch during the day so he doesn't want to at night. We'll cut down a bit once he sleeps through the night. So far, Logan's favorites seem to be yellow squash, sweet potatoes, and fruits. Here's what he's eaten so far (in the order he's tried them) avocados, rice cereal, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, zucchini, bananas, pears, butternut squash, yellow summer squash, various yellow and green summer squashes and pattypan, potatoes, applesauce, swiss chard, sweet corn, green beans, apple/blueberry, baby oatmeal, prunes, cantaloupe, turkey, peaches, strawberries. I also added a little unsalted butter to carrots one day (it is supposed to make the beta carotene more easily absorbed), but he was crazy fussy that night, so I haven't tried that again, thinking that the dairy might have been hard to digest. Next on tap are trying butter again to see if it was a coincidence, yogurt, pinto beans, eggs, and whatever fun veggies/fruits come our way in the CSA bin.
Sleep: Logan's sleep has improved, but we're still working toward going all night, and there are quite a few nights of setbacks still. He can sleep from when I put him down (in his own bed - which is currently the pack and play until our new crib comes home with daddy this week) after nursing at 9:30 until around 1 or 2. Then we nurse and he can sleep until 6 or so when I nurse him again and he might go back to sleep until 7:30. He sometimes wakes up more often, but if it's before 1, we get him to sleep without nursing - rocking and reciting "Goodnight Moon" seems to work for me. I'm lucky that I have memorized it since it was RJ's naptime story, so I can recite it while rocking. Hopefully someday we'll be able to put him in the crib and just read and he'll go down, but we're trying to make the sleep association now.
Logan is one crazy baby, who seems to be an easier teether than his brother. Now if only he could just sleep all night!
Note: in this collection you will find several random pictures of our neighborhood or the inside of our stroller - these are RJ's contribution from his tourist game during our transportation theme. 
Relationships: Logan's mommy-favoritism has gotten even stronger. When he gets tired at the end of the day, only mommy will do. He also really enjoys being around other children, especially RJ. When he's fussing because I put him down to make dinner, RJ does a good job at calming him down, usually by playing peek-a-boo or just talking to him . Hearing Logan and RJ laughing together is the best sound in the world. Logan is also quite the trouble-maker already, engaging in such egregious infractions such as drooling on RJ, grabbing RJ's toys (which sometimes makes RJ laugh and sometimes cry), splashing RJ in the tub, and then after each infraction, laughing as though he's done the most hilarious thing ever. My personal favorite was when Logan kept touching (and sliming) RJ's arm when they were sitting in the car cart at the grocery store. Something tells me this is not the end of this! Logan also loves watching RJ's friends and his friends' siblings, but his closest friend is Ethan, who is just 4 months older than him. Ethan and Logan like to pass toys back and forth (which is like the baby version of the spit shake!)
A week after RJ's birthday, we threw him a birthday party. While I can't speak for all the guests, everyone appeared to be having a good time! The party was of course Lightning McQueen themed, since our lives revolve around Lightning and co. As guests arrived, the children took turns with the Power Wheels Lightning, who was a clear star of the party, and bounced in the bounce house (which of course featured a race car on top). Then, the activity I had planned was making plaster cars or trucks. However, this turned out to be a little complicated for 3 year olds, so I ended up making the cars and the kids just painted them. This ended up working out okay, but I wish I had made the cars and trucks ahead of time since they kept crumbling, I suspect due to the heat that day. I don't think the kids cared though. Maybe next year I can think of an activity that doesn't involve making a mess with non-washable paint (last year's party was painting t-shirts).
Then we made our own personal pizzas on pre-baked pizza dough. (I thankfully have a dough setting on my bread maker, which allowed me to be making dough when doing other things to get ready for the party!
After dinner, RJ got a little help from his friends opening presents. Thank you to everyone - RJ has been enjoying all his new things! 
My favorite part of his party was the Lightning McQueen cake. I am still really proud of it and I'm looking for an excuse to make other cakes, because once I got the technique down, it was fun to make and even though it's bragging, it came out good both presentation and taste-wise. 
As his guests left, a bonus was that we got to bounce for another hour because the bounce house rental company hadn't come to pick up the it up yet!
