today...

logan got a CT to check a small lump on her neck.  we have been monitoring this lump for awhile now, but it hasn't changed and our ENT suggested getting all the information we need with a CT. luckily, all her blood work has come back normal!! we are so thankful!  since the CT was with contrast - we had to put her under for the procedure.  she was so brave today and woke up smiling afterwards.  we should get the results sometime next week.  we will keep yall posted, but if yall could keep logan in your thoughts and prayers - we would really appreciate it.  we are looking forward to being on the other side of this with hopefully good news.  we could really use some GREAT health news for our logi bear. 

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life {according to instagram}.

 her "smile" face these days.

 zoo family fun!

learning about chili and singing the ABCs.

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our weekends....

now consist of children's birthday parties.  we had two last weekend - a lovely princess celebration in the morning and a stellar star wars celebration in the afternoon.  both held at parks, which was wonderful because the weather was SPECTACULAR. 

 although, logs wanted nothing to do with that princess.  just wanted to swing and do slides on the playground.  i think we have a little tomboy on our hands :)

sitting with all the boys :)

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handmade valentines.

we made lots of homemade valentines this year with a wide variety of materials.  but, i have to say my favorites were the watercolor hearts.  just start with watercolor paper and let your painter have access to the "vday colors" - red, pinks and purples.  i put logan in the tub for this part - which worked wonders because she was contained :)  then, i had her paint on old newspapers with more cool colors - blues, purples, and greens.  i cut out the hearts and logan helped me glue them on the watercolor paper with glue sticks.  super colorful and super easy.

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happy belated valentine's day!

hope yall had a lovely day and weekend filled with celebrating your loved ones!  our celebration included - lots of park time with friends, a good amount of sugar {or pops! - logan's word for lollipops these days}, beautiful flowers, chocolates, stickers, lovely weather, heartfelt notes, delicious champagne and homemade steaks!

happy week friends!

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dinner parties with toddlers.

i remember a time, not so long ago, when friends would gather, delicious food consumed, wine enjoyed, and UNINTERRUPTED and ENDLESS conversations would endure.  these days are long gone.  while these little toddlers are the love our lives, they don't however allow for friends to have uninterrupted and endless conversations anymore.

our new sweet friends, anglea and nick, had us over last weekend for a delightful evening of homemade italian food and great company.  we surprisingly got about five minutes of UNINTERRUPTED conservation and realized some one better go check on the kiddos.  quiet is not always a good thing.  and it was not.  we came upon logan and luca having a grand ole time with a tub of vaseline.  logan managed to cover sweet luca's head in the goop - along with sheets, books and furniture.  and this stuff DOES not come out. 

in case your find yourselves in the same situation - here is what we found out..for hair: 1. baby oil 2. rinse 3. ivory soap 4. comb through 5. shampoo again.  even baking powder wigs won't work.  clothes forever stained, can be scrubbed off walls with simple green and next deglosser.  and that dawn dish detergent dosen't do a thing!

logan so proud of her accomplishment.

poor luca's head covered in vaseline.

troublemakers one second....

sweet little snugglers the next.

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mama got a new ride!

a highlander to be exact.  and we love it.  so much room without being a massive car!  we have a small one car garage - so the big mini vans/suburbans were not gonna work.  we had to move quickly as our silver pathfinder starting not reserving {that was fun!} and then went and died on us.  the mechanic said it needs alot of work and instead of putting that money into an oldie, we decided to put it towards a new one.  logs is loving the captain chairs and looking out the window!  soo very happy to be done with the whole car buying process - what an ordeal :/

p.s. - the car is dark grey incase you can't see in the pic :)  

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let's do this!

potty training 101 is now in session.  i've been quite intimated by the whole process actually.  i can't wait to stop changing diapers - but getting a toddler to go to the bathroom on the toilet - yikes.  plus all the accidents that will happen and we will have to clean up.  not fun.  we are in the first phase - just talking about it, reading potty books, talking up the big girl panties, sitting on the toilet {with nothing happening} that sort of thing. so we shall see...

oh and p.s. - i recently found out that we {as parents} have to wipe our babies bums until they are like 6!  i had no idea and am quite horrified.  i mean i thought once the whole potty training thing was done - we were done with the wiping.  yikes is all i have to say about that.

wish us luck!

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such a little hugger.

playing with buddy ben this weekend!

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