18 Months

Logan turned 18 months on September 18. He had his 18 month appointment September 23rd. He got 5 shots and did great - only cried for a few seconds after each one. He's always been a little on the short side, but not this time. At a year he was in the 30th percentile, but now he's way up to the 75th percentile!

His stats:

Weight: 25 pounds, 8 ounces (70th percentile)

Height: 33 1/4 inches (75th percentile)

Logan at 18 months:

*Points to airplanes, birds, or anything interesting in the sky.

*Gets excited when he sees dogs and wants to pet them.

*Puts tissues up to his nose and blows.

*Is getting better at letting us read him books as long as he is holding a book.

*Always wants to take a book with him to bed.

*Has been saying "Woah!" a lot.

*Shakes his head no and says, "No, no, no..."

*Is actually really good about stopping doing whatever he's doing if we tell him no (most of the time).

*Says "Baby," but only when he sees a baby.

*Loves finger puppets.

*Is starting to be able to point out things in books when we ask - mostly animals, but also Buzz.

*Likes to give fist pumps.

*Got his left bottom molar, but is still working on getting his right bottom molar.

*Gets so excited when his daddy gets home and runs to give him a hug.

*Has about 10 words that he can say, but he doesn't say them all the time. He'd rather just grunt, point, and scream when he needs something. 

*Can be a bit of a tornado - destroying everything in his path.

He started swinging on the big kid swings and is actually really good at it!

He has mastered eating only the marshmallows when he has Lucky Charms for breakfast.

One night when I was holding him, he went to grab a big bowl of watermelon off the counter while I was walking away and of course watermelon went everywhere. 

This is a horribly grainy picture, but it is too cute not to share. He loves cheering for the cougars and especially loves the fight song.

I sorted through all the boxes of kid clothes and found Corbyn's buzz pajamas. I couldn't wait for him to wear them!

He just got some new sneakers (that light up!) and he looks so big toddling around in them.

We went to visit the ducks one Sunday afternoon. He was so excited to see the "du" and pointed to them/chased them the whole time we were there.

He loves his rain jacket and gets mad anytime I try to take it off him.

Finished Room Friday: Upstairs Bath

For this week's Finished Room Friday, here's our upstairs bath. It's the kids' bathroom as well as the guest bathroom. 

I never loved how our upstairs bath was decorated in our townhouse and since our master bath in this house didn't need a shower curtain, I decided to use the one from the master bath in our townhouse in here. Everything in this picture was from our master bath. Those are nice big towels, so if you come visit (you should!), you can look forward to that.

I put a laundry basket in here in hopes that we could train the kids to throw their clothes in there before hopping in the bath. It was a good idea, but we need to do a better job with the training as Rog and I are still the ones doing it for them.

This hand towel was also from our master bath. I bought the cups, toothbrush holder, and soap pump because they were the only ones I could find to match. I could have done something boring, but I wanted color. I was nervous the kids would break them at first, but they've been fine so far and I'm pretty sure we won't have any problems as long as we keep Logan far, far away (until he gets older of course). 

We hung some hooks for the kids' towels. These towels match the room pretty well, but their other ones don't. (So every other week, I do my best to ignore them - #OCDproblems.) 

And it is a kid bathroom, so behind the curtain, we've got bath toys.  

At some point I may add some decorations, but for now I'm fine with it just like this.

Peyton's Birthday

Peyton's birthday started out like any good birthday should - opening presents!

She got a Rapunzel teddy (want).

A booster seat (need), a helmet (wear), and a set of Doc McStuffins Reading Apps (read).

The other day she told us, "The different sounds in a word are called syllables." Lol, so I guess she's learning something from playing the apps. 

We had heart-shaped donuts for breakfast and then sent her off to preschool.

They had accidentally celebrated her birthday at preschool back in February, but they celebrated it again on her actual birthday. She got a crown and a few small toys/candies. I made her mac & cheese for lunch and she got to watch unlimited shows that afternoon.

Corbyn had a soccer game that night. It was a chilly one, but Corbyn (when it wasn't his turn to be playing) and Peyton bundled up in this big quilt to stay warm. 

They were being rather silly and had a lot of fun with it.

I don't remember what we had for dinner, but I do know we had a Sugar Cookie Bar cake.

We didn't do anything too big or exciting, but she didn't seem to mind. And just like that, she became our big 4 year old!

Finished Room Friday: Half Bath

For this week's Finished Room Friday, here is our half bath on the main level of our house. It's a pretty average half bathroom, but it seems huge to us after the itsy bitsy one we had in our townhouse. 

I used the decorations from the half bath in our townhouse.

I switched out the light blue rug and toilet seat cover for brown ones because the light blue got dirty way too easily. (They are the same color brown in real life - they just came out looking different in these pictures.)

The soap dispenser is also new because I broke the blue one we had before sometime along the way.

Our half bath in our townhouse didn't have any cupboards. It's a simple thing, but I really appreciate having one now because it turns out it is really inconvenient not to have a place to put some hand towels and extra rolls of toilet paper.

The only other difference is I did not paint the blue, tan, and brown stripes because I didn't want to still be working on this room in a year and a half!

Logan woke up from his nap while I was cleaning and taking pictures today, so he helped me finish up - without his shorts on. (He is wearing a diaper.) Keeping it real, friends!

Peyton's Birthday: Family Party

Rapunzel is currently Peyton's favorite princess, so we had Rapunzel birthday parties this year.

We had her family party right after Jared's Commencement Thursday night, so my parents could be there for it.

Pinterest has so many fun ideas for a Rapunzel party from when Tangled first came out. I didn't have time for most of them (darn moving!), but I was happy with what I was able to pull together.

I made a couple quick signs.

I also printed off a Flynn Rider Wanted sign from here.

And a Snuggly Duckling sign from here.

Finally I printed off the picture from when Peyton (and Corbyn) met Rapunzel (and Flynn Rider) at Disneyland and used some of Peyton's Rapunzel toys for decorations.

I made frying pan plates by hot gluing black plastic knives to black paper plates and served most of the food in frying pans. 

For food we had:

Flynn and Rapunzel's Jello Boats (just about every Rapunzel party on Pinterest has some version of this)

Golden Flower Punch

Pascal's Purple Fruit Salad (our favorite mixed berry "salad" that's really a dessert)

Maximus' Apples and Dip (and grapes)

Ruffians and Thugs' Cheesy Roasted Red Pepper Dip with tortilla chips and vegetables

Braided Bread (Mel's French Bread Rolls braided) and Lemonberry Butter

Paintbrush Rice Krispy Treats (idea from here and here)

My favorite part of the party was the cake. There are many versions of this cake on Pinterest. I made my own version after looking at a bunch of them. The flowers are Wilton and the candles are from Walmart. 

We had a lot of food leftover and because we were going out of town the next morning we had to give most of it away since it wouldn't be good by the time we got back. (Tragedy!)

Finished Room Friday: Toy Room

A few people were asking when I was going to be posting pictures of our new house here on the blog. I was planning on doing a house tour when we get it all finished, but since that could be awhile I came up with the idea to post one room at a time as I finish them instead. Other than our living room (waiting for Rog's Uncle Ron to help us build shelves on each side of our fireplace), Peyton's room (basically started from scratch to do a very girly room), and the craft room, most rooms are very close to being done and a few are completely done. I figure if I commit to post one room each Friday, that will give me great motivation to focus on one room at a time and finish up those few nagging things that are preventing each room from being 100% done.

First up, the toy room!

One of the things I wanted in our new house was an area completely devoted to toys. This small room under the stairs fits that requirement perfectly. It is right off our living room, so it's close to where we spend most of our time. It doesn't have all the toys in it. (Both kid rooms upstairs still have a lot of toys in them.) What it has are the general toys that are not really gender specific and the games/puzzles/dress ups (except the princess ones). 

It's perfect because when the kids are saying they're bored and I'm trying to make dinner, I can pull out a bin and say here, play with the Play-doh or here, do a puzzle. It's not big enough for them to really play in it, but it is a great storage area for the toys and it's a fun, cozy place for them to watch shows on the iPad and will be a perfect nook for reading as they get older. (I took pictures with the light off because the light is obnoxiously bright in pictures.)

It was the first room finished because basically everything I used came from Corbyn and Peyton's shared zoo room. We drilled a hole in the back of each of these chalkboard animal prints (since I used the color bar ledges in other rooms) and hung them.

We did the same thing with this Welcome to the Zoo sign. And I put a few of our favorite zoo animal stuffed animals on the top of the cube organizer for decorative purposes.

The cube organizer that was in the zoo room is in Peyton's room upstairs, but I bought another one for this room because it fits perfectly on this wall and it works so well for toy storage. 

I put the games, puzzles, Play-doh, and anything that I don't want Logan getting into up high... 

And the more toddler-friendly toys down low.

Anywhere else these huge pillow pets would drive me crazy, but they're perfect here!

I love that I got to use the zoo decorations again and I'm so happy with how this room turned out!