Nap time again

So Brenna has been going through a phase, and hallelujah it WAS A PHASE, and it's finally over. She is back to sleeping again! She wasn't napping, was rising early (for me that's before 7), and struggled going to sleep at night. I think a large part of it was that she's now in a toddler bed and can get out of bed and play and move around. I think after 2 weeks of free for all she's FINALLY bored of the same toys and just relax and conk out.

Logan's doing great. After 5 days of crankiness especially at night I finally gave him some rice cereal. My poor baby was starving. Now he's back to his happy self and I'm not so sore from feeding every hour. auuuggh

For my roommies...

I've been putting together the Joy School books that the children have been working on. They have pages with favorite colors, self portraits, family pictures, etc. I just realized that 2 kids have birthdays on the 7th and 2 are on the 27th! So they are all odd and end in 7!! (no, not in the same month or that would be too weird)

When living with my 5 roommates in collage we had 3 birthdays on the 23 and 2 on the 13. But Loralee had to ruin it and be on the 7th. haha still love ya, Lolo! But at least we were all odd numbers!

Moving around

Here's the same pic as the first one in the post below but I moved us around. I think I like it better this way so Logan is closer to me and not so far down. Go ahead and let me know which version you like better.

Logan at 1 month

I love my children, I hate a can of Pam OR the day Kevin almost died

It was 4 pm and I was feeding Logan upstairs on my bed when Kevin and Ryan came in with very wet looking hands. I asked what it was and Ryan said that Kevin was playing with the Pam spray!

I ran downstairs and was met by the super-shiny, hair-greased-down, non-stick Brenna. Kevin had completely sprayed her down! As I stepped onto the tile floor (which covers most of the downstairs) I realized I was sliding around. After closer inspection I saw the entire tile floor was covered with a fine, greasy mist. I peeked around the corner, past the kitchen and into the living room where I saw that our new leather couch had a very shiny appearance and the base speaker was in matching apparel. Ryan also informed me that Kevin gave the CARPET (YES CARPET) a nice spray down too!

Ok, so I know I should have love and patience and understanding but I just lost it. I was exhausted from being up all night with Logan, it was near the end of a hard day and I had a disaster to clean up. It was so bad I didn't even know where to start.

I stood in the middle of that greasy floor and yelled. I yelled at Kevin for making the mess, I yelled at Ryan for watching him make the mess, and I yelled at Brenna for being messy (Yes, not very rational I know). Then I just bawled. I think that scared the kids the most and Kevin started crying. I called Jeff and told him that I needed help or he might be a kid short when he came home that night. Jeff and his mom Julie came over right away to help. Jeff took the kids upstairs to bathe them and Julie tackled the floors and furniture. I was sent upstairs to hold Logan.

I had the carpets cleaned the next morning because you could see shiny footprints on the tile floor everytime someone walked across the carpet and back.

I have no idea why Kevin did that. He's really not a mess maker. At least I can laugh about it now. Brenna sure did look funny with her greased-down hair and mega shiny face. Just not funny at the time since I was in no mood to pull out the camera and take a picture.

Logan R

You've probably wondered what the R stands for

Nothing!!

Actually it does but his legal name is Logan R Young. Yes, just the initial. My Aunt Shirley has just the letter A for her middle name and that's what gave me the idea.

Logan's maternal grandfather is Roger, his paternal grandfather is Randy and his daddy is Randy. (Yes, in case you didn't know - Jeff's first name IS Randy) So I thought to honer 3 great men in his life we'd not try to choose and just use the initial R. It's something he'll love or hate later but I thought it was fun and different to do it that way. (It's actually kind of Ciara's idea).

So now we have:

Ryan Jeff (Jeff for his dad)
Kevin Leith (Leith for my dad's dad)
Brenna (sorry, no middle name for girls. I didn't get one either)
Logan R (for grandfathers,dad)

The first names have no family significance but we found out that Ryan and Kevin are Irish Gaelic so that's where we looked for Brenna's name and Logan's.
Ryan means "little king" which he is
Kevin means "handsome" which I think he is
Brenna means "raven-haired beauty" WHOOPS! She's a strawberry blond
Logan means "little hollow". not sure how that applies.

So there you go, a little history on our kids names.

pics of Logan

Our new family. Wow, there's no more room on the bed!

Brenna and Logan 18 months and 9 days apart. Yeah, I'm in for a rollercoaster ride with these 2. =) She's ignored Logan for the most part. She does love to bring his binkie to him when he cries.

Mad Logan

Kevin and Logan

Ryan and Logan. Can you tell he's excited to be a big brother again.

Brenna trying to convince us that she's still the baby in the family.