Logan's 3rd Birthday!

January 26, 2014 ~ Logan is 3! Wow, I can't believe it has already been 3 years. I can remember that day like it was yesterday; January 26, 2011. I got up at 6am and started feeling contractions. We headed to the hospital around 8 and Logan was born at 1:40pm.  I will always remember the surprise in the nurse's face in triage about how far along I was. I'm sure they see a lot of women in there with contractions, but no progress; I guess I was pretty far along. When she asked if I wanted an epidural; I said yes, and she said as soon as I got settled in a room I could get one; wow.

Logan knows what is going on and is really into his birthday this year; it is a lot of fun! We started out the morning having pancakes in the shape of our ages (the boys at least). They thought that was pretty cool. Then we headed off to church and Logan was so proud to bring (and carry in) a pack of cupcakes for his class. During the second hour, I was in the nursery across the hall, and I overheard him telling one of his teachers about having fun shaped pancakes this morning; love it!

We then had a relaxing afternoon and waited for Daddy to get home so we could go out for a birthday dinner. Daddy had to work this weekend, but luckily birthday is on the day he came home.

If you ask a 3 year old where he wants to go out to dinner; what do you think he will say? You probably guessed it: McDonald's.  So, that is where we went to dinner. We let the boys have some play time in the play structure, which we hardly ever do at any of the fast food places, so that was a treat for them too.

Then we came home and had Logan open up his gift from us: a stuffed Sully & Squishy; characters in Monsters U. It was a Monsters U kind of birthday; he is kind of into it if you haven't noticed already...! He got all his other presents last weekend, so we wanted him to have a present to open on his actual birthday; yay!

We will find out his stats on how big he has grown on February 14 at his doc appointment. No shots are scheduled, so that is a relief! I think he is tall because several people have commented on it and one teacher at Sunday school thought he was closer to 4 because he was tall; we'll see!

He is basically fully potty trained. He still wears a pull up at night, but 9 nights out of 10 it remains dry. When we get a solid month of dry we may try without. We haven't gotten there yet with Shaun, so this is new territory for us. Children are so different!

Logan is talking up a storm and can't wait to go to preschool in the fall. We'll see how that goes when it actually gets here. Yikes, I will be registering him for preschool in a couple weeks!

Logan,

"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be." Here's to a good 4th year! Happy Birthday, buddy!