Logan vs. the Easter Bunny

What is the difference between the Easter Bunny and Logan?

The Easter Bunny eats carrots. Logan eats carrots. The Easter Bunny hides eggs. After Logan found all of his plastic eggs with little treats in them, he successfully hid them for Mommy and Daddy to find over the course of the next several days! The Easter Bunny hops. Logan loves to say the word "hop" over and over again and watch as Mommy hops for him! The Easter Bunny works solo. Logan has an army of stuffed bunnies just waiting in the toy bin to do his bidding. So you see, there is very little difference between the Easter Bunny and Logan!

Not only was Easter this year tons of fun for the reasons explained above, Grandma and Grandpa V came to visit for the latter half of Holy Week! And wherever did Logan get such a fine Easter suit, you say? Well, Gram Kvidahl custom made it for her favorite grandbaby!

Just Showing Off

Logan has been working on walking for a few months now. First he would push a large box around (if only they could stay amused by such little things forever!) and cruise the furniture. Then he "graduated" to pushing his mail cart, which he loved giving all his stuffed animals rides in, around every square inch of the house. But now, he finally seems to have it down! Here's a video that you might have to tilt your screen on its side to get the full effect (I didn't know that unlike pictures, videos taken on the camera lengthwise cannot be rotated. Sorry.)!

Once Logan moved from his cradle to the crib, the cradle became a great place to keep his toys. Being a fearless 14 month old, he discovered the joys of falling face first into his toy bin and hanging out for a bit with his buddies. Last week, Logan learned the unpleasantness of falling face first out of his toy bin. So the cradle moved to storage, and fabric bins now take its place. But before we made the transition, we made sure to catch Logan "in the act" one last time (this one is right side up, I promise!)!

Carpe Parkum -- Seize the Park!

Every once in a while in St. Louis, Mother Nature throws a curve ball and gives us a day or two of unseasonable weather. Last weekend was one of those times. With the temperature topping out at 70 degrees, we were able to forget (albeit temporarily) that we are still in February. Not knowing how much of a respite Mother Nature was going to give us from the coldest St. Louis winter on record in decades, we decided to take full advantage and go to the park....so did many other families!

Having never been to the park when lots of little people were around, Logan was at first a little scared and a lotta skeptical. Eventually he warmed up to the playground and we were even able to get a few smiles captured on camera.

Long time..No Blog...

Okay, so I've slacked off (I prefer the term "taking a sanity break, because my son is finally sleeping through the night predictably and I can now catch up on 10 months worth of sleep deprivation" thank you very much!) with the blog the past couple of months. We've been in the midst of learning how nutty the winter season will truly be for the St. Louis Kvidahls from here on out. To demonstrate that I had very good reasons for not getting around to updating the blog, here is a summary of what we've been up to...

DECEMBER -- CHRISTMAS

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. That might be true. But, these beautiful family photos do not tell the story of the absolute hell that broke loose mere hours after they were taken.

Later that day, Logan began showing signs of being sick. I will spare you the details of how little ones seem to be germ bumblebees who easily and quickly "pollenate" everyone with whom they come into contact. But, I will say that when people say "s**t happens", they conveniently neglect to add how much or how often!

JANUARY -- RECOVERY FROM 2010 AND MOM'S BIRTHDAY:

You know you've had a tough year when you force yourself to stay awake until midnight on New Year's, just so that you can say "So long 2010" and "Thank God 2011 is here!" We stayed up until exactly midnight before completely crashing and closing the chapter on 2010.

The beginning of January was mostly recovery from everyone being sick and getting back into our usual routine. At the end of the month, it was my birthday. When you are a mom, your birthday quickly joins the ranks of lesser holidays, like "Boxing Day" -- especially if your birthday is within 10 days of your child's! On the other hand, the cool thing about having a birthday when you are a mom is that you get cute cards from both your husband and son (okay, this year the cards were store bought, but I have high hopes for homemade cards in the very near future!) and who doesn't love cupcakes at any age?
FEBRUARY -- CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE?

February is officially my favorite month. Some might guess it's my favorite because it is the month of Valentine's Day. Nope. February is the month when I get to celebrate my two favorite guys!

David's birthday came on Groundhog's Day (I have to tell it like it is...the groundhog came first unfortunately!). Though Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow, telling us that Spring was soon on its way, you wouldn't have known it by the 8 plus inches of snow and ice combo we received the night before. But, it gave us a snow day off from work to enjoy David's birthday and pick up Gram Kvidahl from the airport! Logan and I baked an angel food cake in celebration.

THE MAIN EVENT --LOGAN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

Since Logan was born on Super Bowl Sunday, we thought we would celebrate his birthday on Game Day! Gram Kvidahl, Grandma and Grandpa vW, and Logan's Godmother and her family were in attendance. The biggest highlights of the day (aside from the company of course!) were eating cake for the first time, playing with balloons, and once the sugar from the cake kicked into gear, climbing as fast as possible in and out of a playtent bus that Godmother gave Logan (so fast that mommy couldn't take a clear picture of the fun!).

And that is the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011. Stay tuned for "Tales of the Toddling Logan" coming soon...

Tis the Season....for everyone to get sick!

Thanksgiving proved to be so exciting, that Mommy and Logan both caught colds heading back home. It turns out that Logan is a lot like Mommy when he gets sick in that he needs extra snuggles. So snuggle we did! But we also stayed in our pajamas all weekend, which was a lot of fun. Logan enjoyed an addition to his sleeping wardrobe -- a new winter hat!

Who you calling a Turkey?!

Logan's first Thanksgiving was anything but "for the bird" (especially since he didn't eat any turkey)! Traveling up to Chicago to visit Grandma and Grandpa vW turned out to be a breeze. Have woobie (that's Logan's favorite snuggle cloth), will travel! In fact, aside from a brief, but fun stop at Cracker Barrel for lunch and a new winter hat (pics on that to follow!), Logan slept most of the trip.

Added bonuses to the trip included getting to spend some time with Uncle Mike, Aunt Jen, and Cousin Ella and Logan getting to meet Mommy's Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin and Grandma vW's cousins.

Here are some pictures of our whirlwind visit...

Happy Halloween!

No, Logan didn't go trick-or-treating this year. Nor did he have any candy (though for the record, he now has 4 teeth!). But he did have a rockin' glow-in-the-dark skeleton outfit that he enjoyed wearing all day. He wore it when he watched football with dad. He slept in it during nap time. He wore it to the grocery store with mom.... You get the point. I'm sure there will come a day in the not-too-distant future when Logan will want to wear his Halloween costume all day when it's not Halloween! And although he freaked out when the first trick-or-treater came to the door (a very intimidating two-year-old in a camouflage batman suit), I have no doubt he'll be a pro come next year! Happy Halloween!