One Day at a Time...: February 2009

Little Monkey!

Logan has taken to climbing up on EVERYTHING! One of his new favorite things is to climb up on our hope chest at the foot of our bed, then up onto the bed. If the bed is not made yet, he'll tuck himself in! It's so cute! I'll be getting ready and come around the corner to see him in our bed. It just cracks me up! Here are a few pictures of him on and in our bed. (These were all taken during the day b/c he is tucked soundly in his crib at night and for naps!)

But, with climbing have come the boo boos...yesterday while I was babysitting he fell off of a chair and busted his gums open right above his middle top two teeth. The poor little thing bled everywhere. It made me so sad! He is a trooper though, and only cried for a minute. He also fell a few weeks ago and wound up with several HUGE knots on his forehead. It just breaks your heart!

His latest thing is wanting to dip all of his food. He loves BBQ sauce and sugar free syrup for his waffles. Shane even convinced him to try ketchup the other day. (Most of you know that ketchup is my greatest enemy!) Today, I put some ready whip on his plate and he loved it! He really liked dipping his strawberries in there. He even said "more please." So cute! Some of his favorite new words are zip, oatmeal, yogurt, get it, apple and watch. He loves to name off everything while we're checking out at the grocery store!

We have just been busy busy! We've been planning more activities with our playgroup which is so fun. A lot of the kiddos had birthdays in Feb so we've had a lot of birthday parties to attend. Shane's had to be out of town one night last week and one night this week for meetings. We're getting more into storm season, so things will be picking up for him soon. I have another dog evaluation planned for the beginning of March, so I have been sending out a lot of emails and fielding phone calls to get everyone ready for that. I'm also fighting off a cold right now, so we're planning on taking it easy over the next few days. I was planning to attend my therapy dog monthly meeting tonight, but I don't want to pass this cold onto anyone else! Beyond that, I actually don't have much planned until the weekend. I'm really looking forward to staying home and taking it easy with Logan! I love all of our activities, but I really enjoy those days when we can just play together and hang out.

Posted in: on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at at 10:09 AM 1 comments

Great Website

I just wanted to share a website that I am LOVING right now. It's www.mint.com and it's wonderful for all financial stuff! It's totally legit-I read about it in parents mag and it has all of the same protection that your on-line banking websites have. You can upload all of your accounts there and keep track of everything in one place. For example, if you have a checking account, savings account, car payment, student loans, mortgage, credit cards, etc you upload them all and it updates them everytime you log on. So, instead of having to individually log on to all of them seperatly, you can see your balances and information on them in one place. You can also put in the amounts of cars or any other big purchases that you have paid off and it will calculate your net worth everytime you log on. My absolute favorite thing is the budgeting. You can set different categories and it will automatically log things into the category that it thinks it should go into. (ex: Kroger always goes under groceries.) You can also move transactions into different categories or split up a transaction. (ex: if I buy dog food with my groceries, I can break the purchase down so part goes under pet food and part goes under groceries.) It tracks all of your budget categories by month and emails you if you go over in a category. And, it's all FREE! And, if you have a cc that you make purchases on everymonth (and probably pay off) it tracks those purchases with your debit card ones. So, you get an accurate indication of what you're spending even though you haven't made your cc payment yet. There are many, many great things about this site so if you are in need of something like this check it out.

One more thing, if you haven't done your taxes yet I recommend www.taxact.com. It is almost exactly the same as turbo tax which we usually buy for $50 plus fees. To do your federal return on taxact is free and our state only cost $13.95. We used it this year and I've already gotten our state return and confirmation that our federal one is coming!! Woo hoo!!

Posted in: on Monday, February 16, 2009 at at 9:47 AM 3 comments

A Valentines Day Party!

Today our playgroup hosted a Valentine's Day party at my friend Megan's house. Everything was so pretty! She did a fabulous job!!!

There was a table set up so that the kids could decorate cupcakes. I handed my camera off to get a picture of us decorating one. Right when the picture snapped, Logan smashed his cupcake right in his face!! We didn't even finish decorating it. It was so funny!

Here he is trying to wipe the icing off of his face with his arm, lol.

Logan and his friend Olivia love playing together. Here they are playing peek a boo around the door. We just sat and watched them. It was the cutest thing!

There was also a table for them to decorate bags to put their Valentine cards in. Here's Logan working on his bag.

Logan and Paxton playing with the door

Mommy and Logan (before the cupcake! LOL)

My little Valentine!!

I promise to update more soon...Logan is just growing and growing! But, right now he's cutting 4 teeth and NOT napping at all...It's limiting my computer time!!!!

Posted in: on Friday, February 13, 2009 at at 3:09 PM 1 comments

A Weekend on the Farm

We spent last weekend on the farm with Logan's great grandparents. We had a wonderful time! It was so great to get away and be there again. This is my personal get away place that I have been coming for nearly 30 years...I feel so lucky to be sharing it with Logan!

Here's Logan and Shane checking out the few pieces of cotton that were remaining