I love the way he geeks out about seeing himself in the mirror
Bottom line. I just plain LOVE this kid! So glad he's ours.
Sept 4th 2024- MTC Drop off
5 months ago
Monday, December 5, 2011
Note to Self
I love the way he sucks on the base of my thumb while he's sitting on my lap.
I love the way he gnaws on his fists.
I love the way he geeks out about seeing himself in the mirror
I love all his little noises. And the way I can get him to giggle. And the way he chews on his tongue just like his daddy.
Bottom line. I just plain LOVE this kid! So glad he's ours.
I love the way he geeks out about seeing himself in the mirror
Bottom line. I just plain LOVE this kid! So glad he's ours.
The Annual Christmas Tree Hunt!
Logan's first Pack Family Tree Hunt was a success!
Every year our family goes up to the Idaho wilderness to cut down our Christmas Tree. This is one of my all time favorite traditions and I never miss it. So even with a 5 month old...I was determined to go. Chad had his doubts which made me start to question my sanity. I mean...5 month olds are far from predictable. What if he got hungry and I had to feed him on the hill side? What if he had a massive blow out and he needed to be changed right there in the snow?? What if we weren't paying attention to where we were going and he got nailed in the face with a tree branch while he was in the backpack??? I mean...valid concerns...right? But I had absolutely no child care, and our friends Cam and Jessie were bringing their 3 month old and their little dog...if they could do it...so could we. SO...we took our chances and brought little "Santonio" (Chad's latest nickname for Logan).
Chad and I were so worried that he would just bawl the whole time, but our little trooper did great...as long as we kept moving.
We had the whole Pack family up there including cute little Tai and Kua. And we had a couple of first timers with the Cornelius' and the Rogers. It was a good time! The weather was beautiful. The temperature was bearable and the kiddos we're absolute troopers! And to top it off the Tree pickings were AWESOME this year! Everyone found great trees! Can't ask for much more than that!
We had the whole Pack family up there including cute little Tai and Kua. And we had a couple of first timers with the Cornelius' and the Rogers. It was a good time! The weather was beautiful. The temperature was bearable and the kiddos we're absolute troopers! And to top it off the Tree pickings were AWESOME this year! Everyone found great trees! Can't ask for much more than that!
Monday, November 7, 2011
So...It's been a while.
Dear Logan,
Four months already! Time flys when you're having fun and boy, has it been fun! Can I just say that I LOVE being your mom! And I LOVE getting to stay at home with our little "Bean-er" Yes, we call you "Bean-er". I can just hear you saying "Bean-er? What a terrible nickname." Well here's the story: We called you our little jelly bean once...that went to bean, and then Dad started calling you "bean-er". It started cute, okay. What it turned into...I still shake my head at, but it seems to have stuck. What can I say? I LOVE my little "bean-er"
So you're 4 months old. Or...20 weeks. Or...technically 10 weeks. Whatever you want to go by. You're growing so much. At your 4 month check up you weighed in at 11lbs 4oz. We we're pretty excited about that and the doctor was pleasantly surprised at how well you are doing!
First off...You sleep like a CHAMP! We'll put you down at 10:30 and you'll sleep until 7 or 8. In fact last week you slept until 9:30! You're parents appreciate this more than we can say! We feel incredibly blessed and we realize we're spoiled beyond belief to have such a good baby!
A
few weeks ago you started to smile...on purpose. I love it! It feels
like you're finally starting to move out of the newborn phase- ever so
slowly, but it's more than we've seen the last 3 months! And just the
other day I made you giggle! Talk about a mommy pride boost! I was the
first to make you giggle by tickling you. So far tickling you is the
only way to make you giggle. And that little tickle giggle is like
music to my ears! I absolutely LOVE that sound! I can only get your
dad to giggle that way by tickling him too...he hates it. I can't help
it! I do it for the giggle!
I kind of have to work for the giggle. Your smiles you seem to be a little less stingy on. If anyone says hi to you and gives you their undivided attention...you'll give them a smile. And if they go as far to make any sort of noises with their mouth or tongue...they are your new favorite person! You've also been introduced to your first friend. Emma Cornelius. You two don't really care much about each other now. You kind of just compete for attention currently...but us parents think you're going to one day be great friends.
You've started to discover your hands, you stare at them and you're starting to swat at things. You're recognizing and starting to appreciate toys now too! Where before we'd show you something with lights and moving parts and music and you couldn't care less about it, now, however, you think anything with contrasting colors is pretty cool.
Thus
far you've pee-ed on your dad about 3 times, and you've got me once.
Not including your many tub fountains which don't actually hit me...we
just end up having to drain the tub and start again...which you hate,
because you're cold. You did however pee all over a freshly washed pile
of clothes the other day which I so foolishly left next to the changing
table. (Note to self.) OH, and you got Grandma Bonnie really good
once too. She was changing your poopy diaper and during so you started
to poop some more so she had to catch it with a clean diaper and than
you pee-ed. ...Although that one shot away from her and actually got
all over you instead. hahaha So that one kind of back fired on you.
You
still spit up quite a bit. And usually all over me or your dad. I
change my outfit at least once a day. And still almost always have
goobers all over my shoulder. I need to start adding a change of
clothes for me in your diaper bag! Aren't I a terrible mother for
taking a picture of this and THEN cleaning you up? hahahaha
You
have started loosing all your hair. All that adorable brown hair.
Breaks my heart! I don't know if it's because your head is getting
bigger and bigger all the time and your just growing right out of your
hair or if it's because I always played with it. Regardless, you have
far less hair now than what you came with. So sad.
For your first Halloween we dressed you up as a little pea pod! You were the cutest little thing, but you hated your hat. So that didn't last long. We went to your Dad's Halloween work party and you went trick-or-treating and you were so generous that you gave all your candy to your dad and mom!...probably the first and last time that that will happen.
Later
Mom and Dad had a Halloween party that they went to and we didn't know
what to be, mostly because your dad hates dressing up for Halloween, so
we kind of copped out and went as crazy U of U fans. But we mad the
cutest U of U family!
You're also starting to "talk" to me now. You'll coo at me and make the sweetest noises that just melt my heart. I'm pretty enamored with you my little guy. Everything you do. You've made me so happy, and just when I think I couldn't love you more...you always do something to prove me wrong.
Forever and Always and No Matter What!
Mom
Four months already! Time flys when you're having fun and boy, has it been fun! Can I just say that I LOVE being your mom! And I LOVE getting to stay at home with our little "Bean-er" Yes, we call you "Bean-er". I can just hear you saying "Bean-er? What a terrible nickname." Well here's the story: We called you our little jelly bean once...that went to bean, and then Dad started calling you "bean-er". It started cute, okay. What it turned into...I still shake my head at, but it seems to have stuck. What can I say? I LOVE my little "bean-er"
So you're 4 months old. Or...20 weeks. Or...technically 10 weeks. Whatever you want to go by. You're growing so much. At your 4 month check up you weighed in at 11lbs 4oz. We we're pretty excited about that and the doctor was pleasantly surprised at how well you are doing!
First off...You sleep like a CHAMP! We'll put you down at 10:30 and you'll sleep until 7 or 8. In fact last week you slept until 9:30! You're parents appreciate this more than we can say! We feel incredibly blessed and we realize we're spoiled beyond belief to have such a good baby!
I kind of have to work for the giggle. Your smiles you seem to be a little less stingy on. If anyone says hi to you and gives you their undivided attention...you'll give them a smile. And if they go as far to make any sort of noises with their mouth or tongue...they are your new favorite person! You've also been introduced to your first friend. Emma Cornelius. You two don't really care much about each other now. You kind of just compete for attention currently...but us parents think you're going to one day be great friends.
You've started to discover your hands, you stare at them and you're starting to swat at things. You're recognizing and starting to appreciate toys now too! Where before we'd show you something with lights and moving parts and music and you couldn't care less about it, now, however, you think anything with contrasting colors is pretty cool.
You
still spit up quite a bit. And usually all over me or your dad. I
change my outfit at least once a day. And still almost always have
goobers all over my shoulder. I need to start adding a change of
clothes for me in your diaper bag! Aren't I a terrible mother for
taking a picture of this and THEN cleaning you up? hahahaha 
You
have started loosing all your hair. All that adorable brown hair.
Breaks my heart! I don't know if it's because your head is getting
bigger and bigger all the time and your just growing right out of your
hair or if it's because I always played with it. Regardless, you have
far less hair now than what you came with. So sad.
For your first Halloween we dressed you up as a little pea pod! You were the cutest little thing, but you hated your hat. So that didn't last long. We went to your Dad's Halloween work party and you went trick-or-treating and you were so generous that you gave all your candy to your dad and mom!...probably the first and last time that that will happen.
You're also starting to "talk" to me now. You'll coo at me and make the sweetest noises that just melt my heart. I'm pretty enamored with you my little guy. Everything you do. You've made me so happy, and just when I think I couldn't love you more...you always do something to prove me wrong.
Forever and Always and No Matter What!
Mom
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Blessing Day!
We finally blessed Logan today! September 18th And the day was perfect. Perfect weather, perfect company, perfect little boy.
We had about 40 of our closest friends and family there with us. (And still so many were missing.) Logan has such a large following for one so small. ;) Logan was so good and didn't make one little peep during his blessing. His dad gave him a name, blessed him to have the ability to avoid temptation, have the desire to spread the "good news" and find joy in the gospel, and to have a strong desire for learning. Apparently Logan was given quite the ride while in the circle, because Chad said that the "bounce" was noteworthy.
We sure love our little man! Thank you to all who came and supported us today, and always. We would be lost without your love and service that you've given us since the arrival of our little one!
In the circle: Dad, Grandpa Pack, Papa Ffej, Uncles Micah, Tyler, Josh, John, and Zach, Friends Dustin Robinson, Matt Klien, Kel Eppich, and Matt Caldwell.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Family Reunion!
We had a Pack Family Reunion over Labor Day weekend. Good times, good food, good company!
We hit Bear Lake, (Logan's first time...he was less then impressed.)
Made sand art.
It was a little chilly, but we played hard until we were blitzed.
We went to the zoo...and unfortunately left our camera in the car, so we'll have to get some pics from other family memebers who brought theirs.
It was an all in all great weekend! And it was so nice to spend some quality time with our family. We have such a good time with everyone of them. Love you guys!
We hit Bear Lake, (Logan's first time...he was less then impressed.)
Made sand art.
It was a little chilly, but we played hard until we were blitzed.
It was an all in all great weekend! And it was so nice to spend some quality time with our family. We have such a good time with everyone of them. Love you guys!
3 Months/3 Weeks Old!
Dear Logan,
Today you are 3 months old...or maybe I should say 3 weeks old considering the fact that your arrival date was so much sooner than your gestational age suggests? Either way, your mom and dad have been thrilled to have you around! You are quite the little character already, and I'm waiting anxiously to see what kind of little person you are going to become! Although, I must say, on this 10th anniversary of 9-11 I'm a little worried as to what you may be witness to in this world. What kind of things you'll have to see or live through during your life time. I pray with everything I am that I'll be able to prepare you to survive it all and "live in the world, without being of the world". It's a big responsibility to bear, and I hope that I can do it, so that you can have the best chance out there knowing who you are and why you're here, no matter what kind of darkness may be lurking around you. You started off as a little fighter, I have high hopes that you will continue to be one. ...For the greater good that is. ;) Let's be clear on that. ;)
Currently you are working so hard to hold up your head. You do pretty good for a while...and then you get tired and then your head just flops backwards, scaring your parents, forwards, bashing your nose against something not so soft, or from side to side making you appear a little drunk. It's adorable.
You're a really good baby, although this past week you made Mom work pretty hard to keep you happy. I'm pretty sure you were just getting back at her and Dad for subjecting you to the craziness that was the Pack Family reunion the week before. But you went to Bear Lake for the first time, and to the zoo for the first time...you seemed to be less than impressed with either place, but we're pretty confident that one day they will be some of your favorite places.
I'm really looking forward to everything you are going to start doing, like holding your head up like a champ, and starting to smile and mom and dad on purpose, and I can hardly wait to hear what your little giggle is going to sound like! And yet...I'm already having to put away clothes that are too small for you, and it hurts my heart a little. Not that I had any intentions of ever even having you in preemie clothes, but now that you've more than doubled your birth weight, it's starting to sink in that I'm going to really miss your sweet little newborn phase. All your little goat noises, and squawks, your wide eyes while your discovering new things in your surroundings. The way you turn to the sound of my voice, and the way I can calm you down. It's amazing how much joy I find in simply being able to make you feel safe and comfortable.
How I love being your mom.
Forever, and Always, and No Matter What,
Mom
Today you are 3 months old...or maybe I should say 3 weeks old considering the fact that your arrival date was so much sooner than your gestational age suggests? Either way, your mom and dad have been thrilled to have you around! You are quite the little character already, and I'm waiting anxiously to see what kind of little person you are going to become! Although, I must say, on this 10th anniversary of 9-11 I'm a little worried as to what you may be witness to in this world. What kind of things you'll have to see or live through during your life time. I pray with everything I am that I'll be able to prepare you to survive it all and "live in the world, without being of the world". It's a big responsibility to bear, and I hope that I can do it, so that you can have the best chance out there knowing who you are and why you're here, no matter what kind of darkness may be lurking around you. You started off as a little fighter, I have high hopes that you will continue to be one. ...For the greater good that is. ;) Let's be clear on that. ;)
Currently you are working so hard to hold up your head. You do pretty good for a while...and then you get tired and then your head just flops backwards, scaring your parents, forwards, bashing your nose against something not so soft, or from side to side making you appear a little drunk. It's adorable.
You're a really good baby, although this past week you made Mom work pretty hard to keep you happy. I'm pretty sure you were just getting back at her and Dad for subjecting you to the craziness that was the Pack Family reunion the week before. But you went to Bear Lake for the first time, and to the zoo for the first time...you seemed to be less than impressed with either place, but we're pretty confident that one day they will be some of your favorite places.
I'm really looking forward to everything you are going to start doing, like holding your head up like a champ, and starting to smile and mom and dad on purpose, and I can hardly wait to hear what your little giggle is going to sound like! And yet...I'm already having to put away clothes that are too small for you, and it hurts my heart a little. Not that I had any intentions of ever even having you in preemie clothes, but now that you've more than doubled your birth weight, it's starting to sink in that I'm going to really miss your sweet little newborn phase. All your little goat noises, and squawks, your wide eyes while your discovering new things in your surroundings. The way you turn to the sound of my voice, and the way I can calm you down. It's amazing how much joy I find in simply being able to make you feel safe and comfortable.
How I love being your mom.
Forever, and Always, and No Matter What,
Mom
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