Zoo

Logan and I took a trip to the zoo to see how Daizy, the baby elephant was doing. We went last week, I think Monday?? It was cold and cloudy but we had fun. Here's some highlights from the trip.

The elephants stayed close to the back gate. Baby still stays close to Mama.

Chubby little prairie dogs. They were cute. Logan really liked them.

The giraffe was right at the gate for us.

Even posed for a picture.

Park Pictures

We went to the park yesterday. It was a really nice day and actually not freezing-for once. We only needed light sweaters. Logan had fun running around a playing. He does the slides by himself now. I think preschool might have helped with that fear. He used to not go down by himself or wanted someone to catch him. Now he goes by himself and doesn't want anyone at the bottom. He still won't do the swings. But he's never liked swings, even his baby one.

Christmas and more

I'm finally getting around to putting up the Christmas pictures. The last few weeks have been busy. Dan had a 4 day weekend over New Years and I was working, doing some New Years Eve crafting parties. We got a tiny bit of snow last week, just a dusting that was gone by lunch time, but it's been really cold. Logan goes back to school tomorrow and things should get back to normal. Here's some highlights from our Christmas.

On December 23 we made sugar cookies for Santa. Logan helped cut out the shapes and decorate them.

Here's some of the finished cookies.

On Christmas Eve Logan was a spider in the Christmas Pageant. The pageant this year was The Friendly Beasts. There were penguins and dogs and cows and sheep and a monkey and an alligator. We weren't allowed to take pictures during the pageant but they did let us take some picture before the service started. Logan got to bring up the Halo for Jesus, as the friendly beast story goes, the spider spun him a halo above his head. Other things brougt up were hay from the cow for a pillow, and wool from the sheep for a blanket.

Alot of the animals weren't there in time for the pictures.


After the pageant we came home to set out cookies and milk for Santa. This year we also left a carrot for the reindeer.

We hung up our stockings, and went right to bed.

Christmas morning Logan got to open his stocking gifts before Breakfast.

He got books and stuffed animals and games in his stocking, and also a horse.

Here's Logan with the horse he got in his stocking. Logan named it Peanut Butter.

Later we opened the rest of the gifts, and watched the Disney World Parade, while doing so.

We didn't get a lot of pictures of the presents. He got a lot of stuffed animals-or stuffed Disney Characters. Dan thought we had to 'complete' his collection so we now have a Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, and Piglet. The 3 in bold are the ones he got for Christmas. Needless to say his room looks like a Disney Store display :) He also got some Sesame Street Legos, some socks and underwear and a few books and games.

New Years Eve, we stayed home and didn't do much. Dan was a little sick so he went to bed really early, before Logan, and the cats and I just watched a movie.

River of Lights

We have a few pictures to share with you. We went to the River of Lights on December 1. Logan really like it this year. They had the usual favorites and some new ones that were fun to see.
By the ticket stands they had this new display that was really cool. It was all lit up and filled with glass snowmen and penguins and other winter friends and it had a working train running through it. This was one of Logan's favorites.

Then there was the dinosaur, always a fun one.

Logan and Dan in front of the airplane.

The rhino was new this year and was very cool!

It was a very fun visit and not very crowded a huge plus!! We think it wasn't too crowded because we went the first week it was open and in the middle of the week, or a school night. But we enjoyed not having huge crowds to fight with so we are already planning to go early next year too. Thankfully the weather wasn't too cold either.

Not much else going on. Tomorrow (12/17) is Logan's last day of school for the year. He'll return on January 5th. He'll be a spider in the Christmas pageant, practice for that is Saturday, other then that we're just staying at home trying to stay warm., at least there's no snow predicted for the near future.

Halloween part 2

I thought I would show you our pumpkins that we put out for Halloween. We had a bunch of trick or treaters come by. Lot's of Dorthy's from The Wizard of Oz and lots of Transformers. Guess those were the big costumes this year.

These are so cute. They're little plastic pieces that you put in the pumpkins to make little animals. There's a bear, cat and dog.

Also here's an update on Logan's writing skills. He's doing really well for only 3 years old. Today at church we gave Lynda a birthday card. I used to babysit Lynda now she is a senior in high school and she helps with childrens chapel at church and Logan loves her. Today was her birthday so we brought her a birthday card.

It says 'To Ms Lynda' the 'Ms' is vertical on the card. But all in all it's pretty legible for a 3 year old. The only letters he really needed help with was the S and Y. He's very good at writing his own name by himself. He practices his letters on the chalkboard and on scrap pieces of paper.

Halloween

This Halloween Logan was a spider. He said he was a nice spider though not a scary one.

On Friday we had a parent teacher conference at his preschool. Sounds like he's doing well, still very shy but participates in all the activities and projects and plays well with everyone. After the conference we went to the church. Lots of the staff there wanted to see his costume and they had bought him lots and lots of Halloween gifts. While we were there about 65 kids from the Methodist church daycare came trick or treating at the church so we got to help hand out candy and freshly popped popcorn to them.

Today we went to the Zoo Boo as we have for the past few years. It was packed as usual. But we had a good time and Logan got a ton of treats and not just candy. He got another football and chalk from the State Farm booth, coupons for McDonalds, toothbrush from the dentist and lots of pencils. When we got home we just rested the rest of the afternoon. I carved a couple of pumpkins, Logan played with play doh and Dan took a nap. We didn't go trick or treating around the neighborhood tonight. Logan has enough treats to last a while. Dan is going to watch the world series tonight and I'm handing out candy.

Logan in his spider costume.

This is the only picture we took from the Zoo Boo. The polar bears are loving our freezing cold temperatures the past few days.

Balloons and zoo

Last Friday we went very early to the special shapes mass Ascension at the balloon fiesta. It was very early, around 6AM, and very cold. But we all had a good time. Logan was just fascinated once all the balloons started going up.

Logan loved the cow.

The bees, Logan liked these too.

After all the special shapes had taken off we headed to the Arts and Crafts show tent. After a little while in there we came out and there were a ton of teardrop shaped balloons coming onto the field. They were having a few different competitions, like dropping things (not sure what they were dropping) onto targets from the balloons. A key grab, they have truck keys on the top of poles and if you can get close enough to grab them you get the truck. And a few more competitions. Just when we thought all the balloons were gone, here they come back again.

This was at the glow on Saturday night, they had a lot of balloons up and ready for the glow but it got really windy all the sudden and they all came down. This is a new balloon the Wizard of Oz anniversary balloon.

Dan wanted to see the baby elephant so we went to the zoo on Saturday morning.

Logan is just fascinated with the crocodiles at the zoo. When we went this time one had his mouth open, which was very exciting.

One relaxed polar bear enjoy the cool weather.

Mom and baby elephant again but still cute!