Week 37 3/1-3/8

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Last Thursday, a lot of the stay-at-home/part-time moms from our parent's group decided to meet at Great Lakes Crossing. We usually meet at somebody's house, but it was a nice change of pace to go to the play area at the mall. Here is a pic of all the babies lined up. As you can see, Logan wasn't too happy about the photo op:( From left to right: Parker, Drew, Anastasia, Logan, Adam and Sebastian.

Friday was a busy day. Logan and I went up to Grand Blanc in the morning to take care of some things, then we went grocery shopping and then we were back to the house by 3. Debbie dropped off Anastasia for the night so they could go up to the Whiting to see the opera. One thing is for sure...I am thankful that Logan wasn't a twin. It is definitely a lot crazier with two to take care of...I'm sure I could handle it though (covering myself in case the next pregnancy produces multiples:) But, it was fun to have them interact together. Arnold also got some Red Wings tickets last minute, so Alex and Arnold went to the game and my sister and the girls came over to help out. Alyssa's reaction was funny when she came to the door. She said, "Logan looks different." Of course, I was holding Anastasia so we got a good laugh out of that.

On Saturday, we took the Cruz family out to lunch at a good Mexican place by our house and then we watched the girls while Tamie and Arnold went to get their taxes done. Logan and I had colds since we got back from Florida which we shared with Daddy so it was good to get some R & R on Sunday.

Logan had a big day on Monday. He learned how to army crawl sort of..he looks like an injured soldier dragging himself along. He's so funny because when he gets up on his hands and knees, he always ends up going backwards which makes him very frustrated. Now he's working on reaching out with his hands in the army crawl. So he's got the leg part figured out, now he's working on the hands, and once he puts them together...look out! It's actually pretty surprising how quickly he can move without doing a true crawl. It's been a lot of fun working on it all week.

He also learned how to twist himself out of the Bumbo seat. We had been using that to feed him on the kitchen counter. So, Monday night we put the high chair together and retired the Bumbo chair to the garage. It's a good thing because I have already started to give him more table food for him to try and feed himself. It's really a lot easier in the high chair...once again, we probably should have gotten that out sooner. He loves the teether biscuits and the wagon wheel snacks. The funny thing is that Logan won't try to put smaller things in his mouth (bits of turkey, puffs, etc) . He just likes to play with it. It's rather ironic that the kid puts everything else in his mouth.

On Wednesday night, we had our parent's group. It was the "focus on fathers" meeting where the men all took the babies to play and hear the speaker and the women went out to dinner. Logan had spent the day at daycare so I could get our taxes done and head to Grand Blanc to get some work done. I had a complete brain lapse and ended up not heading home until 6:45 (our meeting starts at 7). But, Alex was a trouper and went to the meeting by himself. I was able to drop Logan off to him at about 7:40 and then I went to meet the girls. He was glad he went to the meeting....even if he did have to show up without a baby. He said the speaker was great. He learned a lot of interesting facts about a child's development in correlation with the father's involvement and it was great to interact with the other fathers. I think all the guys opened up a bit more since we women weren't there:)