How we roll….

Logan has been playing with a santa magnet that is on the fridge – he can use all the pieces to build santa…and then there is a naughty and a nice sign, which he adds other magnets to. So I spelled his name out and that is on the nice list – spiderman is on the naughty list….mickey mouse…nice. Legolas from lord of the rings (who he says is mommy)…nice list. Well, now every day he asks if we can ‘go to Christmas’…and when we were talking about what santa says, he got all kinds of confused – he seems to think that santa says ‘MUA HO HO’….well, as the church lady used to say….

Every tree in our neighborhood dropped its leaves in one day, and then it blows down and gets caught at the fence between our house and our neighbors (the good ones)…so, we had one huge pile of leaves…..

I downloaded, easily, about 200 photos from the camera a couple days ago – so the halloween pics will be appearing SO soon!   Don’t worry, you can stop biting your nails.  I’m having a hard time parting with L’s hair.  it’s just so cute – and somehow really fits his personality – but his dad wants it GONE.  Luckily, i’m the one that always initiates taking him for a haircut, so I’ll just avoid it until he asks again.  It’s so cute!

This boy is SO loving electric company.  Did you know its been re-done?  it’s so awesome.  Ralph and I immediately get sucked in.  His favorite song right now on there is ’silent e is a ninja’…okay – maybe it’s MY favorite song, but hey…he likes it too.

I had an OB appointment last monday – and heard the heartbeat via the doppler.  YAY – Dr. Says everything is great still.  My next appointment is the beginning of December – I may take Logan so he can hear the hearbeat, too.  We’ll see.  We will do our ultrasound in January to find out what we are having.  becuase YES, WE WILL FIND OUT!! 

Oh – room update – now, I asked Logan what he wants us to paint his new room – and he said ‘You think about that, mom.’

The boy tends to, as would be suspected, to try out new words and phrases…some he’s (ahem) HEARD before, MAYBE.  anyway, here’s a smattering:

• also….
• how ’bout this instead….
• because….
• knock it off!
• lose your attitude
• mommy!  The light is red.  you stop on red
• what yo commitment?
• its soft and comfy
• spoooooooky
• how ’bout…..
• that naaasty

That’s all we can think of right now.

Who have not heard the news – Logan has an announcement for you:

A couple weeks back, Logan was SO EXCITED to make his haunted gingerbread house.  It was so exciting – he got to eat  a bunch of candy and frosting – and decorated the house however he wanted!   SO much fun.  Here are some pics:

Logan REALLY wanted to eat the house – well, we had to keep it in the oven b/c of the cats, plus – you know….he would of course constantly want to eat it.  Well, we kept forgetting to let him actually eat it – and he did too…..can you see where this story is going?

Well, last week we came back from Manhattan….Logan was sick – I was starting to get sick, and we were going to eat frozen pizza….I started up the oven and called Shauna.  About 5 minutes into our conversation….a FLASH of memory came over me -
OH CRAP.  As I went into the smoke filled kitchen…….:(  Oh yeah, you guessed it:

Yeah – go back to the slide show to see the plate that it used to be on.  Poor Logan was SOOOOOOOO sad that it could no longer be eaten.  Mother of the year.

Me:  So, what do you want to have your new room decorated with?

Logan:  Polka dots!

Me:  what kind of polka dots?

Logan:  MONSTER ones – and pink!

Me:  Pink monsters, huh?

Logan:  YES – and green – hey!  My shirt is green – like my shirt, monsters! 

So, our lesson here is that monsters are green and pink – and they live in polka dots.

and I’ll post. 

For those that haven’t heard details, they found my uncle last tuesday and he had passed away the thursday before (the day he went missing).  He actually walked his hike, got down to the bottom, sat under a tree and passed away.  He was 200 yards from the parking lot where his motorcycle was parked.  Apparently, after the coronor’s report, we found that he had advanced heart disease – it was a massive heart attack.  oddly enough, that was more comforting – he wasn’t hurt or anything…and it was instant.   Apparently it would have happened no matter where he was….so, our family is of course very sad and mouring, but the healing is beginnig.  I leave this next friday, the 25th for arizona for the memorial service. Thank you to all of you for your emails.  I really appreciate it.

From Kelly’s daughters:

My family asks that, instead of flowers, people donate to the search and rescue groups that helped find my dad. Here is the address again since I messed it up the first time Red Mountain Community Church at 6101 E. Virginia street in Mesa, AZ 85215. Thank you all so much for helping us honor these amazing men and women! God Bless!