I forgot that Jeffy had these pictures on his iPhone. We went for a walk around the block while Lindsay was at dance, and we saw some tractors and so we went and checked them out. He was thrilled! I love listening to him talk about tractors. I love how he calls things buckets and scoopers and I still don’t know what the difference is and he constantly corrects me. He’s so cute.

Logan got his cast off yesterday! Yippee!

All week long we were trying to prepare him for it, and on the day before, Jeff was explaining to him that they were going to cut it off with a saw and Logan looked at him, with a concerned face and asked, “Is they gonna cut myself?” Seriously! How much cuter can you get? The day of he was pretty excited about getting it taken off. That was all he talked about all morning and he even talked about how he was going to get a sucker and it was going to be blue. (Isn’t it cute, how in kids’ minds, when something happens a certain way one time, that’s the way it’s going to happen every time?) He got a blue sucker the night he broke his arm and every doctors appointment since then he just assumes he’ll get one. And he did at every appointment except for the x-rays we got taken two weeks after his cast was put on. They didn’t have any. It was a pretty traumatic experience for him. Seriously. Stupid hospital.

Anyway, he was just peachy the whole time in the waiting room and then of course, the minute we step inside the room, he gets shy and won’t sit on the table. We try to get him to sit but he just held on to Jeff.

I then asked the nurse if she had any S-U-C-K-E-R-S and she said she did, so the other nurse went to go get one for him (and for Lindsay, of course. It has to be fair.) and while she was gone, the nurse told Logan that once he got his sucker he was going to sit down so she could take his cast off. He agreed. Man, once he got that sucker (it wasn’t blue but I don’t think he cared) they could have done anything to him! He was soooo content! It was funny to watch him as they were sawing because he just didn’t even seem to care. He had his sucker so the world was an okay place. Jeff covered his ears so it wouldn’t be as loud for him and I think that helped a lot.

Once they finally cut through all of the stuff, they took it off. And this was his reaction:

He cried!! He was so upset for some reason. The doctor said that all little kids react the same way. Every single one of them cry. I guess they feel as if it’s a part of them and they’ve gotten so used to it, it’s weird to be without it. He said that Logan would probably favor it and not use it as if it still had a cast on, and boy did he! He made Jeff hold his arm the whole way to the car.


He refused to use his arm all afternoon and did everything with his left hand. He was right handed before he got his cast on, but now I’m wondering if he’ll end up being a lefty because of this, just because he’s so young. I guess we’ll see.
He still favors his arm and still eats and writes with his left hand, but more and more we see him using his right hand, to climb or lift/pull himself up.

Even though the cast is off and stuffed in a Walmart bag forever because of the smell, let’s remember how cute it was on Logan’s little arm.

Last weekend Jeff and I camped outside with the kids in a tent. It ended up being a really fun night, but the beginning was sort of rocky. Once we had decided to sleep outside, I watched the weather everyday to make sure it wasn’t going to rain. All week the weather man said that it wasn’t going to rain, but instead be 84 during the day and about 62 for the low. Perfect! We were all so excited!

So Jeffy started putting the tent up around 5ish and once we got that up, the kids were SUPER excited!

Logan kept going in and out and wanting me to take his picture, he was having so much fun!

We got all of our air mattresses and blew them up, put them in the tent, got the DVD player ready, got all of our pillows and blankets and stuffed animals and we were ready to go.

I got hot dogs to roast over the fire for dinner and marshmallows to roast after wards. And the healthy people we’re constantly trying to be, we had grapes and salad with it. Lindsay put the red rose I had gotten from the Masquerade ball on the table as a centerpiece. Typical girl stuff!

We later discovered that 4 year olds and 2 year olds do not have the patience to roast hot dogs over a fire, so Jeffy ended up roasting most of them.

This is cute Lindsay dancing and shaking her tushie. She’s so cute.

As we’re sitting there eating, it started getting super windy and cloudy. At that moment, I seriously thought God hated us. Our plates were blowing over and causing everybody’s food to fall on the ground and I didn’t know if we were going to be able to sleep outside with winds that strong. But after about 20 minutes, it started to calm down and ended up being a really nice night. So after we ate, the kids got in their winter jammies and we snuggled up in the tent to watch the Hannah Montana movie. Literally, like 10 minutes into the movie, the kids wanted to turn it off and go to sleep. And go to sleep they did! The second their heads hit the pillow they were out! It was only like 8:00. It was amazing! So Jeffy and I just got to lay there and talk, uninterrupted, looking up at the stars. It was really neat.

We finally went to sleep around 10:30 or 11 and by 2:00, I woke up FREEZING!!!!! I woke up Jeffy to make him share his blanket with me and we spent the next 5 hours shivering. I couldn’t go inside because it would have ruined the whole experience, but man, were we cold! I’m so glad the kids had their winter jammies on because they seemed to be okay. But the second they got up, we ran inside, snuggled up together and finished the Hannah Montana movie, which we all really liked! We then finished the morning off with some french toast.

It was so much fun and we can’t wait to do it again! But next time, we’ll either do it in August, or use sleeping bags.