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Lately...

Wow, I am a terrible blogger now. Anyway here is a much needed Shelton update…

(It’s gonna be LONG!)

Mr. Logan aka The Loaf (that’s what we like to call him these days) is 7 months old already!! I cannot believe how fast he is growing and changing. Currently he weighs over 18 lbs and is a little over 28 inches tall. His and Noah’s measurements have been almost identical at their 2, 4 and 6 month checkups. Yet at the same time…they are so different.

 

Some of the things we love about Logan…

*  he is an awesome eater! He has loved every solid we have given him so far…especially warm sweet potatoes. He wants everything we eat. Steve gave him a taste of rootbeer and he didn’t even flinch at the carbonation…dads are stinkers

*  he’s a good sleeper  (he’s had a little trouble lately with a rumbling tummy which I think is due to getting used to digesting solids)

 *  he LOVES his big brother! He is all smiles and laughs when we pick Noah up from preschool. They do a lot of laughing together already and I love it. You can tell that he wants to be able to get up and run SO badly so that he can do whatever Noah is doing…it is adorable.

*  he has been rolling both ways for almost 3 months already and can roll/scoot/army crawl/ lunge himself all over the place…if he wants something across the room, he’ll get it. He is extremely close to crawling for real

*  he LOVES splashing in bath water…maybe we’ll have to put him in swimming lessons soon

*  his hair dries in the cutest way ever! This little grouping near the back of his head dries standing up (see pics below) Steve calls him our little cherry bomb

*  he has the most kissable chubby cheeks (his mom, dad and big brother think so)

*  he’s a mama’s boy like crazy! When he’s extra happy to see me, he grabs my face, pulls me in and smothers my cheeks, lips and neck with slobbery kisses…what’s a mama to do other than melt!

*  he’s such a happy guy most of the time and his smile lights up a whole room

*  he has amazingly long eyelashes

*  he got his first 2 teeth 2 weeks ago within less than a week of each other

Logan is such a great baby and has truly added to our joy!!

he always does these awesome push-ups

dad sharing some brisket...how nice

TEETH!!

Mr. Noah… Well he’s 4 ½ now. Last week he graduated from his first year of preschool, which he has LOVED! This kid cracks us up! He is so much fun and such a big boy now. He loves Logan to pieces…such a great blessing!

Some of the things we love about Noah (and things he loves too)…

*  the way he uses “grown up” words all the time …he uses them correctly too

*  he is such a wonderful big brother! He helps mommy a lot and is so sweet and loving to Logan

*  he’s the skinniest kid I know! He’s 44 inches tall and weighs about 40 lbs

*  he is positive that the saying “cracks me up” is actually “cracks me out” and says it all the time

*  he loves to make up jokes and does it a lot! Once in a while they actually make sense, but not too often…he loves to make people laugh!

*  he’s such a handsome little man who also has a great smile and mile long eyelashes

*  he is such a smart guy and getting more smart by the day. He has loved preschool and also does a website that is helping him learn to read. He is doing great at it!

*  I got an awesome drawing of Optimus Prime on my Mother’s Day card (he LOVES transformers. We’re not sure where the love started because we sure as heck have not let him watch the latest Transformer movies…all of the sudden he knew who they were and all sorts of stuff about them, crazy kid)

Also here are a few of his latest lines that have made us laugh…

*  On the way to the beach while we were in San Francisco  “Ok mom and dad, when we get to the ocean we need to be careful and watch out for sharks. They’re pretty tough on humans”

*  One day he stubbed his big toe and when he was telling me about it he called it his “foot’s thumb”

*  Here’s one of his made up jokes:

Noah: Why did the horse cross the road?
Me: I don't know, why?
Noah: To eat the rabbits on the other side.
Me: Eww. Horses don't eat rabbits.Noah: Well they do when the rabbit's skeletons are made out of hay.

usually he runs up my parents huge slide with NO hands! It freaks me out!

flexing his strong muscles

sporting one of Grandma Sorensen's wigs

Preschool graduation with his teacher Miss Jamie

We love our boys so much! They bring us lots of happiness! (and plenty of frustration too…just keeping it real ha ha)

Steve and I are doing well also. Some know, some maybe don’t but we’ve been trying to buy a house for over a year. We have had pretty much the worst luck/time buying than anyone on the planet. So we are trying to take it as maybe my parents need our help just a little bit longer. Hopefully we’ll have house news to share soon!

And to end, here are some of the pics from our recent trip to California for the blessing of our cute nephew Ethan.

wandering the Stanford campus

Noah LOVED the ocean

The whole Shelton family

Grandpa Shelton & Noah

Ahhhh Logan you're so freaking cute!

Ethan & Logan the giant

cute cousins!!

Noah took this...pretty good job, eh?

I LOVE shots like this...I LOVE my boys!

Pier 39

Thanks Robyn for catching this fun shot of us!

Logan Daniel Shelton...

Next week Logan will be a month old already and I haven't written down his birth story yet. So I'm going to get on that right now and I'll try to keep it somewhat short if I can. I'll just start out by saying that I was spoiled when I had Noah. SPOILED rotten. From my very first contraction to holding him in our arms was a whopping 5 hours...about 5:30 AM to 10:33 AM. This time around I was thinking "That wasn't bad at all! I could totally handle doing that again but natural this time!" So that was the plan. Plans don't always go as, well, planned do they? Logan was due October 22nd. I was dilated to a 1.5 and 50%+ effaced for over a month and originally my doc was sure he'd be coming a few weeks early. Boy did my body pull a fast one on all of us! But finally on Friday morning, October 21st, I started contracting a little before 8. One cute side note...Noah was in my bed with me and I sent him into the bathroom to tell Steve that I was contracting every 9 minutes. He ran in there and said "Daddy, mommy is connecting every 9 minutes!" :) I love that little dude! Anyway...Steve and I were positive that we'd have our new little baby sometime that day. The contractions weren't too bad and staying about 8 minutes apart so we decided to go out and walk around. We walked and wandered and walked and wandered the whole rest of the day. Nothing! Finally the contractions were getting harder and closer together so around 7 PM we went to the hospital. I got the terrible news that I was dreading...I was only a 2. Seriously!? We stayed an hour and they checked me again...still a 2. So we came home. I sort of slept off and on and then around 3 AM the contractions were much more intense and about 4-5 minutes apart. Back to the hospital...they check me...I'm a 4. Holy cow! That's it!? But they did let me stay this time. The hours went on and on and I continued to dilate very slowly. Sadly, if your baby is laying posterior (facing up) it can really slow dilating down because they can be pushing back pretty hard with their head and miss-aligning "things". Which was the case with us. We tried different positions in the bed, sitting on the toilet to help widen my hips and the tub but things continued to move pretty slow even though I was contracting 2-3 minutes apart and they were really intense. I was still trying to go natural but have you ever had a baby laying posterior? The back labor was INSANE! I was screaming in pain. I came to the point around 7 AM ish Saturday morning that I just couldn't handle the back labor anymore. I felt like a failure for making it so long and then having to beg for an epidural. But, I had been contracting for 12 hours and contracting REALLY hard since about 3 AM and I was so exhausted. I mean SO EXHAUSTED! I had been able to stay on top of the contractions for a long time, but I just couldn't do it anymore. I didn't get the epidural until around 8 I think. It was an intense experience unlike last time. They made me sit up and bend forward as far as I could and hold on to my ankles. I had 2 contractions while in this position and I thought I was going to die! That was literally the worst position to be in and have such intense back contractions. Thankfully Steve was right there in my face doing his best to keep me sane. After I got it and they were laying me back down they were going to break my water but it suddenly broke on it's own. That was a HUGE relief! I felt so good after that...for about a minute until the next contraction hit. But I was finally a 10 and I was able to start pushing!! They had to give me oxygen for the rest of the time because I was so far past exhaustion. The epidural was 1/2 way there or so, so I was still able to feel a lot of the pain. With each push the doctor was trying to get Logan to turn and after lots of pushing he finally did! So I pushed and pushed and pushed to try to get him out while he was in a better position. Right as he was about to come, he turned back to posterior and came out. He blew way past the small episiotomy the doc had given me...so STITCHES CITY for me and I'll leave it at that. :) After 40 minutes of pushing...he was here. Our sweet little baby boy had finally made it into our arms and lives at 9:16 AM October 22nd. Steve and I were able to share a wonderful and emotional few minutes together with our new creation, then we were ready to have him clean. :) I could not have made it through without Steve. He was right by my side every second of the way and so incredibly supportive. We have Noah to thank for his name. We told him several that we liked early on and he has been stuck on Logan ever since. He was going to be Logan James and Daniel was another name we had considered for his middle name. But shortly after birth Steve was holding him and staring at him and he looked up at me and told me that he was not Logan James...he was Logan Daniel. I was very happy with that. Daniel is my brother's name. :)
Recovery has been much slower and tougher on me this time. But we are so thankful to have Logan in our family! We love him so very much. Noah loves him too and is such a sweet big brother to him which we are so thankful for as well. Now that this is a mile long, let me make it even longer with some pics!

Preschool...

Noah started preschool back in September. We had a terrible time deciding if we wanted to send him for 2 years or not, but finally it came down to doing it. I think he really needed something more to do than being with boring mom all the time and also with the new baby coming it just felt like a good idea. He has been loving it! He's in a small class of only 8 kids which I feel was good for him. Next year I want to send him to a bigger one with more kids. He is the tallest in his class...I know, big surprise with 6'2" dad and 5'10" mom. On his first day he was supposed to bring a favorite stuffed animal so he brought Clifford and it was very important to him that he wear his favorite shirt.
(Day 1)

Steve and I both dropped him off the first day. As we were heading to the door he stopped and we encouraged him to come with us. He kind of sheepishly looked at us and said "Umm, mommy and daddy...I'm kinda nervous." It was adorable! He loved it from that day on though. Day 2 was also really cute. When we were about to go in he tugged on my hand to stop me and said "Hey mom, I'm not so freaked out today." Cute kid! Then by day 3 he jumped out of bed when I woke him up and said "I wonder what we are going to learn about in preschool today!?"

(Day 3)



I'm really glad we decided to send him! He is so cute about telling me what they learned that day when I pick him up. One day I asked "So what did you guys talk about in preschool today?" He answered with a "come on mom" tone: "Mom, we don't TALK about stuff...we LEARN about stuff!" Oh. Please excuse me for mixing that up, buddy. It was cute. :) Last week his teacher, Miss Jamie, took school pictures. So here's a scan of Noah's first school picture. Man, he's such a handsome boy!! We LOVE you buddy!