Boy O' Boy

The waiting is over and the news is exciting. We will be adding a little boy to our family around February 9th. I couldn't be happier that Spencer will have a little brother to play with and that I get a second chance to use all those boy newborn clothes that I love so much. They say the baby looks healthy and everything is right on track. They even moved up my due date 11 days from what I was originally told. It was an exciting afternoon and the ultrasound pictures were amazing. Scott got a little embarrassed when I started talking to the baby during the ultrasound, apparently I was using my high pitched "mommy voice." Let the name game begin!

Bye Bye Binki!

Success! Some of you may recall that a few months ago we tried to separate Spencer from his binki. After a very emotional week for both baby and mom the decision was made that for the overall happiness of our family it was okay for Spencer to sleep with his binki. This time I am proud to announce that we are now a binki free home. We just cut a little slit in all his binki's gave it to him as normal. It only took a few days for him to have no interest in the binki's that didn't work right. He has been sleeping normally at night for two weeks now. Nap time has been a little harder but its nothing that we can't handle (he took a great nap today so right now I am very optimistic Ü) The next step is moving him to his big bed. All the preparations to get ready for the new baby are going well. We will find out next Tuesday if we are expecting a boy or a girl.

Life in Logan

We have been in Logan now for 3 weeks. It has been a huge adjustment but I think I will get used to it and eventually like it. I miss talking to people. As the apartment manager I talked to people all day. Now it's just Spencer and I and the occasional phone calls from family and friends. Our neighbors are nice and we absolutely love all the space of our new apartment. Some highlights of our experience so far:
-Weekend at Bear Lake (Spencer was so proud when he figured out how to say "Bear Lake" that now he says it all the time and then proceeds through the routine of talking about how he splashed Mommy and Daddy...)
-Finding out that the Mom of the two year old boy next door is still in highschool. Then spending the next hour as an awkward bystander as all the other moms had a conversation in Spanish.
- Driving down the road trying to find a park and seriously seeing a guy in his yard lassoing a bail of hay with horns attached to the front.
-Having the entire bishopric of our new ward show up to our apartment tonight at 8:00 pm and I answer the door in my pajamas, embarrassing!
-Last but not least making a return to shopping at Maceys. We have been a Walmart family for way to long and I came home from Maceys the other day as excited as a kid on Christmas morning as I told Scott about how great it was to shop there.
I really think we are going to love it here. I really just need to make some friends or come up with some fun things to do with Spencer. If anyone reading this has ever lived in Logan and has some fun Mommy and kid ideas let me know.
For now we are happy to be living the life in Logan!