Sunday fun

Mom got up with Logan this morning so Daddy could get some last minute
things done for the Sunchase Solar Model Car website
(http://sunchase.org) The morning's breakfast must have been yummy for
Logan as he ate heartily the following: French Toast, some eggs, and a
bit of doughnut a little later. Mom and Logan then went out to the
grocery store to get a few basic food items for us and our
soon-to-be-returning friends Melissa, Jesse, Bradon, and baby Seth.
Mommy picked them up later that afternoon from the airport after their
one week vacation in Port Douglas (Great Barrier Reef area), a place we
will soon be going to ourselves with Uncle Tom, Auntie Cynthia, and
cousins Amelia, Nathaniel, and Nissa. After their return, Daddy and
Logan played a few games of puppet bear and puppet duck in which the
puppets would chase Logan around our flat. Logan also took horsey rides
on Dad, with Daddy attempting to make realistic galloping and whinnying
type noises as he rode Logan around the living room floor on his hands
and knees. Outside they played with the trucks and on Logan's bike. In
the front of our units, we could see across the road there was a cherry
picker truck with a man and a chainsaw. He was up high and trying to
cut down various limbs off of one of the really tall white ghost gums
trees. Logan was entranced by the noise of the chainsaw and enjoyed
seeing the man going up and down in the cherry picker. Daddy didn't
think Logan understood the danger the man was in while they were
watching as there were two times when the man cut down a large limb and
it proceeded to land on the side or top corner of the cherry picker
platform where the man stood, causing Dad to gasp as it swayed wildly
back and forth with a seemingly strong potential for a collapse (you
could tell the man was a bit surprised as well).
Back at the garage, Logan and Daddy cleaned it up a bit and got ready
for a bike ride, Logan helping to fill the semi-deflated tires. Dad
intended on going for a little workout ride of about 12 miles up to
Flynn's Grave and back, but Logan spotted the playground along the way
and acted as though he was at death's door not to get to play in it.
So Dad's bike ride ended up being 3 minutes. However, Logan got some
enjoyable physical exercise in getting up and around the playground
equipment. He can get across the wobbly bridges on his own now and can
climb up some pretty precarious objects these days, albeit still making
a few mistakes enough to require Dad's immediate and quick-reacting
hands to grab a suddenly dropping kid.
Over in the other part of the playground were some friends of Dad's that
had their little kids there as well. One of them, named Mariah,
immediately became very motherly and attentive to Logan, hugging him
over and over. This got tiresome for Logan and so he ran off to try and
avoid her to no avail. Finally, she relented and accepted that Logan
had no more desire for hugs. Logan did find a desire for stomping his
feet in a section of water and mud puddles however.
Back at home for a quick non-lunch from a still full Logan belly, an
overtired kid was read a few stories and put down for a nap, but not
without several small trucks in hand. Then, after being groggily
aroused from a lengthy nap, Momma had returned from picking up our
friends from the airport and slowly got Logan back into an active swing
of things. One can not get Logan up from a nap and expect to jump right
into activity. You've got to warm him up or face his wrath! In this
case, Momma needed to wake him up so that she could give him a much
needed haircut followed by a shower.
Once awake, Logan got his semi-buzz cut hair chop and ran into the
office to see Daddy where he proclaimed "Haircut" In the evening,
Momma put on the movie "Born Free" and skipped to the later, more
interesting parts of the movie with the lions being more prevalent. Dad
was surprised to see Logan mesmerized watching it as he doesn't tend to
watch T.V. very actively, just sporadically in bits and pieces. In this
case, Logan watched a good straight 15 minutes before fixating on
something else.
Off to bed and no doubt Logan had dreams of lions in his head. Speaking
of which, he's getting more and more animal names down whenever we look
at books with animal pictures.