Wheel rolling

Logan woke up a bit on the wrong side of the bed for poor Momma, with
morning fits of screaming bouts, not getting this food or that
(chocolate, etc...). When Dad got up, Logan wanted to see his most
recent favorite movie "Snoopy Come Home", although he doesn't spend more
than 5-10 minutes at a time watching it. Mom worked on the new baby
book for Logan's forthcoming Sister as well as printed pictures of Logan
himself for family members. While this went on, Dad played with Logan
by playing hide and seek (Logan can be extremely quiet and won't move
when looking for him, but he only has so much patience waiting for Dad
to find him), as well as balloon and playing lego's to build another
castle with towers. Logan also likes to be picked up upside-down and
swung around, finally to be swung up on to the bed and bounced down.
Outside in the front Dad put Logan's bike seat on to Mom's bike and
while this went on, Logan learned on his own how to roll the tire down
the hill, much to his great delight. This was quiet ingenious of the
boy as Dad had given him the rough foundation for rolling a wheel about
one to two days prior, but Logan barely had the dexterity to fling the
previous little wheel himself. So Dad was really happy to see that
Logan figured out how to use a larger wheel and gravity to his
advantage. Also of note, Logan is getting better and better at opening
and closing doors (as well as the sliding doors) in and out of the
house. He is just barely tall enough to reach them. We have found this
can be both a good and bad thing, but mostly a bad thing.
After reading a few books and nap time, Mom took a crabby little Logan
on a walk with a friend (music friend Marg) on an unseasonably cold
day. They still enjoyed it and when he got back, Dad played with Logan
by making strings and things out of play-doh. For dinner Logan ate a
good helping of fish sticks and apple, but would spit up his veggies of
carrots, peas, and corn. We can't figure out his recent rebellion on
veggies! Dinner being over, Logan went for a bath with Mom, and
afterwards he proclaimed his need to go potty. Not taking but a moment,
he went. Dad then cleaned the bowl in the potty out and set it back
down. Then Logan once again, just before getting his diaper put on,
that he wanted to go potty, only this time he dashed fast to it (Mom and
Dad looked at eachother as if to say "He just is trying to avoid getting
ready to go to bed" But no, after a few bouts of wincing and
groaning, Logan got up and had done only his second successful poo-poo
in the potty! Yay! For that it was worth it for Daddy to have to
clean the portable potty bowl twice in 5 minutes.
When Mom came out of the bedroom after reading Logan stories and putting
him in his crib, she commented on how it is easier and easier getting
him down at night. Tonight when Mom was leaving the bedroom he told
her, "Night night Mommy." Now if we can only get him to sleep
peacefully throughout the night then we'd really be getting back into
shape. As it is, it's 10:30 PM now and Logan has already woken up
crying 3-4 times since his 7:30-8:00 PM bedtime. He does settle himself
right back down to sleep usually, but it is always disconcerting to have
it happen, especially for a light sleeper.