Little Logan funnies

Let's see, what to add for this week. Seems as though most events of
the week had to do with some humorous Logan happenings, albeit in some
cases we as parents must not show our amusement lest our Son feel we
approve of some of these hilarious misbehaviors.

1. At dinner we have a family tradition of holding eachother's hands,
closing our eyes, bowing our heads, and saying "Let's be thankful" for
about a minute of silent reflection, at the end of which Momma gives a
small indication that it's over by squeezing our hands. Well, Logan has
gotten into a nasty habit of saying "No talking" while we are doing
this. In fact, a few nights ago, Logan said "No talking" repeatedly
throughout our entire 'silent' period. We even kept extending it in the
hopes he'd stop talking and saying "No talking". As he kept saying "No
talking" "no talking" "no talking" "there's no talking" "no talking" "no
talking"... both Dad and Mom finally lost it and burst out laughing as
we simply couldn't get him to shut his trap! Since then he's gotten a
bit better.

2. Also at a dinner meal, Daddy thanked Mom for the meal she had
prepared by blurting out, "Thanks Babe". Bet you can guess what Logan
did then. He repeatedly said "Thanks Babe" to Momma for the next 20
minutes (he has been learning the nice magic words of 'please' and
'thank you', but not generally in the format Daddy used).

3. Another mistaken blurt of Dad's that had Logan going for a while was
"Holy Cow!"

4. While Dad and Mom were on the phone with Grandma and Grandpa, Logan
spent some time fiddling with the TV and various components. With the
VCR he managed to turn off a DVD that was playing his 'Brainy Baby ABCs'
video in the background. Then he fast-forwarded a video tape that had
evidently some TV recording from last week on it. Pushing the stop and
then play button, he got a scantily clad woman in a bikini to show
blaringly all over the screen. Then he somehow hit the pause button to
freeze frame it. Logan then went up to the TV screen and started
yelling at it "No" and "Stop" repeatedly until Dad finally got his ABC
DVD video back on.

5. At the Sunday Todd Mall Markets today, Logan yet again wolfed down an
entire knackwurst 'hot dog' sausage. He's a porker all right as that
thing is at least 1 1/2 to 2 times the size of a normal hot dog!
Remember, he's just over two years old. He also had some ice cream and
blueberries. Dad can't wait to see how it all comes out the other end
today!

6. And speaking of potty maneuvers, Logan is progressing quite nicely
with learning to use one. At home we generally keep him buck-naked from
the waist down when he's awake. He seems to always be aware of the fact
that he doesn't have a diaper on and so he must use the potty instead...
except that he hasn't quite understood that poos also are meant for the
potty. In this way he tends to wait until we put on a diaper or
'pull-up' before he decides and allows himself to go poos. A couple
days ago Logan said he needed to go poos but refused to go in the potty,
instead he ran off in desperate agony and we could see a little 'prairie
dog' hanging down from his rear. Luckily we grabbed him, sat him down
on the potty, and he went just fine. As for pees, he's got no problem
and will always race off to use his potty. We have a little potty for
Logan in one bathroom and in the backyard. We have one in the backyard
since our yard is so small and we don't want him to learn to go wees
'freelance' just yet. So anyway, because we had taken one of the little
potty's out of our second bathroom and put it in the backyard, there
wasn't one in the master bathroom. Unbeknownst to us, Logan evidently
rushed to our master bathroom, and spying no potty in site, proceeded to
turn over the step stool (we have there to give Logan the abiity to
reach the sink), sit down in the newly formed 'potty' and do his
business. Mom and Dad saw this shortly thereafter and quickly went out
to get another third little potty :-)

Other quick tidbits that happened during the week included going to the
midwives clinic at the hospital as part of the normal checkup for
Momma's pregnancy. We asked a number of questions about VBAC (vaginal
birth after caesarean) and the services we'll be expecting upon our
arrival in a few weeks.

At Logan's playgroup on Friday, there was huge excitement as a real-life
policeman showed up and participated a bit with the kids, to include
giving each of them a temporary 'Neighborhood Watch' tattoo that Logan
couldn't stop beaming about. Definitely a great thing for Logan now,
but I suspect his love of authority will only extend so far, and as he
gets older the respect he has for Mom and Dad's authority will diminish
greaty (who are we kidding, it's already non-existent)!

Logan and Dad had a great bike ride this week (that is, on Logan's
little bike). He loves riding with his feet on the pedals while Dad
does most of the pushing and steering from behind. We did this all the
way to Subway to get sandwiches for lunch, as well as to get the mail
from Dad's workplace demountable on the way back. Later in the
afternoon Dad and Logan went to the Araluen Cultural Centre playground
(our normal one and the largest one in town). It was a bit of a bummer
because there were hordes of people there to participate and watch the
'Desert Mob' show as part of the ongoing annual Desert Festival. That
and because Logan's favorite slide had human excrement in/on it and so
Daddy couldn't let him slide down. Dad did throw sand all over the
excrement to dry it up, and then used a sandal to 'scoop or push' it
out, which unfortunately smeared a bit and so with a water bottle he wet
the area to try to be able to clean it up some more. This problem is
not new as for some reason we tend to get some alcoholic drunk vagrants
who can't seem to find a better place to use the facilities when they
are in an utter stupor. What made it worse in this case was the fact
that there were a large number of people and kids around for the
festivities. On an interesting note, some of the indigenous aboriginal
dancers were out doing their traditional dancing. This included some of
the women 'elders' painted up and dancing around topless. I don't think
Logan even noticed this as he was focused more on the playground apparatus.