Our Little Wolfe Pack: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thankful for pies, finger "painting", chillin' and shoes

Thanksgiving dinner... apple pie (my favorite!), pumpkin pie (yes I started with desserts), turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, creamed peas, rolls, salads... all yumminess on a big long table of family!

Logan and I arrived early to help my mom with preparations... little did I know that her sisters were doing some parts and mom was way ahead of the game so there wasn't a ton for us to do. Awww shucks - we had to relax! The one thing that was left was the apple pies. Again - my FAVORITE! There is something about my mom's apple pies that make them extra good... it is a secret - that I can't share, but probably will a few pictures down anyway...

Logan was a great apple peeler... or rather apple demolisher! He did a number to that poor apple with nothing more than a table knife! It did keep him occupied though while Momma finished peeling and Grandma was slicing and placing.

The secret you ask? Layers... you don't just dump a bunch of apple chunks in a crust. You slice them on the thin side and then you layer them; throwing in some butter, cinnamon and sugar along the way. Not only does it taste awesome, but it is pretty to look at when you see a slice! YUM!

Almost done... just needs a top crust!

The two pumpkin pies. NOT one of my favorites... *gag* (although everyone else loves them, they make me want to puke.) :-)

Trying out the pretty new chair that Grandpa refinished and had reupholstered for Grandma's birthday present!

Chillin with Daddy watching the Detroit Lions lose... shocker.

Hot house + cold outside = perfect finger "painting" glass doors!

Checking out the birds out the kitchen window. If you notice the nerf-like football he is holding is missing a tip... yes - he bit it off. I quickly fed him lunch as that would be more nutritious for him than a football.

Speaking of nutritious... licking the whip cream beaters! Soon after this picture he managed to get both beaters and was a double fisting licker!

Oh Logan and his obsession with shoes. Thursday's shoe of choice, my cousin's wife, Stacy's, "hooker shoes" as she calls them. Not only are they crazy tall stilettos, but they had a platform toe. It took him a couple tries, but he was quickly shuffling around the living room in them. His ability to balance is impressive to say the least.

That was our Thanksgiving day! We stayed through til bedtime and drove home after a bath and pajamas at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Logan was ready for bed when we got home and so were Mommy and Daddy!

Next up: Grandma's BIRTHDAY!! YAY!!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Thankful for "da birdies!"

I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving with your family and friends. Wasn't it nice to have a long weekend? I know I l.o.v.e.d. it! Hope you did too.

This great weekend will be broken up into numerous posts for the week as it was a FULL week of fun and joy with family (many of which also double as friends so it is very convenient like that!)

On Thursday morning we headed out to my parents after breakfast to help with the meal preparations. Logan had some chores to do when we first arrived. The main event was helping Grandpa feed the birds! Talk about a fun time for a two year old!

Getting the lay of the land and seeing how many birds he was needing to get seed for.

Taking the empty feeder into the garage for filling. Yes, he is wearing one of my dad's work gloves... just one though... that is how he rolls. :-)

Helping Grandpa pour the seed.

Carrying it back to the deck. He was so careful - it was cute.

They enjoy each other so much - it is so sweet.

Waiting for the hungry birds to show up and eat the sunflower seeds.

Happy boy with his grandpa

There is an out of focus Black Capped Chickadee!

Next up: the dessert prep, hanging out and yummy food.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Just another weekend...

Ahhhh - we are private. Thank you to the folks that have followed along down this new road. I feel good knowing the photos and information I share in this space is for only a select group. Don't you all feel special? You should. ;)

Things at the Wolfe house have been busy - as per usual. Time is flying by and I can't believe Thanksgiving is only a couple days away! EEK!

Nathan was able to fix the leaky pipe only to have two more leaks and a broken valve appear. awesome. Oh well - such is the life of the homeowner. Nothing is so bad that we can't run everything so that is the good news.

Logan is going through a very silly phase right now. He finds most everything funny and enjoys making us laugh. It has been so so enjoyable! He is making up so many things these days and it is so so cute. The latest was "sit bowl on head and fake sneeze to knock it off" this goes on for a long long time. It is a riot to see him using his imagination.

On Saturday Nathan and I were able to enjoy the U of Michigan football game in one of the new suites they built. (Nathan's company owns one) It was a lovely time - other than Michigan losing the game - but Nathan and I enjoyed an afternoon together with some yummy free food and soda. Yum Yum! Love this work perk for sure!

Sunday Morning means church for the Wolfe family and after church we pick Logan up from the Toddler 2 room and he bee-lines it to the gym for the powder covered donuts. He loves them... and loves to make a mess with them. ha!

Mondays means Grandma day! Logan loves spending time with his Grandma and she with him. Yesterday must have been an exceptionally fun day as I looked over to him at dinner this is what I saw:

It is a big weekend coming up with Thanksgiving, mom wonderful mother's birthday, Cookie Baking day with Nathan's family and the Pistons game with Nathan on Sunday afternoon (the fulfillment of his birthday present.) BUSY weekend, but fun and full of memories!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Privacy...

UPDATED: Email me with the email address I need to invite you to view the blog. My email is: wolfe.lindsey@gmail.com

Our Little Wolfe Pack is going private folks. No big reason other than I've been thinking about it for a looooong time off and on and finally got to the point where I had to ask myself why I started the blog in the first place. FOR ME! Well and for some friends and family of course. :-)

I have no intention of this blog becoming some money maker or getting a bazillion followers. It is just the chronicle of Logan and our family's life. I don't think the whole world wants to know about that, right? Plus when I'm featuring numerous pictures of my sweet boy and there are so many creepy people (present company excluded) on the internet - I just need to protect Logan

So on Monday we are going private. If you want to still read my charming little mind dumps of life please leave a comment win your email address and I will send you the invite to still access the website.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Oh what a weekend...

To say this weekend was great would be a gross OVERstatement. Usually I like to be all sunshine and roses about our family time and about 90% of the time it is really great. This weekend... it sucked. There were some bright spots, but by and large. It sucked.

Our shower faucets are leaking in the bathtub so we need to replace them. They have been leaking for a while, but we did some cheap/easy/short term fixes to keep them going. We are redoing our bathroom after the first of the year so we thought we could hold it off til then. NOPE! So on Friday evening - off to Lowes we went...

This whole under the cart thing was super cool until Mommy rolled over Logan's fingers. Motherhood. FAIL.

Logan checking out all the ridiculous blow up yard decorations. He thought they were pretty awesome!

We bought what we needed to fix the faucet and went home. Nathan got to work... it didn't fix the problem. In fact - it made it worse! AWESOME! So worse in fact that turning the water shut off to the shower itself didn't work to stop the leaking. - now it was leaking in the wall and we had to turn the water off to the whole house. We turned it on a few times here and there to run around flushing toilets and then turned it back off. Again. Awesome. We now have water damage downstairs in the 1/2 bath below the full back. LUCKY US! Beginning of much frustration and bickering between the adults in our house...

Saturday morning I got an itch that really needed scratching. Logan NEEDED to be in his toddler bed. Why now and not waiting a couple weeks? No real reason other than I got the idea in my head and refused to let go of it. We went to Ikea as we needed some wall anchors for the furniture in his room. I wrote about that in the previous post. The transition went pretty well, nap time is the hardest, but he is doing okay at bed time and great through the night. Saturday afternoon Logan woke up from his nap in the WORST mood ever. It was great. Continued - more bickering between the adults...

Saturday night Nathan went to a men's event at our church which began as a documentary on human trafficking (a cause Nathan feels pretty strongly about) and ended with "so do you struggle with pornography and sexual temptation?" Nathan about lost his mind as this was NOT what the event was advertised to be. It is not something he struggles with and felt it was a bad bait and switch. We love our church, but wow did they lose some bonus points for that.

Sunday - still no water in the house, I go to my nearby aunt and uncle's to shower and Logan and I went to church. Church was good, Nathan stayed home to again try and fix the problem. Again - didn't work. Water is off again. LOTS of bickering between the adults... Nathan and I have a class at church from 4-6 and Logan went to a play date with his super cool friend Izzy! (High point of the weekend!) It was the first time Izzy had a friend over and she and Logan had a blast.

Izzy wearing Logan's boots, Logan wearing Izzy's sock on his hand and her older brother Malcom's old hat. Good sharing everyone!

Talk about a stud muffin!!

After the class I was going to drop Nathan at home and go pick up Logan. Nathan and I sat in the driveway for a good half hour talking.... so ends the bickering, frustration and resentment of the weekend. AHHHHHHHHHHH...... upstairs he goes to try yet another fix for the bathroom. I will go through the rest of the evening quickly:

Logan is home and happy
Mommy heads off to do some grocery shopping for the week
Daddy gets Logan ready for bed (no bath as still no water)
Logan wants his bed moved to the other side of the room and all stuffed animals piled next to the bed in order to agree to go to bed.
Daddy cooperates and Logan is asleep
Mommy comes home after spending too much on groceries
Daddy has the shower fixed enough that we can at least take really fast showers and will be able to give Logan a bath tonight without causing more damage
Daddy says he will call his friend for some help to get a more permanent fix

Thank GOD IT IS MONDAY!!! ha!!!!

(Don't be scared - I will go back to my regular Pollyanna view of the world soon... once I get another shower and permanently running water... not asking for too much here!) :-)

Saturday, November 13, 2010

BIG BOY BED!!

EEK EEK EEK!
He is supposed to be little - he is suppose to stay little - he is supposed to not grow so fast.

We finally made the transition. Some think it is very late and I'm sure others don't care, but we finally got there. We had to anchor Logan's dresser to the wall - he is a climber and I was so scared that he would climb it and pull it down on himself. Doing what I do for work I couldn't risk something like that. (SIDE NOTE: if you need really great tethers for bookcases and such go to Ikea's AS IS department and they will just give you some for free. THEY ARE GREAT!!)

Anyway - we came home from Ikea and finished putting his room in order and converted his crib to the toddler bed. He was SO excited about it that he took a good 90 minutes to fall asleep and as I type this he is starting to wake up which means he only took 40 minute nap. Maybe he'll fall back to sleep. We shall see.

So here is another chapter in the life of Logan...

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Logan's First Tumbling Class

Finally the big day arrived! Logan's creative movement/tumbling class. It was heavy on the movement and light on the tumbling, but we'll get there I'm sure. It took Logan a little while to get the hang of it - he is clearly the youngest one there (and the only boy.) He really seemed to love it though. Lots of running and laughing - one crying fit in the corner, but that was more daddy's fault than anything else. ;-) Here are a few pictures:

They all were able to do the long roll to roll into the bowling pins. Logan was very pleased with himself - and he did knock them over even though the photo below makes it look otherwise.

There were 5 kids in the class and the parents spent most of the time laughing because the kids were so hilarious to watch. They played with handkerchiefs which is always fun.

My favorite moment from class came shortly after the photo below. The teacher managed to get all 5 kids lined up on the ballet bar and just as she was ready to tell them what to do Logan shouts, "READY SET GO!!!" And off all 5 kids ran across the room! ha! Thankfully the teacher thought it was more funny than anything else.

Listening to directions:

Not a great photo, but he was a rock star at walking across the "beam" and he launched himself off the end. Very cute!

He has 5 more classes and we are looking forward to each and every one. I hope they do a bit more tumbling and less "let's through the handkerchief in the air" but as long as he is having fun that is all that matters!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Another rendition of Photos by Logan...

Last night Logan found one of our old point and shoot cameras. He quickly discovered it did not work and asked Daddy to fix it. Nathan put new batteries in and off he went. It was so adorable (aren't most things a child does adorable?)

He decided his subject of the photos was going to be a doggy. He kept saying, "Cheese Doggy!" and then asking me to look at the picture on the back of the camera. I was surprised with how well he pays attention to Nathan and I taking pictures. This kept him entertained for quite some time and I went through over 50 pictures he took on the camera. Most were of his finger in front of the shot, but he got a few with the Doggy in them!

Testing the camera out on his shirt to make sure it worked...

There is the doggy on the carpet...

The doggy on Momma's hand. (It had to be the back of my hand because apparently the palm of my hand means I was going to take it away...)

Logan's finger and the doggy on the toy box. It was so cute watching him take the doggy all around the living room and kitchen to take photos of it.

The doggy on the floor next to Logan's comfy chair.

Logan's finger, momma's feet and the dog on the kitchen floor!

I couldn't resist grabbing Nathan's fancy pants camera and taking photos of Logan taking photos. He had quite the positions for taking them and we were cracking up at him.

Taking the picture of the doggy next to his comfy chair.

Look at that pose... that was how he took many of the photos. Such a silly boy - only he doesn't know it.

Peeking at the football game on the TV while taking a picture - I believe the doggy was on the drum at this point. (Those pants are SO too big for him.)

He stuck the doggy under the piano bench and was trying to get a picture. He quickly decided it was, "no good!" and moved on.

The doggy on the chair. Clearly from the angle of his camera these photos didn't turn out! ha! And did you know standing with your legs as far apart as possible makes for MUCH better picture taking... you should try it!

Checking out his photos. He was so proud to show them to Momma and Daddy. Ansel Adams... watch out!

I still owe some Halloween pictures and there will be photos from Nathan's birthday party on Saturday. My man turned 30!! ;-) More to come in the week!

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