The boys continue to grow despite my pleas for them to stay tiny and innocent forever. I haven't paid enough attention to this blog lately and I'm behind on my updates. Even if nobody else reads this, its important to me to have this record of their ever-changing personalities.
Logan continues to amaze us all with how fast he's picking up speech. Of course with a 3yr old who is talking non-stop its easy to see where he's getting it from! He calls his brother Mendee, thats how he says Brenden. Its so cute how excited he gets over his brother and says Mendee! Mendee! He also has become aware that any time Brenden uses the potty he gets a treat, so now Logan lurks in the kitchen awaiting his treat too! He is picking up some Spanish at his daycare. For the longest time we couldn't figure out why he'd say "mess" whenever his milk cup was empty and I finally realized he was saying MAS for MORE.
Brenden is such a bright little boy. He has learned a lot of Spanish from school too. He can count to 20 and knows a lot of words (more than I do!) He is learning basic math and can say " 1 plus 1 is 2, 2 plus 2 is 4, 3 plus 3 is 6, and 4 plus 4 is 8" I know its not rocket science, but he's 3 so thats pretty smart I think! Brenden finally moved into the 3 yr room at daycare. Its a definite adjustment for all of us. They don't baby the kids as much in the 3yr room. I know they need to learn to be big boys and girls, but I also like seeing him getting love and attention when he's upset. I suppose this is all part of growing up.
They boys both had well visits at the doctor today. They are both doing very good. I didn't get a percentage for their growth but there seemed to be no concern. She is running a lab on Logan's pinky toenails because they have always been thick and yellowish and we want to be sure he doesn't have a nail fungus (she thinks NO he doesn't). But she did recognise that they were odd in shape and color. Brenden had to get an immunization for pneumonia. Well I guess he didnt HAVE to, but its on their vax list so we got it. He wasn't happy about that. Logan just got over an ear infection, but when we were at the checkup she looked in his ear and it was still infected so we are starting yet another round of antibiotics.
Lately we've been taking them to the NC Research campus to walk and run around. Its actually nicer than the park because there aren't a bunch of older kids trampling on the little ones and there is lots of open space for them to just run around.
I love this shot of the two of them together. Its totally a 'brothers' shot. I like the dramatic shadows and the different natural horizontal lines that are in the photo.
I thought this was cute because Brenden is mid-air. That boy LOVES to jump!
I liked this picture of Logan. It really shows off his crazy curly hair.
This picture was just something I thought was neat. It was actually mid-day sun and where I stood, the sun lined up directly with the lamp making it almost look like a bright light coming from the lamp - but its actually just the sun.
I love Logan's facial expression here. We so rarely get a smile out of this one, he's too busy destroying to sit still and pose for a picture. He was painting with watercolors on the back deck and was just too happy about it!
We had a crazy day of 'fake spring' a few weeks ago. It was 80 degrees outside. I had to go find some shorts for Brenden to wear out to play. Shorts in February? I wish it was always that way!
I've been devoting a lot of time to my photography blog -- which has become more of a photoshop blog lately. I've found that as much as I enjoy taking photos, I enjoy the post-production editing even more. Its sort of like a fun challenge to take an okay picture and turn it into something amazing. So I spend a lot of my free time now reading photography/photoshop books, magazines, and internet articles to fine tune my skills even more. I have to say I haven't been this excited about learning something new in a long time. I've always wanted to find a way to combine my technical knowledge with my artistic skills. I get to do that with a lot of the photography and photoshop work I've been doing.
