Logan has been producing a lot of art work lately. He’s never been much into drawing or writing, but that has changed in the past few weeks. My intuition says that, once again, he is a child who does everything in his own time and, more importantly, he does things when he is confident in his abilities. He’s not big on failure so he waits until he knows he can do it (I wish he would “know” that he can pump himself on a swing…now that would be nice!) Last week, he was writing words like “cat” and “toys” with chalk on our back porch. He climbed into our fort and wrote FH everywhere for “Fort Houck”. This afternoon while Aiden was at school, Logan and I played on the driveway drawing with chalk for at least 45 minutes.

Tonight, they were watching a pre-bedtime episode of Bernstein Bears about loving your home and having friends move away. I guess Logan was inspired…well, that and the fact that he really wasn’t ready for bed. He requested some paper and did a few quick drawings. Plus, to my knowledge, he wrote “mom” and “dad” for the first time.

This is a picture of our home and me in the window. Under the window, he wrote mom (and yes, I labeled it as his first time…I have problems…I know)

On the back of the page, he wrote dad and mom (I’m super excited about the prospect of getting a mother’s day card this year with my child’s actual writing on it! I have proof…you CAN write mom!)

After his first picture, he needed to draw another one (aka: he really needed to continue avoiding bedtime). I’m sorry, but he’s fond of yellow on black. This is a picture of Daddy standing in the door of our house which is hard to see. There is rain (the small blue dots) and lighting in the sky (but not striking our house as he was quick to mention). The blue circle at the top of the house is where Logan and Aiden are sleeping. When I asked him where I was, he said I was sick with chicken pox and sleeping. When I asked him how I got the chicken pox, he said a chicken tickled me (rest assured, I told him all about “actual” chicken pox). Daddy, he said, is standing in the door smiling because he left something at his friend’s house and he sees his friend bringing it back. “What is his friend bringing?” I asked. “His umbrella,” replied Logan. “No,” he corrected, “it’s really an Xbox game”. Who knows their daddy?! ;)

Aiden did a little avoidance art work as well. This is Aiden holding a balloon.

The last part of this post is mostly for the purposes of documentation because, God willing, it’s only a phase. Another thing Logan has taken to recently is NON STOP talking. The house could be on fire, Aiden could be trying to tell me/him/anyone something, Brady could be screaming and still Logan would go on talking and talking. I think he’s got so much in his head that it’s just leaking out of his mouth. Most of his sentences start with “mom…mom…mom…” followed by: “did you know?”, “can you?”, “can I?” or “what if?” Typical examples: “mom…mom…did you know 3+10 equals 13?!” (Aiden joins in on these and either repeats exactly what Logan said or tells me what two other numbers equal) or this one “mom…mom…what if people were heads and heads were people?! That would be a head with a small person on top! That would be funny”.