Logan Patrick

Is this what people are referring to when you hear stories about the "terrible" twos?

I often find myself asking how much energy do you need to keep up with a two year old?  The answer: A LOT.  If I had to assign a quantitative measure to the word "A LOT" it would be a very large number.  Or as Logan would say: "BIG". "Very BIG."

Three random phases Logan is currently in:

1-  Completely obsessed with building agua towers, tearing them down, building oil towers, tearing them down, repeat over and over and over and over! What determines if it is agua or oil is something that takes place only in Logan's head.   What I have learned - As long as Brian is building things with Logan, Mom's creations will never compare.  Brian always out builds me and for that reason, Logan adores Daddy's agua (or oil) towers.  Some days I am like, fine, whatever, I really did not want to build a tower with you anyway!!

2-  For the last 6 months Logan has pretty much refused to take photos.  He just runs away or puts his hands on his head.  But here recently, he is all about a photo shoot.  He actually poses now for the camera, as if he has taken a modeling class or something.  These two pics were pretty cute.

3-  In relation to 2, Logan loves to take pictures with the iphone.  I can honestly say that over 90% are deleted but every now and again there is a keeper.  This one of Winston is priceless.  If my dog was ever arrested, this would definitely be his mug shot.

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I just realized that I have not posted pictures from a photo shoot we did earlier this summer in Galveston.  We took these pictures on a hot, steamy, Sunday morning.  We were running very late that morning and I pretty much forgot everything that was needed (bug spray, sunscreen, snacks).

When we arrived, I literally stepped out of the passenger seat into a pile of red ants.  As I was getting Logan out of his seat, I kept thinking to myself that the mosquitos were exceptionally bad, specifically around my ankles.  Finally, I looked down and pretty much just threw Logan back in the car and proceeded to get REALLY frustrated!!  Man oh man that hurt like CRAZY.  I was hopping around and seriously not in a good mood. I did not even want to take any pictures at this point, but thankfully, Brian, my calming counterpart, convinced me not to abort the mission.

At the time I kept thinking two thoughts.  One was that the pictures were going to be awful basically because I was in a really bad mood and the second was that I was so thankful Logan or Catherine did not step in the ant pile.  Clearly, that would not have been good.

So, needless to say, when the photos arrived I was elated to see that we got some great pictures in between the crying, sweating, and itching!  We did not actually get all four of us smiling at one time but that is a far stretch with my crew on a good day.  Definitely a success.   (FYI- If you ever step in an ant pile.... ice does help reduce the itching.)