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On this day...

Six years ago I was 9 months pregnant and about to explode... I looked like a beached whale... Many people would come up to me and say are you sure you aren't having twins... And I would come down from my hormonal ledge and say no... I am having (1) boy. But I had just found out it was boy one month before he was born. It took us 3 times and almost the whole pregnancy to find out what we were having. We knew from the beginning that there was just one, baby that it. What sex, who knew?! Who cared?! He/She was healthy and HUGE!!

And he continues to be huge!

But on this day six years ago I gave a campus tour. YEP you read that right I toured a prospective student and his parents around the university. I was already planning to be induced on the 11th of December. But I was working until the day he was born. And if that meant giving a campus tour then that is what I was doing. You should have seen the look on this families face when they asked when I was due and I told them I was having the baby tomorrow. It was PRICELESS!!

Luckily the school I worked for then is not quite as big as the one I work for now. I did start to have contractions that night. We ate Quiznos where I had a kids meal with a ham and cheese sandwich. Ended up going to the hospital and spending the night, was hooked up to the IV but not given an epidural until our actual inducement time of 7am and Logan was born on December 11, 2002 at 12:49am weighing 8lbs 6oz and was 22 1/4 inches long. He was gigantic!

Like I said he still is. He wears size 10 clothes is around 48 inches tall and is 70lbs... Many mistake him for an 8 year old. His is smart as a whip and can read, write and carry on the most brilliant of conversations...

The years have flown by yet it still seems like just yesterday when I was giving that campus tour...


Logan 9 days before he was born!


Logan on his birthday 12-11-02!


Logan and his lost tooth at almost 6 years old on 10-31-08!

Sneaky 5 almost 6 year old...

Ok so I thought I had a naive son...

Listen to this. We have been packing Logan's lunch daily since the first week of school. We had him try out the lunch line the first week, he didn't like it, so we started packing.

He had told us he would ocassionally buy a bisquit in the morning in the cafeteria, ok sometimes. And we had told him he could buy icecream on Fridays.

We had set-up and automatic debit and I had put on an email alert to send us and email when the account got below $5.00. I thought for sure that money would last almost the whole year. Boy was I wrong. We got the email alert yesterday.

I logged into the system to view his buying habits. Now it doesn't tell you what he buys only how much and how often.

This boy was purchasing breakfast and icecream almost daily!! HELLO we were feeding him breakfast at home as well! Plus we were packing a pudding in his lunch. So how many calories could he be eating?!?! Forget the freshman 15! He gonna get the Kindergarten 15!!

So I printed out the spending report and took it home with me and Travis and sat Logan down last night to talk to him.

And you should have seen his face it was like we had discovered a secret. Which we had. Travis asks him, "Logan did you get some icecream this week?" He says, "How did you know?" Travis says, "Because the school sent us an email letting us know you were out of money!" His eyes were as big as saucers! It was priceless. We gave him a talk about how he should only eat 1 breakfast and icecream was only for Fridays.

He then proceeded to pout and tell us life wasn't fair. Of course this was after we had just left Chick-Fil-A where they had played and we had seen a Salvation Army box for Toys for Tots and I told the boys no that is fair. That box is for children whose parents can't buy them anything. Travis asked Logan to count his toys. Logan just pouted and Cole began counting...

So hopefully Logan has learned his lesson...

I am pretty sure he has because this morning he didn't to get out of bed which left him no time for breakfast. We put some cereal in a bag and I took the boys to daycare, he didn't want to take his bag in and had barely begun to eat it. I told him he would be hungry if he didn't take it with him. But he refused. We walked in. He seemed hesitant about going into his bus line and I asked him what was wrong and he told me he was still hungry and I said that is your consequence for not getting up would you like me to get your cereal out of the car? He said no, I think he was embarressed to eat it infront of the big kids. I told him he had my permission to buy breakfast since he didn't have time to eat anything at home and he said ok, but then I told him next time he had to get out of bed when I told him...

Oh the joy of children!!