7 weeks and 7 hours!!!

Logan slept 7 hours IN A ROW last night!!! I'm still wondering how that could have happened and am still wondering if I could have possibly gotten up with him and just don't remember, but I honestly don't think so! He's been pretty good at sleeping at night and has been inching towards the 4 hour mark before waking up, but all of the sudden...7 hours!?! I attribute part (or pretty much all) of this success to our new favorite item:

One week ago, he hated his swing. Then my mom comes, puts him in his swing, and now it's his new best friend (and ours!). We'll one day wean him of it, but for now we're just enjoying our sleep. :)

One Month

Ok. So we've been seriously slacking on keeping this thing up to date (our blog that is)....but quite frankly, I can't even find time to shower or fix something to eat, much less think of things to post. I keep telling people that the old Leah is out, and the new "no-showering, spit up on my shoulder" Leah is in. It's funny how such important tasks have now been replaced with new important tasks such as consoling our new baby. Don't worry... I'll one day shower and eat a meal that actually takes preparation once again... I hope :) Becoming parents has been the most incredible and rewarding experience we've ever had, but by far the hardest thing I've ever done, too! Mr. Logan likes to make each day totally unlike the day before it and make it totally unpredictable for mom and dad. We understand his concern though. He's been through a lot in the past month. Yesterday he had an awesome day. He was happy and content and took good naps. Today, however, he was super cranky and I ended up having to drive to the nearest fast food joint to actually get some lunch, since there was no way he was going to let me fix something at home. I ended up eating the food in the parking lot...in silence, since he fell asleep on the way there. I felt like some closet fast food junkie as I sat there. He is cutting us some slack in the nighttime hours though...he's been an awesome sleeper at night for about a week now... just waking up every 3 hours to eat, and then falls right back to sleep.

Anyway, here are some new pics to show how he's growing. I think he's looking more like Randy each day.

Looks like he had a rough night... like the hair?

Feel priviledged. This may be the only picture I show of myself in my non-showered state.

Don't you just love this pose?

Logan and his daddy. Randy, is he making fun of you with that smile?

Leah's Wedding Band Came In

(The blue diamond is for Logan.)

Leah's wedding band came in finally. It took a long time to get it in but I think that is was worth the wait.

LOGAN STEVEN PETERSEN is HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at his hair. We have no Idea where that came from.

Happy Grandma and Gramdpa Mahlum

Going home

Pregnant and without a ring....

So a couple of weeks ago, we sent my ring back to Logan, UT to Tim (who by the way is amazing). He is a jeweler at SE Needham's. Before Randy proposed, Tim and Randy worked for weeks on creating my ring from nothing but a few ideas. Anyway, we recently decided to add a wedding band onto my ring, but since it's so unique, we were having a hard time finding a band that would fit without covering up all the detailing on the sides. Needless to say, we sent it back to the miracleworker and above are the pics of what the band will look like. This is just the mold, before they even pour the gold, but I'm so impressed with it! Randy had both of our birthstones on the ring, his on one side and mine on the other. Therefore, the middle stone is actually Randy's birthstone.

Hence, pregnant and without a ring...not techinically anymore cause I felt too weird walking around without at least somthing on my finger. Therefore, a girl at work has loaned me a very large fake rock where the "gold" is actually tarnished on the sides.... hey. it works.

The Progress on the Crib

Dan and I have been working on this crib for about 2-3 months now and it is just getting to be exciting now. Before it was just a lot measuring and cutting and now it is fun to see it all coming together. Here are some pics.

P.S. I took these pics with the disposable camera that we bought in Nauvoo after our regular camera died. Sorry they suck.

The wood after it was planed off ( I think that is the word for made to look better from the ruff cut) and I had make a couple of hole in it already.

This doesn't look like much but it was hard to do for me.

Yeah this was not easy either, I guess every thing needs to be straight. Yeah, who knew.

Yeah this doesn't look like much either but that light wood is Ash and I had to drill 10 screws in to it to hold it down and make sure that the heads were flush with the top so the top cap of the darker wood (walnut) would fit tightly on it. Yeah ash is hard; I guess they make bats out of them. I broke two screws off in it so I had to figure a way to it those out before the top cap would sit flush. That sucked until Dan's dad came down and gave me the best tool in the world, a screw set drill bit. It did every thing I needed it to do and more . I love that tool.

Pregnancy Dream

So I've always heard that pregnant women dream really weird things...but never had that expereince yet - until the other night. I had a dream and it went something like this:
I started going into labor but somehow slept through it all. When I woke up, I thought "Wow. Those other women don't know what they're talking about! That was the easiest childbirth ever!!! Then the nurse comes in with our bundle of joy swaddled in blankets....only our "baby" was a very well groomed poodle puppy! It didn't even seem to phase me though...I was just so excited to finally hold our "baby." Shortly after, our friends came to visit in the hospital. They walked in, took one look at the "baby" in my arms, and said "Guys, it's a PUPPY?!?!??" It wasn't until that moment that I even realized that I was supposed to have a baby and not a puppy. Then I was just upset and wanted a real baby. Then I woke up.
Totally weird dream... if anyone could interpret for me, I'd be much obliged.