DONE!

It is finally done!!!!!! I finished shelacking it around 3:00 this afternoon and went to a party until 10:00. We came home and I had to put it together. Leah has not even seen it put together yet. She couldn't stay up. I can't believe that it is done.

The Tales of a Working Mother

Well, here's "back to work" - week 3 and boy am I feeling the burn. I kind of feel like I did back when Logan was just a couple of weeks old...struggling to find time to do even the simplest of tasks. I thoroughly enjoyed decorating our home for Christmas back in November (before returning to work), and now am wondering if we'll ever see the day that I can find time to take the tree down. By the time I get home and eat dinner and wash bottles and pump parts for the next day, I refuse to allow another thing to interfere with my time with Logan. Who knew it would be this hard?!? Although I enjoy the time to interact with other adults and continue with the job that allows me some personal time to do other things that I enjoy, I miss Logan dearly. When I dropped him off at daycare for the first time, the scene pretty much spoke for itself. We put Logan in a swing right beside another baby who started to immediately chat it up. It was like his first day of school! The center even sends home sheets outlining when he ate, napped etc. with comments about the day, and stickers that say "Super" or "Great Job!" One day he's our little itty bitty baby, and the next day it's like he's off to school! I'll post a picture next day of this new adventure.

Here's another pic that's too adorable not to share...I LOVE hats, but unfortunately, he rarely lets me put them on him anymore. That is, unless he's NAKED. He LOVES to be naked. So we compromised. One day, mid-diaper change we tried on all the hats he refuses to wear. This one is by far my favorite.

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.