After nap today, we rushed over to Bar and Raz’s house for a BBQ.  Rohan’s family had arrived and one of Revital’s friend/family were there too.  Rohan was so excited to see Logan and gave him a couple of drawings that he had drawn for Logan. The boys immediately started running around the house playing with guns/shooting.  Raz was happy to see Connor too but Connor was pretending to be shy.  We immediately sat down in the backyard with everyone to enjoy some drinks and food.  The big kids played together quite well while Connor and Raz hung out with the adults sometimes.  The kids finally wanted some food and were happy to be able to eat in front of the TV.  The adults were able to continue hanging out in the backyard with the heating lamps while the kids enjoying each other companies.  As it was Sunday night, we had to finally end the gathering shortly after 6pm to get ready for the work week.

     Logan was invited to a playdate with one of his new classmates, Colton, this morning.  When it was close to the meeting time, Connor could sense that I was going to leave without him, and he became clingy to me.  He even cried when I handed him over to Stuart.  Logan was a bit sad too when we were leaving the house as he wished Daddy would come with us.  Logan and I met up with Colton and his mom along with two of his previous daycare friends/moms at the Jungle.  This was a place with a large climbing structure and some arcade games.  Logan was happy to see Colton and meeting the two boys, and he seemed excited to go toward the structure to play.  Colton and his two friends wasted no time and started climbing.  Logan was more reserved and preferred not to climb up.  I went to check on him occasionally and returned to chat with the moms in the central area.  Logan played with Colton some times, but majority of the times, he was by himself.  Once I looked over, I noticed Logan was thrashing his legs; so I immediately went over to him.  He was actually crying which was very rare and I felt very bad.  He finally calmed down within a couple of minutes, but he refused to tell me what went wrong.  I did get a sense that he wanted my attention but I could not hear him or maybe he did not really ask for me aloud.  I gave him an option to go home or stay to play; he finally chose to stay.  We then talked about how he should come get me if he needed me again.  Afterward, Logan jumped in the bouncy house or played at the baby area alone while the other boys continued to climb around.  Logan later on enjoyed building with some big blocks there, and the three boys finally came over to play together with him.  We all migrated over to play with some arcade games at times.  Logan was the one who was the most interested in the driving games.  By noon time, we all decided to take a break and hung out at the eatery area.  The boys shared some goldfish and popcorn; later, Logan and I even ordered a pizza for lunch.  By the time we arrived home, Stuart had already gone to nap with Connor.

     Dora is in the Diaster Medical Assistance Team and had gone through some training earlier this year.  She was finally deployed for the first time this past Friday to help with the Sandy disaster.  Only a few of the Colorado team (including Dora) got picked to join a Georgia team that was to be deployed.  I talked with Dora today; she along with the team have been lucky to be placed in a hotel in Manhattan for lodging so far.  Some teams had to stay in cots during their service.  All the volunteers there spend a lot of time waiting around for assignments. Dora finally was sent to an apartment complex in Conley Island yesterday checking in with each tenant to make sure that they were ok.  She also helped writing some prescriptions to ensure the people having adequate medication supplies. 

    Logan brought home a little book from school today.  The teacher was so excited to tell Stuart that Logan was able to read through his first book.  She shared that so far only 4-5 kids in the class are able to accomplish that.  After dinner, we were so excited to have Logan showed us what he could do, and he read through the entire book with no errors the first time round.  We were definitely surprised and proud of Logan.  I even asked him to read the book again so I could capture it in video.

     Connor is talking a lot now, and copying the words we say.  His pronunciation is getting better as well.  He seems to enjoy being able to say the words that he has known for awhile; he was pointing out the different part of his body and saying the words to me last night.  This morning when I was reminding Logan to change his clothes, Connor followed my lead and said “Gah Gah, Go change!”.  Then after Logan changed, Connor suddenly turned to me with a sad face, and said “Me, No change”.  I asked if he wanted to be changed, he said “Yes” with his latest favorite thing, a big head nod!  Connor is learning some counting too.  During bath when I asked Logan to count to 10 for something, Connor chimed in “1,2,3”, then he waited til Logan said 7, he continued “8,9.10”. 

    Logan never likes to share information.  The day when I returned from New Mexico, I asked Logan whose party he attended on Sunday or what he did there, but I received a silent response.  But last night after dinner, Logan suddenly remembered about the two rice krispy cupcakes that he received as a part of the party favor.  I purposely asked him to remind me what he was looking for, then he said “the cupcakes that I got from Hunter’s birthday party”.  It was funny that he would finally share the info when there was a motivation behind it.

   We decided to weigh the boys last night.  When I took the scale out, they both were so excited to hop on.  Connor weighed 38lbs and Logan weighed 41lbs.  Wow, they are just three pounds apart. 

     I plugged in their weighs online and obtained some stats.  Logan is at 73 percentile (53 on another website) while Connor is at 97 percentile.