The other day a teacher told me that they have been calling Logan the “Second Juli”.  Juli is one of Logan’s older classmates who is full of energy and talks all day long.  The teachers said that Logan has been more talkative and opinionated lately, and they are enjoying his new transition.  Logan is also surely showing this new side at home with us too.  He is copying many of the words we say and stringing them together to tell us what he wants.  One morning when he and I were sitting down in his room we dropped a napkin on the floor.  Logan pointed to it and said “tissue…drop it”.  He then said “down”, climbed down of me, picked it up, and proudly said “I got it”.  I just sat there and enjoyed him narrating and doing the entire act.  He also talks quite a bit on the drive home from school these days while pointing to different things on the road.  Sometimes it is not easy to figure out what he is trying to tell me.

     With people Logan does not see often, he is still however quite shy.  Fortunately for the past weekend, Logan warmed up to his grandparents very quickly.  He was happy that  they came up for a visit; he had a great time playing with Grandma and Granddad.  Logan would call “grandma” often to come play with him.  After getting all the attention from grandparents, Logan finally had to say bye to them this morning.  When we drove away from the house to go to school, Logan even whined a bit by calling “Grandma…Grandma”.  And again on the drive home and walking inside the house, Logan was still looking for grandma.  He was finally happy when he could talk with Grandma via webcam after dinner and said “I miss you”.

     Logan went to see his doctor today.  I got him so excited to see his doctor that he even said “I do” when asked “who would like to see the doctor?”.   He did very well at the office, cooperating with the weight/height check and the physical exam.  During all this Logan was just happy to continue to doodle with a pencil. 

     Everything checked out well for Logan.  His lungs sounded great.  His new statistics are as below.  Logan is gaining more weight now and we’ve been told to switch him to low fat milk and have a more balanced diet with more vegetables and fruits. His head size percentile is also leveling off, no longer is he on the top of the chart.

Weight = 31 lbs 9.6 oz (88% up from 74% in January)

Height = 2’11’’ (72% down from 92%)

Head Size = 20’’ (94% down from 99%)

     After the doctor’s exam, Logan needed to go to the laboratory for a routine lab blood draw to ensure that he does not have any anemia or high lead level.  Logan certainly did not enjoy this part of the visit.  He started crying once the tourniquet was placed on his arm, and didn’t stop until I could finally remove the taped cotton ball.  Poor LoLo!

While I was dressing Logan after his bath tonight, he and I had our first meaningful conversation.  He first asked for his “nubbie"” (pacifier).  So I brought over the pacifier and asked “who wants a nubbie?”.  He actually said “I do”.  I was quite impressed with his response.  Then he said “milk?”.  We had recently moved up his bedtime milk to after dinner instead and he had his cup of milk before bath.  Thus I answered him by reminding him that he had his milk already.  Logan stared at me for a few seconds, then said “milk all gone?!”  At that point, I was fully surprised with his understanding and confirmation.  In another few seconds later, he said “night night?!”  My boy has learned his routine and able to tell me about it.  I am so proud of him.

  We drove up to El Dorado Hills, along with The Hashiguchis, to visit The Acostas over the weekend.  The Acostas have a big and beautiful house with an incredible backyard, more than enough space to handle multiple visitors.  We spent two days hanging out and enjoying the facilities and company.  Another family also joined the party the second day as well.  The house was filled with people and kids.  We had up to 10 kids at one point and Logan was the second youngest.  He had a great time just watching the older kids and playing with their toys when an area had vacated.  Logan would go with the flow sometimes, sharing toys and watching TV with everyone, but at times he would rather just play with daddy one on one. 

  The weather was much hotter in Sacramento, so playing in the heat did make all of us a bit more tired.  Logan stayed up until 10pm on the first night (2 hours past his usual bedtime) without much of a fuss and went to sleep in a strange bed all by himself.  He did however wake up at 2am and took Daddy a bit of an effort to make him return to sleep. 

  The next day was another play day.  Some kids spent a bit of time in the pool, but since the water was still quiet cold, Logan and Daddy ended up having fun with the play structures instead, however Logan did enjoy himself relaxing with me poolside.  After the second day of fun, we wrapped up our visit to drive home after dinner.  Logan did as well as the drive there by sleeping through almost the entire ride.  We all enjoyed the little trip and had a good nights sleep recovering.

P.S. Pics from trip have been added to our photo album.

Logan had his first dental visit yesterday.  Stuart felt that it was too soon for Logan to see the dentist, but I was very glad that we did.  The pediatric dental office is very nice and well decorated with children’s toys and TV monitors.  There were a couple of kids just relaxing with headphones on and staring up at the TV monitors in the ceiling while keeping their mouths wide opened for the dentist.  Logan was doing fine there initially; we watched some TV and walked around the room to check out the toys and decors.  But he did not want to open his mouth or show his teeth to the assistant.  So I was taught how to allow Logan to sit on me and lean him down toward the dentist’s lap when he arrived.  Logan did not enjoy that part, but it was just a quick couple of minutes of looking inside his mouth.  The dentist confirmed that his last 2 molars are showing now.  His teeth, gums and bites all checked out fine.  I was given a lot of good information about dental hygiene, and I will definitely ensure we do a better job in brushing his teeth.  Logan received a balloon, a toy and some stickers when we left, so he was quite happy too.  We will be back in 6 months.

Logan and I have settled into a bit of an after school routine.   When Bonnie comes home with Logan and he’ll immediately be looking from his carseat waiting for me to come out and get him (I see them pull up from my home-office window).  As soon as I free him from his seat he’ll say “golf golf”.  We get his golf club out and a take few practice balls and he’ll start swinging away.   He’s come along way with his swing in just a short time.

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We are not putting all our eggs in the “turning golf pro” basket, so Logan and I also play baseball, soccer, frisbee, and basketball usually one after the other.  We sometimes even try a little bit of kiting in case that becomes a lucrative sport in the future. 

It’s nice that we can now spend time playing before dinner.  We’ve got a whole summer of daylight ahead of us to work on his game.