July 22, 2009 First trip to the zoo & Bass Pro

July 22nd, 2009 was an exciting day. We went to the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield in the early afternoon and to Bass Pro in the evening. Logan showed his excitement by blowing bubbles when we got there...bubbles without bubble gum so I'll let you figure out what he used as his bubble medium lol.


It's a really nice zoo with water features like fountains and waterfalls. This is as close to the waterfalls as we could get but it still made for a good picture.


We got to see lions and tigers and bears...oh my! Sorry I just had to say it! It was pretty warm so most of the animals were sleeping. Here is Logan at the lion enclosure. The lioness is on the ground and the lion is sleeping on top of the wooden platform. Like Logan's "ceiling fan"? It works perfectly! Kept him nice and cool and me from fretting the whole time about him getting too hot! Jeff gets all the honor for coming up with the idea of attaching the fan to the carrier shade.


The Malayan Tiger was awake and pacing in his enclosure...but he was kept going and waiting at the building so I think it was feeding time. Here he is in the grass.


The only time Logan opened his eyes was after the Malayan Tiger exhibit...he slept through 3 hours of the zoo...but we still had a good time.


We had some ice cream to cool down in the shade. Jeff eating his ice cream.


And turn-about is fair play so he took a picture of me eating my ice cream. I have my sunglasses on in all the pictures or I'm squinting so sunglasses it is lol.


The giraffes were really really tall and we got to get up on the observation deck and take some pictures. Here's Logan with a giraffe behind him....sorry about the trash can but it was the only place the stroller would fit for a picture where there wasn't a bunch of little children running around....well little children who didn't need to be in our photos anyways.


And this giraffe liked to have its close-up taken so I took one lol!


We went in the snake and amphibian house but everything is behind glass so the glare pretty much obliterated the photos so here's a picture of one of the many statues through out the zoo of a bullfrog that's outside the amphibian house.


We made Logan two souvenir pennies in the gift shop, one has a lion on it and the other has an elephant but I can't get a decent picture of them because we used brand new pennies so they are really shiny. Here's Logan doing pretty much what he did all day...yes sleeping!



Then we went to Bass Pro but didn't take any pictures there. He slept through most of the store and they were doing a bunch of construction as well. We had dinner at Hemingway's and just browsed the store. But it was a good day in Springfield. Next time we're going to try to go to the Civil War Museum as well, it was closed when we got there yesterday.

July 14th, 2009=OUCH!

Logan had his 2 month doctor's appointment yesterday. He's a whopping 10.12 pounds, & 23 1/4 inches long. He scored average on his height growth chart and just a little below average on his weight growth chart but he's not on formula so his growth is good. Everything went good...well until he had to have his vaccinations...he got two shots on his left leg and one in his right....poor guy. I know they're necessary but still pretty heartbreaking to have to watch him cry and not be able to prevent it. But I gave him some Infant's Tylenol beforehand so after he quit crying he went to sleep. He also got a Rotovirus vaccine but it was oral so that wasn't bad. Next appointment is 3 days before my birthday so I'm going to try to get that week off.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Just wanted to put up a quick blog wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone had a great and SAFE 4th! So glad I'm not at work tonight or since Missouri started selling fireworks anyways...I remember last year and the firework injuries....I prefer not to smell burnt human.
Logan is doing great. He was 10.83 pounds earlier this week when I weighed him....wow....growing like crazy, wanting to be awake and interact more...of course I'm missing him taking naps where I could lay him down, he's been waking up within 3 minutes of being laid down this week, makes for a long day....oh well, this too shall pass. He's starting to do better with it.
Some pictures I've taken in our early morning sessions...he looked like he was dancing when I snapped this one, I can almost hear him singing "We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine..." Although he doesn't have the weird hat and bullwhip that Men Without Hats used in the music video lol!


"Hey! Get that camera out of my face!!!!!"


"Crud! She is sooooo going to post that....sheesh what am I gonna tell people?"


And here's my favorite pajama outfit we bought him it reminds me of the fox from "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery....it's a great book...give it a read.



We went to my Dad's wedding on Sunday, here's Logan in his attire sitting on Daddy's lap...had to put up the close-up of his face, too sweet.