Surface Family: January 2011!

Well, 2011 is here and already in full swing! Chris started his first coaching endeavor: Head Coach for the Scio Logger boys 7th grade basketball! He is liking it more than he thought, and isn't nearly as stressed because he has 2 assistant coaches each with 10+ years experience.

I am still home with Loganne, but am searching for a part-time nights/weekends job. I am toying with the idea of going to pastry school at Oregon Culinary but haven't made a final decision yet. I stopped nursing Loganne about 2 weeks ago now(TMI, I know) and it has made me a little sad, but grateful that I am able to help Loganne fall asleep in other ways. I think she is handling it alright. It was great for about a week, then she started realizing what the new routine meant and cries every time we start it! A great way to jump into...

....Loganne! (who I know is the reason you're all reading this, hehe). She is doing great and gets more wonderful with every passing day! She is SO funny and loves to make us laugh at her. She has started to laugh a little more herself which is great but still no belly laughs, the little poop. She loves her daddy and gets excited when he comes home from work, but is still mostly a mommies girl. Here are a few bullets on what she's up to at 14 months old!

Is really into the destruction part of things. Instead of putting blocks together, she enjoys ripping them apart. Also, emptying her toy baskets by throwing the toys over her shoulder seems to hold her focus until it's emptied, but...
...she is pretty good about helping to put things away too. Also, she throws her own diapers in the trash, usually without me saying anything. She just picks it up and goes to the trash can!
She RUNS EVERYWHERE!!!
Her puppy Piper is her best friend. They get into all kinds of trouble, and boy how I'm dreading the next few years. It's only gonna get worse I think. lol
She says "egg","Elmo", "apple", "Mama" (which I love!!!) "Dada", "door", "bubble" and others. These are just more recent ones.
She can tell you what the following animals say or do: chicken, cow, elephant, camel, lizard, gorilla, crab, bear, snake and bird with prompting, and fish.
She can get onto the couch by herself, and loves this because she can look out the window. If the blinds are up, she will pull on them until I open them!
Her favorite thing is bubbles in the tub from her bubble maker! She constantly says 'bubba' to me if we are in the bathroom during the day.

I think that's most of it, I'm sure there's more that I can't think of right now. Here's some pics! There's a bunch, so keep scrolling!

My little kitchen helper. She is always crabby while I was cook, so I have to
think of things to keep her occupied!

Making daddy pretty!

So this was the highlight of one ours night recently. Chris' cousin is staying with us while he's on leave and he's been buying the big sammies at Safeway. Chris left the fridge open, and he looked over into the living room a few minutes later and we find her eating what's left of Dane's sammie and standing watching tv. It was too funny because the stinkin' sammie is SO big! Haha!