Logan's Nursery

people have been asking me about logan's nursery lately. nope, i didn't have a preconceived vision of how his nursery would turn out. honestly, my mom and i painted his room a year and a half ago, before i was even pregnant. due to our infertility issues, at the time i needed a serious pick me up and decided painting the nursery would be just what i needed. we painted it a nice playful green called "crocodile smile." so fitting i thought. the furniture came next. chris and i decided on a deep brown espresso color for the furniture. then came the bedding. we knew we wanted a fish theme due to chris' life-long obsession with his fish tanks. we found the fish theme at several stores but fell in love with this one with the blue octopus and starfish pillows. along came random accents such as the hot air balloons, the octopus pictures, and the logan letters (after we decided on a name of course). most of the random trinkets we found at home goods, such a fun store for discovering random treasures. his room finished off with the addition of my favorite chair in the house. chris turned it into a rocking chair with a gliding ottoman. before logan arrived i would go in his room to sit and i would fall asleep to the sounds of the fountain in the backyard and the aquarium attached to logan's crib which plays "cannon." logan now enjoys these sounds and falls asleep quickly to them. we too love how logan's nursery turned out. it is finally complete now that logan sleeps in it!

a photo of logan's nursery

another angle

yet another angle

i couldn't have said it better

a cute octopus trash can my mom found

our favorite starfish pillows that came with the bedding

The Octopus

hanging out, listening to his musical octopus toy

for some reason, he found this amusing on this particular day

Logan's Announcement

We finally finished revising and received Logan's birth announcements.
I love how they turned out!

Family Fun

last weekend, logan took his very first trip up to the bay area. chris and i bravely packed the car with way too many baby items and drove the dreaded 7 hours up to san jose with logan in the backseat. much to our surprise, logan did fairly well. luckily for him, one of us was always available to entertain him. we saw family and old friends while we were there. a dear high school friend of mine got married so we left logan with my parents for 5 1/2 hours. by 10 pm i needed to see my baby! we also attended a family bbq and introduced logan to his many aunts, uncles, and cousins. overall, it was a fulfilling first trip with logan. we're looking forward to many more adventures with our little one.

logan and his cousin, aiden. he is 5 months older than logan

logan consoling aiden

chris and myself at laura's wedding, already missing my little logan

logan hanging out at the family picnic with his auntie amanda

meeting new faces and loving it

apparently, meeting the extended family proved too much for the little guy

our adorable nephew, nathan. he insists on seeing pictures immediately after they are taken, a definite sign of the times

most of our nuclear family: my sister julie with her chris (yep, another chris), my brother chris skipping rocks, myself, my mom, and amanda. my chris is taking the picture with logan, nate is hiding somewhere behind mom and my dad is back at camp with the rest of the family

most of us posing for the picture (minus my brother who was still throwing rocks)

the extended bryant family (well most of it). notice logan is still busy sleeping.

our little miracle

our sweet little logan

hanging out with mom

i love my bouncer!

1-month photos

asleep in dad's hands

ok, so Chris finally showed me how to use this. i'm going to jump in with both feet. i guess i'll start by posting some pictures of our miracle logan. for those of you who don't know, we were trying to have a child for the past 3 years. we had to endure the ups and downs of infertility. we are so very grateful to finally have our wonderful bundle of joy in our lives. logan truly is our miracle. i love just staring at his little eyes, his little fingers and reflecting on how long this journey has been. everything we had to endure was beyond worth it. he is simply amazing.