19 months / 1 year

It was one year ago today that we left the snowy state of Iowa for much warmer weather. We didn't officially arrive here until tommorrow because we spent the night in L.A. to break up the trip a little (and I was technically still supposed to be living in CA). I remember that when we left IA it was starting to snow and they had to spray down the wings of the plane so they wouldn't ice up. When we got here it was a shock to the system because the temperature was in the 80's. Now that we have been here for a year, I am not sure if I want to return to colder weather for an extended period of time. We are enjoying the sunshine and ocean activities. Tim loves to go snorkling and is thinking about getting a surfboard after going surfing this past weekend.

Yesterday Logan turned 19 months old. He has had a busy last couple of weeks. He has discovered that he really likes to play with matchbox cars. With a total of 20 something cars (even though we can't find all of them because some may have gone in the dirty diaper trash without us knowing). He likes to drive them on the coffee table, couch and my stomach and tries to take them into the bathtub with him.

His other accomplishment is saying more words that we know the meaning of. For example: wich is sandwich, shoes, juice, uck is truck, us or ice is bus, helicata is helicopter, alk is walk. Then we have the words that make Tim and I laugh because they sound worse than they are. For example last night Tim got Logan to say the word ocean and it sounded more like oh sha. A word that he likes to say a lot is ash because he likes to do ring around the rosie but he tends to leave off the "h" when he says the word. But we are just happy that he is actually saying more words that we understand.