The Summer of Logan
To all those we love (and you too Shapiro),
Here are some random pictures from the past few months of Logan’s growing up. He’s now 17 months old or 1 yr. 5 months or 517 days old, depending on how you like to interpret age. Many milestones have happened these past few months like buying his first pair of real shoes, his first speeding ticket, his first haircut, swim lessons, his first shave and the 4th of July. (Because there is so much in this email the much anticipated battle with his arch nemesis, ice cream, will have to wait until an email next week.)
Sorry it’s been so long sending new pictures to all of you but we’ve been real busy with work, summer trips, our car washing fundraisers on the weekends, NRA meetings, training for the Goodwill Games, our organic smoothie business, getting Logan ready for college and everything else we’re doing. We live such a hectic life!
Logan is as funny as ever, has been growing like a weed and just wants to go, go, go all the time! He can walk fairly well without stumbling, a talent I have yet to master, and his vocabulary is much more extensive now and consists of new and random words like flower, apple, gator, bird, water, flag and Starbucks. (The kid loves his lattes, what are you gonna do?) He can show people where his belly button is, can point out all the features on his face, gives hugs and kisses and can even throw and kick a ball – all at the same time! He’s quite talented.
Anyway, enjoy some snapshots of our little boy!
We’ll start with a photo of Logan mugging for the camera – of course there is food on his face! 80% of the photos we take of him he has food on his face. The kid loves to eat and I love to photograph it. So? Wanna make something of it?
Logan getting fitted for his first pair of sneakers. So he wouldn’t get made fun of at Gymboree we, of course, had to buy him the latest athletic shoe technology. The astro-fit, spring loaded, comfort sole, air gel insert, Velcro fastened easy grip, baby cross trainers from Stride Rite (with the cleaning fluid they upsell you so they don’t scuff.) For $40 these shoes better make Logan able to dunk a basketball, run 10 second 100 yard dash or at least not fall every 5 steps. (Note: Logan tripped and fell at least 10 times before leaving the store!)
This next series is of Logan stopping to smell the flowers, or flaw-wahs, as he calls them. This is the perfect illustration of pure happiness. (And for those who noticed that he is again dressed in seersucker, this time coveralls, keep the “Colonel Sanders” or “gay toddler” comments to yourself.) It’s a breathable and versatile summer fabric and he likes the way it feels against his infant skin. Don’t make a federal case about it! (He’s got several outfits in gingham too if you really care!)
This next series is of Logan’s recent swim lessons. He absolutely loves the water! We splash him, he smiles. We throw him, he laughs. We dunk him, he claps. Then he vomits up gallons of pure chlorinated water he’s swallowed from all the dunking, throwing and splashing and we have to swish around the water quickly so no one sees the puke, leave the shallow area immediately and then blame it on the little kid swimming near us. And then we do it all again in another area of the pool. Logan’s like a fish…a little fish that swallows too much water, throws up and then claps. It’s a very rare fish.
Here are some random pictures from the past few months of Logan’s growing up. He’s now 17 months old or 1 yr. 5 months or 517 days old, depending on how you like to interpret age. Many milestones have happened these past few months like buying his first pair of real shoes, his first speeding ticket, his first haircut, swim lessons, his first shave and the 4th of July. (Because there is so much in this email the much anticipated battle with his arch nemesis, ice cream, will have to wait until an email next week.)
Sorry it’s been so long sending new pictures to all of you but we’ve been real busy with work, summer trips, our car washing fundraisers on the weekends, NRA meetings, training for the Goodwill Games, our organic smoothie business, getting Logan ready for college and everything else we’re doing. We live such a hectic life!
Logan is as funny as ever, has been growing like a weed and just wants to go, go, go all the time! He can walk fairly well without stumbling, a talent I have yet to master, and his vocabulary is much more extensive now and consists of new and random words like flower, apple, gator, bird, water, flag and Starbucks. (The kid loves his lattes, what are you gonna do?) He can show people where his belly button is, can point out all the features on his face, gives hugs and kisses and can even throw and kick a ball – all at the same time! He’s quite talented.
Anyway, enjoy some snapshots of our little boy!
We’ll start with a photo of Logan mugging for the camera – of course there is food on his face! 80% of the photos we take of him he has food on his face. The kid loves to eat and I love to photograph it. So? Wanna make something of it?
Logan getting fitted for his first pair of sneakers. So he wouldn’t get made fun of at Gymboree we, of course, had to buy him the latest athletic shoe technology. The astro-fit, spring loaded, comfort sole, air gel insert, Velcro fastened easy grip, baby cross trainers from Stride Rite (with the cleaning fluid they upsell you so they don’t scuff.) For $40 these shoes better make Logan able to dunk a basketball, run 10 second 100 yard dash or at least not fall every 5 steps. (Note: Logan tripped and fell at least 10 times before leaving the store!)
Logan getting fitted for his 2nd pair of shoes – the French Canadian tourist sandals complete with tube socks, fanny pack and Polaroid camera. Thanks to these damn sandals he now loves hockey, guzzles syrup and is in favor of socialized medicine. You can see the look on his face that he wasn’t so keen about the sandals either. He actually asked us “what’s this aboot, eh?”
Logan in his Easter duds! Nothing screams “resurrection” like pastel seersucker patchwork pants and a white polo! We’re Jews, what the hell do we know about dressing for Easter?!? (Note: Photo 3 is him realizing that his parents dressed him in pastel seersucker patchwork pants.)
The next series is of Logan’s first haircut! I wanted the 1986 feathered look with the words “2 Hype” shaved into the back of his head and Emily wanted something more retro like a Mohawk or rat tail, so this is what we settled on…
Just kidding of course…although the “Flock of Seagulls” look was cool and does work for Logan, we went with something a little more conservative…
The next series is of Logan’s first haircut! I wanted the 1986 feathered look with the words “2 Hype” shaved into the back of his head and Emily wanted something more retro like a Mohawk or rat tail, so this is what we settled on…
Just kidding of course…although the “Flock of Seagulls” look was cool and does work for Logan, we went with something a little more conservative…
Here are some random photos of Logan pondering about life or pooping (not sure), kissing his mommy, riding his hog and drinking from a real cup for the first time…
This next series is of Logan stopping to smell the flowers, or flaw-wahs, as he calls them. This is the perfect illustration of pure happiness. (And for those who noticed that he is again dressed in seersucker, this time coveralls, keep the “Colonel Sanders” or “gay toddler” comments to yourself.) It’s a breathable and versatile summer fabric and he likes the way it feels against his infant skin. Don’t make a federal case about it! (He’s got several outfits in gingham too if you really care!)
This next series is of Logan’s recent swim lessons. He absolutely loves the water! We splash him, he smiles. We throw him, he laughs. We dunk him, he claps. Then he vomits up gallons of pure chlorinated water he’s swallowed from all the dunking, throwing and splashing and we have to swish around the water quickly so no one sees the puke, leave the shallow area immediately and then blame it on the little kid swimming near us. And then we do it all again in another area of the pool. Logan’s like a fish…a little fish that swallows too much water, throws up and then claps. It’s a very rare fish.
The last series is of July 4th. We all went swimming with our good friends the Crowleys, ate BBQ and fruit salad (yummy yummy) and then went to see a rock and roll show. It was such a fun day. Logan loved the music and was dancing the entire time. Then we read a book and he fell asleep 5 minutes before the fireworks started. What a lightweight! One cool thing was that the band we saw, Lifehouse, happened to see Logan before the show and told him they loved his cool Vans sneakers to which he replied “Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi!” and stole their set list for that night’s show. Then this teenage groupie (who knew Lifehouse had groupies) ran up to me and said “OH MY GOD YOUR SON JUST MET LIFEHOUSE! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!” True story. That’s rock and roll for ya!
So that’s PLENTY for now. That was like 3 emails worth of pictures in one, so hopefully that will be enough until the ice cream battle email which I’ll send VERY soon – I promise. Hope you enjoyed the pix and may all of you live your life like Logan does – smiling at everyone, getting food all over your face, running wherever you go, pooping in your pants, stopping to smell the flowers and clapping excitedly for every little thing you achieve. What a great way to live, huh?
We can learn a lot from babies.
We miss and love you all.
The Lazari
Adam, Emily and Logan
The Lazari
Adam, Emily and Logan
We miss and love you all.
The Lazari
Adam, Emily and Logan
The Lazari
Adam, Emily and Logan
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