If you're reading this, I'm probably dead by now for calling Logan by his pet name. Moving on. Logan's birthday is normally spent at the beach with family, but last year and this year had to be different due to unprecedented times. (insert eye roll) K'lyn was able to come out the day before his birthday and celebrate birthday dinner with us. I received a text during dinner asking if anyone was up for tubing. It was a lady from our homeschool group. We said yes right away because even though we've lived here for a year now, we haven't really explored much of what's around us.
Logan is an extreme introvert just like his mama, so the thought of tubing with essentially a bunch of strangers didn't sound pleasant. As his mama, I have to push him out of his comfort zone and make him do things I wouldn't. ;) Logan didn't even have a bathing suit, so we had to run to the store and get one. The morning of this birthday, we found out the tubing was a go. Because I expect my kids to do these things that I wouldn't, I decided to go. I shocked even myself. Normally I just send Kevin along on these escapades, and even though I didn't have a bathing suit either, I sucked it up. I think Logan appreciated it.
We had THE BEST TIME. Well, I'm not much of a water person, so all the bugs and such weren't great. When we got into the river, we thought everyone was breaking up into groups because everyone was spread out. A lot of kids from our homeschool group ended up coming. We headed out and stayed together as a family. Logan and Marz were swimming out ahead, so we had to paddle to keep up. The river was pretty shallow in some places, so there was lots of standing. We brought a bag to hold everyone's flops and t-shirts, so I pretty much stayed in the tube with it on my belly to keep it dry. We didn't bring our cell phones, so I have no pictures to prove it even happened. Anyway, when we looked back at everyone else, they were all together! Then we felt like we just anti-socialed ourselves, but there was no swimming back. We ended up back together for the bus ride back to the cars.
Afterward we were famished, so we grabbed some pizza on the way home. I think he had a good birthday. I hope he did. We told K'lyn all about tubing, so she's planning on coming out for us all to go again. Hopefully this time I'll have a bathing suit. Wet clothes are no fun. Marz reminded me that I need to do the "Five things you don't know about..." for Logan because I forgot it for Rory.
FIVE THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT LOGAN
1. He wears a uniform everyday. It's a Koala hoodie in one of several different colors.
2. He gets along better with girls (maybe from having all sisters), so almost all his friends are girls. We joke and call them his harem.
3. He wants to be a Marine Biologist/Chef so he can cook up any new sea creatures he finds to see if they're tasty.
4. He loves seafood. At Olive Garden he'll order the seafood alfredo and not eat any of the noodles. It drives us crazy!
5. He could have a career as an audio book reader. He reads aloud to us whenever we go on long trips as a family. He read the whole Percy Jackson series and now he's reading Unwanteds. He's really good at it and does all the different voices for characters. He has a mic and such to record his reading, but he needs the computer for it, and sometimes that clashes with when he's allowed to have the computer in his room. He normally puts up a sign so everyone knows he's recording and we need to be quiet, but that's pretty much impossible for this family.
Happy birthday, Logan!!!! I love you so much!
