To: Denise and Baby Logan From: Auntie Donna

It's shower time! For those of you who don't understand let me fill you in. A few weeks ago Nikki announced her idea of throwing Denise a blog shower. It is such a cute idea. Today is the "shower" and everyone who's playing has to post their present on their blog. Denise is going to "open" the gifts today when she reads all of the posts of those participating. So, here it goes....

Hmmmm. What to get for the baby of five children. Baby Logan, you and I will no doubt have a special bond. I will always be able to understand the hardships and joys you'll experience due to our similar birth order.

Maybe I should go ahead and get a baby book started for you, so you don't discover in your pre-teens that you don't have the nice Creative Memories baby book that your other siblings do. This way you can look back and remember all the important details of your first year the way Maddie and Danny can.

If you want, I can go ahead and buy you a rabbit fur coat so you don't get jipped when the other siblings get one and you have to suffer with just a plain 'ol Sunday church coat. Who cares if you are a boy. You'll still feel jipped.

Hmmmm...what about a "blame free" card. The youngest of the family tends to get blamed for just about everything in their childhood years. I don't know if it's just natural for older siblings to point fingers or if it's just that the innocent, youngest one seems like an easy, helpless target. Whatever the reason, get used to it. Oh, yeah, and you'll also be called a tattle-tail more times than you can count. Get used to that, too.

And trust me...from one youngest to another... you'll probably hear this command from your older siblings a lot (even when you are all adults) : "Go ask Daddy if______________". I still hear this from one particular auntie of yours. For some reason, youngest children are always the middleman or sibling spokeperson. A lot of people say that we'd make great salespersons.

And get used to being called the "baby of the family". Even when you're 28, you can bet that at least one of your siblings will still call you that. Actually, in my family, it's your mother that calls me her "baby sister, Donna". Me no baby. Me big girl. Just tell them politely that the PC term is "youngest".

Now you may feel like you're the forgotten one for a couple of years. You'll get all of the hand-me-downs (even from your cousins), you will take all of your naps in the 'burban, you'll have all of your Halloween candy stolen and left with only the nasty Mary Janes or Bit 'O Honeys. But you just wait until all of those other Logans are off to college and it is just you, Mommy and Daddy at home. This is when the good times start to roll. This is when being the youngest has it's perks and boy does it ever have it's perks!!! Jackpot! Being the youngest is awesome!!! (Oh, by the way, Mommy HATES that word.)

Well, I didn't mean to turn this post into an advice column! I do have many more tidbits of info to give you, but I will also give you something that your cousins, Caroline and Roy Austin, have absolutely loved. Once you make your sex known to your parents, I will send it to you. I want you to have the perfect color and I want to personalize it. This blankie is so soft and it washes up like new each time. I hope you will love it as much as your cousins love theirs:


(Don't worry, everyone. This is a picture off of Pottery Barn Kids' website! Not the real deal!!)

Baby Logan, I can't wait to meet you and hold you this Christmas! You are already loved so much by so many people. I hope you can sense it!