Wednesday, November 6, 2013

A Funny Thing Happened


Our dear sweet Owen is officially in the “Why?” stage.  Over the course of October it has dramatically ramped up!  Every sentence in a book, every action you make, every thing you say… why? why? why?  We love it but WHEW, it is exhausting!

Owen has had some good quotes lately, but I always forget them if I don’t write them down right away!  Here are a few from October and November!

The destruction that is quiet time and occasionally nap time (his head is behind the blocks)!
Yes he's getting a sleeping bag for his birthday!

10.13.13  I went in O’s room to wake him up from a nap, and he sat straight up and said “We don’t want anything to eat our faces!”  I was taken aback so I said “What do you mean?”  and he replied “We don’t want the spaghetti sauce to eat our face!”  (Back story:  I had explained the previous night that he had to wipe the spaghetti sauce off his cheeks because his skin is sensitive, and he gets a rash.)

10.18.13  Dad was putting Owen to bed, and Owen kept trying to lick his face!  Dad said what are you doing, and he replied “I want to lick your mustache!” and proceeded to lick his stubble!

10.22.13  Nona and Papa had sent Owen an inflatable Halloween cat.  Well Owen blew it up with his air pump and then immediately asked me to deflate it so Dexter didn’t pop it (??).  When I deflated it, he looked at it and said “I didn’t love him very much.”

10.23.13  We went to the pet store to buy Dexter more food.  While we were checking out, he starts laughing hysterically and says “I tooted!  I’m stinking up the place!!”

10.24.13  I was putting Owen to bed and telling him the Princess and the Pea story.  When I said the prince and princess got married, he said, “Mommy I’m going to marry you!”  I chuckled and said “Well I’m already married to Daddy.”  He thought for a minute and said, “Okay, I’ll marry you AND Daddy!”

10.28.13  Owen has been in the habit of stripping his bed and putting all his blankets on the floor.  I walked in to tell him quiet time was over, and he looked at me and said, “Mom I’m in the desert!!”

10.30.13  Owen is VERY negative when he’s tired or not getting his way.  So Dad said “Owen don’t be a hater.”  Now whenever Owen is getting upset he says “I’m going to be a hater.  I’m a hater”

11.1.13  I walked in on Owen at the end of quiet time, and he was taking his sheets, blankets and pillowcases and wrapping his books.  He looked up and said “Mommy, I’m making myself presents!!”

11.4.13  We were in the car, and I asked Owen if Margot was awake or asleep.  He said: “Hmm, she’s half asleep.”  I asked what he meant and he said “One eye is open, one eye is closed!”

11.6.13  Owen is finally acknowledging he has a sister!! Yay!  He loves to refer to himself as “brother” and says “Margot, brother will get your diaper.”  My favorite is that when she wakes up in the morning, he will go into her room, while I start her bottle, and say “Margot, Mommy is getting your bottle ready!” or “Don’t worry, Mommy’s coming!”  He also said “I love you sister” for the first time!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Margot is Two Months Old


Margot is two months old!  She weighed 10 pounds 14.5 ounces and measured 22 inches long at her two month checkup (50th percentile all around).  She loves smiling—especially at the birds in her room—and watching her brother!  She squawks like a bird and loves when you make the same sounds back.  She also enjoys baths, her activity gym, and tickling.  She sleeps great (only wakes up once during the night), is super pleasant, and to quote our pediatrician “She should be giving baby lessons!”

I’ll update with more pictures soon, but thought you’d enjoy this one of her smiling (the first captured on camera)!!
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And a few more from today!
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Dia de los Muertos

 

We went to the Brooks Art Museum for their Day of the Dead celebration.  They had a Mariachi band, and the people dressed up as catrinas.  The band was way too loud for Owen, so we got a few pictures and headed back outside where they were doing face painting. 

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We watched a few kids get their faces painted, and Owen was dead set on getting a sugar skull.  We paid our $5 and patiently waited in the long line.  Finally it was Owen’s turn… well you can guess from the pictures below how long he tolerated getting his “sugar skull”.

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Since we had exhausted the things we could do at the festival, we headed next door to this awesome new kids park that just opened.  It’s all natural play areas, and Owen loved this “bear’s den” where he made lots of campfires and peeked through the holes of his “lair”.  It was a really cool tunnel that went all the way through a big hill.

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After multiple campfires, swings, and a fall off the merry-go-round, we headed out for Chinese and then headed home… I guess technically we should have had Mexican Winking smile