I obviously didn’t plan it but in looking at the picture after I noticed it.
Year: 2013
Her new game!
She has found the drawer with her burp cloths. A few times a day she takes them all out…I put them back…she takes them out. She loves it!
Owenisms 16
Owen: Ask me a question.
Me: How do you poop in the potty?
Owen: By using your muscles!
Owen: How do you pee in the potty?
Me: How DO you pee in the potty?
Owen: You use your penis!
Me: Owen, guess what?
Owen: What?
Me: I love you.
Owen: Aww! Guess what chicken butt love you!
Owen: Looking outside at night. Mama, we need a cow.
Me: A cow? Why?
Owen: To jump over the moon.
And then our typical nightly question…
Owen: Mama? There’s no wind, no rain, and no storm?
Me: No, there’s no wind, no rain, and no storm. It’s quiet.
A car drives by.
Owen: No, there’s a car.
Me: 😯 Yes, a car just drove by. Good night, buddy.
Ding-ding-dinger!
Owen: Mama! Look! I found the ding-ding-dinger!
Me: What’s a ding-ding-dinger?
Owen: It goes ‘Ding ding ding!’ and stops the cars. At the train.
Owen: It also means stop taking pictures!
Everybody has a home!
You will notice like-colored animals are in like-colored cups. That’s my boy!
Owen helps out
I had random cleaning and stuff to do today and of course Owen is in my face so he volunteered to help!
Cleaning the toilet:
Building a shelf:
Dinner al fresco!
It’s been so nice out that we’ve been eating on the deck! Owen now ASKS to eat outside!
Owen helped me robotize our family!
I bought these decals for us for Christmas and I’m just now getting around to putting them on the car! Owen helped me pick the arms and legs!
(Oh wow. I just noticed my finger was in the photo. How embarrassing. At least you know I’m human, right?)
Happy Mother’s Day!
Owen told me “Happy Mother’s Day” when I woke up—and I got a hug! Then, Tom gave me this…Owen actually colored some of it (!) and signed his name.
Then Tom made my breakfast request: Bisquick pancakes (they aren’t his favorite so we don’t have them all the time) with sausage links.
Then Owen decided to give me a very special mother’s day present by pooping in his underwear. 😐 He has been SOOOOO good with pooping in the potty…letting us know when he has to go, coming in from playing to go poop, not even needing the balloon, etc…so we’re not exactly sure what happened today. And then it happened again, later. GRRRR.
Then we ended up having friends over for dinner, so half of my day was spent cleaning up and making dinner…but it ended with a good time with friends.
So overall it was a nice mother’s day!
Happy Mothers Day Recreation
I have always loved this picture of me with my mom…so now that I have a daughter of my own about the same age, I decided to recreate the photo today. I tried to match the outfits and sunglasses but this was the best I could do. It’s hard to believe its almost 40 years apart (1974 and 2013).
Prepping for the new deck
Step 1: Remove overgrown bushes.
I anticipated that being hard, but apparently they have very shallow roots and Tom pretty much just pulled them out without much digging.
Step 2: Get bushes ready to burn in the fire pit.
Yes, I agree—we need a bigger fire pit. 🙂
Step 3: Remove and move bricks.
Owen helping daddy: “Keep ’em coming!”
The old bricks will be used to “embiggen and fancify” the fire pit. 🙂
That’s all for today.
Road trip shopping!
We went to Wilmington today. Owen helped us load some material in the car…
Then enjoyed sitting next to his sister at Costco!
Then ate an ice cream sandwich in the car after lunch and Trader Joes… You can’t see it very well but his face was covered in chocolate.
Then immediately fell asleep.
(Katie was sleeping, too, but I can’t get a good photo even from the passenger seat.)
Owenisms 15
So we’re driving by Walmart and Owen says “So all the Legos are in there?”
Owen: Mama, smell my lunch. Holds out his lunch box.
Me: Mmmm. Bacon.
Owen: Yes! But we can’t eat it until my cousins get here.
Owen: What shapes are these?
Me: Purposefully guessing wrong. A rectangle and a diamond.
Owen: Ugh! That is not correct. It’s a circle and a star!
Me: Can you make sure all the gates are closed so Katie can crawl around?
Owen: AB-SO-LUTELY!
Owen: Mama, your car is red.
Me: Yes.
Owen: Like Lightning.
Me: Yes, like Lightning.
Owen: Except your car doesn’t have eyes.
Me: Laughs. That’s right, mama’s car doesn’t have eyes.
Owen: Or a mouth. Or eyelashes.
Owen: Mama, that was a good lunch.
Me: Good, I’m glad you liked it.
Owen: The apples and cashews were crunchy. The sandwich was soft and squishy.
Grouchy Owen: No more Lego packs. No Lego packs anymore.
Me: Okay, we’ll sell them.
Grouchy Owen: NOOOOOOO! I want them!
Owen: Mama, I love you.
Me: Aww. Come give me a hug.
Owen: Nah. I have to go sit on the couch and watch TV.
Apple sharing!
Owen was eating an apple and Katie definitely wanted it…so he let her have some. Awww!
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Katie is 10 months old today!
Some days the photo session goes well. Other days—like today—not so much. She was just NOT having it and refused to sit still. Then when she was sitting still, I was getting the stink eye. This was the best of the bunch.
Since the pickings were SO slim, I actually decided to try again after her nap. Of course the outfit was different because she had breakfast all over the first one. Her jammies were the second best outfit that matched the sticker. 🙂
New day, new pool, happy boy!
The new pool was filled by 8am, so when Katie went down for her nap Owen and I went outside! I had to put the salt in and get the pumps and filters working (a bit of a challenge since Tom is usually the one to do it—but I managed to figure it all out)…then Owen and I got in (it was the easiest way to get the salt to dissolve quickly).
More sibling love
She just loves him so much and has to be on him and he loves her so much that he laughs like crazy when she’s crawling over him. It’s adorable.
Her new favorite seat!
Now that she can get up there by herself, she’s up there all the time. And she LOVES it.
Owen’s new favorite show
He LOVES Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood-–an animated spin off, I guess you’d say, of Mr. Rogers. I knew about the show but hadn’t gotten around to recording it for him…but he managed to find it himself on the PBS app on the iPad! This is him singing the Good Morning song (eventually).
Fun in the dead pool
The top inflated pool ring gave out a few days ago—I was upstairs in the office when I heard GUSHING water so I ran to the window to see that the side of the pool collapsed. I ran downstairs and stopped it, and we decided that it was probably just overfilled (we had been trying to regulate the salt levels) and the pool ring probably had another hole in it or was just not strong enough and gave way—so in the end we opted to just get a new pool (actually the cheapest part of the whole deal). It came today, so we had to get rid of the old one. The fastest and easiest way? Slit the side. It emptied so FAST that Owen barely got in in time to enjoy the last foot of water. When it got down to a few inches, I let Katie splash around as well and they both had a ball.
Then it was nekkid baby time as it was still plenty warm enough and Tom was getting the new pool set up.
And do you see what’s in that second to last pic? Tooth number five!
And last but not least…she loves spending time with her daddy!
Those cheeks!
What the–?? You sneaky little girl!
I was just sitting there minding my own business just half watching Katie because she was on the floor playing. Until I looked up and saw this:
HOLY CRAP.
Owen loves this thing…
Even when Katie isn’t in it. Kids. Go figure.
Then he wanted to go get his B. I said “It can only come out if you stay in there.” He says “I can do that!”
He was wiped out from playing outside for most of play group today…and I think if I had left him alone, he would have napped right there. Hell, I wanted to nap since it was so nice out…
How Owen eats a cinnamon roll
Yep, just the frosting. 🙂
Why go around when you can go through and over?
Another try with v1.0 and v2.0
All TiVo reps are not created equal.
We have a TiVo stuck on a startup loop. Been there done that six months ago, got the replacement.
Now, I’m sure they get a lot of inept people calling, but seriously, you can see we’ve been customers since 2001 so maybe we might have a F’ing clue about what we’re doing?
But this jerk (hi Bob!) was trying to blame it on:
- Being plugged into a UPS (saying those are really just to give you time to back up your 100 page thesis if the power goes out). So, we should “let TiVo take the brunt of the restart” and forget trying to save an $800 investment if there’s a lightning strike…
- Bad wiring in our house (asking us when the house was built and claiming “who knows what those contractors do”). At one point he said “I have a $100,000 sound system but I plugged a $1000 receiver in and it blew up. So you just never know.”
- Using an external expander (asking us if we read the hard drive manual and/or contacted them regarding hooking it up because they can be wonky). Um, no, we plugged it in and followed the Tivo’s on-screen instructions.
- Not plugging in the expander in the right order.
- Having anything else plugged into the UPS along with the TiVo (we don’t but it shouldn’t matter).
- Having the TV and TiVo plugged into the same outlet (he was talking to us about things like grounding and circuits and…SERIOUSLY?
- Claiming we never did a guided startup (then how the hell were we recording programs?).
Basically, it was something we’re obviously doing since this is the second one that’s died. Then he tells us that after a third replacement they won’t replace it again. Huh?! We said we bought the warranty. Nope, three and you’re done.
The whole conversation was just completely ludicrous. The things I’ve mentioned are the BASICS of what he touched on, and everything just sounded utterly condescending. I SO wish we had been recording it because we were just so gobsmacked. Tom and I just kept looking at each other and mouthing “Is he serious?”
Needless to say we asked for a manager and he didn’t seem very with it, either—he was just kinda like “Hey, soooo, where are we at? Let me look at your info…” instead of jumping in feet first and taking control. But to his credit he processed the exchange as if we were still within the first 90 days so there’s zero cost to us AND we still have the rest of our original warranty left. He said he had no idea what the other guy was talking about limiting exchanges to three.
So, if you call TiVo support and happen to get Bob who sounds quite a bit dooshy and questions the build construction of your house while diagnosing a dead TiVo, hang up and try again. Or record it for all to enjoy.
Irony. She does it well.
He had to try it on.
Tom was getting ready for his gas chamber exercise and of course Owen wanted to try on the mask.
Something you rarely see!
Katie actually getting some real sun rats!
And then trying to keep her occupied (aka not screeching)…
Happy baby!
