Category Archives: Owen
Tonight’s Skype
Katie crawls up…
…and over Tom.
While Owen is off wandering.
The pool I didn’t know we had.
I discovered one of Owen’s play areas today…the “pool” in the half bath sink. He knows to pull up the stopper and turn the water on to make a pool for his little turtle (a bath toy).
Annual Accidental Freezer Defrosting
I swear this is becoming an annual thing. Ugh.
I went to put some bagels in the freezer this afternoon and discovered that the door was ajar and EVERY SINGLE THING was thawed. Still cold, thankfully, but completely thawed. Even the super thick pork loins. Ugh.
You’d think I’d be used to this by now but your mind still races with the HOLYSHITWHATDOIDONOW thoughts.
Of course, my first thought was “Oh crap! The babysitter probably got in the freezer this weekend and I hadn’t showed her or even told her about the baby lock so that probably got in the way and caused this.” So I texted her and asked when she had been in there (just to know how long it had been open) and she said she didn’t go in there. Hmmm. Then I noticed that the baby lock had busted off. (We’ve had it on ever since we had the door pop open before.) Tom says that the door seal doesn’t work well at all so if it got hot enough maybe the lock popped off (it’s just on with glue after the sticky tape popped off). Well, I didn’t think the entire seal was bad…but maybe it just isn’t as strong as it used to be (it IS 10 years old). So anyway, we’re sure that was the reason but man…WHY did it have to happen the 48 hours we were gone when we’re NEVER gone? Ugh.
So anyway, I rushed to the shed to pull out the huge cooler (which, of course, was under a bunch of crap). I had piles of TOSS, EAT, and REFREEZE. We have no space heaters anymore so I had to get hair dryers (I wanted to defrost the ice as quickly as possible)…except I blew a circuit when I tried to run two at the same time. Owen was intrigued by what I was doing and helped for about three seconds.
It seemed like it took forever, but I had the entire thing emptied, defrosted, and refilled in about an hour. (I guess experience does pay off, eh?)
Thankfully quite a bit of the stuff could be immediately refrozen (hot dogs, professionally packaged stuff, spaghetti sauce). Some stuff will be cooked and refrozen (brats, ground beef, hamburgers, pork). But we still have about 15# of meat to eat this week.
And we obviously also need to look into other door locks and/or alarm systems. I remember it was a bit challenging to find an acceptable door latch in the first place and the reviews for alarms on Amazon don’t look too promising.
Hoo boy.
Owenisms 17
Owen: Put your seatbelt on! We’re going to the pizza market!
Me: Owen, what makes you happy?
Owen: Maggie. And Charlie and Bella. And Katie and daddy.
Owen: Holding an empty pizza box. Knock knock.
Me: Who’s there?
Owen: The pizza man!
A few minutes later.
Owen: Holding an empty box of crackers. Knock knock.
Me: Who’s there?
Owen: Cracker man!
He has gotten on a kick of asking for good news and bad news. We have zero idea where it came from.
Owen: Mama, tell me some good news and bad news.
Me: Hmmm. The good news? You got a chocolate for pooping in the potty. The bad news is you still had lots of poop in your underwear so you don’t get a Lego. Now you tell me some good and bad news.
Owen: Bad news…I lost you in the library. [This was from a dream he had weeks ago.] Good news is you still love me.
I didn’t do it!
I was in the kitchen doing something and when I looked in the living room, I saw this:
Owen swears he didn’t do it. Knowing Katie, it’s entirely possible she actually did do it herself…so I had Owen join her.
And a good shot of her cute outfit from (I think) Grandma Marsha!
Playing in Owen’s room
We rarely play in Owen’s room but we did today!
Owen loved showing Katie his microphone:
“EX-TER-MIN-ATE!”
“Get back here, Katie!” He’s great at “saving” her.
I wanna do it, too!
Katie HAS to be next to Owen or seeing what he’s doing… Tom took these while I was out getting my hair done.
This is what happens on car rides when we skip naps.
A friend in the pool
After play group today, Amanda and Xander stayed so the boys could go in the pool. Xander is two…and wasn’t quite sure—for the first hour anyway—about the whole thing. But he eventually went in. They were having a blast splashing each other.
Later, Amanda texted me:
Thank you again so much for today. Xander has not stopped talking about playing with Owen since he woke up.
Xander just adores Owen and it’s sooo cute to watch…
Playing Pizza
“I’m the pizza man! Here’s your pizza!”
“I love playing pizza with you…”
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!
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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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).
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!
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. 🙂
Another try with v1.0 and v2.0
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.
Owen’s new hairstyle
I tried to give him long hair again but it didn’t quite work…but he still laughed. I was letting him hold the phone to see it and he took about 20 pictures in a row. This was the best one.
