Owen hauled both bears downstairs tonight…and then this happened.
“They’re loving each other.”
He was actually planning a bear wedding but it never happened.
Category Archives: Owen
Tonight’s pizza!
I’ve been experimenting with pizza dough in the stand mixer so we’ve been having lots of pizza and breadsticks. For pizzas, we often just use whatever leftovers we have…and the kids get cheese or pepperoni. However, tonight we both got leftovers: mac and cheese for the kids (hope they like it) and chimichurri, steak, and pickled onions for us. Of course topped with cheese.
The verdict? Owen loved it, Katie tolerated it. Ours sounded better than it tasted but it wasn’t bad. But unfortunately the crust was overdone (not sure why—I did everything the same as previous times when it turned out).
Our Little Slugger
Owen’s baseball practices officially start this Friday so we wanted to take him out and practice a little first. Of course, Katie wanted to play, too. She’s not great at catching with a mitt but she’s not too bad at hitting! And she looks so cute doing it!
Boosterthon Fun Run Fundraising!
Owen is raising funds for playground and technology!
On Friday, March 18, he’ll complete 30 to 35 laps to help his school. If you’d like to be one of his sponsors, his goal is $10 per lap (but any amount is appreciated)!
CLICK HERE TO DONATE!
My boy picked me flowers.
:heart:
Blue Ninja
Uncle Rob named this one. 🙂
Boys at play
Tom was home sick today so they were playing games together before school. 🙂
My goofy boy…
With the two front teeth that still aren’t fully in!
DC dinner with friends!
Friends from South Carolina came to DC for the weekend and we grabbed dinner with a bunch of other friends at a pizza place.
Of course, the kids were watching TV. (Guess how old the boy is. Just guess. Nope—he’s 6.5 and in first grade! I know, right? I told you we grow them big. 🙂 )
Owen’s cool crayon sculpture!
As a sidenote. We had a perfect example of why I say I hate people. Parking in downtown DC is always a nightmare, but we were thrilled to realize there was a parking garage right next door to the restaurant. Except some asshat parked next to us in a NON-PARKING spot which necessitated a 23-point turn to exit our space. (Parking is tight in the best of cases, so with him there it was ridiculous.)
Bingo Night
Katie was frustrated that I wouldn’t let her play and stamp the bingo sheets…so I gave her the pizza box. Which kept her busy for a whole 10 minutes.
Pics the principal took (the lights were off so we could see the overhead projector…which made for not-great pics):
We thought Owen won the last game but one of his stamp marks was a little overzealous so he was one short. 🙁
More Sea Cow progress!
It got put away for awhile since we needed the room for a Saturday Night Dinner so it finally just came back upstairs. I think he has two bags left.
100th Day of School
My first-ever attempt at making Owen 100 years old for his 100th day of school:
Oops! Forgot the glasses!
Typical Owen. 🙂
And of course little sister had to grab the glasses. 🙂
Pictures from the school’s Facebook page:
Throwback Thursday—7 years ago
3/3/09 and 3/3/16 (Yes I quickly posed him for this shot. I could have gotten it closer but I didn’t want him to lose interest.)
Free falling!
Okay, NOW he looks seven.
#haircutwithdaddy
And Katie had to get her picture taken, too.
Excited about pizza!
I love her face!
Cough checkup
We took Owen to the doctor about three weeks ago because he had a bad cough. Today was just a recheck because he’s still coughing a little and I just wanted to make sure he wasn’t getting worse. He’s fine.
Crazy Hair Day
He was super excited for this day. He remembered we had the colored gel—and exactly what colors we have!
I’m not sure where he got this pose, but it was the very first thing he did. 🙂
Green on one side…
Orange on the other…
And pics from the school’s Facebook page:
They crack me up.
They usually play like this when Owen gets home from school.
Our first nice day in awhile!
It’s the first really nice day we’ve had so I took the kids to the library playground and walked two miles while they played.
A friend of Owen’s was there so they had fun running around together.
Kids in a boat at the mall
Their treat while I did a return at TJ Maxx.
Mama, take a picture of this.
Same hat and same kid: 2010 & 2016
The old pic popped up on Tom’s “On this day” Facebook timeline and I knew I had to do a side-by-side with a recent pic!
Beaded Parrot
Owen had only done tiny Perler bead projects, but of course he wanted to try the HUGE parrot design that came with the new superboard…which means mom ended up doing about 90% of it.
Valentine’s Gifts
Katie got a Keurig for her kitchen so she can make coffee for daddy…
And Owen got a Valentine’s Lego set and home-printed cards for his favorite iPad game (which we cut out and laminated). If you can believe it, the cards were his favorite thing and he forgot all about the Legos for an entire day!
Valentine’s bag…with fangs!
It’s hard to see, but he made a vampire heart…with fangs!
Kidisms 23
Katie had her Doc McStuffins stethoscope on my chest:
Mom! You have some sounds! I hearded them!
I told Katie to go open the front door because Tom was coming home:
I can’t! I don’t have muscles!
While half watching The Flash (daddy was watching) while “reading” to me, Katie saw bullets on the floor in the scene:
Those are her shoots.
Katie, looking at my wedding ring:
Mama! Look! There’s a pretty jewel right there!
Tom: Tell mama about your flower nightlight.
Katie: Daddy used screws!
Owen: Katie, your voice is cute. I want to listen to it forever. That means I don’t want you to die.
Owen, watching a friend play XBox Lego Movie and trying to help:
Do it [that way]. Just trust me.
The kids were talking about our mosaic wedding photo during dinner.
Katie: And that’s my mom and that’s my dad. You were a princess. And daddy was your prince. ❤️
We were watching Hotel Transylvania 2 and Katie said she wanted to ride a bike like Mavis (BMX-style).
Me: Katie, you don’t ride the bike you have.
Katie, frowning: I keep giving up.
Naps x 2
The kids had swim lessons today and after they came home and ate lunch, we told them it was nap time. Owen had only gotten maybe seven hours of sleep which was definitely NOT enough…and of course he fought it. We told him he didn’t have to sleep but he had to rest. When I took Katie up five minutes later, I found this:
Out. B over his head and snoring away. 🙂 Katie didn’t fight it and slept for three hours (at which point we actually woke her up because we had to leave for a Super Bowl party).
Owen got up after about an hour, but then came into room still quite groggy and this happened:
Another successful birthday sleepover!
Owen wanted another summer birthday pool party, so like last year, we had a sleepover with two friends for his birthday. I’m not sure who was more excited—Owen or Katie. She did pretty good overall but didn’t understand why the boys didn’t want to go play with her instead of playing with Owen. (That said, she did get to play with them most of the time.)
We had pizza for dinner, then they all played downstairs (including Katie), and then it was time for Pie face!
Ice cream! Poor Colton (in black) doesn’t like chocolate so didn’t want the ice cream or brownie…so had an ice pop.
Attempting to play a new video game. It wasn’t quite working, so…
We watched a movie. Awwwww.
Of course, Katie was right in there, too.
Owen: “My bros!”
iPad time
Spying on them.
We put them to bed at 9:30 and they wanted to read a book so we told them lights out at 10. I happened to be watching on the monitor when they turned the lights out at 9:45. We thought it was too easy…and we were right. They were gabbing LOUDLY for the next hour. The last 20 minutes or so, Tom and I took turns going in to tell them to quiet down and go to bed. The last time Tom went in he warned them that they would not get donuts in the morning if he had to come in again. Then they were finally quiet. 🙂
Tom said they were all up at Owen’s usual time (6:30!) so they were back at Xbox and Tom went to get donuts.
The kids left by 10:30. Owen had a great time and we were glad to have our relatively quiet house back.
This doesn’t happen too often.
