And especially when daddy is there tickling her:
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Little miss poop patrol helping daddy
We had to show daddy what a good little helper she is. 🙂
Katie’s down!
The Lego Movie
Tom and I took Owen to The Lego Movie today. He was SOOO excited! The whole time we were coming home from Costco he was telling us to hurry so he wouldn’t miss the movie! We assured him we would be home in plenty of time. He even wore his new Lego Crocs!
The movie was really cute and Owen was super excited to see some of his own minifigures in the movie!
As the movie ended these were my exact thoughts:
- I feel guilty for super gluing some of Owen’s original minifigures together.
- I want to go buy him more Legos right now.
- EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
You’ll understand all of those when you see the movie but here’s #3:
Then this happened on the way home:
Katie’s newest trick
This is how we rocked Costco today.
Usually we have one in each cart or Katie in one with Owen walking…but today Katie wanted to sit with Owee.
And this is us post-Costco-lunch waiting for daddy and Owee to return from the bathroom:
Loving on Virginia
Katie was enjoying cuddling with Virginia when Maggie decided she wanted to join…
Kid sitting
We were watching our friends’ kids overnight so they could stay out. Katie wanted to sleep with them!
Our peanut-shucking queen
We went out to dinner to celebrate a friend’s birthday and we discovered Katie is a peanut-shucking queen! She didn’t want the peanuts, but just kept shucking them and shucking them. It kept her busy…and quiet!
Dancing Kids
Katie was dancing to the end credits of The Lorax and then Owen joined in.
Daddy keeping Katie busy in the morning
The three faces of Katie
She was being a stinker after dinner and was pouting at one point. This is what I captured in three pics taken in quick succession. A complete pout to a devilish grin. She’s going to be a troublemaker…
Poor Owen
So he didn’t feel good the other night—enough so that he didn’t want dinner. So we took his temp and WOW it was 102°. So we gave him some Advil and an hour later he seemed back to normal. Par for the course.
He’s had the sniffles for a bit, too, but I just chalked that up to a cold or allergies making a reappearance.
And then yesterday evening I noticed his left eye was a little pink and goopy. With green crusties. Oh boy… So we cleaned him up and figured if his eye was dried shut in the morning I’d take him to the doctor. But it was perfectly clean. Not really even pink. And no temp. He mentioned his head hurt and pointed to his ear but I didn’t make much of it and gave him another Advil and an allergy pill.
So then it was off to school, where I did warn them about the sniffles and the eye so they could keep watch. And damn if when I picked him up they didn’t tell me he napped today and woke up with a green crusty eye. 😐
I called the doctor’s office from the parking lot and they said to come right in. Phew! A quick look and yep, the doc said he definitely has pink eye—and an ear infection! AN EAR INFECTION! His very first! (Apparently the same germs that give you pink eye can also give you an ear infection.) And then it hit me—his sore ear this morning that I brushed off as a headache or allergies was an ear infection. Of course I felt bad putting two and two together a little late…but now I know.
The doc was going to give him liquid but I stopped her and requested pills. It wasn’t until later when I started wondering about the size of the pills…because while Owen can take pills, the ones he takes are TINY. And of course, these turned out to be horse pills and I thought we might have a problem. So I broke one in half (which was still about 10x the size of what he’s used to) and handed Owen both pieces, telling him he can take one at a time—but he had already put both pieces in his mouth and was trying to swallow them! He wasn’t 100% successful as one piece fell out of his mouth onto the floor…but he picked it right up, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it. Just like that. Holy wah. What a rock star! He earned a piece of chocolate for that!
Unfortunately, the drops are another story. He hates them. HATES THEM. Even though he knows they don’t hurt and are over in a split second. He’ll get better with them over the next day or so, but in the meantime it’s frustrating.
Poor Owen.
But we promised him that if he’s a really good boy with taking his pills and getting his drops…that we’ll take him to the Lego movie Sunday. Of course we had already planned on it but hadn’t told him…so why not use it to our advantage?! Parents need to take an advantage when they can, right?
Thankfully, overall though, he’s in good spirits. Like usual. 🙂
All dressed up and nowhere to go.
I rarely put her in a dress on a normal day, but it was short sleeved so worked well for a warm morning.
And it worked well for playing in the dog crate, too!
I think she was hungry.
We were playing in the play room when she disappeared and came back with a bib I had left out for the garage sale pile.
So I put it on her.
Then she went to the open diaper bag and pulled out a squeeze fruit.
So I gave it to her.
Them she went back to the bag and brought yogurt puffs.
So I gave them to her.
Then she disappeared into the kitchen…and came back with gummy fruits and a granola bar. I opened them but she was pretty much done by then.
Someone was busy when I wasn’t looking.
Moving the cat food from the bowl in the kitchen to a pile on the living room floor in front of Charlie.
Then moving that pile piece by piece over to Maggie.
She loves the thermometer
Testing Owen
Testing the chore chart
Just being cute
Testing herself
Checking out the remaining Halloween stash
Owen taking a turn
Sitting with brother
Katie wanted to sit in Owen’s chair after dinner…which was fine until Owen came back and he wanted to sit in his chair again. So Katie moved over all on her own so he could sit with her!
Popsicle stick penguin
Owenisms 38
Katie locked herself outside of the gate.
Owen: Now I don’t have my little Miss Katie.
Driving home after errands.
Owen: Mama, this little girl over here is pooping.
Owen was playing on my phone in the car.
Owen: I can’t find Temple Run.
Me: I’m sorry. I don’t know where it is.
Owen: Well, I guess I’m going to have to play something else.
After fighting with Owen to try grilled pork and he realized he liked it…
Owen: Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I like pig now!
Trying a new candy (Nerds).
Owen: Chewing with a weird look on his face. What does it do?
Me: Nothing. It’s candy.
Owen: I don’t like it.
I poured a bit of my Slim Fast shake into Owen’s white milk.
Owen: Mom, you know what I called this before? Tast-eeee delicious!!
Rocking his birthday backpack
Tom had Owen put it on to adjust the straps…then Owen kept it on for quite awhile. It goes perfectly with the socks and underwear wouldn’t you say?!
At the pirate cracker
We walked in and he says “Now where are those knights?” He hasn’t been here in—what??—at least a month if not more. But he remembered the exact toys that were there! And he pulled out every single same toy from the last time. 🙂
One of these is not like the other.
Riding a bike, part 3
Out for day number three! He’s getting better!!
He took a very slow tumble off into the grass and was a little upset.
I knew he wasn’t hurt at all so I told him he just needed to say TA DA! And pretend like he meant to do it. Which got this reaction:
On the pole already!
She would hang on the pole saying “Swing swing! Swing swing!” Then fall down onto her butt (like she did at the gymnastics place on the uneven bars).
Bagel Tuesday
Panera has a bakers dozen bagels for $6.99 on Tuesdays, so we go about once or twice a month. Sometimes I just run in, but sometimes we both go in and share a bagel before hitting our other errands.
I let Katie pick where we sit…and today she picked the huge 10-person table. 🙂
Kids being silly
Tom was playing a video on his camera and the kids were being silly!
It’s the little moments that excite you.
I just threw a load of clean towels on top of Maggie and Katie was concerned: “Maggie?!”
Then I pulled off a towel as I said “Where’s Maggie?” and Katie said her first real sentence: “I see Maggie!”
Tackle time!
Owen’s second attempt on a real bike
I might have assigned Tom bike-riding duty, but of course I was going to be there to watch!
He did better, but he still doesn’t want to push the pedals and he keeps slamming on the brakes. We’re not even worrying about steering yet…though I’m predicting he’s going to tip himself over because when he does try to turn he does it too sharply.
Jumping Birthday Party
We had a birthday party for one of our best friend’s kids at the bounce house place today.
Being goofy on the bounce house:
How she eats pizza:
And how she eats a cupcake:
Around the time we wanted to leave, we couldn’t find Owen anywhere. Tom and I each took a turn looking (and there’s only so much you can see without actually going into the bounce houses yourself) and neither of us could find him in the throng of kids. Turns out, he was in the under four area playing with blocks. Yep, it was time to leave! But a great time was has by both kids!