Category Archives: Kids
That’s my girl!
Last night for dinner Katie ate plain noodles, noodles in spaghetti sauce, a whole Polish meatball (thanks, Gramma Jean!), and breadsticks.
Today? Scrambled eggs and pesto noodles.
I hope it continues!!
Mom & Katie
I love that she automatically smiles when she sees the camera!
Vacation Owenisms
Owen said so many cute things while we’ve been on vacation, but of course I haven’t written them down immediately as they happened…so I only have a few from the last day or so.
Owen: Can we go down there? Pointing down through the floor. In the elevator? To G? To the pool?
Me, mini golfing: Owen, do you want to hit my ball in?
Owen: Sure!
Me: Owen, do you want peanut butter on your graham crackers?
Owen: Ooh! Yes! I’d like that.
Me: I might lay down and take a nap with you.
Owen: NO! You go out there with my dad.
People were shooting off fireworks on the beach that we could see from our living room and balcony.
Owen: Excuse me—excuse me! He pointed with all four fingers in a jabbing motion out towards the beach. There’s fireworks on the beach. Out there. In the sky! Come look!
Owen is pretending to sheath a sword at his side.
Owen: I’m Mike the Knight!
Me: You’re Mike the Knight?
Owen: No, I’m Owen!
Owen, carrying a square-ish toy of Katie’s to the table: Gramma Jean, I have to check my computer online!
After his bath…
Me: Owen, are you clean and snuffy?
Owen: Nooo.
Me: Are you…spiffy?
Owen: No! I’m Owen!
Skyping with Grandma Marsha:
Grandma: I hear you had a vacation.
Owen: Yes! I played with cousins and they’re far away now.
Heading out for dinner!
And the only family shot we got the entire time…but Tom was only here for two weekends of my two weeks! (Yeah, I should have moved the garbage or cropped it out, LOL.)
Owen’s first mini golf
We took Owen mini golfing for the first time today! He’s unbelievably smart in some areas, but apparently just CANNOT grasp how to hold the putter. It’s hilarious and frustrating at the same time.
Thing 1 & Thing 2
Gramma Jean came home today with these shirts for the kids…
Of course, I have 58 attempted shots of them laughing and playing together—but with one looking away or hands in the way or legs in the way. 🙂 Here’s a video of all of them…
I did get these next two, though, which I thought would look good combined…
So I googled and discovered that Microsoft Live (already on mom’s laptop!) has a feature called Photo Fuse which will let you mix and match heads from photos…so I created this picture!
And then when we left them to their own devices…
And then Katie decided she should check out a sleeping daddy…
Gramma and the kidlets
Look at my new teeth!
She just finished getting her bottom two teeth and now the top two are coming in…
Katie wants monkeys!
When Katie is up, we have to play Owen’s new monkey game on a table because Katie REALLY wants the monkeys… After our game, we left her to her own devices and yep, she could get them!
Daddy’s here!
It was chilly again—note the two coats!
Chasing the birds!
Today was the first day I saw tons of coral washed up along the shore…
My boys! (Notice that Owen’s feet are inside Tom’s jacket warming up!)
Trying to get a cool desktop or Facebook cover photo!
Grandpa and Gramma with Katie
Brrrrrrrr!
Since the weather has been unseasonably cool and we didn’t exactly plan for that, Gramma Jean bought herself a new hoodie…and got one for Owen, too!
He was UNBELIEVABLY excited about it and was tearing around like a mad man. He HAD to have the hood up—and he told gramma she had to have hers up as well.
Hiding
Katie’s foods!
Katie loves real food! So far on this trip, she’s eaten:
- cheddar cheese
- boiled potatoes
- salmon (LOVED IT!)
- cucumber
- mac and cheese
- black olives
- peanut butter and jelly
Sunset with grandma
Sunrises with grandpa, sunsets with gramma… 🙂
Family beach walk
It was chilly when we all went out for a walk after dinner, so Katie dressed in her jean jacket before she outgrows it!
The chilly weather certainly didn’t stop Owen from playing in the tidal pools!
Where’s daddy?
Tom had to go back home today while we extended our stay with the grandparents. Of course, all afternoon Owen has been asking where daddy is (he knows he’s at home) and repeating how many “big sleeps” it will be until he comes back (four). But tonight he just looked so dejected as he said:
Where’s daddy? He needs me.
🙁
I want the iPad, too!
GJ & Katie
Robot legs as guns. Of course.
Cousins!
Almost but not quite.
Katie’s first beach!
First bathing suit!
Cousins!!
Toes in the water (in a tide pool, which was a bit warmer and lots calmer)!
Notice the sand around the mouth? Yep, it went in! We let her get some, but tried to prevent the big handfuls. 🙂
Doing her yoga poses on the beach!
In the actual ocean surf!
v1.0 and v2.0
Pool fun with cousins
Family Breakfast
Cousins at the beach
The Laundry Channel
Katie was entranced by the wash machine. She’s obviously never seen ours at home. 🙂
Good morning sunshine!
