Beach Frisbee

Owen and Anna were bestest buddies!

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Then Kathryn and Izzy were playing frisbee and Owen wanted to join! This is his catching stance.

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His robot stance.

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Look at that form!

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Good catch!

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Proof that his form actually works! He can throw pretty well!

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I told him to write his name in the sand. You can see the normal-ish sized O right behind his feet…and then I told him he could do it a little bigger and so he’s drawing an O about three times his size (he’s finishing up the last of it). That’s as far as he got with his name before he lost interest. 🙂

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Cousins at the beach!

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I love this picture—it looks like David is the Godfather sending his minions off…

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The wave snuck up on him!

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Katie LOVED the sand…and was COVERED in it.

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Anna and Owen in their hot tub!

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Bubbles!

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Testing out the non-heated pool. It was COLD but Owen stayed in for probably 15 minutes!

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And one year ago…the same cousins on another beach.

Riding a bike, part 4

Well, part 4 for me anyway. He went out with Tom once where he got a lot better—and learned to stand up to get started peddling!

This is what happened today. He wasn’t happy that I tried to make light of his slow-motion spill at the end. (I was trying to get him laughing so he wouldn’t be upset about falling—because I knew he wasn’t hurt.)

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:

  1. I feel guilty for super gluing some of Owen’s original minifigures together.
  2. I want to go buy him more Legos right now.
  3. 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:

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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!

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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.

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Jumping Birthday Party

We had a birthday party for one of our best friend’s kids at the bounce house place today.

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Being goofy on the bounce house:

How she eats pizza:

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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!