Ash Wednesday

I decided to brave it and take both kids to church. Luckily Carrie decided to go too so I wasn't alone. We went to 8:00 mass which is also the all-school mass and I think that really helped things. Owen was somewhat distracted by all of the kids and it was noisier than Sunday mass so his questions and chatting was as noticeable. Owen was very excited about getting his ashes and talked about and showed them to everyone the rest of the day.

Barely there because he was pointing them out so much, but you get the idea:

Family Pics

Amy came over to take some pictures for us a few weeks ago and we finally got them back. She did a great job and we love them! We will definately be using her again for Cam's 1 year pictures :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope everyone had a great Valentine's day. We spent the morning cleaning the house since we had a showing. After that, we headed out to the mall play area to waste some time. While at the mall, we decided to have Owen's feet measured and found out that the poor kid has been wearing a size too small for a while now. Of all things kid-related, shoe shopping is the one thing I dread the most. I hate it. Thank you Dillard's salesperson for bringing out hideous light-up shoes and telling my child he could have cool race car shoes.

We went to every shoe store and department store in the mall with no luck. We finally found a pair of New Balances at Kohl's that weren't too expensive, too dorky looking, contained no characters or flashing lights and that Owen, Mike and I all liked.

We ended our night with a romantic dinner at Fortel's with both kids followed by Dairy Queen sundaes. Fortel's serve heart-shaped pizzas, but Mike forgot to mention it when ordering, so we had regular pizza. Oh well, tasted good anyway.

Comparison Picture

I was taking pictures of Cameron the other night and realized that I had a similar picture of Owen from around the same age. They were both swaddled in the same blanket, sleeping. It's crazy how much they look alike and how different they are at the same time.

Convo with Owen

We were driving home from Old Navy today and Owen was chatting away in the backseat as usual. Here's a little bit of the conversation that went on between Mike and Owen:

Mike: Are you going to take a nap when we get home, Owen?
Owen: Go to sleep on couch.
Mike: You want to take a nap on the couch?
Owen: No! Go to sleep in Rylynn's bed!

Uh-oh. We're in trouble if he wants to sleep over at girls' houses already. We'll have to keep this conversation a secret from Rylynn's dad, I don't think he'd appreciate it.

We were almost home when I turned around to look at Owen in his carseat to discover that he had managed to completely loosen the straps on it! He was leaning forward, hanging on to the driver's seat. It scared the crap out of me that he was able to do that and I have no idea how to keep him from doing it all the time now.

Me: Owen! What are you doing?! You need to sit back!
Owen: No. (giggling)
Me: Mommy and Daddy will get in trouble if someone sees you like that. Do you want us to get in trouble?
Owen: I like that! (laughing at this point)

Frigid Cold Weather =

a lot of time spent in the house! Since Owen tends to get pretty stir-crazy, I thought we'd bake a little today for something different. We were planning on making some mini-muffins, but we were running low on milk and I was not dragging both kids out, plan changed. Mini-brownies instead! Owen loved baking, although I think he enjoyed licking the spoon the most.

After brownies, he wanted to take a bath with "lots bubbles." I got out all of the bath paints, crayons, colored water things, etc for some extra bath fun. He was in there forever coloring his toys.

And some pictures of Miss Cameron from today, just because she's cute!

Cam's New Friends

We finally got the activity mat out of Grandma and Grandpa T's house and I set it up for Cam tonight. Owen was obsessed with the blue monkey on that thing, but the purple elephant has caught Cam's attention. She was even reaching for it a little.