Big Bear Lake

While we were on vacation at Big Bear Lake, we took a walk on the boardwalk. It was a great little walk because there was no way Owen could wander off the boardwalk and into the water....he was completely contained. We were enjoying our walk and stopping to look at fish jumping in the lake. About half way into our walk Owen wanted to push Max.
While he was pushing him, he frequently stopped, manuevered the stroller so it was facing the water, and parked it so Max could see the jumping fish, too.


How precious it was to watch him try to share the moment with his baby brother!

Is Mommy a Crazy Driver?

The other day I was driving Owen and Max to Lety's. The first intersection that we come to outside of our little subdivision is hard to see. So, I have to stop and then creep out into the intersection to look for oncoming traffic. This particular day when I creeped out into the intersection, there was a car coming and so I had to hit the brakes. Owen, reports from the back seat, "hit car."

I chuckled and said, "no we did not hit the car."

The next day we got to the same intersection and Owen immediately announces, "hit car." I explain once again that we did not hit a car.

The third day we are driving along the road, already past the blind intersection, and I hear Owen's voice from the back seat say "here comes our car!"

I reply, "What do you mean here comes our car? Do you mean, watch out here we come."

Owen says, "yeah, watch out here we come!"

Then today, again sitting in the back seat on the way to Lety's he announces "here we come."

Not sure if he thinks I'm a crazy driver or what, but he is warning everyone on the road that we are headed their way!

Crazy Hair

On the first day of school, we decided to go to Chilli's for dinner to celebrate a good start to a new school year. On the way Gavin and I were talking about how some of Gavin's male students need to get hair cuts.

Owen was listening to our converstation, as he was sitting in the back seat, and he said, "yeah, haircut," and he touched his head.

I replied, "do you need a hair cut."

To that he said (while tapping the top of his head) "yeah, crazy hair!"

Workout Police

Last Tuesday I only had to go to work for a few hours to check out for the end of the year. I planned to be home by 10:00 so that Gavin and Owen could go to the gym and Max could stay home with me. Gavin and Owen left for the gym and I was ready to spend some quiet time with Max, when the phone rang, it was Gavin and Owen was throwing a fit in the back seat...Owen loves the gym so this was a head scratcher for both of us. Gavin still continued to drive the short distance to the gym and get Owen inside, but he still just kept throwing a fit. Finally, Gavin had to bring him home because he wouldn't set foot into the play room.

When he got home I tried talking to him....I got him to calm down and tell me what was wrong. He wanted Mommy to go to the gym, too. So, the workout police succeeded in getting the whole family to go the gym that day!