Brothers

On March 3, 2oo9, Owen became the proud big brother of Maxwell Turner. He is such a great big brother, although, he can be a little rough at times. He always wants to know where "baby" is. He will come into the house from outside and run over to Max and say, "hi baby." He will leave to go back outside and say, "bye, baby." I find this incredible adorable. He also wants to pick him up and place him in the swing, and will ask to hold him while he watches "Imagination Movers" and drinks his milk.

Owen also likes to help give Max a bath. When I ask, "should we give Max a bath?" he will run into the bathroom and pull out the baby bath tub for me. Although, now he takes the opportunity to bathe his cars while Grandma is trying to bathe Max!

All of my worries or how Owen would act or feel having a new baby in the house have gone away. He instantly embraced his new role of big brother and I couldn't be more proud of him. I look forward to watching the bond between them strengthen throughout the years!

This Kid is Going to Make My Hair Go Gray!!!

Last Saturday we went to a birthday party for the daughter of one of our friends. The kids were playing outside and Gavin was in charge of watching Owen very closely because of the pool outside, and because I still can't do any heavy lifting and that means no lifting Owen. For the first hour and a half or so, Gavin was ready to pack up and go home, because Owen was trying every trick in the book to get by Gavin and go in the pool. Our friend Steve suggested we just dip his feet in, he thought if Owen felt how cold it was he wouldn't like it and stay away from the pool. I responded to this suggested very quickly saying, "oh no, he'll like it, I wouldn't try that." So, he continued to try and sneak behind trees to "fool" Daddy, or throw balls real close to the pool, so he would have an excuse to go by it.

We had finally gotten Owen interested in playing a little baseball in the area of the yard not by the pool for quite some time, until he wandered back to the other side of the yard. Gavin followed of course, but then the little boy who was playing baseball hit a ball all the way into the pool. Gavin laid down at the side of the pool to reach in and get the ball, and Owen took that opportunity to get very close to the pool...

While Gavin was reaching for the baseball, Owen sat down at the edge of the pool and dangled his feet in, as soon as Gavin stood up and made eye contact with him, he jumped into the pool. All I heard from across the yard, was "oh shit," and Gavin reaching into the pool. I ran over to the pool as Gavin was pulling Owen out. He wasn't coughing, he wasn't crying, and I'm sure if we let him he would have jumped right back in.

This kid is way too daring and is definetly going to cause my hair to turn prematurely gray!

Unlocked!

So, with the new arrival date aproaching quickly, we have started giving Owen some more freedom in the house. The other day he wanted to be upstairs, so we opened the gate at the bottom of the stairs, locked all the doors upstairs except his room and then we stayed downstairs allowing him to busy himself upstairs. The next thing I know, I hear running water in the upstairs bathroom. Questioning whether Gavin actually locked the door, I sent him back up to check on Owen. Gavin ushered him out of the bathroom, shut the water off, locked the door (again), and then headed out the door to get the mail. Owen was still upstairs and I was resting on the couch, when once again, I heard running water in the bathroom upstairs.

I went upstairs to investigate. I walked around the corner and said, "Owen, how are you unlocking the bathroom door after we lock it?"

With a little twinkle in his eye and a smirk on his face, he walked over to a picture frame on the shelf, reached behind it and showed me the penny he used to unlock the door!! Which is exactly how we unlock the doors upstairs, but usually the pennies are about the door frame! I couldn't believe my eyes, that not only had he unlocked the door, but he put the penny back where he found it!!!

Oh, the fun we have in store for us in the future!

Naked!

Owen decided he wanted to sleep naked Saturday night. And wouldn't you know that Saturday is the one night that we didn't check on him before we went to bed.....

Owen took a two hour nap on Saturday, which means he took forever to fall asleep on Saturday night. Gavin had been up early and worked some extra hours at a competition at his school, so he fell asleep on the couch waiting for Owen to fall asleep upstairs so we could go to bed. (If we go to bed when he is still awake, he throws a fit and wants to be in our bed). At 9:35 I woke Gavin up and we headed to bed, because Owen had finally fallen asleep. I told Gavin not to go in and check on him because he had only been asleep five minutes and I didn't want to risk waking him up.

The next morning, Gavin and I were up before Owen and already downstairs having breakfast. Gavin went upstairs to get him when he heard him wake up and yelled into the monitor "help." I assumed Owen had pooped out of his diaper. Nope, instead he had taken off his diaper and PJ's and slept naked, resulting in wetting the bed of course.

We had just gotten a brand new mattress the previous Monday and had not yet purchased a mattress cover because we thought, "well, he is still wearing a diaper, we can wait on getting hte mattress cover." Needless to say, we now have a mattress pad on the bed.

Of course this little situation doesn't really surprise me, since Owen is always up to something, but the one positive thing I can say is at least he did not poop like he usually does right before he wakes up!!!!!

Taken Literally

Saturday morning, Owen went to the sliding glass door and asked to go outside. I told him he couldn't go outside because he was still in his pajama's. What I did not explain, was not only was he in his pajama's, but the temperature was still in the 30's and therefore too early to go outside. But he took me literally and immediately stripped off his pajama's, as if wearing nothing but a diaper was better than going outside in his PJ's!!

Merry Christmas!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Snow Day!!

Yes, you read that title correctly, we are having a snow day in Vegas today!! This is the first snow day since 1979. Our house hasn't seen any snow on the ground, but parts of the valley had a couple of inches. In the three years that I have been here I have never seen the snow on the mountains be this low. It is gorgeous!

The airport was closed last night and part of today and the strip had significant snowfall, lots of people were taking their picture at the famous Las Vegas sign last night in the snow (according to the news broadcast)!

I am sure this will not happen again in the next 27 years of my teaching career here, so I am enjoying the relaxation day!