spit up factory

if spit up were in high demand, i would be RICH. its kind of incredible how much this kid spits. i dont think its as bad as i could be, but its pretty dang bad. yesterday, i took a shower then gave owen a bath, and as i was drying him off, he puked all over the both of us. today, i was burping him but he wouldnt burp, so i asked him "are you going to burp, or just spit up all over me?" two second later, he spewed allll over me. nathan thought it was quite hilarious. spit up hits the floor at least twice a day around here.

im procrastinating my 12 page paper thats due tomorrow. im on page 3. the bad thing is, i could finish it in 2 hours if id just do it, but here i am, blogging, facebooking, ya know. my goal is to finish it, work out, and shower before nathan gets home at 9. i can do it.

one more paper and two final exams until i have my masters degree. no more school. im dunzo.

here are a few pics of my sweet boy. he really is growing so fast. his favorite thing so far: his dad. and the word "cheese." both seem to crack him up.

baby rolls and diet food

ok folks, its official-im going on a diet. and by diet i simply mean eating healthy and working out. all it took was one experience in a bathing suit, and i must must must do something about this body. ive been back to my pre-pregnancy weight for sometime now, but, well, things just arent where they used to be! i was talking with my sister about different diets and such, but the bottom line is that if i simply eat healthy and work out, i lose weight. its just a matter of doing it. i wasnt going to make this quite so official, but if i dont tell someone, then ill eat the brownies that are sitting in my kitchen right now. so there it is friends, im doing it. thank you blogging community for allowing me some sort of accountability :)

on a different note- owen rolled over from back to belly this weekend! he gets really close all the time, just cant seem to get over that shoulder. but yesterday he was on the rug in the bathroom (its like his favorite place in the house.. weird i know) laying on his back talking. then he started to make muffled noises, and when i went in, he was on his belly! hes just moving alllll over the place these days.

heres daddy and owen in bed yesterday morning. those two get so much more sleep than me these days!


nathan and i have had quite the fiasco with owens room lately... there are wasps around our house (see last blog) and we decided to spray for them. there were a bunch around owens window, so we sprayed it really good. well, at 3 am that night, i went in owens room because he was crying, and its smelled HORRIBLY of wasp killer. so so awful. we have tried for days to get the smell out, but its stuck in the cracks of the windows and wont come out. i washed it with buckets of soapy water yesterday and will do the same today. i dont mind owen sleeping in our room, but i definitely dont get much sleep, and id like this problem resolved!

ok, there are going to be a million videos attached to this blog, because i havent posted in a while. no need to watch unless you just wanna see owen doing normal baby stuff... the last two are him trying to eat the attachments to his einstein entertainer. he wants to eat EVERYTHING. adios.

stingers

I. HATE. BEES. i hate them i hate them i hate them. how am i supposed to enjoy being outdoors when bees are dive-bombing my head? ok, they werent really that bad, but i HATE always having to be on the lookout for them. im almost done pulling the weeds in the flowerbed, but i think im going to have to finish tomorrow morning before the wasps come out. and those giganto bees that look like they could kill someone. uh. i took owen for a walk a bit ago, and a wasp kept getting so close to owen that i finally had to hit it away with my hand. yikes. when i was in the front yard, my neighbors were out on the front porch and a bee came after me. i started doing a crazy dance in the yard and screaming. i try not to be a big sissy. but i am. they think ive lost my mind.

thunder is today and its caarazy out there! for my texas/florida folks, thunder over louisville is a gigantic airshow and firework show that kicks off the month of derby. its super fun, and the biggest firework show in north america. we are having three couples come over to grill hotdogs and watch the show from our backyard, since we live right on the river. it should be wonderful!

wow, my first post that isnt all about owen. i mean, is that ok??

lazy rainy day

im glad that titus, owen, and i got a good walk in before it started pouring. its been raining a lot here lately, but i like it. hopefully our grass will start to look better, since its mostly dead from the ice storms this past winter. owen and i were very productive yesterday and swept out the garage. well, i swept the garage while owen sat in his bumbo and tried to eat his foot. heres a quick video of that... yes, i have him in his bumbo up on a rubbermaid thing. dont judge me!



so i enjoyed pulling weeds the first two days that i did it, but now its just getting old! i never should have let them get so crazy. ive just never really had a house where i had to do yardwork, so this is all new to me! once those weeds are up, i will be much more excited about the yard. meanwhile, owen got his first ride on titus. (he's still wearing the lampshade since he got neutered!)
here are a few pictures from our easter weekend. we had a fun lunch with our friends, aaron and krista, who went to the university of texas. they have an 11 week old girl named grace. shes so sweet!

ok, owen is sleeping so i should definitely be getting more done. i just start feeling so guilty when i dont blog often enough!

nutso

my son is nutso. this is what he has been doing lately- mom, this is what he was doing when we were on the phone:

he puts his head all the way back, then gets stuck and starts crying. hes crazy! he also LOVES to watch me drink out of water bottles, so i thought id let him see the water bottle for a minute, and this was the result:



poor titus. after his neuter, he has had to wear a lampshade around his head so he doesnt lick his incision. we keep it off when we watch him, but put it one when we arent around. today i went to the grocery and left titus by the front door with the lampshade on. when i came back an hour later, he was in the exact same position. i came in the back door, and he didnt even move to come greet me. he was FROZEN. ha, he is so silly! its a big incision though, and he needs to leave it alone!

nathan and i are having easter lunch on sunday with craig and sarah and krista and aaron. its going to be a texas reunion! im very excited! baby is about to wake up...

my boys

what a horrible day for my boys. nathan is just working, so thats not any different. buuuut, titus got neutered this morning :( nathan and i planned on breeding him because he is so beautiful and has a couple champions in his pedigree. however, with the arrival of owen and our busy schedules, breeding seemed a little out of the picture. SO, since i still work at the vet clinic on occasion, i went ahead and scheduled him for a neuter. my favorite doctor, dr brockman, did it, and i even convinced him to do a scrotal ablation. sounds exciting, eh? it was a lot of work, but now titus wont have a big emtpy thing back there. ok, TMI!

owen also had his 4 month appt today and got his shots. he did wonderful this time, only cried for about 5 seconds. hes a tough guy. needless to say, both of my boys are sleeping. heres a picture of titus with the toy that nana sent him in the mail. it was perfect that it arrived on the day of his surgery! but, this is the first time i have ever seen titus not get up and run in circles when he gets a new toy. he will in a few days. hes content to lay with it right now.

ok, confession- i just started twittering. its totally fun! facebook, blogger, twitter. im losing it.

so owen has been SO wiggly lately! i love that he has energy, but im constantly having to watch him like crazy! here are some of the fun positions he has ended up in lately. ah i love this kid!

meanwhile, i cant WAIT to go to florida while nathan is in nepal. its only like a month away! almost 2 weeks in the sunshine state with grandma and grandpa. yay!

tummy time!

So I've always been nervous about Owen's strength because I'm a horrible mother and don't do much tummy time. He sleeps on his back, so turning on his tummy makes him QUITE unhappy. I usually got about 2 minutes out of him when I began, and I eventually gave up a couple months ago. Yesterday, Nathan and I decided to put him on his tummy for the heck of it. To our surprise, he put his head up as far as it could go with ease! I've had him in the bumbo lately, so I guess that has helped. We got excited about it today and did it again, and he rolled over! I couldnt believe it! I thought he wouldnt be doing that for a while, but he did it twice in a roll! What a strong boy! He's so much fun! (video at bottom)



Along those lines, here is a quick video specifically for Aunt Sissy. Its at the bottom of the blog, and I just realized I videoed it sideways. So... its completely boring and silent because I didnt want to interrupt him, but its the first time he's made such good hand-eye coordination! My sister (Aunt Sissy) works with deaf and hard of hearing babies from 0-3 years. She is quite encouraging about stimulating Owen, since she knows that he begins learning language and different skills at birth. So, Aunt Sissy, here is Owen in his baby einstein entertainer, being quite stimulated! He's gonna be a genius! heres a pic too- he was zoned in on the spinny frog!



oh, and this is a pic nathan got while i was gone. owen often spits out his pacifier and it just flies across the room. well this time it shot straight up and landed on his eye! ha.



ok, for all you nursing mothers out there, i have a question... ive been nursing owen since birth and he's a champion eater. he sleeps well too- by 14 weeks he was sleeping from 10-7. hoooowever, after going to texas, he hasnt been sleeping through the night at all. i think my milk production slowed down for a bit, which caused him to wake up around 4am to eat. i fed him, cause i felt bad about my milk, and he would go back to sleep until 7 or 8. SO, thats the new routine and i cant get him out of it! he still naps and eats on good schedule during the day. i might just try to keep him awake more... i dunno! let me know if you have the secret answer.

this entire blog was about owen.. im officially an obsessed mother. :) i dont mind.