Toes and Rice Cereal

one of owen's new found hobbies is chewing on his toes. hes quite the flexible kiddo. now that he has discovered that he can get to his toes, he gets quite frustrated when i have footies or socks on him. hes a stinker.

nathan and i had a lovely dinner with jen and bob last night. sorry for the screaming baby toward the end there, he was a hungry monster. this boy always wants to eat! on a better note, we fed him rice cereal for the first time last night. he did great with it, and slept for 10 hours last night. HEY-O!! rice cereal at the night feeding is officially the new routine. heres a video for your watching enjoyment.

i now have my masters degree and im done with school for GOOD! wahoo! nathan still has quite a bit to do (since his is a 4 year program), so i try not to rub it in too much that im done. he loves school though, so i dont think he minds.

nathan and i are going to a church planting banquet tonight at the seminary, seeing that planting a church may now be in our future. wasnt our original plan, but the Lord seems to know whats best for us much more than we do!

gotta pick up this house, ive been slackin lately.

look at me go!

im posting another blog within a week of my last one! im on a roll! i always get frustrated when the people i follow dont update their blogs and give me something to read, ha, but then i dont update mine enough either...

nathan and owen and i had a very busy weekend around here. ben and his mom (one of nathans best friends from the university of texas) came up for the kentucky derby, so we had all of the texas grads here a few times. i also hosted a baby shower with breanna, which went really well! nathan and i have finals this week too, which i should be studying for. UH. here are a few pics from the weekend...

nathan leaves for nepal in less than 2 weeks. hes super excited, and im super excited to spend so much time in florida! poor titus will be boarded for quite some time, but ill be paying for him to have lots of walks and fun time :)

not much new with owen. we still cant get the wasp spray smell out of his room, so he is still sleeping in our room. he started sleeping on his stomach a few days ago, which i think makes him sleep better. but i could be making that up.. hes growing like a weed and getting more and more active. heres a video of him in the entertainer. he was begging me to get him out, but i just love the noises and facial expressions..



alright. gotta study. only two more days of my grad school career.

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...