Alone Time with Lucy

It was such a rare 45 minutes. The kids were playing so quietly together in Lucy's room. No crying, no telling on each other, no loud crashing of various toys. Finally Owen came out wearing a girl's hat, a necklace and holding his teacup with his pinky out. It is his curse of having a big sister. He tried to man it up a little bit with the hat but that just reminded me of Bret Michaels so it didn't make it that manly. This is not the first or last time he has dressed up in Lucy's clothes and it is by far not the girliest he has looked. So, to all the baby brothers out there, Owen feels your pain and is loving it.





So join me in having "Every Rose has its Thorn" stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

Snowing Again

Since it was the second time this week that it snowed, (seriously) I thought that I
should take them out to play. I liked this video because it shows Lucy's general happiness to do almost anything out of the ordinary and Owen's desire to meet his goals. If he tries to do something he always says "Did it", "Almost" or "Missed". He throws with a purpose and apparently the purpose was to hit the window with a mini-snowball.

Happy Belated Birthday Owen!

This is Owen celebrating his birthday while my parents visited. He is hugging his beloved Meowcat Webkinz. I thought that the whole Webkinz thing would be lost with him but he loves feeding him, bathing him and watching him jump on a trampoline (virtually, of course). The best $20 we have ever spent was on a little basketball hoop for him. I believe that the Blazers will win the NBA Championship in 2028 with Wilkinson's fade away in the last second.