March 2014

This month Jenna and Owen did a lot of playing together.  I can tell Owen is getting older.  He's more interested in keeping up with the other kids now.  Jenna isn't much bigger than him, so it's so cute to watch them play together.

 

 

Owen has been watching Jenna potty-train. He decided it looked fun and thought he'd try it.  This kid is a crack-up!

This month also brought Owen his third and final 1st Birthday celebration.  Since Mom wasn't able to come up and celebrate when we gave him our gift and cake, she brought some gifts with her when she came to visit us next.  Owen, of course, loved the wrapping paper.  Grandmas are always good at picking the perfect gifts, too.  I can't say he was disappointed in the least.

He wasn't quite sure how he felt about this pony...

 Jenna, however, knew exactly how she felt about it.  She LOVED it!!!

 

 

Owen got his first REAL haircut this month!  I've done a small scissor cut now and then, but this time he had enough hair that we brought out the clippers.  He wasn't too sure at first, but did ok.  It didn't take long before he decided that he didn't like it much.  I couldn't get pictures of the crying, although I would have liked to.  I was too busy trying to keep him occupied.

 

After that, we were off to visit my family in Arizona!  It was a wonderful visit... that post to come!!!

February 2014

Owen was lucky and got a second birthday celebration because Mitch wasn't able to be there the first time around.  We couldn't find a time when Mom was able to come up so we kept it simple.  Just cake and opening our present.  He got a Teddy.  Usually that's a Christmas thing but we decided it was more appropriate for his first birthday, since the birthday lands just a couple days after Christmas.

 

 

Jaxton and Kayla had fun making him a birthday hat.

 

 

Jenna turned 2 1/2 this month and it shows.  We are full blown in the midst of potty training.  Here she is showing Baby Jenny how to go potty on the big toilet.  This was too cute!

Because we are now 2 1/2, we are also in full blown tantrum and time-out mode.  I must say that this girl takes some pretty good time-out pictures.  Maybe someday I'll do a "The many time-outs of Jenna" post.

Here's she is... asleep in time-out

January 2014

January was full of random things.  Jenna is now big enough to enjoy the kids menus at restaurants.

Owen experienced his first time in the snow.  He bounced back and forth between loving it and hating it.

And we had our caramel corn night, which the kids always love.

Jenna didn't like the sound of the popcorn popper. She thought it was too loud.

The kids loved having their own bowls of carmel corn!

Jenna thought it was super amazing!

A lot of catching up to do... let's start with December 2013

As usual, it's been a long time since I've posted anything.  I really should learn to just keep current.  It takes me so darn long when I have all of this catching up to do. 
So, December 2013...
Of course December is always busy with Christmas, but now we are adding a birthday to the mix.  I haven't quite figured out the best way to work this one out.  I suppose time will help me figure that out.  Owen turned 1 year old on the 27th!  I can't believe how the quickly the whole first year flew by.  Man I wish I could slow down time... A LOT!  Christmas was fun, as usual.  It was extra fun this year because it was Owen's 1st Christmas.  I love first Christmases.  He was our child who loved the wrapping paper and boxes.  We kept with our Christmas tradition and after we opened presents and had breakfast, we packed up and went to Mom and James' house for a couple of days.  Mitch always leaves on Christmas night to come back home... dang work the next day.
My children were really sick during the Christmas season this year, so only Jaxton got to go see Santa.  It didn't really work out for anyone else.  Thankfully, by Christmas day, the kids felt better.  I was a mess, but rather me than the kids.

Jaxton and Santa

Before Christmas Eve Mass



During our stay at Grandma Marilou and Grandpa James' house, we did a tiny celebration for Owen's birthday.  Mitch wasn't there for that so we just did some super yummy cupcakes.  We did the presents when Mitch could be a part of it.  Owen actually got lucky because between December and March, he got 3 different birthday celebrations.

Happy Birthday to our Wee-oh Bee-oh Boy!

That's December in a nutshell... sick kids, Christmas, and Owen's 1st Birthday.  I'll admit that I was ready to move on to 2014 by the time December was over.