Archive for June, 2009

happy birthday owen!

no song. no cake. just three donut holes and three candles just the way he likes it.  happy birthday owen. 

“i’m sad. i need a chocolate chip.”

  owen’s negotiating skills are getting good, but i still have the upper hand at least for now.  i did give him one chocolate chip, we only have dark chocolate so at least he’s getting some flavonoids.

have i mentioned…

how attached dylan is to me? dylan came up with this little trick on his own.  he just refused to let go of me and i need to walk.  i said, okay let’s go and he did.  so now i’m dylan’s personal walker.

chase!

  owen and dylan play chase around the house.  owen crawls around on his knees and chases dylan.  this is both good and bad.  good because they are finally playing together and i can see that owen really enjoys this and perhaps can see how much fun having a brother is going to be and [...]

i’m going to mommy hell!

  not only am i feeding my child a bottle of formula, i’ve propped the bottle up on the coffee table so i can do a quick clean up before some people come over.  sweet owen saw this and clearly knew that this was wrong and tried to help feed dylan his bottle.  bad mama, [...]

circle of life

we found a baby bird in owen’s room today.  i suspect that it hoped along the roof and fell into our light well and then through one of the windows and somehow managed sneak into owen’s room.  all the zoo school and watching of zoobomafoo paid off, although owen was really excited he was very careful [...]