Faces

I got some good Owen faces.

Blah face.

Get out of my face with that camera face.

Content face.

Back to the passed out kid thing. But even better, two at the same time!

Let Sleeping Dads Sleep

Probably one of my favorite things is when Sean is sleeping with Owen or Mae asleep with him.

A Visit From Quinn And Mary

We have been so lucky to have so much family visit. Have I been good about taking pictures? Nope I have not. But I happened to have my camera out when Quinn came in town for the weekend. Because we live so close to the airport we were luckily enough to spend the afternoon with Quinn and Mary. Owen loved Quinn he just sprawled out and chilled.

When Quinn got to the house Mae did what all kids do and had to show Quinn everything she owns. She ended up in her princess dress to watch TV. It was pretty funny.

Don't leave Mary out :)

Mae needed to get out of the house, so we headed over to the park to play with the baseball bat Mae picked out at the dollar store with Gaga J for Owen. Mae had so much fun running around and trying to hit the ball. I will say she had one hit that connected really well. Threw me off a bit I must say.

Mary getting her snuggle time in with the kids. (Mary is also the one who made the quilt they are snuggling in).

No More Naps

We have had some major changes with Miss Mae in the past few weeks also. Once Owen arrived she decided no more naps, and that she was done done done with diapers. Add that to adjusting to a new sibling and we have had our hands full with her. The first couple weeks were the hardest, but now she is doing great with all 3 things and she goes to bed so easy at night! It is also so great to have her potty trained. I love not having 2 kids in diapers and she is really good at telling us that she has to go. Once she decided to be done with diapers she went all the way, that means sleeping in underware also. She went full big girl on us, but you know what in 7 weeks she has only had one night accident. Pretty Amazing!

I love pictures of kids like this where they are so passed out. It might be because one of my favorite pictures of myself as a kid is me totally passed out in the car with a Popsicle stick stuck to my lips (mom you should scan it in and email it to me).

What Do You Mean Easter Wasn't Yesterday?

Easter weekend was a fun weekend had by all. It happened to be my sister Aprils birthday, so Misty and I got her up to Spokane. It was so great to see her, we had both had babies since we had seen each other last. She has Ainsley about 2 weeks before I had Owen. Its amazing what difference 2 weeks makes when they are so new. Ainsley looks huge compared to Owen, but I bet that he has caught up now. I love how they are posing the same (note: we did not put them in that position).

We pretty much spent the weekend hanging out, and finding ways to not spend money (maternity leave frugleness). So that meant we were either at our house or Misty's. The cousins had so much fun playing together (well when they weren't biting, pinching, pushing or hitting), well there were 4 kids between the ages of 1 and 4 so its not always pure happiness. Mae was of course all about holding Ainsley also.

Mae and Jovie had so much fun playing together. Mae has been talking about Jovie for the past month now.

It was also Easter weekend, so Sunday morning Mae was very excited to see that the Easter Bunny had come to her house, and brought her and Jovie fun baskets.

Sean had been out of town for a few days, so on Easter morning Mae was crazy excited to wake up and see that daddy had come home. He was also glad to get home and be with the kids.

While Misty and Aprils families were over at our house for Easter Brunch, Easter egg hunts, and Aprils birthday party. I forgot to take pictures but it was a good time had by all. Since I didn't get any pictures of Mae hunting eggs at our house I made sure I got some out at Nonnies house. After Misty and April took off we headed out to Nonnies for Easter dinner (crazy busy day). Auntie Mary was having a great time with Mae, Madison, and Emmett hiding eggs and finding them over and over again.

Mae looks very sassy hunting eggs, holding her bag like a purse in the crook of her elbow.

The triumph of finding an egg!

New Stroller....And Then Some

To start out I LOVE my new BOB Double Jogging Stroller. It lets me get out of the house and move with both kids in one place. Mae likes ridding in the stroller with Owen. She is in charge of making sure he is OK while running. The double jogger is much harder to push then the single, but it makes sense due to double the load.

Owen likes the stroller. If he is fussy before he goes in, by the time we get moving he calms down and falls asleep most of the time.

I know people out there are waiting to see pictures of my little man, and who am I to disappoint? Owen really loves to suck on his hands. Its fine with me I really don't want to have to be frantically looking for a bink every time we leave the house. On a side note I think his eyes look full of wisdom.

Mae loving Owen is an understatement. She is a great big sister, every morning she wants to hold him and watch cartoons. Before long at the rate Owen is growing he wont be able to be on her lap anymore.

Owen loves to lay in the sun. I just thought it was so funny that he was so sprawled out.

I Miss Food

Sad day for me, Owen has a sensitive tummy he spits up and poops all the time. What that means for me is no more yummy food. Oh sure I can find stuff that isn't so bad, but its not the same. I have cut out all dairy, soy, and acidic foods. Since I have done that though Owen is getting so much better, I don't have to carry a spit rag all the time, and he is having more normal poops. I know what I am doing is helping him so that part is not a big deal. But I can still miss food and be sad I can not eat it. The hardest part is deciding what to make for dinner, poor Sean and Mae are both fending for themselves. Or Mae east my boring food and Sean is on his own. I will hopefully start coming up with some more options we will all like. But in order to do that I need to come up with options I like for myself. If anyone has any suggestions of good non dairy, soy, or acidic foods let me know I'm starving. The other ting I don't like about being newly high maintnence with food is going places to eat, weather its a resturant, or someones house. Because even when you think you are ordering something safe its not, or someone makes you something special but you still can't eat it and you offend them. Lame I tell you Lame. I mostly will be taking my own food places or eating before we go, and if I offend someone oh well they don't have to deal with a sad baby boy the rest of the night and I do. The sad part for me is that I want to eat their food and I just can't. I Love food and I will miss it until either Owens tummy gets tougher or I am done brestfeeding.

Owen Hates His First Bath

At first he was kinda ok with what was happening.

Then BAM not a happy boy.

Owens First Track Meet

Owen was born on Tuesday and Sean had the first meet of the year on the following Saturday. So I had mom come and pick up the kids and I so we could get out of the house for a bit. It was a nice sunny day, it was so nice to just sit in the sun for a couple of hours.

Owen was either eating or sleeping, or trying to eat his hat most of the time. He had a tiny bit of jaundce so it was really great to let him get some good vitamen D.

Mae was so excited to get out of the house and run around. Her favorite part was sneaking into the hospitality room and getting food. She is eating a packet of cream cheese like a gogurt. She LOVES cream cheese.

Hospital Pictures Of Owen

Sean and I were not the best taking pictures of Owen while at the Hospital but we did get a few good ones. Mae was so excited to meet Owen she was all smiles the whole time!

He is so cute when he sleeps.

Our first family picture with Owen out.

More sleeping little man. He looks so much like Mae yet not at the same time. I think that he looks more like Sean.

Owen and his insta BFF Grant. They did not really love their first pictures together.

They put up with a few though. These are the only pics I have of the two of them. I need to make sure I get more the next time we get together.