Owen & his girls

Owen has really started to LOVE Nellie and Lucy, I am not sure if that is a good thing for them or not.  He likes to hug them and we practice petting them nicely which is also helping with Owen's hitting.  Since Owen can't express himself through words he seems to like to hit when he gets mad.  Thankfully it is just Ethan and I (and sometimes Grandma and Grandpa's), and not any other children.  Here are a few pics of Ethan and his ladies!

Smiles!

 Lucy is going in for a kiss ;-)

Owen: "awh Ne"

Nellie: "Oh man, here he comes again!"

 Owen: "awh Ne"

Nellie: "this isn't so bad"

Owen loves his blueberries, frozen or fresh he loves them all....can't you tell?

Out for a hike with daddy....this was 2 weeks ago, yep it was cold enough to have winter hats on!  This spring has been crazy weatherwise, but it seems to be getting better.

Speaking of weather.  When we returned from Iowa last weekend, we came home to tornado sirens going off like crazy. A few tornados touched down both in my area in MN and in La Crosse county in Wisconsin.  Thankfully no one was hurt.  This was the first tornado to ever touchdown in all of La Crosse's history.  The tornado was very close to where I work, it could have been a lot worse.  Due to the amount of damage it is amazing no one was hurt badly.



Cousins!

We finally met the newest little Webinger, Lauren Esther.  And man, she is one of the sweetest little girls I have ever met.   She seems so tiny to us, but she is growing like crazy.  It is hard to believe that Owen was ever that small.

Owen was interested, but not interested in her enough to touch her or get jealous when mommy was holding her or paying attention to her.  For the most part Owen keeps a close eye on what his big cousin Noah is doing.  The two of them playing together was pretty cute!  I forsee Owen wanting to copy what he is doing in the future.

The trip was GREAT!  Owen took driving the pretty well and he enjoyed running around the Webinger place in the country.  What a peaceful spot they have, we love it there.  Owen ate like a pig....I guess that is where we will send him if he ever gets too skinny.  I tried re-creating the foods that Luke prepared, but I guess it wasn't as good.  We even had a nice fire and roasted marshmellows for S'Mores.....hello SUMMER! 

First Introduction ;-)

The "Big" boys!

Giving us a little smile....from dreamland!

What a sweetheart!

Mother's Day

What a wonderful Day!  We are so blessed to have 2 of the best women I know for our mother's.  My mom and Ethan's mom are simply the best!


On a side note.  I am starting to think that Owen could really use a helmet, with a face mask.  Our guy took 2 pretty rough tumbles onto his face on Saturday.  One of these wipe outs he actually bumped open his wound, but the stitches seemed to stay in place.  Poor guy, everywhere we went today people were commenting on his face.  It will all heal in time though.....till then Ethan and I have said we are going to stay as close to him as possible ;-)



Such a cute boy, despite all his Owies

My day started out great with Daddy letting me sleep in.  Owen surprised me with a project he did at daycare.  A handtowel with his handprints on it and his name.......so CUTE!  My boyz really surprised me with a new ipod.  I am so excited to test it out! 

As I headed to brunch with my favorite ladies, Ethan and Owen went to breakfast with the Grandma and Grandpa Webinger and Uncle Glen and Aunt Brenda.  My Dad and brother headed to Grandma and Grandpa Engelhart's with brunch too. We all had a wonderful time!

After Owen woke up we headed to take the doggies for a walk and Owen convinced Daddy to give him a ride on his tractor....Owen's favorite thing to do by far!  I think this has caused Owen to say "Daddy" constantly.  In fact everything is Daddy......except when he wants something, then it seems to be "Nommy" (Mommy).

My busy boy took a couple of seconds to pose with his Mommy

The crew

Me and my Momma.

Grandma and all her girls

My boyz.....LOVE them!

We had beautiful weather and it was a wonderful day to take time to tell all our mommies how wonderful they are.  I sure am lucky to have been chosen to be Owen's mommy!

Ow-ie

Owen has turned from walking to running EVERYWHERE!  This has created many boo boos, almost too many to mention......well except this one.

I dropped Owen off at daycare on Wednesday and it was a beautiful day.  Kim had a day planned with all sorts of fun outdoor activities.  Around lunchtime I received a call from Kim (this is the first time she ever has needed me during a work day).  Owen had just gotten his diaper changed and they were going to head outside, apprently Owen was in such a hurry to join the rest of the kids he ran out of the back room, tripped, and fell head first into the edge of the wall, creating quite a gash in his forehead.  He wasn't crying when I called so I really thought it was nothing, but she wanted me to come and look at it.  I left work right away to take a look at it and called his pediatrician.  The wound kept bleeding and was opened pretty good, so they wanted to see him.   I thought for sure some derma bond ("skin glue") would do the trick, but they suggested sutures (which they no longer do in the clinic)......Thanks to Kristin a wonderfully sweet, thoughtfull and smart nurse......she paged a plastic surgeon who was more than happy to see us in his office right away, which saved us a lengthy ER visit. 

By this point we have missed nap time by about an hour which made Owen already cranky.  He didn't seem bothered by the wound at all.  We got to Dr. Case's procedure room and Owen completely freaked, I think he was having flashbacks of heart monitors and chest x-rays from a couple of months ago.  Despite our best efforts to hold Owen down, the nurses had to put him in a "toddler straight jacket."  This was pretty traumatizing for both Owen and I.  Dr. Case was singing lullabies to Owen as he was stitching away and the nurses were trying to calm him down, they really were great!  After it was all done Owen was quite mad still and one of the nurses gave him a treat and he threw it right back in her face.....I guess he has a little bit of a temper ;-)

11 stitches total, 6 internal and 5 external.  They are all disolvable, so we don't have to worry about getting them removed.  Owen has been a champ through it all.  After a couple hours of snuggling with Mommy, he was back to his old self. 

It will probably leave a bit of a scar because the wound runs vertical, but because he is so young it won't be that noticeable.

2 hours after we got home....yup the wild man is back!

 Still smiling ;-)

Such a brave boy ;-)

Sorry no close ups, they are kind of gross....for someone who might have a weak stomach for that kind of stuff ;-)