First Day of School

Owen had his first day of school today.  He is enrolled in a 2 year old class at a nursery school just a couple blocks away from our house.  It's 2 days a week for 2 hours a day.  I have never left him somewhere, so it was very strange to pack up his backpack and drop him off and leave him there.  I'm sure I'll get used to it.  I walked him to his class, expecting some fear from him but no, he runs in and starts playing and simply says "bye mommy."

I had to take some photos of him all ready for school.

Here he's showing me his backpack.  Super Mario of course, filled with diapers, sippy cup, and a change of clothes.

Then he started getting impatient and walked down the stairs saying "no mo pictures mommy!"  He was ready to go.

He came home with these works of art.  They must use Bingo dabbers for these.  Of course he's the first one to bring snack for the class, so I have to figure something out pronto to bring in.  We can't believe our baby is so big!

Summer Time

Oops!  Yeah it's been over a month since we posted anything.  I'm going to apologize just a little bit, but to my credit I have been posting pics and video of Owen on Facebook.  We have just been having a busy summer and not wanting to sit in front of the computer.  Here's a rundown of what we've been up to:

It's been a hot summer, so we've been spending a lot of time outdoors.  We did finally break down this year and buy a window air conditioner for upstairs.  It was just impossible to sleep in 85+ degree heat.  During the day we beat the heat by:

Eating popsicles- Daddy's specialty.  He makes them with fruit, kefir, and honey and freezes them.  Yum!

Not wearing any clothes and laying low

And of course swimming!  Our favorite way...  Owen has gotten to be quite the swimmer now.  He can go across the pool by himself with just his swimmies on.  He also loves to jump into the water (over and over and over again)


He has also been having lots of fun with his "tar"  He likes to play and sing in gibberish.  He also likes to sleep with this thing all the time.  He has a gazillion toys, but this thing he found at a yard sale and his Uncle Chris got it for him for like $2.  Worst part is, the batteries had exploded inside so it doesn't even work.  He doesn't seem to care though.

He also likes to take pictures just like Mommy.  He was trying to get Molly to pose...good luck!


We go to the park whenever we get a nice day.  He's getting much braver and has to climb to the tallest slide.  eek!

We've been working on riding his trike too, but his legs aren't quite long enough.  That's his "mad face" by the way.  He likes to make it and then laugh.

This is about as close to a beach as the boys got

Oh but Tahera and I took a wonderful girl's trip to the beach for a few days.  Excuse out hair blowing in the ocean breeze.


Owen and Dennis have been playing a lot of baseball in the living room.  Owen will hit the ball

and "run the bases"


We have also been very busy the past few weeks getting Owen and Daddy ready to go back to school.  Dennis got accepted into UB's professional MBA program and started attending school again last week.  We are really excited for him and life has been a little hectic for everyone to say the least.  They literally called to tell him he was accepted 30 minutes before orientation.  It's been a mad scramble to arrange classes, schedule babysitting, work schedules, meals, financial aid, and buy a laptop.  Owen also starts school in 2 weeks and he's very excited.
To top it all off, Dennis and I have been training like mad for some long-distance runs coming up in the next few days/weeks.
Hard to believe it's already September 1st but we have enjoyed our summer time for sure.

and a random video of Owen singing his ABC's...just because I'm sure the grandma's want to hear his raspy little voice.