Last week when Owen had his fever he was just completely out of sorts. It was a rough couple of days for all of us. I just couldn't resist taking some crying pictures though.
He totally has that pouty face down!!
We can't end this post on a sour note though! After looking at the last post again I remembered there was a picture of Owen that was very similar to the one I had just posted of Jack. I do think they look alike in many ways, but they are different as well. The similarities of these two pictures just amazed me though...
We were so young...18 years old, but I was technically 3 months older than my mom when she got married. You know I used that as part of the argument when she mentioned that we were too young to marry. Actually all of our parents were thrilled that Michael and I wanted to get married. Even though we were so young. May 8th 1999 was a terrific day. The weather was beautiful and everything went as planned. It was my dream wedding. I remember that a family friend video taped the wedding and he asked us if we were ready to be married and we both said we just wanted to get on with the wedding and get it over with. We had been engaged for over a year so we were so excited to actually start our lives together as husband and wife.
On June 3rd 2006 we flew to San Francisco for a 24 hour vacation with our friends Micah & Kim. It was probably the most packed fun filled 24 hours of my life. It was great! We didn't know at the time that I was 4 weeks pregnant with Owen.
This picture was taken about 13 hours before Owen was born. It was Sunday 01/14/07. Michael and I went to church, but left early because we wanted to watch the Seahawks game, I know we're evil!!! We went to my parents house and my Dad took this picture. At 2:40am the next morning my water broke.
Michael got to hold Owen first since I had to have a C-Section. I remember watching him change right before my eyes into a Daddy. It still makes me cry as he cried that morning holding his son.
This is the day my brother found out he was an Uncle. It was June 11th 2007. I stopped in to see him at his work. I'm so happy that one of his co-workers had a camera phone so we could capture this moment.
Of course there are many more momentous occasions that have happened in our lives like Jack being born of course, but since I've been blogging about him a lot lately I thought I would just share these.
Yesterday afternoon when Owen woke up from his nap he was on fire!!! The rest of the afternoon he was not a very happy guy at all. We put him to bed around his normal bedtime which is 8pm. When I went to bed at 10:20ish I heard him crying and I could tell he wasn't going to go back to sleep. I went in and got him and he was scorching hot again. We gave him some Infant Tylenol to help the fever go down and we undressed him since his clothes were soaked. We decided he could just sleep with us. It took him about 2 hours to fall asleep so that was around 12:30. For some reason I decided that it would be a good time to actually take his temperature right about then (sleep deprivation does weird things to you) so I went to get the thermometer. When I did Owen sat up in bed and cried once and then basically fell right back down onto the mattress. By the time I got back to the bedroom it looked like he was sleeping again. I rubbed his back and couldn't tell if he was breathing. It totally freaked me out. I of course flipped on the light and woke everyone up. He was fine he was just sleeping. Since we were up we took his temperature...it was 102. We gave him some more Tylenol and went back to bed. We woke up many more times throughout the night with Owen dry heaving and then Jack woke up to eat around 2:30. Luckily Jack didn't wake up again until 7:30! Anyway Owen's fever has broke now, but he's still not back to normal. He did take a 3 hour nap in his crib this morning so I think that helped a little.
He is so cute!!! Check out that chubby thigh of his! I LOVE baby rolls!!!!
Owen at 3 months
Yesterday was such a big day full of lots of adventures. First Owen decided that he should wake up at 6:45. He has done this twice recently, but he usually goes back to sleep...not yesterday though. Later on in the morning I needed to go to Fred Meyer. Jack was having a total meltdown on the way there so I decided to nurse him in the parking lot to see if that would calm him down. He did get calm while he was nursing, but once we went in the store he started up again. I quickly finished the banking I needed to do at the BECU inside and headed out. Poor Jack kept crying the entire way home. Once we got home Owen decided it was his turn for a mild meltdown. I made lunch and put him down for an early nap. The last couple of days he thinks he should only be sleeping an hour at nap time so I was hoping he would sleep longer. He did wake up after 45 minutes, but feel back asleep. Once he woke up we went outside to play and to our surprise Daddy was home early. So much fun!!! While Daddy took a shower we went over to the neighbors house to return some items we had borrowed. They love playing with and holding the kids so it's nice to spend time with them. When we got home I was nursing Jack and Michael was making dinner when Owen decided it would be fun to take two baby food jars and smash them together. One of them broke sending glass all over. Owen kept rubbing his eye so Michael had to get the eyewash to make sure there wasn't anything in his eye. Owen didn't mind it the first time he used it because he didn't know what it was, but the second time he was NOT happy about it. 
After dinner we gathered up the cats and their things and hopped in the car. I relisted them on Craigslist yesterday morning and immediately got a response. They are now living in nicer house that we have and there are no kids and no pets to compete with attention wise. I'm so happy that Precious and Punkin have each other and didn't get separated. It's weird though Michael and I have had cats since July 1999 so it felt odd to come home to a house with no cats. 
Since we were over on the east hill in Kent we decided to stop by and hang out with Aunt Becky for a little bit. Camryn and Samantha were there too. Samantha is getting so big! Camryn enjoyed playing with and snuggling Owen. Oh yeah Jack had another meltdown the entire ride over to drop the cats off and see Aunt Becky I think he must have cried for 40 minutes. That poor kid just hates the car! He did cry some on the way home from Aunt Becky's, but not the entire way. 
Once we got home Michael needed to use the bathroom and Owen came running in too. We brought out his potty chair on Monday since he seems very interested in the potty when we use it. He has sat on it a couple of times, but never gone potty. Michael got him undress and sat him on it. He didn't stay there for very long though. He thought he should run around the house naked instead. He went and found a book and I told him to take it to Daddy at least if he peed on the floor in the bathroom I can just wash the rugs and I won't have to steam clean them. Anyways Daddy had him sit on the potty while he read 10 Little Ladybugs to him and sure enough he went potty on the potty chair. We were so proud of him!!!
Even though Jack had a rough day he was happy right before bed and he slept really good and kept to his routine of waking up around 2 and then going back to bed until 6. He's such a precious boy!
While we were there Jack got totally spoiled with being held to go to sleep. Since we've been home he has very rarely slept by himself unless he's on his tummy in his crib. Thanks Ga-Ga & Pa!!! ;)
I took this picture for perspective so we can look back at it and remember how tiny he was!
Owen has his own seat to swing in on the swing set, but Daddy just thought he would see if Owen would swing like this. He loved it. He just laid his head on his chest for the longest time. The next day I tried it and he did the same thing.
Hey there!!!
Happy Jack!!!
The grass...let's face it the weeds were talker than Owen!
Michael took this picture kneeling down. That speck of red you see if the red from the lawn mower!!!
Michael had to empty the lawn mower bag quite a few times. He also had to keep lifting up the mower so the poor thing wouldn't choke and die since the grass was so long. I'm so thankful that Michael chose this night to mow the grass because this was the night when we had all the rain from the thunderstorms that came through. I can't imagine how long it would have taken for the grass to dry out so he could mow it without having to empty the bag every foot.
This is the tallest weed that we found. It was literally taller than Michael. This is after the mower cut it down so you know it was taller than this. I had to move it in front of the red door so you could get the full effect. 
These are the grass piles that Michael had to rake up because the mower just couldn't pick up all that grass. It was like a green carpet in the backyard.
We found out pretty quickly that Jack enjoyed being on his tummy way more than his back so he is officially a tummy sleeper now. I was really worried about it in the beginning and I still am, but at the same time I was put to sleep on my tummy and I'm still here. I also talked to a girl friend of mine and all three of her kids are tummy sleepers. It made me feel better hearing what she had to say. I still check on Jack a lot, but it has definitely made for better nights since we've been putting him down on his tummy.
This bring a whole new meaning to Owen's nickname - Monkey!!!! 
Yesterday was such a rough day for Mommy and Owen. We think Owen is trying to cut some more teeth and he's just at that age where he is testing me. I love this kid to pieces, but yesterday I sure needed a break from him. Thankfully Michael got home from work early and took over. He is such a wonderful man! After dinner when my patience was totally gone I came upstairs and had some alone time on the computer. About a half an hour before it was time for Owen to go to bed I went back downstairs and it was like a clean slate. Owen was so excited to see me and I was so excited to see him. I love that! It was really nice to end the day on a good note. Another plus about last night was Jack only woke up once to eat in the middle of the night. YAHOO!!!
