Jason is leaving for Budapest, Hungary on September 4th. On the 11th he'll fly to Geneva, Switzerland. He will return to the US on the 17th. So... Owen and I will be going to Michigan on the 4th-7th. We'll return to Kentucky on the 7th. We will be back in Michigan on the 16th-20th. We'll pick up Jason from Detroit on the 17th and head to Sam's on the 18th.
If Owen and I didn't have school we'd skip town and be in Michigan from the 4th-20th but, alas, he'd be considered truant and I'd get in trouble for that one ;)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Update
Alright.... so the pictures explained a lot of what we've been up to the last month. Owen started school last wednesday. It was a rough start but I have to say that it's gotten MUCH better. Friday was a pretty good day, Monday was a good day, Tuesday was a good day and today was a GREAT day! I went to pick him up and was greeted by his very excited teacher. She and the aide explained to me that Owen got *2* awards today! One was in music class he got an award for doing a great job and participating and such. Woo hoo! The other award is something they do in his class. It's called a "WOW award". It's apparently this really special thing that all the kids want to get but it's not given out often. When a kid gets a wow award they get to put bears in a jar (a class thing- when the jar is filled they get an extra 5 minutes of recess), get a special award thingy and they get to pick a prize out of the "wow bin". The teacher also informs the parent and the parent is encouraged to celebrate at home. So, anyway, they said Owen had a WONDERFUL day and they were all shocked. He did everything he was asked to do, they didn't have to tell him anything more than once. He listened really well and just did a great job. He even sat down and did his work when told to (table work/writing is really hard for him). YAY OWEN!
So I took him to Toys R Us after school. He picked out a new movie (LeapFrog Lets Go To School or something like that) and then decided to go look at trains. Here's the conversation that followed....
O- "Maybe I can get a train..."
Me- "Sure- you can get a train but we'll have to put the movie back"
O- "But mama- I got *2* awards... that means I get *2* treats.... right???"
Well, can't argue with that logic. He got the movie and train ;) Gotta love being out smarted by a 5 year old!
I started school this week too. I'm taking 4 classes- intermediate algebra (refresher course- it doesn't count towards my degree), a computer class, a writing class and human ecology. 3 of them are Tues/Thurs mornings while Owen's at school and the other one is Mon/Wed nights (Jason and/or his parents watch Owen then). I decided to make it easier on everyone and drop my work hours. I had been working 35-40 hours a week but dropped down to 12-18 hours a week. I'll be working Mon/Wed/Fri mornings while Owen's at school (sometimes Mon/Wed, sometimes all 3 days). It's much easier on Owen to be able to go home after school instead of going to daycare until 6pm while I was working.
Jason had originally been told he was going to China this fall. About a month ago they told him that trip will be delayed (to maybe early next year). Today they told him he's being sent to Europe.... in about 2-3 weeks. Nice warning, eh? I don't know all the details yet, he has a meeting tomorrow morning that he'll find out more details at.
Anyway.... I'll try not to abandon my blog again but I can't promise anything. Things will be getting more hectic as Owen and I both get into school so I may not get to updating as often.
So I took him to Toys R Us after school. He picked out a new movie (LeapFrog Lets Go To School or something like that) and then decided to go look at trains. Here's the conversation that followed....
O- "Maybe I can get a train..."
Me- "Sure- you can get a train but we'll have to put the movie back"
O- "But mama- I got *2* awards... that means I get *2* treats.... right???"
Well, can't argue with that logic. He got the movie and train ;) Gotta love being out smarted by a 5 year old!
I started school this week too. I'm taking 4 classes- intermediate algebra (refresher course- it doesn't count towards my degree), a computer class, a writing class and human ecology. 3 of them are Tues/Thurs mornings while Owen's at school and the other one is Mon/Wed nights (Jason and/or his parents watch Owen then). I decided to make it easier on everyone and drop my work hours. I had been working 35-40 hours a week but dropped down to 12-18 hours a week. I'll be working Mon/Wed/Fri mornings while Owen's at school (sometimes Mon/Wed, sometimes all 3 days). It's much easier on Owen to be able to go home after school instead of going to daycare until 6pm while I was working.
Jason had originally been told he was going to China this fall. About a month ago they told him that trip will be delayed (to maybe early next year). Today they told him he's being sent to Europe.... in about 2-3 weeks. Nice warning, eh? I don't know all the details yet, he has a meeting tomorrow morning that he'll find out more details at.
Anyway.... I'll try not to abandon my blog again but I can't promise anything. Things will be getting more hectic as Owen and I both get into school so I may not get to updating as often.
Update/pictures
I am alive! LOL! Things have been a bit hectic here lately and I've abandoned my blog. Sorry! Here's a bunch of pictures that are totally out of order because, apparently, my blog is mad at me and wouldn't put them in the right order. Go figure.
Posting this now and will post another update in a different post....
This was Owen's first homework assignment. He was supposed to make a scrapbook page about him/his family. He put a picture of us at Disney, wrote his name, age and then "Love Mom"... all by himself. Awww.... What a sweetheart.
This is how his first day of Kindergarten ended. Yeah, totally not cool to end your first day of school in the ER :( He apparently had a great first day.... except at recess. It was time to go inside and he BOLTED for the road. His aide had to run after him and catch him. Somehow in that struggle (Owen was apparently PISSED that the aide caught him) Owen got his thumb hurt. He wasn't moving it so we took him to the ER for x-rays. They couldn't see a break but were concerned with all the growth plates that they could be missing one, since he still wasn't moving his thumb. Sooo.... they ended up putting him in a soft cast/splint thingy. The next day he went back to school but ended up pulling the whole splint/cast off about 2 hours after I dropped him off. Doh! So I picked him up from school and took him back to the dr. He was moving the thumb and there was no point in putting another splint on (because he wouldn't keep it on!) so we called it a day and said it's not broken. By Monday he was using it perfectly so it's okay now.
Here's how the first day of school started :) See, told ya they aren't in order. LOL!
A couple weekends ago we went to Cincinnatti and Columbus. Here's pics from the Newport Aquarium.
How tall Owen is...
How tall Owen is...
Petting a shark. When he was done he said the "shark bit my whole arm!".... lol.... don't know where he got that one from but I can assure you- the shark did not bite him!
In the hotel room in Columbus
Couldn't not get a picture of this.... so cool! I gotta wonder how long it took them to build this?
Mid afternoon nap.... ah to be 5 again!
More pictures from the aquarium (again, not in order!).... a $2.50 bottle of water. Yikes! Had to take a picture just to have something to remember of that chunk of money. LOL!
Frogs!
Petting something.... can't remember what. Maybe a horseshoe crab or something?
This was weeks ago... I took Owen to a fair. He had a good time, but I was the only one with him and was on all the rides with him (except this one) so this is the only picture I got.
We also took him to a baseball game (I got free tickets from donating blood... woo!). He was pretty excited, but not too into the whole baseball part. He enjoyed the fireworks afterwards though.
He was watching all the vendors walking by selling stuff. He thought that was pretty cool and decided he wanted cotton candy. Yes, the kid who eats NO candy (except plain milk chocolate) wanted pure sugar. We got him some and..... he didn't really care for it. But at least it made it in his mouth!!
He decided to go for a vendor with a non-food item and got a giant hand ;)
And a random sleeping picture, because I thought it was cute.
Posting this now and will post another update in a different post....
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Pictures
Owen got a new bed (mattress and box spring) last week. Of course, he had to have new bedding too ;) Wall-E!
The rest of these pictures were taken over the weekend, at the children's museum with Allison and her kids.
The boys in a cave.
Looking at x-rays and other stuff.
Owen mesmerized by balls spinning around in circles. Shocker!
Jason and Owen playing music (with flip flops... lol)
In the bubble room!
His butt kept popping the bubble!
Popping the bubble wall.
On the moon!
Owen and mama with the dinosaur we built (Jason helped).
Climbing a rock wall.
Mia playing in the water.
And being cute. I could NOT get her to smile at the right time. LOL! Every time she smiled my camera wasn't ready. Every time my camera was ready she was looking at me like I was crazy, trying to get her to smile.
Jocelyn being adorable.
Playing with the foods.
This picture reminds me of Wizard of Oz....
Jocelyn not looking too happy to be riding in a truck with Owen. Meanwhile, Owen's forcing a smile to get the picture over with so he can jump out and run.
Garden pics to follow later...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
If my hair is completely white by Sam's wedding....
blame Owen! Good grief this kid is just not going to let me breathe a sigh of relief anytime soon.
I took him to the dr this morning for a check-up. No fever (hasn't had one since Friday), ears and mouth all look good (all his sores in his mouth are gone), belly felt and sounded good. His blood pressure was high but, after getting some advice from mom, we took it at home in a non-stressful situation and it was fine- well within normal for his age.
He was doing fine all day- running around and playing, eating and drinking well. For dinner we went to Bob Evans and he had 2 pancakes, a large bowl of applesauce and 2 helpings of home fries. He did fine for about 3 1/2 hours after dinner. Then, when we were at the grocery store, he started looking out of it- not himself. I picked him up and he just looked at me with those sad little eyes and said he couldn't walk anymore because his belly hurt ;( We got through the rest of the store quickly and went home. He doesn't have a fever (97.0 in the ear). He says his tummy "really hurts", but I don't know exactly what that means. His belly is a lot harder than it normally is, but that could be because he ate a large dinner. He's not constipated (since he was in the hospital we had been giving him something to make him poop- he went a week without going- so he should be pretty cleared out by now).
This is not like him at all. In 5 1/2 years he's NEVER complained of belly pain until last week. Not even when he was vomiting and pooping so much he ended up in the ER years ago did he complain of pain. This is just so.... not like him. And I feel completely helpless.
What I do know, though, is I'm going to be completely on edge now. With having no explanation for the "free fluid" in the belly, it's making me a nervous wreck. I just have a "mom feeling" that we've not seen the end of this issue. I hope to God I'm wrong.
I took him to the dr this morning for a check-up. No fever (hasn't had one since Friday), ears and mouth all look good (all his sores in his mouth are gone), belly felt and sounded good. His blood pressure was high but, after getting some advice from mom, we took it at home in a non-stressful situation and it was fine- well within normal for his age.
He was doing fine all day- running around and playing, eating and drinking well. For dinner we went to Bob Evans and he had 2 pancakes, a large bowl of applesauce and 2 helpings of home fries. He did fine for about 3 1/2 hours after dinner. Then, when we were at the grocery store, he started looking out of it- not himself. I picked him up and he just looked at me with those sad little eyes and said he couldn't walk anymore because his belly hurt ;( We got through the rest of the store quickly and went home. He doesn't have a fever (97.0 in the ear). He says his tummy "really hurts", but I don't know exactly what that means. His belly is a lot harder than it normally is, but that could be because he ate a large dinner. He's not constipated (since he was in the hospital we had been giving him something to make him poop- he went a week without going- so he should be pretty cleared out by now).
This is not like him at all. In 5 1/2 years he's NEVER complained of belly pain until last week. Not even when he was vomiting and pooping so much he ended up in the ER years ago did he complain of pain. This is just so.... not like him. And I feel completely helpless.
What I do know, though, is I'm going to be completely on edge now. With having no explanation for the "free fluid" in the belly, it's making me a nervous wreck. I just have a "mom feeling" that we've not seen the end of this issue. I hope to God I'm wrong.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Owen update, garden, and stuff
Owen is doing MUCH better now! He's up and running and eating and playing and being a little troublemaker ;) His appetite has definitely come back and he's eating tons. Tonight for dinner he ate 4 pieces of pizza and 8 breadsticks/sauce!!!! That's a whole order of breadsticks and half the pizza! LOL! He's asking for food constantly (at least once an hour) and, of course, we give it to him. He goes to the dr tomorrow just as a little check-up after the hospital visit... I bet he's gained back all the lost weight for sure! (He was 41 lbs last Monday and 39 lbs 2 days later)
In other news.... I will be starting college next month. I will be doing a program that is 2 years at a local community college and then moving on to 2 years at the University of Kentucky for teaching. I just got my financial aid info yesterday and I got enough grants to cover all tuition and all books/fees with some leftover to cover parking pass, gas to get there, and other little expenses. This is WAY more than I thought I would get. I was hoping to get enough to come close to covering tuition, I didn't imagine I'd get enough to cover EVERYTHING. This is great news because when I start classes I'll have to cut down on my hours at work. So.... guess I can't back down now ;) The plan is to take classes Tuesday and Thursday between 8 and 1:45 (which is 4 classes) so I can drop Owen off at school (7:45) and pick him up (2:30). I am also going to try to take a class on Monday evenings. I will hopefully be working Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 8 (or 8:30) to 2. I may also work Tuesday and Thursday from 3-6, but I am not sure.
Here's the garden...
The first ripe tomatoes (Early Girl)! Almost ready... another day or two and then they'll be ready to pick!
Some of the cherry tomatoes
Cherry tomato plant
Cucumber plant that seems to be dying. Hmmmm....
Green bell pepper plant... lots of flowers, no peppers yet...
A couple Mr Stripey tomatoes
First yellow squash! Another day or two and it'll be ready to pick!
Another zucchini... we've eaten a few from the garden in the last couple weeks....
Green bell pepper.... almost ready!
I think this is the jalapeno plant. I'm still debating on whether to move it or not. The zucchini and yellow squash are overgrowing it. I was hoping it would grow bigger and above the squash leaves but I'm not so sure...
Purple bell pepper plant. It's having the same issues as the jalapeno.... trying to decide whether to move it or leave it....
Watermelon plant
In other news.... I will be starting college next month. I will be doing a program that is 2 years at a local community college and then moving on to 2 years at the University of Kentucky for teaching. I just got my financial aid info yesterday and I got enough grants to cover all tuition and all books/fees with some leftover to cover parking pass, gas to get there, and other little expenses. This is WAY more than I thought I would get. I was hoping to get enough to come close to covering tuition, I didn't imagine I'd get enough to cover EVERYTHING. This is great news because when I start classes I'll have to cut down on my hours at work. So.... guess I can't back down now ;) The plan is to take classes Tuesday and Thursday between 8 and 1:45 (which is 4 classes) so I can drop Owen off at school (7:45) and pick him up (2:30). I am also going to try to take a class on Monday evenings. I will hopefully be working Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 8 (or 8:30) to 2. I may also work Tuesday and Thursday from 3-6, but I am not sure.
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