Happy Birthday Owen!

I am so far behind on everything these days. I don't know if I'll ever catch up.

Owen's birthday was weeks ago, and I am only posting now. Oh well.

It was a happy one. Owen enjoyed decorating his own cake, and got some very fun presents.

Happy Eighth Birthday Owen!!!

Legos

Owen is the Jedi Master of Legos.

When I was a kid, I had a little book and I carefully followed instructions to build a house, gas station or church. It was important to carefully sort the pieces, because you wanted to make sure that you could easily find what you need.

Owen creates things. He gets a vision in his mind, and he creates. Cars, space ships, catapults, farm animals. You name it. He has even developed elaborate games to play with lego pieces.

This is not Owen's best creation ever. Not even close. But rather than coloring a picture out of his Transformer's coloring book, Owen chooses to give me Lego creations. This one is a sea otter. I'm not sure that I can see it, but I love it anyway. Unfortunately, he will not let me keep these creations forever. He always destroys them to build another more fabulous creation.

I'm glad he let me take a picture.

Strawberries for Mother's Day

I am quite sure that I'm the luckiest mom in the world.

Picture day

It is impossible to get a good picture of 4 children at the same time. Just getting them to look at the camera at the same time is a challenge. This year, rather than spending my time and energy going to a photographer, I thought I'd take the pictures myself. Clearly, I can't do any worse, right?

I took 287 pictures of the children and ended up with ONE picture of the 4 of them that is kinda, sorta, almost okay.

I did get several good pictures of "pairs."

I even managed to get a decent one of CoCo and Owen. Usually, those two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. I think it's because they are so much alike.

I got one GREAT picture of Maddie.

And a LOT of Owen's missing tooth.

Plus, many great singles.